Secure America Acquisition Corporation
Harvey L. Weiss has served as our Co-Chief Executive Officer and a member of our board of directors since inception and has over 35 years of experience in the information technology and security marketplace. From December 2004 until January 2007, he served as the President, Chief Executive Officer and a director of Fortress America Acquisition Corporation (now Fortress International Group, Inc.), where he currently serves as Chairman. Mr. Weiss has also served as a Director of Vision Technologies, Inc. since September 2006. From June 2002 to December 2004, Mr. Weiss served as the Chief Executive Officer and President of System Detection, Inc., a software security company and is presently serving as a consultant. From January 2002 to June 2002, Mr. Weiss served as Chief Executive Officer of W Consulting LLC. From January 2001 to December 2002, he served as President of Engineering Systems Solutions, Inc., a security and biometrics integration firm. From June 1999 to December 2000, Mr. Weiss was the Chief Executive Officer and President of Global Integrity Corporation, a subsidiary of Science Applications International Corporation, which specializes in information security, and served as a Director until the company was sold in 2002. From October 1998 to May 1999, Mr. Weiss served as Vice President, Government and North America of Network Associates, Inc., now doing business as McAfee Inc. From January 1996 to October 1998, until sold to Network Associates, Inc., Mr. Weiss was President of the Commercial Division, Secretary, and Director of Trusted Information Systems, Inc., a Nasdaq-listed security network company. Prior to that time, from 1994 to 1996, Mr. Weiss served as President of Public Sector Worldwide Division for Unisys Corporation. From 1991 to 1993, Mr. Weiss was the Vice President of Sales and the President and Chief Operating Officer of Thinking Machines Corporation, a massively parallel processing company (the computing architecture used by the “supercomputer” product developed by Thinking Machine Corporation). Prior to that time, he served in various senior capacities in Digital Equipment Corporation. Mr. Weiss serves on the Board of Forterra Systems, Inc., a simulation company (one of Forterra’s products that creates interactive, virtual simulated environments), is a member of the Brookings Institution Council, and is a trustee of Capitol College. Mr. Weiss received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.
James Maurer has served as our Chief Financial Officer and Secretary since our inception and has over 18 years of diversified finance and strategic planning experience. From January 2006 to February 2007, Mr. Maurer served as the Secretary of Homeland Security Capital Corporation. From July 2005 to March 2007, he also served as a consultant to Fortress America Acquisition Corporation, a special-purpose acquisition corporation focused on the homeland security industry which trades on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board under the ticker symbol “FAAC.” From December 2002 to April 2005, Mr. Maurer served as an advisor and consultant to the chief executive officer of BBC America, a United States-based cable television channel owned by the British Broadcasting Corporation. Previous to such time, Mr. Maurer served as the Chief Financial Officer of Inforum Communications, a consolidator of Internet service providers, from December 1998 to February 2001. Prior to that he held a variety of finance and business development positions with businesses in the wireless telecommunications industry. Mr. Maurer received his Bachelor of Arts in economics from Harvard University and his Master of Science in management from the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Asa Hutchinson has been a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Hutchinson was one of the original leaders of the Department of Homeland Security, serving as Undersecretary for Border and Transportation Security for the first two years of the Department’s history, from January 2003 to March 2005. As one of the nation’s top-ranking homeland security officials after Secretary Tom Ridge, he was responsible for more than 110,000 federal employees housed in such agencies as the Transportation Security Administration, Customs and Border Protection, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. In addition to managing the overall security of United States borders and transportation systems, he set immigration enforcement policies and developed and implemented visa security measures.
Mr. Hutchinson served three terms in the United States House of Representatives from the 3rd Congressional District of Arkansas, from January 1997 to August 2001, and as Administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration, from August 2001 to January 2003. Mr. Hutchinson currently resides in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has served as the chief executive officer of Hutchinson Group LLC, a homeland security and business consulting group, since March 2005, and as a partner in the law firm of Venable LLP in Washington, D.C., from March 2005 to March 2006 and since January 2007. Mr. Hutchinson is also the principal of Hutchinson Security Strategies, a consulting firm that develops comprehensive security plans for companies. Mr. Hutchinson currently serves as a director of Fortress International Group, Inc., where he serves as a member of the compensation committee, and also currently serves on the board of directors of SAFLINK Corporation. Mr. Hutchinson received a Bachelor of Science in accounting from Bob Jones University and a Juris Doctor from the University of Arkansas School of Law.
Philip A. McNeill has been a member of our board of directors since our inception. Since July 2002, Mr. McNeill has been a manager of and investor in the SPP Mezzanine group of companies, most recently as Managing Director and the Chief Investment Officer (since November 2003) of SPP Mezzanine Partners II, LLC, the management company of each of SPP Mezzanine Funding, LP, SPP Mezzanine Funding IIA, LP.
Prior to working with the SPP Mezzanine group of companies, Mr. McNeill served as Managing Director of Allied Capital Corporation, where he was co-head of its Private Finance and Mezzanine activities and a member of its Investment Committee. From the time of his appointment as Managing Director in June 1998 until he left Allied Capital in May 2002, the company grew from approximately $740 million in assets to nearly $2.4 billion. Mr. McNeill joined Allied Capital directly from M&T Capital, the Small Business Investment Company investment division of M&T Bank, where he was a Vice President of M&T Capital/M&T Bank and an investment professional from August 1988 to August 1993. Mr. McNeill serves on the board of directors of Homeland Security Capital Corporation (since December 2005), on the Whitman Advisory Council of the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University (since April 2005) and on the board of advisors of the National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship for the Greater Washington Region (since December 1999), where he volunteers to mentor young entrepreneur students in inner-city schools. Mr. McNeill received a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration, with concentrations in accounting, finance, and law & public policy, from Syracuse University and a Masters in Business Administration from Harvard Business School.
S. Kent Rockwell has been a member of our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Rockwell is the Vice Chairman and Vice President, Corporate Development, of Argon ST, Inc. (NASDAQ: STST), and has been a director of that company since 1987. From 2000 until the merger of SenSyTech and Argon Engineering Associates, Inc. in the Fall of 2004, Mr. Rockwell was the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chairman of SenSyTech. From January 1998 to June 2000, Mr. Rockwell held the role of Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ST Research, the private company that became SenSyTech following its merger with Daedalus Enterprises, Inc. in 1998. From November 1986 to June 1997, Mr. Rockwell served as Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, and President of Astrotech International Corporation. Mr. Rockwell has also served as Chairman of Rockwell Forest Products, Inc. since 1983, Chairman of Appalachian Timber Services, Inc. since 1988, and Chairman and President of Rockwell Venture Capital, Inc. since 1983. Mr. Rockwell previously served on the board of Rockwell International, Inc. from 1973 to 1983. Mr. Rockwell earned a Bachelor of Arts in economics from Lafayette College and attended the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.
Special Advisors
Mark A. Frantz has been a Special Advisor to our board of directors since our inception. Mr. Frantz has been a General Partner at RedShift Ventures since July 2006, where he is focused on software and media investments for RedShift Ventures and currently serves on the board of directors at portfolio companies Intelliworks and TerraGo Technologies. Mr. Frantz also serves on the board of directors at ODIN Technologies, the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and the Commonwealth of Virginia's Research & Technology Advisory Council (VRTAC). Mr. Frantz has also been an investor/advisor to New Media Strategies (acq. by Meredith Corp., NYSE: “MDP”), Sourcefire (NASDAQ: “FIRE”) and Luna Innovations (Nasdaq: “LUNA”). From March to July 2006, Mr. Frantz was the Managing General Partner of In-Q-Tel, the strategic venture capital affiliate of the U.S. Intelligence Community. From January 2001 to March 2006, Mr. Frantz was with Carlyle Venture Partners, where he worked with Blackboard (NASDAQ: “BBBB”), Imagitas (acq. by Pitney Bowes, NYSE: “PBI”), ISR Solutions (acq. by Stanley Works, NYSE: “SWK”), Panasas, Grant Street Group and Secure Elements. Mr. Frantz joined Carlyle from Redleaf and prior to Redleaf, he was the Associate to the Senior Chairman of investment bank Alex. Brown. He also served as the Associate Director in his last position at The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs under President George H. W. Bush from December 1990 to January 1993 and as the economic and technology policy advisor to Pennsylvania Governor Tom Ridge from January 1995 to 1997. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Allegheny College and Juris Doctor and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Pittsburgh.
Brian C. Griffin has been a Special Advisor to our board of directors since our inception. Dr. Griffin has served since January 2006 as Chairman of the Board of Clean Energy Systems, Inc. and has served as a member of the board of directors of Homeland Security Capital Corporation (OTC: HMSC.OB) since May 2007. Dr. Griffin served two terms as Oklahoma’s Secretary of Environment from April 1997 to January 2003. During that time, he chaired and was a member of several committees sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy and the Southern States Energy Board. He was also a member of the Biomass & Bio-Energy Research and Development Federal Advisory Committee, which was sponsored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. Dr. Griffin also served as a member of the Coal & Advanced Power Systems Committee sponsored by the U.S. Department of Energy and the Southern States Energy Board from January 1999 to January 2003. In addition, he served as the National Chairman of the Interstate Technology and Regulatory Council from March 2001 to October 2003. In April 2003, President Bush appointed him to serve as the Federal Representative to the Southern States Energy Board, a position he still holds. Dr. Griffin received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard University and was selected as a Rhodes Scholar. As a Rhodes Scholar, he attended Oxford University where he received his Master of Jurisprudence degree. He also earned a Juris Doctor degree from University of Oklahoma College of Law and a Master of Laws degree from Southern Methodist University.