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David Kamien, CEO
David Kamien is the CEO and co-founder of Mind-Alliance Systems, the pioneer in information sharing management software. Mind-Alliance’s software enables customers to plan, analyze, and improve the flow of information throughout an organization’s operational environment. David leads the Mind-Alliance mission to enable collaborative risk management and operational performance improvement. He has overall responsibility for Mind-Alliance’s vision, market direction, product strategy, and operations. David is driving the early growth of Mind-Alliance Systems as an enterprise software provider by signing up government and enterprise customers that share his passion for enhancing security, community resilience, and business continuity through planning and managing the flow of information across organizations.
Prior to founding Mind-Alliance, David worked as a sales professional for Marsh USA. From 2000-2004, he drove over $100m in sales as a strategy and business development consultant to Raytheon, Northrop Grumman, Siemens, Motorola and other clients offering homeland security solutions.
David is the editor of The McGraw-Hill Homeland Security Handbook, and author of a book on Information Sharing Planning, to be published by Taylor & Francis in 2012.
Jean-François Cloutier, CTO
Jean-François (JF) Cloutier is the CTO and co-founder of Mind-Alliance Systems, LLC. Mr. Cloutier is the designer and principal developer of the Channels Information Sharing Planning (ISP) software and the author of the Information Sharing Method.
Mr. Cloutier has 25 years of experience in software as a manager, architect, developer, educator, and consultant, both in North America and in Europe for Citigroup, Euroclear, Hydro-Québec, 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 expert and led to completion one of the largest commercial applications of object technologies to date. In the 1980s he introduced students and educators to AI concepts and languages and was a speaker at national and international conferences. Mr. Cloutier holds a M.Sc. in computer science from McGill University.
Howard Steinberg, Consulting Director
Howard Steinberg has had over 30 years of management experience in public health services and 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 levels. 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, and the Afro-American Communities’ Humanitarian Award. Mr. Steinberg holds a BA in History from Monmouth College.
Robert McCreight, Ph.D., Senior Consultant
After serving the United States government at the State Department and other federal agencies over a 35 year career, Dr. McCreight retired in 2004 and served as a consultant for major homeland security and national defense contractors. His professional career includes work as an intelligence analyst. treaty negotiator, arms control delegate to the UN, counter-terrorism advisor, and political-military affairs analyst. During his service at State Department he was a Soviet military analyst and specialized in the assessment of nuclear, chemical and biological weapons. Later in his professional career he performed assignments where he either managed or coordinated international post-disaster relief and humanitarian operations, developed peacekeeping policy, promoted global science and technology cooperation projects and helped design treaty verification systems. During his federal career he designed, developed and coordinated well over 76 cabinet level strategic exercises and similarly directed the operation of several dozen military exercises involving theoretical force-on-force scenarios.
He spent 27 years of combined active and reserve military service concurrently with his civilian work in U.S. Army Special Operations and has devoted 12 years to teaching graduate school as an adjunct at Georgetown, George Mason and George Washington Universities in subjects as diverse as disaster and emergency management, strategic intelligence, nonproliferation policy, homeland security policies, terrorism analysis, intelligence analysis and assessing WMD threats. He has also written and published over 15 articles on chemical weapons use, disaster management, disaster recovery, post-strike attribution, biological weapons threats to homeland security, WMD scenario development and collegiate educational strategies for developing the professional crisis manager.
Cal Downs, Ph.D., Consultant
Former President of Communication Management, has 30 years practical experience as a consultant and trainer, in addition to holding professorships in organizational communication at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, and the University of Kansas. His work on communication assessments has earned him an international reputation. Author of Communication Audits, Professional Interviewing, The Organizational Communicator, and many articles in professional journals, he continually conducts research on communication in organizations.
Mr. Downs is an active participant in the Academy of Management and International Communication Association. For many years he was a regular trainer in management commuincation at the University of Michigan Executive Training center and the Engineering Management Course at UCLA. He has also conducted numerous seminars on change and intercultural communication for the Agency for International Development.
Board of Advisors
Currently, our board of advisors includes:
Richard Birney, leads the Willow Lake Investment and Advisory Group. His passion is to help young companies create sound business models and growth strategies. Richard was formerly VP Corporate Development at IBM, with responsibility for strategic investments and growth initiatives. Among his many accomplishments for IBM, Richard managed over $500 million in investments around the world and developed a fund investing strategy that delivered a high (>30%) internal rate of return.
Chiny Driscoll, an experienced Sales and Professional Services executive, with an impressive track record selling multi-million dollar software solutions to government agencies and major corporations. Ms. Driscoll is an executive with Netezza/IBM and formerly held senior sales management positions with the public sector practice of TIBCO Software.
Stuart Friedman, Department of Commerce appointee to National Defense Executive Reserve (1964-1988, originally administered by the Office of Emergency Preparedness, then FEMA); crisis management industry expert appointed to NATO Civil Emergency Planning Directorate (1988-2006); President, Birch & Davis Health Management Corporation (1985-2000), acquired (2000) by ACS (now Xerox).
David Steiner, Member of the Board of Commissioners of the Port Authority of NY and NJ, and Chairman of Steiner Equities Group, LLC, which develops industrial and office parks and commercial facilities in NJ and 14 other states.
Resources
Whitepapers
Information Sharing Planning for Strengthening Security, Resilience and Business Continuity
Produce actionable information sharing procedures for business continuity and crisis management plans
Information Sharing Planning for System Integrators
How system integrators can leverage an Information Sharing Planning platform to help homeland security authorities elevate disaster preparedness
Introduction to Information Sharing Planning for Homeland Security
Enhancing emergency response and preparedness with highly-effective information sharing plans and procedures
Information Sharing Planning for Rail Transit Security
Developing and exercising information sharing plans and procedures between rail transit operators and regional security stakeholders
Information Sharing Planning for Enhancing Airport Security and Emergency Preparedness
Securing airports requires effective information sharing between many stakeholders
Information Sharing Planning & Playbooks for Enhancing Cyber Security
Enterprises should develop information sharing playbooks for cyber incidents to harness all available intelligence and to coordinate response.
Whole Community Emergency Preparedness
A framework for developing and validating whole community information sharing plans
Homeland Security Planning
Avoid a Failed Emergency Response with Optimized
Information Sharing & Inter-agency Coordination
When the dust settles after a disaster strikes, the questions begin. Did anyone have information that could have prevented the disaster or minimized its impact? Could we have done a better job connecting the dots?
Identify Information Gaps Before It’s Too Late
Mind Alliance enables you to prevent avoidable failures by answering the questions and taking corrective actions ahead of time:
- Which organizations have relevant information?
- Who do they need to share it with?
- How will information flow within the organization and between participating agencies?
- How do we ensure all parties have up-to-date information at all times?
Analyze. Correct. Prevent.
- Identify information gaps and bottlenecks
- Enable effective interagency coordination supporting a Whole Community Framework for Catastrophic Planning & Response
- Understand the potential impact of information sharing shortcomings
- Establish information sharing procedures and protocols that remedy the issues now and prevent recurrence in the future
Get started today with a free assessment of your homeland security plans and procedures.
Business Continuity Planning
Business Continuity Is Not Just About Your Data
Ensuring your organization is ready for a disaster requires more than a backup procedure. The ability of your business to continue functioning at a time of emergency depends on the readiness of people across the organization to act swiftly and in a coordinated fashion.
Get Your Plans In Order While There Is Still Time to Act
Mind Alliance enables you to prevent avoidable failures by answering the questions and taking corrective actions ahead of time:
- Which functions in the organizations have to take action in any given emergency situation?
- What information will they need at that time?
- Where and how will they get this information?
- How do we ensure the information is up-to-date at all times?
Analyze. Correct. Prevent.
- Identify gaps, bottlenecks, delays, and other information sharing issues
- Understand the risks of information sharing shortcomings
- Ensure that all relevant functions are informed, in sync, and ready to act at any situation
- Establish an information sharing blueprint that remedies the issues now and prevents recurrence in the future
Get started today with a free assessment of your business continuity and emergency response readiness.
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