Our executive team is comprised of savvy business leaders and security industry experts, bringing years of experience together to create security solutions that work.
Gerard Munera is a seasoned top executive with extensive knowledge of working environments in North and South America, Australia, Africa, and Europe. He has over 50 years of experienced in all areas of management, including finance, sales/marketing, engineering and operations; with proven record in building up and motivating management teams, developing new businesses, and planning and implementing major restructurings and turn-arounds.
Wayne Taylor previously was in charge of HSBC Retail Small Business, including Special Assets. Wayne oversaw the Canadian business unit, which employed over 750 people and generated loan outstanding of $2 billion. His current company, BSI Arizona, LLC has been very successful in raising all forms of debt and equity capital across a variety of businesses.
Mr. Weir has invested, owned and operated businesses across several sectors, including defense (CEO General Stability / BHI weapons mfg. and training provider for USG and foreign governments) , entertainment (Executive Producer at Paramount Studios), software service provider (CEO MIT- SAP / IBM partner) banking services (Visa & MasterCard ISO and Software services provider), hospitality (co-owner of Lucky 7 Bourbon, Beso Hollywood, Kitchen 24, and Off The Shelf Catering) food & pharma (co-owner of GSI Foods GSI Pharma). In the past 20 years Mr. Weir has arranged in excess of one billion dollars in credit facilities and equity for several projects in the U.S. and abroad.
Mr. Weir is a member of the Nobel Charitable Trust Board of Directors, Cross Deck UK Board of Director. As President and Chairman of MIT (Millennium Information & Technology) he was recognized by the IBM Corporation, receiving the prestigious Beacon Award in 2008.
Prior to embarking upon his entrepreneurial endeavors, Mr. Weir established himself as a valued executive in corporate America. His last corporate post, was as Regional Vice President for Rohm Electronics, headquartered in Kyoto, Japan. As Regional Vice President, Mr. Weir negotiated manufacturing and cross border sales agreements between the United States and Asia and was responsible for sales in excess of $500 million in his territory. Prior to Rohm Electronics, Mr. Weir worked his way up through the ranks at Future Electronics, Bell Industries and Rockwell Financial as a financial planner and securities broker holding Series 7, 63, and 65 licenses. Mr. Weir gained invaluable experience in all aspects of operations, production, financing, and management, experience that has defined his management style and formed a solid foundation for the success of Mr. Weir’s current endeavors.
Mr. Thien Pham has over 15 years of experience in healthcare and digital security. Mr. Pham developed an electronic presecription platform in 1999 that allows physicians to securely write electronic prescription and automatically sent to patient's pharmacy of choice; which was early for its time. He successfully sold the platform to a public company. Mr. Pham then joined the public company to further expand its products and services. Mr. Pham also created electronic medical record system, UMedical, approved by the Washington State Board of Pharmacy.
Chris Jackson has over 13 years of marketing and software sales experience. Mr. Jackson is responsible for creating the national/international marketing and channel development programs for Savant Software’s WMS, Shipping Manifest and Mobile Application solution stacks. He also manages the day to day activities of the company’s sales and marketing, customer interface, direct sales responsibilities, independent resellers and OEM relationships worldwide.
Mr. Allen completed three tours in Iraq and two tours in Afghanistan as a consultant and contractor to various U.S. entities. Mr.Allen spent 5 years in the U.S. Army and 14 years with SOCOM, and the U.S. Intelligence community in human (HUMlNT), electronic (ELlNT), communications (COMlNT), and imagery (lMlNT) intelligence in both tactical and strategic operations. He has over 16 years of experience with National Intelligence systems as an intelligence analyst, linguist (African languages). and Project Manager (Test & Integration, Requirements Verification, Operations Concepts, Mission Planning, Mission Analysis and Optimization).
During his career, Mr. Allen pioneered operational techniques in dial number recognition systems and covert SlGlNT systems. Mr.Allen spent 5 years in the U.S. Army working in TACTICAL COMMUNICATIONS, COMINT, and SIGINT where he earned the Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, Good Conduct Medal, Overseas Medal, and Joint-Services Medal, among others. Mr. Allen spent 14 years with the U.S. Government in Africa most notably: 2 years with the U.S. Embassy in Mogadishu, Somalia, and 4 years with the U.S. Embassy in Lusaka, Zambia. Mr. Allen spent l 7 months providing Analytical and Linguistic support during the run-up to the historic 1994 Elections in South Africa - Elections that ultimately brought Nelson Mandela to power and an end to Apartheid. In addition, Mr. Allen has traveled and worked in most of Sub Saharan Africa during his tenure there. His intelligence experience spans military and civilian communities. He is trained in imagery interpretation and HUMINT tasking, elicitation. Collection, and reporting. He conducted intelligence operations at every level, from the most sophisticated SIGINT operations to direct, one-on-one, human operations. overtly and covertly. Mr. Allen held a Top Secret (SCI) Security Clearance for over 20 years with the U.S. Government.
Mr. Allen speaks Xhosa, Zulu, Tswana, Nyanja, Bemba, and a smattering of 7 other African dialects.
Mr. Allen is a member of the National Geographic Society, and most recently elected a Fellow National of the prestigious Explorers Club for his more than l00 plus trips and expeditions to the African Continent.
Advisors
Our team of cybersecurity professionals is dedicated to investigating and mitigating some of the most sophisticated attacks in the world. We rely on our team of security experts, technologists and engineers to maintain order in the digital world, protecting the critical infrastructure, sensitive data and network security of major corporations, governments and organizations around the globe.
- World-renowned expert in digital security management
- Led development of GFS Technology's proprietary technology
- Named a Fulton Entrepreneurial Professor at Arizona State University
- Led projects funded by Bank of America, the Department of Energy
- Expert in identity management, vulnerability assessment and security architecture for distributed systems
- Over 34 years of experience as CEO of Enactus
- Shaped a global entrepreneurial initiative that stretches more than 35 countries, 1,710+ university programs, 69,000+ students, and 550 corporate partners.
Expert in design and implementation of secure systems for: attack mitigations, cybercrime & threat intel analysis, understanding structure of underground communities and economy and ecosystem of cybercrime, finding vulnerabilities in authentication and payment systems, and designing novel firewall and intrusion response systems for emerging software-defined networks