Tim Solms, CEO of Slingshot Aerospace

Tim Solms is the CEO at Slingshot Aerospace. In this role, Solms oversees the company’s overall strategy and operations, ensuring Slingshot continues to deliver decisioning data and insights in space.

Solms’ professional specialties include executive leadership and management, profit and loss management, growth and resource optimization, regulated industries, enterprise software, digital transformation, program acquisition and partner development, his profile further reveals.

Solms joined Slingshot in 2024. In his previous role, Solms was the executive vice president and public sector general manager at information services firm Dun & Bradstreet. He was a senior leader in the financial technology, data and analytics, artificial intelligence/machine learning, enterprise and cloud-based solutions, and cybersecurity sectors.

Previously, Solms was the general manager of Department of Defense sales and operations at technology company Microsoft. That role saw him on top of all the company’s business with the Pentagon.

Solms also served briefly as a senior director at cloud computing company VMWare. Earlier in his career, he served as director of sales at technology company Dell.

Solms’ career began in the U.S. Army, where he served for over 18 years. He was an Army pilot and flew the AH-1 Cobra and AH-64 Apache attack helicopters.

Solms earned his bachelor’s degree in business administration from The Citadel.