Clients

• Orion Technologies
  
  Orion Technologies Incorporated provides custom and standard single-board computer and hardware solutions for commercial, industrial, aerospace, COTS and military applications. It specializes in high-performance Intel and PowerPC-based compact PCI, VPX, PMC, VMI and custom form-factor products. Orion delivers innovative products  unsurpassed in flexibility, power and ease of use that provide outstanding long-term value with little or no NRE charges. For more information please visit www.otisolutions.com.

• Homeland Security & Defense Business Council
  
  The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council (HSDBC), is the leading forum for senior executives from the private sector to substantively interact and network with their public-sector counterparts. HSDBC ensures that the private sector, which protects roughly 95% of the critical infrastructure of this country, is represented on homeland-security legislative, regulatory and free-market initiatives. It is a not-for-profit, non-partisan organization that represents the leading companies currently providing products, services and technology solutions to the homeland security market throughout the U.S. and worldwide. For more information please go to www.homelandcouncil.org.

• Sam Moffie, author
   
  Sam Moffie is 50, and resides in Youngstown, Ohio. He has self-published four books to critical acclaim, and counts his readers in the thousands. He takes the rust out of the Rust Belt!  Besides writing, he owns two bars in Youngstown, so when he's not writing or dabbling in local politics, Sam has a lot of fun with his children, grandchild and dogs. When all else fails, there is, thankfully, his lovely wife Juliette! The Book of Eli is his fourth novel, and can be found at Amazon.com and Barnes and Noble. All his books have all won awards, and he's currently working on his fifth -- To Kill the Duke.

• Patricia Saxton, fine artist/writer
  
  Patricia Saxton has art and poetry in her blood. Her mother was an acclaimed poet, and Pat started to receive her own national recognition as early as age 9. She hasn't stopped!  Exhibited widely throughout the Southwest and the New York/Philadelphia metropolitan areas, her earth-toned palette reflects a reverence for natural form, light and color. Today, her works are in oil, pencil, and pen & ink, and they hang in corporate and private collections across the country. She is the author/illustrator of two wonderful children's books: A Book of Fairies and The Book of Mermaids, and her creative talents form the core of her deisgn, illustration and copywriting firm, Saxton Illustration and Design. For more information, visit www.saxtonstudio.com or www.particiasaxton.com.

• BRS Labs
  

  Houston-based BRS Labs has invented a patented technology that eliminates the risk of human error from security surveillance. The technology, known as AiSight (pronounced eyesight), blends computer visualization and machine learning with a sprinkling of artificial intelligence.
  
  AISight takes visual input from a camera, learns what activities and behaviors are typical, and generates real-time alerts when it identifies activities that are not normal. It will be a game changer at government facilities, airports, laboratories and other high-security institutions.
  
  AISight is a reasoning-based surveillance that functions in a manner similar to the human brain. It takes in external visual input (computer vision), while its machine learning engine observes the scene, learns and recognizes behavioral patterns and responds accordingly. There are no humans involved, so surveillance is 24/7, and since the software learns the scene, the false positives are reduced to practically zero.
  
  

• ICx Technologies
  
  ICx Technologies is a leader in the development and integration of advanced sensor technologies for homeland security, force protection and commercial applications. Its proprietary sensors detect and identify chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear and explosive threats, and deliver superior awareness and actionable intelligence for wide-area surveillance, intrusion detection and facility security. ICx also leverages its unparalleled technical expertise and government R&D funding to address othere emerging challenges, such as working towards a cleaner environment, alternative energy and life science. For more information, visit www.icxt.com.
   

• The OSINT Group—Michael Bagley, Principal; now working with Able Danger Veterans
  
  There has been a quasi transfer of power from New York to D.C., which is now the de facto financial center of the world. In developed and developing countries, domestic political factors will drive the performance of national and international markets. As a result, the use of "political intelligence" by global financial institutions is quickly becoming an important factor to asset portfolio managers across all sectors.
  
  The OSINT Group, a boutique private intelligence firm based in Washington, D.C., was established in 2007 to assist government and commercial clients in the energy and financial industries with unique "open source" intelligence collection and delivery. In addition to utilizing technology used by the U.S. intelligence community, the firm usus its network of personal relationships and connections in Washington to gather political intel for international clients that need to better understand how and why the U.S. Government will influence the international financial markets. The OSINT Group also implements very sophisticated software used by the U.S.Intelligence Community fo pattern trending, spatial research and link-analysis to pinpoint data relatiohships. The OSINT Group can aggregate unlimited information sources, harvesting information from 126 countries in 25 languages.  www.theosintgroup.com.
   

• Development Gateway Foundation
  
  The Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) is an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology. The DGF concept and several of its programs originated within the World Bank. The programs were then merged into an independent foundation, supported by government donors as well as private sector pioneers who recognized the high potential of ICT to increase the impact of scarce development resources. 
  
  To meet its mission, DGF provides Web-based platforms that make aid and development efforts more effective around the world. DG focuses its resources in three areas where even small investments in information and communications technology (ICT) can make a major difference:
  

• Effective government – enabling better aid management and coordination, and more efficient and transparent government procurement.
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration – leveraging the Internet for online communications among development practitioners worldwide. 
• Local partner programs in nearly 50 countries – connecting developing country organizations into the DG mission and helping empower them to use ICT to scale up local development efforts.
  
• Mark P. Mills, Chairman of the Board of International Battery  

Mr. Mills is also a co-founding partner in the venture fund Digital Power Capital, and founding member of the Digital Power Group, a research firm. He has been published in various publications, including Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Magazine, and has a book, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, which was published by Basic Books in January 2005, and co-written with Peter Huber. He has testified before, and briefed, many state public service commissions, legislative groups, state legislators, and the U.S. Congress.

Before founding Digital Power Capital, Mark founded and ran a technology consulting business for 17 years. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office (under President Reagan), a number of the Federal Research Laboratories, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Mark was an experimental physicist and development engineer in the fields of integrated circuits during the early 1970s, the "Jurassic era" of microprocessors. He also worked in fiber optics, defense and solid-state devices, fields in which he holds several patents. Mark holds a degree in physics from Queen's University, Canada, and is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Physical Society and Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

• Marshall Young, Chief Executive Officer, Paratus Worldwide Protection

  Marshall Young, a decorated U.S. Navy veteran, is the founder and CEO of Paratus Worldwide Protection. Mr. Young has 15 years of security experience, including military experience in both the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has operated in Iraq for nearly four continuous years, beginning with the Joint Task Force-7 Anti-Terrorism Cell, located in Baghdad. Mr. Young has completed hundreds of security missions on behalf of the United States government and private sector clients. His knowledge of military security issues and fluency in Arabic make him an expert in Islamic militant movements by allowing him to conduct investigations of suspected and known militants directly.

  In Iraq, Mr. Young's private-client experience includes:

  • Site surveys
  • Secure compound planning and construction
  • VIP close protection
  • Convoy security, usually combined with improvised explosive device (IED) detection
  • Explosive ordinance disposal coordination and the emergency evacuation of clients when necessary.

  Young was responsible for a comprehensive overhaul of the security infrastructure of the Khanzad Hotel (Erbil, Iraq), which allowed it to then be upgraded to an officially approved remote and secure location for members of the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice and other U.S. government agencies.

  In support of military clients, Mr. Young has captured several suspected insurgents, provided rescue and assistance missions for U.S. military patrols in volatile cities and he has personally protected the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, contractors for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), oil industry executives and various Iraqi dignitaries, including both the President and Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan. He has also been specifically selected to secure insurgent-targeted buildings in Mosul, Baghdad and at the U.S. Marine Corps' forward-operating locations in Fallujah and surrounding areas.

• Xelocity™
  
  Xelocity, based in Overland Park, Kansas, has deep expertise in supply-chain consulting work across several vertical markets—dairy, forestry and building products, CPG, telecommunications, manufacturing and distribution. Clients using Xelocity’s ProcessWizard™ application include DHL, McCormick, Kohler and Boeing, among others, and the software is used in Supply-Chain Council’s SCOR Implementation coursework. Globally, Xelocity has a team of 200 consultants and specializes in the following areas:
  
  • Supply Chain Optimisation (strategic, tactical and operational)
  • Production Scheduling
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Logistics Planning
  • Distribution and Transport Scheduling
  • Inventory Optimisation
  • Financial Modelling
  • Risk Management
  
  Xelocity is also teamed up with “futures designer” Mike McAllum and his Global Foresight Network, to provide sustainable design for its clients. McAllum is a globally recognized expert on global warming and how to combat it – smarter design and smarter technology.  If you cover any aspect of the “green world,” I highly recommend you talk with him.  For more information, please visit www.xelocity.com or call Vicki directly.