Advisory Board

The Buzz Analytics Advisory Board consists of senior executives and noted experts in their field providing advice, guidance, and assistance to the corporation on all technical, tactical, and strategic issues. The Advisory Board has a dual role: an internal role to assist in and advise on technology, quality, operations, ethics, planning, as well as an external role providing liaison with the intelligence and security communities, helping to establish corporate partnerships and teaming agreements, finance, and customer relationship building.

Our board is a 'working' board, assisting company management with key strategic decisions and acting as a catalyst in establishing stronger relationships with financial institutions and venture capitalists. These advisors serve to establish additional relationships with influential parties in business, academia and government. In essence, our Advisory Board is a primary source of expertise that can be drawn upon to lead and participate in any of our activities. Biographies of the current members of our advisory board are provided below:

Members

LAWRENCE R. CARNEGIE

Mr. Carnegie is a senior intelligence officer with over 30 years of professional experience within the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), the Department of Defense, and the Air Force where he led a wide array of initiatives across the full intelligence spectrum.

While chairing the Open Source Information System Engineering Board, Mr. Carnegie led the CIA initiative to develop, expand, and deploy the Open Source Information System Network and craft leading edge, web technologies to better support distributed intelligence collection and analysis.

As the Agency’s primary adviser for interaction with Congress on roles and capabilities of the U.S. Intelligence Community, Mr. Carnegie monitored the General Intelligence Program and the Joint Military Intelligence Program to advise the DIA Director on Congressional activities pertinent to the intelligence community. In addition, he prepared the DIA Director for annual congressional intelligence hearings, advised on activities of the Intelligence Oversight and Appropriation Committees of the U.S. Congress, monitored congressional activities related to national and military intelligence activities, and represented Office of the Secretary of Defense in information release.

Other initiatives included managing the 22-member DIA Advisory Board, a body of subject-matter experts from academia, government, and private industry that advises the DIA Director on long-range managerial, operational, and intelligence issues.

Mr. Carnegie is a distinguished graduate of the Air War College, where he received a Master of Strategic Studies degree and studied national security policy, military strategy, and transformation.

ADMIRAL P. KIKAREAS H.N. (RETIRED) PH.D.

Admiral Kikareas is a senior business development executive and recognized authority in the design and implementation of global intelligence collection and analysis systems, risk assessment, and counterterrorism operations founded on his leadership experience as a senior executive at NATO and as a high-ranking government appointee. Top level assignments include Director of Operations and Intelligence, Director of the NATO Consultation Command and Control Agency, Director of Operational Planning for the Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe, and Technical Advisor and Manager for the NATO Advanced Technology Group working with the MITRE Corporation for the design of the next-generation Automated Command, Control, and Intelligence System. Admiral Kikareas was directly responsible for developing and deploying the first Global War Games and Simulation Center for the Armed Forces; the results of which were used to create integrated Crisis Management Centers among NATO Alliance members.

Admiral Kikareas retired to found and direct Hellenic Aspis & Associates Inc. (HA&A) in 2001 This company was founded to undertake a contract with the Greek government for implementing and managing security for the Olympic Games in Athens, and to manage and direct the creation complex consortiums and alliances with governmental and private sector partners, utilizing thousands of employees. The effort was expanded to develop a Crisis Management Plan for Greece during peace, crisis, and physical disasters as well as for wartime emergencies.

Admiral Kikareas received an M.S. at the Naval War College in Strategic and Operational Planning, and Leadership, a second at Cranfield Institute of Technology in Operations Research, and a Ph.D. from Wexford University in Management. Additionally, he has taught at the Naval Academy, the War College, and presents Seminars around the world.

DAVE PORRECA

Mr. Porreca provides senior consulting and advisory services based on his extensive experience as President, CEO, Chief Scientist, Chief Technology Officer and Managing Partner of several leading-edge technology companies. His work has given him a national reputation in high technology, with a focus in computer sciences, machine intelligence and cognitive sciences.

He began his high technology career in the US Army. After multiple combat tours and numerous decorations, he worked directly for General Haig in NATO as Nuclear Effects and Targets Intelligence Officer, developing large-scale geographically dispersed distributed systems using calculation-heavy and time-sensitive information components.

Upon leaving the Army, he served as Research Scientist at R&D Associates, then as Director of Advanced Programs at Science Applications Incorporated (now SAIC), before joining the then new Titan Corporation. As Vice President and Chief Scientist of Titan, he built an Applied Engineering Group that became the best known and most profitable knowledge engineering team in defense work. The Knowledge-Based Engineering toolset (KBEST), the intelligent systems environment that re-defined the industry, was developed by his team.

In 1989 he founded Expersoft Corporation and served as CEO, President and Chairman of the Board, leading a team that created a real-time object-oriented software development environment and toolkits for genetic learning, fuzzy associative memory and other knowledge-based problem-solving paradigms. Then, in 1995, he created Transnational Partners, the first of several successful virtual high-technology companies. In 1999 he sold these partnerships and merged one of them into Titan Corporation as Cayenta Corporation, which he headed for Titan. Cayenta became the first national Total Solutions Provider, developing a national network operation center over which Cayenta’s own managed applications software was accessible to customers as an Internet service. Cayenta’s managed applications were seamlessly made available remotely as a comprehensive systems solution, a first. Mr. Porreca, having helped re-invent Titan Corporation, retired from there in early 2002, and joined with several other high-technology executives to found the Zazi Forum http://www.zaziforum.com.

Mr. Porreca received a B.S. degree from Niagara University, a M.S. degree from Alfred University, and also studied in Europe. He is a graduate of the Command and General Staff College, the NATO Weapons Engineering School, and also did advanced technical studies in mathematics, computation, and the cognitive sciences.

PROFESSOR LARRY MEDSKER, PH.D.

Dr. Medsker is a widely-known researcher, author, and professor in the area of artificial intelligence, neural networks, fuzzy logic, hybrid neural computing, web-based expert systems, genetic algorithms, and case based reasoning; hybrid intelligent systems: integration of intelligent technologies; nuclear physics, computational physics; knowledge engineering, data mining. and physics. He has published a number of seminal articles and books in the field. Among his books are: L.R. Medsker and L.C. Jain, eds. Recurrent Neural Networks: Design and Applications , CRC Press, 2000; L. Medsker, Hybrid Intelligent Systems , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1995; and L. Medsker, Hybrid Neural Network and Expert Systems , Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1994. Formerly he conducted research at Argonne National Laboratories and Bell Labs in areas of advanced computer systems and mathematical algorithms. He has served as a Professor and Associate Dean at American University, he currently serves as a professor and Dean at Sienna College, serves on the editorial boards of a number of prestigious technical journals and has leadership roles in technical societies in the areas of artificial intelligence and neural networks.

BARRY GRUSHKIN

Barry Grushkin is an innovator and entrepreneur. He is a visionary, technological evangelist but also a pragmatist. He spent seven years as a Managing Partner and Director of Analytics at the Machine Intelligence Group. He has been a serial entrepreneur, a consultant, business professor, and portfolio manager. His clients and customers have included major brokerage houses, banks and credit card companies, The Congressional Budget Office, U.S. Department of State, intelligence agencies, Lucent Technologies, Microsoft, venture capital, retail companies and innovative technology companies.

Several notable achievements include, predicting terrorist activity for the Central Intelligence Agency through mass integration of traditional and financial market information, automated text categorization for major search engine company, text mining and visualization analyses, and financial engineering and pattern recognition techniques applied to customer targeting, generating $400 million annually in new sales for major international bank. He brings to the board both expertise in cutting edge analytic technologies as well as business building savvy.

PROFESSOR LESTER INGBER, PH.D.

Dr. Ingber has published approximately 100 papers and books in the categories of: neuroscience, theoretical nuclear physics, finance, general optimization, combat analysis, and education. Through Lester Ingber Research (LIR) in Ashland, OR he develops and consults on projects documented in the http://www.ingber.com archive.

Dr. Ingber received his B.S. in physics from Caltech, and his Ph.D. in theoretical nuclear physics from UC San Diego while studying at the Niels Bohr Institute in Copenhagen and consulting at RAND in Santa Monica CA.

Dr. Ingber has held leadership positions in academia, government and industry, and examples include: National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and at UC Los Angeles; Assistant Professor in physics at SUNY at Stony Brook; Research Physicist in the Physics department and in the Institute for Pure and Applied Physical Sciences at UC San Diego; Research Associate at UC San Diego in the Music department; twice Senior Research Associate at the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences; Professor of Physics at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, CA, and at the US Army Concepts Analysis Agency; Research Professor of Mathematics at The George Washington University in Washington, DC; and Director of Research and Development at the trading firm of DRW in Chicago where he led a team developing multi-factor nonlinear stochastic models of markets - - a statistical mechanics approach to financial markets, and at the hedge fund of DUNN Capital Management, he was the Director of Research and Development where he led the development of risk-management algorithms. In the area of neuroscience, he has developed a statistical mechanics of neocortical interactions applicable to a broad range of spatial and temporal scales, using modern methods of nonlinear non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to calculate brain ‘observables’ from neuronal dynamics.

DR. C. ROBERT KLINE

Dr. Kline is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of HYTEC, Inc. Earlier in his career, during his many years in Austin as a professor at University of Texas, Dr. Kline conducted research and consulted to the government in the area of language analysis as well as in a broad range of other scientific disciplines. His interest in Artificial Intelligence and language analysis can be traced to his doctoral studies in Psycholinguistics where he focused on eliciting and analyzing language patterns and meaning using computers.

His research in the area of computerized language analysis involved mapping higher cortical language and code functions; and his initiatives, as the senior researcher, in Artificial Intelligence, algorithms, intelligent sampling algorithms for classified telemetry data, Non-Boolean storage processes for classified applications, and query design for the Tri-Service Artificial Intelligence Project forms the basis of the Department of Defense’s smart systems architecture. These research and development efforts were conducted for the National Security Agency, Army, Navy, and Air Force.

As member of IEEE, Dr. Kline serves on the Technical Policy Committee and is periodically called upon to meet with senate, house, and congressional personnel to explain advanced engineering concerns.

Dr. Kline served in the US Marines and then earned his A.B. from the University of North Carolina, his M.Ed. at the University of North Carolina, where he focused on the Study of Language using Machine-based Algorithms as an NDEA Fellow, and earned his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina where he studied and conducted research in Psycholinguistics and language sampling.

PROFESSOR MARWAN JAMAL

Professor Jamal is on the faculty of the National Defense University - - - the premier center for joint professional military education in the United States, under the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is a world leader in national and international security education, and one of our country's premier centers for learning and thinking about America's national security.

In the past twenty years in the intelligence and information systems field, Professor Jamal developed specialized applications for the Defense Special Weapons Agency, The New York Stock Exchange, and the General Electric Corporation. He participates regularly in research, conferences on intelligence and emerging technologies leveraged by the U.S. Intelligence community, network management and security, and Netcentric open source intelligence collection methods.

STEVEN KIEFEL

Steven, CEO of Red Pill Media, Inc., has been involved in leading a diverse array of efforts. During eighteen years at NASA he was involved in the development of a rapid-deployment IT support group for a 6000-person center, management of IT resources for the Lunar Prospector mission, and leadership of the IT Infrastructure Department for Ames Research Center. Steven served as Chairman of the Board of Recom Technologies (a government IT contractor) and as its Sr. VP responsible for the creation and launch of its private-sector division. While at Recom, Steven drove the conversion of the closely-held corporation to an employee-owned corporation. Steven's entrepreneurial efforts began with the founding of Red Pill Media, Inc. where he has served as CEO for over five years.

In all of these efforts, Steven has found common principles and practices that work reliably to run and grow a business regardless of its size. Now Steven teaches these same principles and practices to individuals and organizations, helping them to achieve their business, personal, and professional goals.

DR. JOHN NORSEEN

Dr. Norseen is a Senior Consultant in Advanced Information Systems. He is a veteran of the U.S. Navy Intelligence Service. He has over 20 years of experience in human-machine-logic interface control systems, software process control, information visualization, and neuroengineering for U.S. Government and Defense organizations.

He holds a BS degree from Pennsylvania State University, an MS degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a Ph.D. in Engineering Management from George Washington University.

SANDRA ROSE

Ms. Rose is the CEO of Communications Solutions, Inc., specializing in curriculum development, for the intelligence community and instructional systems design for the Department of State’s Antiterrorism Assistance Program providing antiterrorism training to law enforcement officials of partner nations throughout the world. Formerly, Ms. Rose served in the Department of State’s Foreign Service at embassies in the Philippines, India, Brussels, and Egypt where she was involved in Diplomatic Security and other areas.

MICHAEL DOERR

Mr. Doerr is the former President of Aimstar Corporation directing the development of software systems for aircraft such as the B-2. He personally designed and oversaw the development of the VAMPS Automated Mission Planning System under contract to McDonnell Douglas Electronic System Corporation. Later, he provided engineering, planning, product R &D, and management assistance to various firms such as UROS Corp., where his efforts lead to successful Venture Capital funding.

As Vice President of Hexstar, Inc Mr. Doerr was a general manager responsible for production for electronics and aerospace industry clients. Earlier, he directed Titan’s systems work on classified weapons programs and supported Titan’s merger and acquisition program.

Mr. Doerr served on active duty in the United States Navy from 1973-1980 and in the United States Naval Reserve from 1980-1992 rising to the rank of Commander and graduated from the Naval Fighter Weapons School (TOP GUN), The Naval Post Graduate School, and earned his BS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Wisconsin. .

AHMAD ISHAQ

Mr. Ishaq formerly served as an intelligence professional with the U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency in areas of advanced and emerging information technologies to solve critical intelligence needs in support of open source intelligence collection and related initiatives. In addition he has worked with many private and public organizations to assess and satisfy their intelligence collection and analysis needs.

LOUIS S. CULPEPPER, CPP, CFE, CPC (USAF Ret.)

Mr. Culpepper, as president of Culpepper and Associates, brings to the table more than 35 years of experience at national and international levels with the US government and private sector practice consulting on matters regarding all aspects of security and law enforcement. He provides guidance for security managers and law enforcement personnel entrusted with the safety and security of people and assets with a focus on Intelligence Collection Management and Operations, Executive Protection Operations and Training, Infrastructure and Corporate Vulnerability Assessments, VIP/Executive Protection, Crisis Management and Hostage Negotiation Operations, Specialized Corporate and Criminal Investigations, Security Systems Design, Engineering, Installation, and Technical Support, Comprehensive Background Checks and Investigations, Psychological Operations, Command and Control Operations Center Management, Counterterrorism, Corporate Investigations Involving Financial Crimes, Security Surveys as well as Vulnerability Assessments with a Specialization in Airports, Seaports, Water and Sewage Facilities, and Power Plants.

Mr. Culpepper earned his BS in Management from the University of Maryland, an MBA from Central Michigan University, A Diploma In Police Administration and Training from Eastern Kentucky University’s College of Law Enforcement; a Diploma In Criminal Justice Education from the University of Virginia, and a graduate of the FBI National Academy at Quantico.

Several of Mr. Culpepper’s professional affiliations include the FBI National Academy Associates, International Association of Chiefs of Police, U.S. Air Force Security Police Association, and others.