Dr. Scott Nichol
President
Currently the Government & International New Business Development Manager at Shoppa’s Material Handling in Fort Worth. Board member to VIIMA Drones (Finland), The Lending Corporation (Tampa, FL), SubProtect (California), and Black Rhino Security (Dallas). BS Degree – Business, Masters – National Security/Terrorism, PhD – International Relations. Scott worked at the Department of State starting in 2017, Washington D.C. Staff Advisor, Office of the Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS. Other assignments include: University of North Texas 2013 -2016 Professor Criminal Justice Dept. Department of Homeland Security 2008 to 2014 Dallas, TX. Intelligence Officer George W. Bush Administration 2004 – 2007 Washington DC – Dallas, TX. Navy and DHS Intelligence Officer.
Lieutenant Colonel (Ret) John Mark Thane
VP, Treasurer
John is a Capabilities Integrator for SAIC in the Transformation and Training Command (T2COM) headquartered in Austin, Texas. His focus is modernization of the U.S. Army Command and Control Portfolio. He is a retired Army Acquisition Officer and Capability Developer with experience in the Test and Evaluation, Research and Development and Program Management arenas. As a Capability Developer he led the Electronics and Special Developments Branch in the Maneuver Capability Development and Integration Directorate at Fort Benning Georgia. He leverages his intimate understanding of the full spectrum of development of Army systems from JCIDS and pre-acquisition activities to the product fielding process.
Mr. Mike Dietz
Secretary and Immediate Past President 2014-2021
NDIA National Board Member, Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control
Mike has over 25 years of experience in technology and leadership in the defense industry working for contractors Lockheed Martin (currently) and Raytheon (prior to that). He’s worked systems engineering on products for Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines as well as Special Operations Command in all phases of the product lifecycle from early development through production and sustainment. He’s worked on a wide array of military subsystems, obtaining exposure to numerous technical specialties on every level of integration from the chip level all the way up to force-on-force mission modeling of systems effectiveness.
David Sandhu
VP of Marketing
David Sandhu formerly worked for SpaceX, Raytheon, L3Harris, Axiom Space, Firefly and Lockheed Martin as an engineer before he transitioned to the financial services industry. After his father passed away, David helped his mom through some tough financial questions, and that gave him the spark to pursue a career in financial planning. David is passionate about serving others and lives by Zig Ziglar’s famous saying, “You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help enough other people get what they want.” An active IEEE, AIAA and NMA member, David has a passion for professional and leadership development.
Mr. Jared Febbroriello
Director
Mr. Febbroriello is a Texas and Massachusetts licensed attorney with experience representing prime and subcontracting defense companies assisting them with regulations promulgated by the State Department (DDTC), Department of Defense (DCMA, PARCA), the Commerce Department (BIS) and the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). He regularly works with firearms and munitions companies on a variety of matters ranging from the ITAR and export compliance to general corporate matters and litigation risk management. Mr. Febbroriello has worked extensively with microcap and small cap growth companies on various United States stock exchanges.
Dr. Annette Sobel
Director
Annette Sobel, M.D., M.S., FAAFP, FAsMA, FAAN (h), FAeS, Academician, IAASM, Major General (AZANG, Ret.), CEO and Co-Owner, is a physician-human factors engineer whose career has focused on science and technology to support domains of national security, intelligence, homeland defense, counter-WMD, critical infrastructure vulnerabilities, big data analytics, and far forward expeditionary military medical care in special operations and extreme environments (space, high altitude, and diving.).
Mr. David Shaw
Director, Small Business Committee Chair
Astrapi Corporation
David is a Co-Founder and Chief Commercialization Officer of Astrapi Corporation, a communications signal modulation company with offices in Dallas, TX and Washington, D.C. David’s efforts helped Astrapi win the Grand Prize for Astrapi at the SATELLITE 2017 Startup Space Pitch Competition and earn one of the “Most Promising Startup” awards at the FinSpace Summit for Satellite Finance in Paris. David also acted as the Astrapi Principal Investigator.
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