Primary Job Title President Primary Organization 
Apache Enterprises
Location Fort Worth, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
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Darrel Kindley has over 30 years of experience in the global aerospace and defense industry. He has proven success driving shareholder value and business growth through strategic planning, unparalleled execution, and prosperous relationship building with key customers. Darrell has valuable expertise in regards to maintaining and improving margins
in both growing and declining market conditions.
Darrell started his career as a test engineer for Singer Link Flight Simulation Division where he was responsible for developing and executing test procedures for customer acceptance of aircraft simulators, including fixing wing fighters and helicopters.
He next joined Lockheed Martin Aeronautics in Fort Worth, Texas, at the very site where the F-16 was designed and built. He spent the next 18 years working on various fighter and trainer programs as a product manager and systems engineer. He was responsible for complex product development and integration, building successful teams, managing extremely technical and programmatically challenging programs, and supporting key international business development campaigns.
After Lockheen Martin, Mr. Kindley left to pursue an opportunity at Bell Helicopter as the Air Vehicle Director of a large military helicopter development program. This program was Darrell’s first introduction to the U.S. Army Aviation and it’s Program Executive Office (PEO). This was an important learning experience for Darrell, and a time of great personal and professional growth.
Darrell Kindley then went on to work for FLIR Systems as Vice President of Program Management and eventually as the General Manager of the Boston Operations. Here Darrell developed strategic relationships with various international, USMC, US Army and DoS customers. He also gained immense experience managing P&L and a complete set of functional organizations. Darrell was extremely successful at improving gross margins and achieved an operating income of over 32% on $175M in revenues during a declining market.
Darrell Kindley was able to take these valuable experiences and achievements over to Apache Enterprises, LLC where he is now the President. He has successfully turned around this small aerospace lighting and structures company to be very profitable entity by bringing new customers and new products to the market.
Darrell Kindley has been constantly recognized for his work in avionics systems, subcontract management, systems engineering, program management, business development, and executive management. His rapid ability to learn and adapt is what puts him ahead in the industry and what allows Darrell Kindley to remain notable in the corporate world.
