Charles Friedrichs

A knowledgeable executive with more than 35 years of experience in the aerospace defense marketplace, Charles Friedrichs provides expert capture management skills. His proficiency in this area has fostered multiple new business opportunities for his employers over the course of his career. Moreover, Charles Friedrichs has proved highly intuitive in developing business partnerships with other organizations that led to broader manufacturing and development capacities and facilitated expanded sales and contracts.

Having served in key business planning and deployment roles for such companies as General Motors and Hughes Aircraft, Charles Friedrichs effectively identifies client needs to create targeted competitive procurement programs. Working in the role of trusted advisor to clients while advancing his organization's corporate objectives, he generates confident response to products and systems, delivery capabilities, and quality. He applies crucial judgment about high technology solutions to help clients determine requirements, expediting the timeline necessary to move from initial design to a fully deployed system. This efficient use of client and company resources and time results in reduced costs and improved services.

For 15 years, Charles Friedrichs participated in numerous international assignments related to missile delivery systems. He also served as one of only two senior executives at Hughes Aircraft designated to introduce and develop strategic cooperation initiatives with General Motors. In this capacity, he analyzed potential capture of investments in the international marketplace. In addition, he oversaw a five-year campaign with General Motors in which he secured offset capture agreements associated with the Tomahawk Missile. The endeavor produced contracts with international clients worth $2 billion. He also co-devised innovative methodologies to garner strategic, large-scale business alliances between General Motors and Hughes, as well as such key suppliers as Johnson Controls, GenCorp, and United Technologies.

Charles Friedrichs graduated from the University of Arizona, where he completed a Bachelor of Science in Public Administration with concentrations in public systems and urban planning. He also earned a Master of Science in Operations Management from the University of Phoenix.