Tom Katis

Tom Katis, whose full name is Thomas Katis, is a co-founder of the private security and mission support firm Triple Canopy, which was founded in Chicago, Illinois in September 2003 together with Matthew Mann. He was a United States Army Special Forces communications sergeant who deployed to Afghanistan from 2002 to 2003 before starting the company. As the founder and co-chairman of Triple Canopy and later of Constellis, he played a forward role in the American private military company industry. Triple Canopy moved its headquarters to Herndon, Virginia in 2005, acquired Clayton Consultants in 2007, took over Blackwater's Iraq security contracts from the State Department in 2009, and in 2014 merged with Academi to form Constellis Holdings.