At Forge, Corine provides government and commercial contract development services. She helps clients create winning proposal strategies by assisting in the overall capture process and facilitating long-term business development goals.

After reviewing RFPs, Corine will determine successful proposal and bid strategies, build automated pricing models, and author cost volume documents. Her vast professional experience in assisting clientele’s growth, development, and success makes Corine a vital asset to the company and the clients she serves.

Corine also serves as Chief Operating Officer at Forge, overseeing various corporate functions such as Business Operations, Finance, Contracts, and Human Resources.

  “I enjoy the people and the atmosphere at Forge. I wanted to be part of this team because I believe in the projects we support, and I’m excited about our ongoing efforts to grow businesses, create opportunities, and improve the lives of people in the great state of West Virginia.” – Corine Alexander.

Outside of the office, Corine enjoys spending time with her husband and three children, and traveling.

Prior to joining Forge, Rich served as a Senior Systems Engineering Manager and Acting Director for Northrop Grumman Corporation, where he managed a team responsible for providing 24/7 on-site operations support to a classified Department of Defense program in north-central West Virginia. Formerly, he was the Senior Program Manager of the NASA Independent Verification and Validation (IV&V) Program, where he led a team of over 160 personnel responsible for IV&V of high-risk, mission-critical software for NASA human-rated and science missions.

Rich previously managed teams of personnel providing on-site programmatic support within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (N6), the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and various other Navy and joint commands in the metropolitan Washington, DC area.

Following a 24-year career in the United States Navy, Rich retired as a naval aviator specializing in antisubmarine warfare (ASW), maritime surveillance operations, and joint Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (C4ISR), where he served in numerous operational, staff, and project management assignments. As Project Manager of the ASW Operations Center Program within the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, he was responsible for acquisition, development, and engineering life cycle support for a $99 million command and control system for maritime patrol and reconnaissance operations at 21 sites worldwide. Previously, he was Head, Air ASW and Maritime Surveillance Operations on the staff of the Commander-in-Chief, U.S. Atlantic Fleet during the height of the Cold War, where he was responsible for real-time employment of forces to track, monitor and, if directed, engage high threat units. Rich was designated a mission commander and patrol plane tactical coordinator in the P-3C Orion maritime patrol aircraft, accumulating over 2,400 flight hours directing the efforts of 12-person combat aircrews conducting Cold War ASW and maritime surveillance operations in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean theaters.

Rich earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Naval Academy, a Master of Science in Systems Technology (Joint Command, Control and Communications) from the Naval Postgraduate School, and a Master of Business Administration from Strayer University.

He serves on the Board of Directors for Christian Help, Inc., a non-profit organization in Morgantown, West Virginia, where he has held the positions of President and Treasurer and currently serves as their Financial Administrator. For over 35 years, he has been the Secretary of his Naval Academy class. Rich and his wife, Christine, reside in Morgantown and have three daughters and seven grandchildren.

Notably, he has an extensive record of community and non-profit experience in West Virginia. He is a charter member, former President and Executive Board member, and lifetime advisor for West Virginia Writers, Inc., a founding member and Director of Creative Writing Programs for Allegheny Echoes, Inc., a member of the executive and advisory boards of the Pearl S. Buck Birthplace Foundation, the West Virginia University Pearl S. Buck Advisory Committee, and was a board member and editor for Publisher’s Place, Inc.

Mr. Judd graduated from Marshall University in Huntington, WV, with a degree in Business Communication. He and his wife Janet live in Stewartstown, WV, on a ridge between Cheat Lake and the Monongahela River.

A native of Kent, Ohio, Beth worked for newspapers in Ohio and Wisconsin before moving to Huntington, W.Va., in 1999 to work as a special projects and investigative reporter for The Herald-Dispatch. In 2002, she moved to Charleston to become the senior staff writer for The State Journal, West Virginia’s only business and government weekly newspaper. She worked for The State Journal for 10 years as a reporter, managing editor and editor. From 2013 to 2015, Beth served as the director of communications for the West Virginia Attorney General’s Office.

Beth left full-time employment in 2015 to be a stay-at-home wife and mother, but worked as a freelance spokeswoman, social media coordinator, and writer for political campaigns, non-profit organizations, and newspapers. She joined Forge in 2022 because she believed in the company’s mission of helping other small- and mid-sized businesses grow and flourish in West Virginia and beyond.

In her free time, Beth enjoys reading and listening to audiobooks, going to her family’s farm in Ohio with her husband, watching her two sons playing sports, and walking her three beagles around Morgantown.