Tyto Athene hires Boyd as CEO

Tyto Athene has hired a new chief executive in Andrew Boyd, a two-decade veteran of the market and formerly an executive at IBM’s federal consulting business unit.

Boyd succeeds Dennis Kelly, who previously led the technology integrator for the past two years. Tyto said Wednesday that Kelly is remaining on its board of directors to support the next phase of the strategy.

During Kelly’s tenure, the Arlington Capital Partners-owned company made three acquisitions to further build out its cybersecurity offerings and presence across defense and intelligence agencies.

Arlington Capital established Tyto in 2018 through a carveout of that business from Black Box, then supported Tyto’s acquisition of the former AT&T defense IT professional services business in 2021.

Kelly then joined Tyto in 2024 and subsequently joined our WT 360 podcast to lay out the company’s path for growth, plus his blueprint of scaling businesses.

Boyd now picks up the mantle of leading Tyto’s strategy and vision to lead in areas such as networks, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data and technology delivery.

More recently at IBM, Boyd worked as the federal consulting arm’s defense and intelligence industry lead. He is also a former CEO of S2 Analytical Solutions and IDEMIA National Security Solutions.

Boyd’s career also includes senior leadership roles at Science Applications International Corp., Unisys, Engility Corp., TASC, OGSystems, Northrop Grumman and Sparta.