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Board of Directors
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Dr. Hsinchun Chen, Chief Technology Advisor,
has over 15 years of IT engineering and marketing experience. Dr.
Chen is McClelland Professor of Management Information Systems at
the University of Arizona and head of the UA/MIS Artificial
Intelligence Lab which he founded in 1990. Since started, the AI
Lab has received over $8 million in federal funding for research
projects in Artificial Intelligence from agencies and major
corporations including the National Science Foundation (NSF),
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), National
Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), National Institutes
of Health (NIH), National Institute of Justice (NIJ), National
Library of Medicine (NLM), National Center for Supercomputing
Applications (NCSA), SAP, 3COM, and AT&T. He is an expert in
digital library and knowledge management research, whose work has
been featured in various scientific and information technologies
publications including Science, Business Week, NCSA Access
Magazine, WEBster, and HPCWire. Dr. Chen received his Ph.D. in
Information Systems from New York University.
Robert Fortuno, Chairman, is
a business lawyer based in Tucson, Arizona. He is a managing
director of Diamond Ventures, a director of Tucson Realty & Trust
Co., and a director of NetPro Computing of Scottsdale, Arizona. He
is a graduate of Pomona College and the University of Arizona
College of Law.
Daniel Horng, Director, is
Managing Director of Telepeak Investments, an angel investment
group with offices in Silcon Valley, Boston and Taiwan. Telepeak’s
current portfolio contains a variety software and
telecommunication start up companies. Prior managing Telepeak,
Daniel worked for Nexgen , AMD and Nexcom starting in engineering
and holding managerial positions in sales and marketing. He holds
a Bachelors degree from National Taiwan University and a Masters
degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missourri
Rolla.
Dr. Kathleen Kiernan, Director,
is CEO of The Kiernan Group. She
previously served as the assistant director for the Office of
Strategic Intelligence and Information for the Bureau of
Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. While with the ATF,
she was responsible for the design and implementation of an
intelligence-led organizational strategy to mine and disseminate
data related to explosives, firearms and illegal tobacco
diversion.
Dr. Kiernan has been involved with the intelligence community
for over a decade. She served as the ATF representative to the
Counterterrorism Center at the CIA from 1993 to 1995. She is a
council vice president for the American Society for Industrial
Security - a preeminent world-wide private sector organization
comprised of subject matter experts in technology, security, law
enforcement, the military, and academia. She is also former
chair of the Law Enforcement Working Group, an initiative to
bridge the intelligence and law enforcement communities.
Dr. Kiernan is a senior member on the International Association
of Chiefs of Police terrorism subcommittee, and an intelligence
fellow and graduate of the FBI's National Executive Institute.
She was recently named a senior fellow for the George Washington
University Homeland Security Policy Institute.
Dr. Kiernan currently leads a nationwide intelligence community
project involving the active interdiction of weapons of mass
destruction throughout the law enforcement and public safety
communities. Additionally, she is leading a multi-disciplinary
team bridging the Department of Defense and Department of
Homeland Security under the auspices of the Advanced Concept
Technology Demonstration program.
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