Protect and sustain organizational value
Create sustainable strategies to address complex regulatory compliance, achieve cost efficiencies, and optimize processes and technology.
We work with the top companies in the world
%
of the Fortune 500 Aerospace and Defense companies served
%
of the top 20 U.S. contractors by total revenue
Aerospace and Defense expertise
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING ADVISORY SERVICES
Confidently navigate complex regulatory environments
GOVERNMENT CONTRACTING ADVISORY SERVICES
Confidently navigate complex regulatory environments
Manage regulatory compliance requirements across finance, operations, government compliance, and IT with our Government Contracting Advisory Services (GCAS).
BUSINESS TRANSFORMATION
Create strategies for sustained growth
Identify new opportunities to streamline operations and craft tailored transformation plans designed to drive innovation, improve performance, and achieve measurable success.
ENTERPRISE APPLICATIONS
Discover new opportunities and solve operational challenges
Assess and refine your existing systems to fit your business goals. Simplify processes, boost efficiencies, and achieve scalable, long-term performance improvements.
TRANSACTION ADVISORY
Benefit from comprehensive strategies and execution
Navigate the complexities of every transaction with expert advisory, leadership, and resources for mergers and acquisitions (M&A), initial public offerings (IPOs), carve-outs, divestitures, and restructurings.
DIGITAL
Reimagine the future of your business
Improve technological infrastructure and embrace organizational change management with realistic recommendations that deliver impactful, sustainable, and cost-effective solutions.
GOVERNANCE, RISK, AND COMPLIANCE
Reduce risks and drive value
Address finance, operational, IT, and compliance risks with tailored frameworks, offering industry-specific insights and practical solutions.
RETAINED SEARCH
Innovate with exceptional leadership
Turn extraordinary vision into reality with technology and deep space leaders who have a proven track record of steering organizations into the future.
INTERIM LEADERSHIP
Accelerate critical insights
Complete mission-critical initiatives and enact transformational change with interim leaders who thrive in high-pressure, high-regulatory environments.
ACCOUNTING ADVISORY
Drive fiscal responsibility through experience and insight
Ensure financial reporting and regulatory compliance for accurate, timely, and compliant business operations.
The latest Aerospace and Defense trends and insights
Expertise across key industries
Aerospace and Defense
Create sustainable strategies to address complex regulatory compliance, achieve cost efficiencies, and optimize processes and technology.
Consumer Goods
and Retail
Tackle challenges with rapid, sustainable strategies that address rising costs, demand shifts, and evolving customer preferences.
Financial Services
Adapt to market shifts, encourage innovation, and evolve for sustained growth. Gain insights drawn from deep expertise across fintech, banking, capital markets, and insurance.
Healthcare
Delivering holistic solutions that make healthcare more effective by integrating strategy, technology, and leadership.
Manufacturing
Address challenges such as supply chain disruptions, demand variability, and capacity constraints through strategic, practical solutions that drive growth and network resiliency.
Private Equity
Leverage our expertise to maximize value, accelerate growth, and strengthen your leadership teams, processes, and operations at every stage of the deal lifecycle.
Technology
Scale systems, processes, and teams to excel during pivotal moments like expansion periods, regulatory shifts, and transactions.
Our Aerospace and Defense leaders
Beau Hammond
Partner
Beau leads Highspring’s efforts to support the missions of our global Aerospace, Defense and Government Services (ADGS) sector clients including aerospace; commercial aircraft; business and general aviation; space and ship building; and defense industries. He also supports Highspring’s leading divestitures and carve-outs service lines. Beau is also a key leader of our transaction advisory team performing divestiture, acquisition integration and IPO operational readiness. His expertise includes leading clients through efforts to spin-off and operationalize assets, integrate and optimize new acquisitions, deploy target operating models and the supporting infrastructure, implement, realize automation opportunities, and deploy ERP and EPM applications that increase data & analytics capabilities.
He holds a bachelors from Albion College and an MBA from The Ohio State University’s Fisher College of Business. Beau is active in his community serving non-profits and coaching youth soccer.
Asela Wijesiri
Partner
Asela leads Highspring’s Government Contracting Advisory Services practice and has over 20 years of experience assisting government contractors across a variety of industries including technology, aerospace, service providers, and manufacturing on regulatory compliance matters. He has extensive experience with performing DFARS business system compliance reviews, government contract readiness assessments, business process re-engineering, post integration business process harmonization, assisting with investigations, performing due diligence, and supporting technology transformations. He has also assisted clients in developing varying levels of indirect rate structures, led negotiations with cognizant agencies and provided litigation support, helped clients sustain indirect rates, and supported with preparing and reviewing incurred cost submissions.
Prior to joining Highspring, Asela acquired a deep expertise in government contracting and consulting through his leadership in industry roles and Deloitte. Asela earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, Accounting from Slippery Rock University.
Scott O’Day
Director
Scott O’Day is responsible for driving growth within Highspring’s Aerospace, Defense, and Government Services (ADGS) practice. He brings broad experience across a variety of domains (air, land, sea), phases of the product lifecycle (new product introduction, production, aftermarket), and functional areas (engineering, procurement, production, quality, supplier development, finance, accounting). In addition to delivering advisory services, he also has experience developing and implementing large business process outsourcing (BPO) solutions (both offshore and onshore) for major aerospace organizations.
Outside of work, he enjoys fishing in Maine and spending time with his wife and three children.
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