Chris Ricks is the Owner and Chief Executive Officer of Agile Elite Solutions, LLC (AES), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business that helps government and commercial organizations grow, compete, and deliver. He sets the company’s direction, leads its client relationships and strategic partnerships, and is responsible for the growth and performance of every AES service line. His standard for the company is simple: understand what a client is trying to accomplish, bring the right expertise to it, and produce results the client can measure.

He is a retired United States Air Force Chief Master Sergeant with 23 years of service, during which he led personnel at senior levels, managed programs and budgets, and oversaw contract activities from the government’s side of the table. That experience gives him a firsthand understanding of how agencies make decisions and what they expect from the companies they rely on. After retiring, he moved into the government contracting industry as a Director of Business Development, where he built the strategies, relationships, and teams that expanded his organization’s federal footprint.

Mr. Ricks now brings both perspectives, the military leader and the industry executive, to leading AES: a company built to help its clients strengthen how they pursue work, how they win it, and how they deliver it.

Dr. Daylena Ricks is the Chief Operating Officer of Agile Elite Solutions, LLC (AES), a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business serving government and commercial clients. She leads the company’s operations and is accountable for how every engagement is scoped, staffed, delivered, and measured.

Her focus is simple: make sure what AES commits to a client is exactly what the client receives, with clear requirements up front, the right people on the work, disciplined execution, and results that can be seen and verified.

She retired from the United States Air Force after more than 20 years, beginning as a combat photojournalist and finishing as a Public Affairs Manager. Across every assignment the job was the same: understand a situation quickly, get to the truth of it, and put it in terms a decision-maker can act on. That discipline now shapes how she runs AES, where operational clarity and accountability are what allow a small business to deliver with the consistency of a much larger one.