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Cam Chidiac

Founder and CEO, DeployX

Cam Chidiac is the Founder and CEO of DeployX, a Red Cell defense-tech accelerator focused on advancing mission-critical technologies that fortify U.S. national security. Mr. Chidiac brings to Red Cell more than 20 years of aerospace and defense startup experience as a Founder and CEO having led four prior defense companies to profitability.

Mr. Chidiac previously served as a Senior Logistics Specialist (GS-14) contractor for the US Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He went on to provide mission-critical support to the US Army, SIGIR, JIEDDO, DEA, the US State Department, FDA and USSOCOM in more than a dozen countries. Over the last 14 years, Mr. Chidiac led several advanced technology R&D initiatives in partnership with the world’s largest technology companies, leading academic institutions and government entities including MDA, AFRL, ARL, NRL, VA, USSOCOM S&T, NASA, NAVSEA, Space Force, Space Development Agency and others. Defense innovation is in Mr. Chidiac’s blood: His great-grandfather Capt. Aubrey Eagle – a WWI aviator – designed, built, and flew the fastest “vest pocket” aircraft for the US Army Air Service in 1923.

Mr. Chidiac is regularly invited to present at defense and technology events including Defense TechConnect, NSF Astro America, Milken Institute, SAFE Symposium, Directed Energy S&T Symposium, AFWERX Challenge and SOFWERX Innovation Foundry. He graduated from several technology accelerators, has advised public companies on defense strategy, and mentored more than 100 Techstars startups through their Space, Healthcare, and LA cohorts. Mr. Chidiac is a member of the Directors Guild of America, First Families of Tennessee, a board member of the Overmountain Victory Trail Association and a member of the National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution (SAR) as a recognized direct descendant of General John Sevier, a member of the First Congress and the First Governor of Tennessee. Mr. Chidiac holds a BA in Near East History from the American University of Beirut.

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