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DAVID G. KAMIEN - Chief Executive Officer
David Kamien is CEO and co-founder of Mind-Alliance Systems, LLC. Kamien brings to Mind-Alliance a background in management consulting, technology, and business development related to Information & Communication Technology (ICT), having worked with government regulatory agencies and with companies such as British Telecom, Motorola, Raytheon, Northrop Grumman and Marsh & McLennan, and start-up companies. Kamien has co-invented ICT technology including the patent-pending Mind-Alliance information flow planning and online collaboration technologies.
Kamien is the Editor of The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook.
Born in New York, Kamien returned to the U.S. in 2001 after living in Israel for 21 years, where he served as an officer in the Israel Defense Forces and later supported the development of telecom and broadcasting policy. Kamien holds a B.A. from The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and a Law Degree from Israel's Academic College of Law.
JEAN-FRANCOIS CLOUTIER - Chief Technology Officer
Jean-Francois ("JF") Cloutier co-founded Mind-Alliance Systems and is leading the development of an innovative software solution to information-sharing needs analysis. Mr. Cloutier has twenty years of experience in software as a manager, architect, developer, educator and consultant, both in North America and in Europe for Citigroup, Euroclear, HydroQuebec, and AIG.
He is a contributor to The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Homeland Security. From 1996 to 2003, as co-founder and managing director of a New York startup, Mr. Cloutier directed the development of InfoObject, the first commercial ontology-driven information integrator.
At Citigroup in the early 1990s, he acted as object technology evangelist and led the completion of one of the largest commercial applications of object technologies to date. In the mid-80s, he introduced students and educators to AI concepts and languages and was a speaker at national and international conferences. Born in Canada, Mr. Cloutier currently resides in the United States. Mr. Cloutier holds a M.Sc. in Computer Sciences from McGill University.
MICHAEL BLANK -VP Operations
Michael Blank is a former consultant with Insight Partners, a
negotiation skills training and consulting firm based in Boston that
provides its services to major financial services firms across the
world. An expert in the theory and practice of conflict management,
Mr. Blank is also a faculty associate at the Program of Negotiation at
Harvard Law School and an adjunct at the Georgetown University Law
Center. Prior to law school, Mr. Blank worked as an analyst in the
leveraged finance group at Bear, Stearns & Co. in New York, where
his responsibilities included performing financial modeling, research
and due diligence. The leveraged finance group provided
mid-to-large-cap companies such as Nextel Communications, Alaris
Medical Systems and DRS Technologies with high yield debt for
acquisition financing and refinancing purposes. Mr. Blank worked with
a number of prominent private equity firms to help them structure their
LBO's. Between Bear Stearns and law school Mr. Blank started
BottomBell.com, a mobile service that enabled users to make text
message queries for real time information such as sports scores and
stats and stock quotes. Mr. Blank earned his B.A., magna cum laude and
Phi Beta Kappa, in economics from Dartmouth College and his J.D. from
Harvard Law School.
STUART FRIEDMAN - Director
A retired healthcare executive (President of Birch & Davis Health Management Corporation, acquired by ACS) with extensive international experience, Mr. Friedman brings a wealth of management expertise to the Mind-Alliance board of directors. Mr. Friedman was a Department of Commerce appointee to National Defense Executive Reserve (1964-1988), and a crisis management industry expert appointed to the NATO Civil Emergency Planning Directorate (1988-2006).
DENIS RANGER - Chief Architect
Denis Ranger, co-founder and chief architect at Mind-Alliance, has 20 years of experience in software development. He has worked alongside Jean-Francois Cloutier for 15 years, developing innovative software such as InfoObject, the first commercial ontology-driven information integrator. Ranger is the lead inventor of the PRISM query algorithm and is responsible for the development of the PRISM platform.
SHARON TETHER - Product Manager
Sharon Stefanelli Tether has 14 years of experience in financial services firms such as Prudential Securities, The Long-Term Credit Bank of Japan and Bank Julius Baer. In addition to working in the Finance, Investment and Auditing departments of these firms, she has been integral in developing, testing and implementing proprietary software to help facilitate credit and investment decisions.
ROMIT CHATTERJEE - User Interface & Graphics Designer / Web Project Manager
Mr. Chatterjee is a skilled web, user interface and graphical designer. He is an active participant in the open source community, and he has been trained in the use of several advanced semantic analysis platforms.
HOWARD STEINBERG - Preparedness Consulting Manager
Howard Steinberg has had over thirty years of management experience in public health services, all-hazards disaster preparedness planning, including HAZMAT operations, continuity of government planning and other aspects of homeland security, at both the county and the state-wide level. While serving as the Director of Human Services for the Town of Morristown, NJ, he created and chaired the county’s first bioterrorism task force. Mr. Steinberg was the first county health official in New Jersey to
engage in bioterrorism preparedness planning and to engage the private
business sector in that effort. He has supervised public health officials and worked to identify and address various public concerns such as health care, environmental protection and substance abuse. As the Division Head for the County of Morris, NJ, Mr. Steinberg provided strategic vision and direction for bioterrorism response planning by partnering and interfacing with leaders of the business community and state and federal officials. He worked to assess community health status and risks, identify priorities and develop strategies for providing cost-saving yet effective public health services.
Mr. Steinberg has played integral roles in the construction of new health clinics and the development of neighborhood primary care centers and innovative health screening networks. He has received numerous awards and recognitions, including NJSHD’s Innovation Model Program Award, NJDEP’s Commitment to Environmental Excellence Award from, and Afro- American Communities’ Humanitarian Award. Mr. Steinberg holds a BA in History from Monmouth College.
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