Dino Mavrookas
Dino Mavrookas is the Co-Founder and CEO of Saronic Technologies, a defense technology company that designs, builds, and deploys autonomous surface vessels for the U.S. Navy and allied forces. He served eleven years as a U.S. Navy SEAL, including five years with the Naval Special Warfare Development Group (SEAL Team Six), before earning an MBA from Wharton and working in private equity at Vista Equity Partners. He founded Saronic in 2022 and is best known for leading the company's efforts to scale production of autonomous maritime drones for national defense.
“Ex-Navy SEAL (11 years, 8 combat tours, SEAL Team Six), Vista Equity Partners alum.”
“Before that, you have Palantir and SpaceX to just go and build things to show the government that there's a different way.”
Source→“They actually backed us in the very beginning. We started with APC and it was because a conversation I had with Joe”
Source→“Brian and I just got on the phone... We're eight steps ahead by the time the government even came in on this project.”
Source→“Vista Equity Partners — Private equity firm Mavrookas worked at for five years after leaving the SEAL teams before founding Saronic”
Source→“China outbuilds the US 230 to 1... They built over a thousand commercial ships last year. The United States built five.”
Source→“The commercial shipbuilding builds the supply chain. It builds the industrial base...”
Source→“You need companies like Saronic and then Anduril was before us.”
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