Not pitch-deck founders.
A senior team that builds, deploys, and supports every system we deliver.
Our leadership team brings 50+ years of combined experience across defense systems engineering, AI research, autonomous systems, and enterprise-scale deployments — with deep roots at tier-one defense primes, research institutions, and high-growth startups.
The people who design your system are the same ones who build it, harden it, and stand behind it in production. No junior handoffs. No outsourcing. No black boxes.
Shoaib Shaikh, PhD
Founder & CEOBuilder. Researcher. Operator.
Dr. Shaikh brings over 20 years of experience across defense systems engineering, operations research, and applied artificial intelligence. Before founding FOURTRIS, he held senior engineering roles at Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, L3Harris, and Harris Corporation — designing mission-critical systems for national security programs.
With a PhD in Operations Research and a Master's in Systems Engineering, he bridges deep academic rigor with real-world execution — architecting AI platforms that ship to production, not slide decks.
Bill Derrick
Chief Business Development OfficerVeteran. Dealmaker. Operator.
Bill Derrick leads FOURTRIS's growth strategy across defense, national security, and critical infrastructure markets. He brings extensive experience scaling operations in regulated, high-stakes industries, from defense manufacturing to healthcare diagnostics, driving strategic partnerships, channel development, and go-to-market execution for autonomous systems and edge AI platforms.
A U.S. Marine Corps veteran with two combat deployments to Iraq, Bill brings an operator's understanding of the mission environments FOURTRIS builds for. His co-founding role at Acropolis Holdings Group gives him rare fluency in both the technology and the business mechanics of the defense economy.