Chip Whittemore founded First Peregrine after a decade of experience in the A&D industry. He has worked on more than one hundred strategy consulting engagements in the US, Asia, Europe, and MENA; conducted buy-side due diligence for strategic and private equity investors, and led numerous investments in middle market A&D contractors. He began his career as an aerospace engineer working on both unmanned systems and satellite platforms for a large aerospace firm and an innovative UAS startup. Chip is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), where he earned a Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering with Information Technology.