JERRY PUNDERSON - Former Executive Vice President at Gryphon Technologies

Jerry Punderson
Former Executive Vice President at Gryphon Technologies

Mr. Punderson, with 40 years of experience, is an Executive Level Acquisition Expert advising clients on a wide variety of matters involving federal acquisition and contracting issues.

Mr. Punderson was most recently, until the end of 2021, the Executive Vice President of Gryphon Technologies reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO). He was responsible for the execution and management of contracts awarded to Gryphon Technologies, Human Capital Management and Security.  He previously served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO).  This included ensuring performance, quality, schedule, and cost control expectations were met in a way that maximized profitability and met client’s expectations. During this time the company, through acquisitions and organic growth grew to $300M annual revenue and 1500 employees.

Prior to coming to Gryphon in 2017, Mr. Punderson served as Senior Vice President of Defense and Intelligence (D&IC) at the Professional Services Council. In that role Jerry was the PSC lead for activities relating to the intelligence community, the military services, and the defense agencies. The D&IC is the principal venue for PSC members to interface with key government officials, provide input on acquisition policy issues, and shape upcoming procurements in the defense and intelligence sector.

He was the Director of Contracts, SEA 02, Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) from 2009-2014. He had full authority and responsibility for one of the largest and most responsible procurement organizations in the Federal government; his duties involved the obligation and expenditure of over $30 billion dollars annually. As the senior civilian for contracting at NAVSEA, Mr. Punderson was responsible for the contractual oversight of the Nation’s most complex shipbuilding and weapons systems procurement programs.
From 2001 to 2009, Mr. Punderson was the Director of the Undersea Systems Contracts Division, the organization responsible for the procurement of the AEGIS Ballistic Missile Defense system, the DoN Converged Enterprise Resource Planning (C-ERP) systems, and many undersea systems, resulting in $3.0 Billion in annual obligations.  In addition, he was the Program Manager for the SeaPort-e program at NAVSEA, a strategic approach to acquisition of services emphasizing affordable and timely procurement of services through a completely electronic web-based marketplace.

He joined the civil service in 1981 and from 2004 until 2014 he was a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES). Members of the SES serve in the key positions just below the top Presidential appointees.

EDUCATION: 
MS of Science in National Resource Strategy, Industrial College of the Armed Forces
BA in Biology, Rutgers University

CERTIFICATION AND PROFESSIONAL TRAINING

Recipient of the Presidential Rank Award, the Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal and numerous Special Act awards. DAWIA Level III Contracting, DoD Senior Acquisition Capstone Course Diploma