James Lackey
Senior Vice President of Software Solutions, Davidson
Building upon an executable market expansion pipeline is James Lackey’s biggest recent achievement in his role at Davidson.
“After quickly integrating well across the Davidson corporate enterprise, James has brought both P&L execution organizational discipline and aggressive growth focus in the areas of weapon system modeling and simulation, multi-domain battle management command and control integration, AI/ML optimization and agile software development,” said Davidson President Dale Moore. ”As our senior executive site leader in Huntsville, James will help advance Davidson, but more importantly, our customers’ missions to support warfighter end-users.”
Why Watch
In 2024, Lackey’s team is heavily focused on advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning optimization applications for multiple customers including advancing integration of quantum computing.
Lackey especially likes a quote from Vince Lombardi: “Winners never quit, and quitters never win.”
Fun fact: Lackey graduated from U.S. Naval Test Pilot School, Fixed Wing curriculum with about 100 hours in training and tactical jet supersonic aircraft.