

DUANE A. COX
Chairman & CEO
Mr. Cox has 40+ years of experience in corporate,
personnel
and crisis management, and in policy development in military,
private and non-profit organizations. He is Founder, President and Chairman
of the Board of the Scientific Environmental Research Foundation (SERF), a
nonprofit organization formed to provide leadership in environmental research
and education by advancing high payoff research and education projects. SERF
is project manager of the National Oceanographic Environmental Monitoring
System. Mr. Cox also served as CEO, President and Chairman of the Board of
Planning Systems Incorporated. He turned that company into a $30+ million,
350 plus person private defense contractor specializing in U.S. Navy Warfare
(ASW) and environmental systems, and sold a portion of the company to Lockheed
Corporation (now Lockheed Martin). Mr. Cox is a retired Naval Officer who
has served in many operational billets and administrative positions in the
Atlantic& Pacific theaters, Far East and Washington D.C. While in the
U.S. Navy his highest position of command was as Commodore Oceanographic Systems
Pacific (Pearl Harbor).
BARENT L. FAKE
Corporate Affairs
Mr. Fake is President and Managing Director
of Executive Advisors, LLC. He provides advice to the chief executives of
companies in international development and marketing, health care and telecommunications
solutions, information technology, management, engineering solutions and services,
and Internet applications. He assists the executive management teams of his
clients in restructuring their organizations, developing their executive teams,
establishing strategic marketing plans and growth strategies within the global
market, and developing sound alliance strategies and relationships to position
his clients as solutions companies that incorporate systems and structures
to manage the challenge of technology obsolescence. Mr. Fake has over 25 years
of experience as a corporation attorney, most of which was spent while a partner
with Miles & Stockbridge, a Baltimore, Maryland-based law firm, where
he provided legal advise to corporate executives of both domestic and international
manufacturing and service corporations. Mr. Fake served for 10 years as a
Naval Flight Officer in anti-submarine warfare operations.
JAY R. SNYDER
Chief Technology Officer
Mr. Snyder is co-founder of Victory Systems,
having 20 years general experience in analysis, engineering, and applied mathematics
and 15 years experience related to threat analysis, exploitation, strengths,
weaknesses and counter tactics development. He was a member of SAIC's Technology
Research Group in the Systems and Technology Division for five years. He was
Senior Engineer on many UAV development projects during that time. He created
hardware and IT architectures for the Coast Guard, the Army and the Air Force
for the period that will span the next 30 to 40 years. Mr. Snyder served as
a Member of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force Long Range Planning Section
in the Pentagon, and as Director of the Revolutionary Planning Division in
the Pentagon. He has extensive experience specifically in the engineering,
sensor and IT development, and long-range strategic and operational mission
planning for UAVs. Mr. Snyder authored the UAV white paper and decision paper
for the Air Force. Mr. Snyder served as a Fighter Pilot, flying both the F-15E,
including 269 hours of combat time in Desert Storm, and nearly 2,000 flight
hours in the F-111. Mr. Snyder holds the record for most Top Gun awards in
the Air Force.
TOM EVERSOLE
Financial Matters
Mr. Eversole is the Chief Financial Officer
of Stargate Solutions Inc. and president of E. B. Associates, Inc., where
he provides consulting services to clients in requirements definition, management
situation assessments, financial management, and the conduct of market analyses.
He has more than 30 years of business experience in program management, financial
management, technology assessment, operational concepts, and research and
development. Mr. Eversole also served as Vice President at the Advanced Systems
Division of Planning Systems, Incorporated, where he was responsible for directing
the activities of the division in support of advanced maritime surveillance
systems within the Navy. He previously provided technical support for the
Integrated Undersea Surveillance System (IUSS) program office in the areas
of Command, Control, Computers, Communications and Intelligence, and participated
in the development of the Surveillance Direction System (SDS) Concept of Operations,
and the development of TSC/aircraft interface identification, sensor interface,
and design requirements for the P-3C aircraft.
ADVISORS:
Chairman of Technology Advisory Board:
Rear Admiral Bradford Mooney, Jr., U.S. Navy
(Retired) has a very in depth background in high technology areas. He
retired from the Navy in 1987 with over 34 years of professional experience
including 6 commands at sea and ashore. His fields of expertise are in management,
research, education and training and very deep ocean operations. Since 1964,
he has been involved in ocean engineering, at-sea operations, research and
development (R&D), including management, hands-on R&D and personal
collaboration with R&D leaders of government, academia and industry. Consulted
(1987-1989) in ocean engineering research at Florida Atlantic University,
University of New Hampshire and Texas A&M University. He has held many
leadership positions such as Member of the Board of Directors, President and
Managing Director of Harbor Branch Oceanographic Institution, Member of the
Marine Board at the National Research Council (NRC), President of the Marine
Technology Society, chaired a NRC study on Undersea Vehicles and National
Needs, Member of the U.S. Delegation to a United States/Russia Ocean Technology
workshop in Moscow in 1996. Chaired a workshop "Lessons Learned During
the Ocean Search and Recovery of TWA 800" for the Marine Board of the
NRC.
Before retiring, Radm Mooney was the Chief of
Naval Research. He directed headquarters staff, four subordinate laboratories
and offices in London and Tokyo totaling in excess of 5,000 people. Maintained
Close contact with the funded R&D work at 400 universities, 9 Navy R &
D Centers. Worked in direct cooperation with NASA, National Science Foundation,
NOAA, National Academy of Sciences, National Academy of Engineering, President's
Science Advisor, Administrator of NASA and periodically briefed members of
Congress and their staffs.
Chairman of Business Advisory Board:
Jim Runquist has 25 plus years of business development
through team building, in both small and large high-tech corporations. He
is currently the President of Temple Mountain Oil and Gas, Inc., which provides
oil and gas technology/products/systems integration for enhancing recovery
in the oil and gas industry. Current Chairman of the Board of Directors for
Minnesota Project Innovation, Inc, which helps over 750 Minnesota small business
high-tech companies/clients with business development. He has 20 years experience
in aerospace electronic/information systems business, new market development,
business growth through R&D, strategic alliances partnering and acquisition.
He has strategically positioned several divisions of a large aerospace corporation
to capture major market shares in Command and Control Systems, Avionics Systems,
Submarine Systems, Surface Ships' Systems, Air Traffic Control/Management
Systems, Postal Systems and International Marketplaces (Canada, Germany, Japan,
Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Australia and Hong Kong).
Mr. Runquist's strengths are;
Strategic management
and planning/developing and implementing winning business strategies
Creative and forward
thinking Business Development, Marketing and Sales
Sound Operations Planning/Budgeting/Evaluation/Control
practices
Expertise in initiating
from the group up new Systems/Products/Services Development and Marketing
Powerful Market Research/Competitive
Analysis/Opportunity Modeling/Business and Market Forecasting and
Planning techniques and processes
On Time, On Target Product/Project/Program
Management
Innovative IT and Internet
technology implementation/Business to Business e-Commerce/EDI
Creative leadership,
skilled communications and positive team participation, building as well as
motivating
UAV EXPERT ADVISOR:
Larry D. Friese, Jr., is an Aerospace Engineer
working with the Department of the Air Force at Eglin AFB, FL in simulation,
systems, and controls engineering. He also serves as a sub-scale drone control
and simulation software project leader for the Gulf Range Drone Control System.
He is the founder, President and CEO of Aerial Information Systems Corporation,
which is a commercial and government UAV service provider as well as small
UAV manufacturer. Prior to his current jobs Mr. Friese worked with the National
Security Agency, Ft. Meade, MD as the project leader and lead engineer for
the effort to develop, test and deploy a specialized sensor package on a tactical
UAV. He also has participated in several signals collection operations and
conducted significant work in the areas of aircraft and air-launched missile
instrumentation signals analysis.
Mr. Friese is a private pilot and also has skills in;
Flight testing
Aerodynamic predictions
Aircraft design
Flight simulation
Signals collection and
analysis
Systems engineering
Project management
Key Executives