Xcelerate Solutions

Xcelerate Solutions

Mark Drever launched Xcelerate Solutions in 2009, selecting the September 11 anniversary to underscore a founding commitment to national security. The firm operates from McLean, Virginia, placing it inside the dense federal contracting corridor outside Washington, DC. Xcelerate characterizes its work as delivering mission-ready security, digital, and infrastructure solutions, directly to US government entities. The company organizes its delivery around three service lines: enterprise vetting and analysis, aviation security, and mission and digital solutions. These map to core federal demand signals — background investigations, biometric analysis, airport and aircraft protection, and IT modernization for defense agencies. Unlike firms that manage pools of third-party capital, Xcelerate solves for procurement access first, emphasizing streamlined contract vehicles to accelerate government purchasing. The firm does not publicly disclose financial backers or outside investors. Personnel depth is difficult to gauge from public materials alone. The firm does not publish a headcount or total contract value. CEO Mark Drever is the most visible principal, while a recent leadership announcement named Bill Pedersen to the enterprise vetting and analysis team — signaling continued investment in what the firm treats as its flagship capability. No additional office locations appear on the corporate site, though the McLean address provides proximity to the Pentagon, DHS headquarters, and the intelligence community. Xcelerate's architecture is that of a closely held, founder-led government services company, not a fund or family office deploying proprietary capital. The structural differentiator is the deliberate launch-date narrative — tying corporate origin to a national trauma — which serves as both internal culture anchor and external branding device for a firm whose end customer is almost exclusively the US federal government.