Yvonne Vervaet
Executive Vice President, Chief Growth Officer, Nightwing
Yvonne Vervaet recently restructured Nightwing’s strategy and growth organization to enable traditional business development at the scale, scope and tempo of a multi-billion-dollar organization, and to be able to meet customers’ needs in a time of rapidly changing acquisition policies and methods.
With the organizational structure, depth of technical resources and investment infrastructure that allow Nightwing to observe its clients’ technical challenges, the company can proactively lean forward with investments to solve these problems and get them to customers quickly through non-traditional procurement and collaborations, she said.
“As chief growth officer, Yvonne is shaping where Nightwing is going next,” said Nightwing CEO Bob Coleman. “She blends data-driven rigor with an instinctive feel for the missions we support, delivering capabilities that work at the edge, where our customers need them most. Yvonne’s ability to align capture, partnerships and delivery has been central to how we perform, compete and win in a competitive market.”
Nightwing is also helping government customers think through the details of conversion to completion-based contracting, which can be a challenge for customers who often rotate COs and COTRs every few years.
In many cases, Nightwing has supported customers for 40 years, so it has the continuity and the big picture performance data to create completion-based statements of work and performance indicators that achieve mission objectives without introducing risk to the mission, Vervaet said.
“We think this forward-learning approach is a pretty big deal, and our customers seem to agree,” she said.
Why Watch
This year, Nightwing is focused on cementing its niche in AI and other emerging technologies to better support clients. Two key areas include using AI to exponentially improve the speed and quality of Nightwing’s cyber research and ongoing training initiatives to make every Nightwing employee AI-savvy to deliver meaningful improvements to every aspect of mission and corporate performance.
“I think 2026 is truly one of the most exciting times I can recall in my nearly 30 years supporting procurements in the federal government space,” Vervaet said. “It’s a confluence of meaningful acquisition reform, huge technology leaps and unprecedented mission demand. I’m honored to be one of the leaders at Nightwing helping our customers through this transformative time.”
Fun fact: Vervaet is an adoptive mom, and it has been one of the most rewarding experiences of her life. “We adopted my son when he was 4. He turns 19 this summer and is headed off to his first year of college. I couldn’t be more proud,” Vervaet said.
