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About Us

APEX TK is a veterans-first company with a dual purpose – to provide solutions to complex challenges and to give back charitably to our communities.

Our Mission

Our mission is to solve our nation’s most complex security and technology challenges by providing elite unparalleled talent, domain experts, and innovative technical solutions.

Our Vision

Our vision is to be the partner of choice for the nation’s most critical national security programs, and our name is synonymous with mission success.

WE ARE a service-disabled veteran-owned small business (SDVOSB) specializing in hands-on experience in all operational and strategic advisement levels. Whether complex Major Weapons Systems Integration or advising the government on their next billion-dollar acquisition program, APEX TK has capable, qualified, and highly vetted resources to assist both Private and Public Sector mission requirements.

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Our Veterans

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We Provide

A unique cadre of Experts with decades of proven acquisition and engineering expertise, shaping rapid acquisition strategy, tactics, and processes and fielding capability through technology transition methods in both traditional and non-traditional channels.

A combined 50+ years of systems life-cycle acquisition experience ranging from early TRL technology identification within the “commercial dual-use” continuum of solutions through legacy system sustainment and recapitalization projects both in garrison and deployed locations.

Connection to and support from current partnership/programs with Federally Funded Research and Development Centers (FFRDC) and University Affiliated Research Centers (UARC), providing acquisition process expertise and streamlined support to modernization and technology transition/insertion programs aiding DoD and other federal agencies.

Direct access to non-traditional ecosystem partners poised to support dual-use transition efforts within NGO/non-for-profit, private equity/venture capital market, corporate venture capital teams, middle-tier corporations, accelerator/incubator networks, FFRDCs/UARCs and DoD Defense Innovation Network leads within (OSD, USAF, USN, USA, USMC, USSF, U.S. SBA)

Leadership Team

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TJ Karriker

Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director
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Tony Wizner

Chief of Staff
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Russell King

Chief Technology Officer
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Brian Patterson

Chief Operating Officer and Partner
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Megan Mann

Director of Missiles and Space Programs
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Logan Zierden

Operations Manager

Our Locations

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