Over the past 37 years, Pete Sload has served the Nation as a career Army officer and as the President and CEO of ITility, LLC.

At the age of seventeen Pete enlisted in the Army Reserve in the Infantry, and later graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point with a Bachelor of Science degree in Civil Engineering. He was commissioned as an Air Defense officer and served in Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Following the Gulf War, he successfully completed the Army’s elite Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course at Fort Bragg, NC. and ascended into the ranks of the Green Berets. He deployed to Bosnia and Herzegovina to prepare for deployment of U.S. forces following the execution of the Dayton Peace Accords.

Pete later served functional area assignments as a certified Army Acquisition Program Manager in support of U.S. Army Special Operations Command (USASOC) and the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) where he led combat capability development initiatives across a spectrum of technologies. In his final acquisition assignment with the Defense Information Systems Agency, he managed the Agency’s Enterprise Business Modernization initiative that today has deployed systems scaled across the DoD for acquisition management.

Pete retired from the Army in 2007 and began his second career as the President and CEO of ITility in 2008. He took over the reins of a 7-year-old company with one defense contract supporting one employee and systematically grew ITility into a global enterprise with hundreds of employees. Pete’s guidance has transformed ITility into a company of diverse capabilities supporting the Nation’s defense and security operations and strategies. During his tenure, ITility has received numerous acknowledgements for growth, management, and innovation. Pete holds a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Arlington. He serves as a member of the Board of Advisors for the Environmental Engineering Department at the United States Military Academy. He also is a life member of the U.S. Army and Special Forces Association and advocates for service members as they transition from the military.