About Us
Leadership Team
Founded in 1996 by Warren Citrin, Bob Thurber, and Dave Buscher, Solipsys focuses on providing superior technical expertise and unparalleled customer satisfaction. Our multi-disciplined staff consists of the best and brightest talent available and is guided by an executive team with a wide range of experience in the industry:
Mark Trenor, President
Mr. Trenor joined Solipsys in 2003, having previously held the position of Director of Naval Command and Control Programs while at Lockheed Martin Naval Electronic and Surveillance Systems. He is a 1976 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a former Navy aviator, logging more than 2400 hours in F-14 Tomcats as a Radar Intercept Officer. Mr. Trenor retired as Commander from the Naval Reserve in 1992.
Mr. Trenor held the position of Director of Business Development at Solipsys prior to his appointment as President in September, 2004.
Raef Cronin, Vice President and General Manager
Mr. Cronin joined Solipsys in 2002 as a Program Manager for Solipsys' PAC-TCN efforts. As Director of Programs, Mr. Cronin was responsible for establishing and implementing the Programs organization at Solipsys in support of JLENS, SRP and Vigilare. Mr. Cronin received a BS in Engineering Mechanics in 1985 and an MS in Mechanical Engineering in 1987, both from Lehigh University.
Prior to joining Solipsys, Mr. Cronin spent 15 years at Newport News Shipbuilding, now part of Northrop Grumman's Shipbuilding sector, where he was most recently Deputy Program Manager for the CVN 77 Warfare System responsible for the commercial selection of and subsequent management of a $400M Lockheed Martin subcontract. He was also a principal participant in the capture of the $425M strategic sealift conversion contract.
Robert Martin, Vice President - Engineering
Mr. Martin joined Raytheon in 1977 as an engineer, where he developed and integrated software for the Army’s Patriot and Hawk air defense systems. He moved into engineering management on Patriot, AMRAAM, Standard Missile, Stinger, Sparrow and Maverick missile systems and international programs. Since then, he assumed positions of increasing responsibility, including program manager for programs such as Air & Ground Launch Tacit Rainbow Missile Software; Patriot Software, Maintenance Engineering, Training Devices, and Integration Test Facilities; and Patriot PAC-3 Configuration 2 Hardware and Software System (more than six million software lines of code), successfully deployed in 1996.
Mr. Martin joined Solipsys in 2010 from Raytheon IDS where he served as Vice President and Deputy of Seapower Capability Systems, the company’s business area focused on programs for U.S. and international Navy customers. In this role, he was responsible for leading program execution and business growth through flawless program performance, technology innovation, and a dedicated focus on the needs and requirements of the customer.
Previously, Mr. Martin was IDS’ director of software for the Zumwalt-class destroyer program (DDG 1000). He was responsible for development and delivery of software for this revolutionary U.S. Navy destroyer. He led the national team of 33 companies, including Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin, managing the system’s state-of-the-art software and computing hardware environment. This team developed the Total Ship Computing Environment Open Architecture approach with the Navy, now incorporated on other surface Navy programs.
Mr. Martin is an emeritus member of the AIAA Software Systems Technical Committee. He received Raytheon’s Program Leadership Excellence Award in 2003 and 2008, Business Development Excellence Awards in 2002 and 2005, IDS President’s Award in 2006 and the Software Productivity Consortium Program Excellence Award in 2004. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer and systems engineering from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.
