Andre B. Corbin is GENEDGE’s Regional Growth Manager for the West Region, connecting manufacturers across Virginia’s I-81 corridor — from the Shenandoah Valley and Roanoke Valley through Southwest Virginia and the coalfields — with the resources, expertise, and partnerships they need to innovate, compete, and grow.
Andre first joined the United States Army in 1983. Serving in Heidelberg, Germany and participation in three consecutive REFORGER exercises followed by selection for Military Intelligence, Russian language training at the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, cryptoanalysis school at Goodfellow Air Force Base and a signals intelligence posting in Seoul, Korea, with a final duty Station at Fort Davis, Panama, supporting Special Forces operations against narcotrafficking networks following Operation Just Cause.
He separated in 1991 following the Cold War drawdown and spent the next 17 years in senior contracts and program management across pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and telecommunications industries. At Ericsson he served as Regional Contracts Manager for the Americas and earned his Six Sigma Black Belt through a project at Ericsson’s manufacturing and warehouse operation in Lynchburg, Virginia.
In 2009, Andre re-enlisted to serve in Afghanistan and completed combat deployments with the 101st Combat Aviation Brigade: Tarin Kowt (2010–2011) and Bagram Air Base (2012–2013) followed, where he served as NCOIC sustaining supply chains across active combat theaters and was designated Task Force Troubleshooter for critical logistics disruptions.
From 2016 to 2020 at the Quartermaster School, Fort Lee, Virginia, he managed the Army’s Certified Logistics Associate (CLA) and Certified Logistics Technician (CLT) Credentialing Program — personally certifying 668 logistics professionals across Active, Reserve, and National Guard components worldwide, advising the Government Accountability Office on Army training infrastructure, and posting a 100% class pass rate.
He finished his career as Operations NCOIC of the 39th Transportation Battalion — the Army’s largest Movement Control Battalion, 527 soldiers across 19 locations on three continents — and capped his service as NCOIC of Task Force Home for Operation Allies Welcome, directing logistics, contracting, and life support for more than 10,000 Afghan evacuees on Rhine Ordnance Barracks, Germany. He retired in 2023 as a First Sergeant.
Virginia has been a recurring thread throughout Andre’s life — he has soldiered here, trained here, and worked here in the private sector — and he has now happily made it his permanent home with his wife Theresa. He holds Bachelor of Arts degrees in Transportation & Logistics Management and English – Creative Writing, and is currently pursuing a third degree in History with a focus on early American history.