Mr. Guiod is a senior executive with over 39 years of leadership experience in the U.S. Military, the Federal Government and the Private Sector including the position of Vice President of Lumark Technologies, Inc., a professional services firm in Washington, D.C.; and Director of Business Development for Civil Aviation and FAA at Saab, Inc. He is currently the Founder of MVPStrategic, LLC, a long-term strategic planning consulting firm offering the MVPStrategic® Planning Model, and serves as the Vice President of the Board of Directors for the Affordable Skies Coaliton (Affordable Skies | Consumer Advocacy Group).

He has a diverse background in aviation including FAA operations management, strategic planning, labor relations, software and database design, group facilitation and problem solving, human resource management, aviation law, quality control, quality assurance, and leading organizational performance. He is the creator of the proprietary MVPStrategic® Planning Model.

Originally from Boston Massachusetts, Mr. Guiod started flying at age 12, soloed at age 16, and has been a licensed pilot since age 19. He served multiple duty assignments in the United States Army including an assignment to the Pentagon in Washington D.C. He has over 35 years of service with the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) including operational and leadership assignments at Boston’s Logan International Airport (BOS and A90); Boston Air Route Traffic Control Center (ZBW); Air Traffic Manager -Worcester, Massachusetts Airport (ORH); Yankee Hub Manager and Air Traffic Manager – Bradley International Airport (BDL and Y90), and the New York Terminal Radar Approach Control (TRACON, N90), the busiest air traffic facility in the world, where he served as District Manager.

He has served at the field, regional and headquarters organizational levels where as the ATX-400 Branch Manager, he was the chief architect for FAA enterprise-wide integrated IT solutions such Cru-X, Traffic Analysis and Report Program (TARP), National Offload Program (NOP) and others. He also managed the FAA Air Traffic Organization’s (ATO) Office of Technical Labor Liaison and was the executive lead for negotiations of three successful national collective bargaining agreements with the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). Additionally, he was a national cadre instructor for Business Process Reengineering (BPR) and Safety Management System (SMS), and taught collaborative studies for the Quality Through Partnership joint labor venture with NATCA. He has been appointed as Vice Chair for the Cape Cod Gateway Airport.

Mr. Guiod was featured on National Geographic Channel’s Mayday: Air Crash Investigations, Season 17 Episode 7 “Tree Strike Terror” and is a producer for the award-winning feature film “Art Thief”, a narrative drama about the 1990 Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum robbery – the greatest art heist in history. He is currently writing “The North Bridge – The Twenty-Four Hours That Gave Birth to America”, a narrative drama based on the true events of April 18th & 19th, 1775.

Mr. Guiod attended Embry Riddle Aeronautical University for his undergraduate studies and completed the Senior Executive Fellows program at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He graduated from the FAA’s Senior Executive Candidate Program and has completed programs at FAA’s Center for Management and Executive Leadership, the Brookings Institute in Washington, D.C., and the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Virginia. He has residences in Cape Cod, Massachusetts, West Granby, Connecticut and Washington, D.C.