About Smack

Collaborative work session overhead view of six people collaborating at a rustic wooden table with coffee, papers, and a laptop
Collaborative work session overhead view of six people collaborating at a rustic wooden table with coffee, papers, and a laptop

We’re not defense tech tourists 

We’re not defense tech tourists 

We’re not defense tech tourists 

Smack is building domain-specific models for the sole purpose of delivering AI-enabled decision making for modern warfare.
Our team has decades of military leadership experience at every level. We understand the problem better than anyone, and we know exactly what our end users need to solve it.

Mission & Values

Smack’s mission is to Deliver Decision Dominance to the Department of War, our allies, and partners.
Smack’s mission is to Deliver Decision Dominance to the Department of War, our allies, and partners.

We’re here to serve
We work extremely hard every day in service of our mission and each other.

We’re here to win
There are no participation trophies in war. We’re not satisfied with anything less than winning.

We’re a culture of “And” 
The Iron Triangle is for losers. Even the laws of physics can be bent with a little motivation.

We’re here to serve
We work extremely hard every day in service of our mission and each other.

We’re here to win
There are no participation trophies in war. We’re not satisfied with anything less than winning.

We’re a culture of “And” 
The Iron Triangle is for losers. Even the laws of physics can be bent with a little motivation.

We’re here to serve
We work extremely hard every day in service of our mission and each other.

We’re here to win
There are no participation trophies in war. We’re not satisfied with anything less than winning.

We’re a culture of “And” 
The Iron Triangle is for losers. Even the laws of physics can be bent with a little motivation.

The Smack Team

The Smack Team

The mad scientists and engineers delivering Decision Dominance to the DoW.
The mad scientists and engineers delivering Decision Dominance to the DoW.
Andy Markoff

Founder & CEO

Clint Alanis

COO & Co-Founder

Dan Gould

Head of Strategy & Co-Founder

Max van Amerongen

Chief Growth Officer

Stewart Alpert

CIO & CISO

Greg Passmore

Chief Scientist

Greg Passmore

Chief Scientist

Frank Bantell

VP of Technology

Chris Scrapper

VP of Decision Dominance

Ray Gerber

VP of Mission Operations

John Wachunas

VP of Marketing

Eli Levin

Director of Technology

Andrew Christian

Director of Growth

John Falcone

Head of RLHF

John Coogan

Head of Knowledge Graph

Marti McElreath

Head of Applied Engineering

Vincent Dang

Head of Deployed Engineering

Craig Corbin

Head of IT Operations

Claire Kimock

Head of Design

Michele Brentano

People & Culture Manager

Maria Campos

Operations Manager

Arihant Chadda

Senior Machine Learning Scientist

Donald Berry

Data Scientist & ML Engineer

Jesse Arzate

Data Scientist & ML Generalist

Nicholas Costello

Data Analyst

Olivia Gerber

Data Scientist

Mason Mills

Mission Ops & Requirements Architect

Walter Driver

Business Development Manager

Danny Santos

Director of Growth Navy/USMC

Steve Keisling

Director of Growth USMC/USSOCOM

Will Slagle

Director of Partnerships, Growth

Alex Harvey

Director of Growth USAF

Brittany Weatherbee

Director, Mission Operations

Emilia Berndt

Strategic Operations Lead

Matthew Seay

Director, Mission Operations

Ryan Heffernan

Software Engineer

Jules Sulpico

Software Engineer

Sam Du Busc

Software Engineer

Andrew Gillespie

Software Engineer

Howard Li

Software Engineer

Jeremy Van

Software Engineer

Justin Bourne

Facility Security Officer

Onnig Sayadian

Senior Security Infrastructure Manager

Melissa Jones

Information System Security Manager

Max Gillilan

Security & Infrastructure Engineer

Max Gillilan

Security & Infrastructure Engineer

Lucas Mitchell

GRC/PM Lead

Lucas Mitchell

GRC/PM Lead

David Baska

Manager, Growth Team