Joey Arora
About Joey Arora
I believe that entrepreneurship is key to building a prosperous community and a strong country. As a Managing Partner The Outpost, a boutique consulting firm, Joey helps companies win government contracts, especially in the defense arena, leading the conversation for businesses that want to learn how to work with the government. They have helped over 250 companies win $300M in contracts. Every day he gets to enable the people who foster innovation and change, which are critical to our success as a society. Creating access to capital and jobs drives our economy. Previously, Joey was the Chief Scaling Officer for a government software program (DoD Platform One) where he worked to streamline and scale operations designed to get commercial software authorized for use on Department of Defense systems in days and weeks instead of months and years. Joey is a proud Air Force reservist, who works on India-US Partnership efforts. During the first half of his career, he was an Airfield Operations Officer in the US and in Afghanistan. During the second half of his Air Force career, he led innovation efforts and co-founded AFWERX (Air Force Innovation Program) to connect an ecosystem of entrepreneurs and innovators and accelerate results for Air Force culture change and technology adoption. He scaled the government organization from 5 to over 350 people, engaged over 100,000 Airmen, and funded over 2,422 companies with $710M. This led to 530 prototype projects, with 50+ scaling to serve the strategic needs of the Air Force. He tailored the strategy around how the Air Force invests in small businesses. In addition to his extensive work with government contracts, Joey has started 3 companies, facilitated Startup Weekends, been a 1 Million Cups organizer, and is a grassroots ecosystem builder. He is mission-driven, passionate about innovation in government, cares deeply about entrepreneurship, and enjoys legos, working out, getting outside, and making stories. Communicate with Joey: Twitter: @JoeyArora Youtube: youtube.com/user/RangerRazgriz Facebook: facebook.com/EngageJoeyArora Website: joeyarora.com Instagram: @joey_arora Specialties: business strategy, military, innovation, keynote speaking, public speaking, startups, innovation Get in touch with Joey for SBIR/STTR & Creative Acquisition at: joey@theoutpost.com