DAVID G. KAMIEN - Chief Executive Officer

David G. Kamien is the CEO and founder of Mind-Alliance Systems, LLC, the leading provider of homeland security information sharing planning solutions. Mr. Kamien has over 20 years of experience in security policy, strategy, technology and business, and specializes in information and communication policy. Mr. Kamien has provided strategy and business development consulting services to homeland security clients including Motorola, Raytheon, Siemens, Honeywell and Northrop Grumman. He has also served as a sales professional for Marsh & McLennan.

Mr. Kamien previously ran Israeli Telecom Analysis, a consulting firm that advised antitrust and communications authorities and telecom operators on regulatory policy and market development strategy. He is the editor of The McGraw-Hill Handbook of Homeland Security (www.homelandsecuritybook.com), a major resource with more than 60 experts as contributors, and he is currently writing a new book about security information sharing planning. Mr. Kamien has lectured at MIT, the Naval Post-Graduate School, the inaugural ODNI Open Source intelligence conference and other venues.

Born in New York, Mr. Kamien moved to Israel with his family as a teenager and holds dual U.S. and Israel citizenship. He received his B.A. from Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and a law degree from Academic College of Law in Ramat Gan, Israel. He served as a platoon commander in the Golani Brigade of the Israel Defense Forces in active duty and as a liaison officer to UN forces in reserves, until returning to the U.S. in 2001.

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.

HOWARD STEINBERG - Emergency 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.