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	Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

	Director, Contract Administration

	Director of Price Analyses

	Director of Training

	Director of Strategic Development

	Director of Human Resources

	Consultant to the CEO

Securiguard^® Leadership

Chairman & Chief Executive Officer:
Patricia DeL. Marvil, Chairman and CEO, is the founder and owner of Securiguard. She was recently selected as one of the Nation's five outstanding Hispanic Business Executive Women of the Year and one of the Washington Metropolitan area's Top Twenty-Five Women Business Owners for the past 6 years.

Mrs. Marvil has over 26 years of experience in security and criminal justice. Over the past 20 years, Mrs. Marvil has successfully developed Securiguard into a multi-million dollar corporation that has a hard earned reputation for providing highly professional security services with integrity. She has simultaneously served on the Board of Directors for several business organizations and has supported the development of new businesses in Northern Virginia . Mrs. Marvil has also been appointed to and served on several commissions and boards for the development of special programs for the Commonwealth of Virginia by the Governor of Virginia.

Director, Contract Administration:
Peter McVety, Director of Contract Administration, is responsible for and manages/oversees all facets of contract administration as well as all customer contractual interaction for SGI. He has over 20 years of management and operations experience.

Prior to joining SGI in 2008, Mr. McVety was the Director for Coalition Affairs for Iraq and Afghanistan in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the Pentagon. Prior to that assignment, he was the Deputy Director for Iraq Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Mr. McVety completed 20 years of active duty service with the U.S. Navy as an FA-18 pilot. His tours included service in Florida, Texas and Canada. During his service in the Navy, Mr. McVety earned an MBA and a MA in National Security and Strategic Studies. Mr. McVety attends contract deliverable briefings and monitors contract performance and compliance through first hand observation, records, and reports.

Director of Price Analyses:
Roger L. Bruley analyzes, manages, and obtains approval of all contract prices as well as serves as Securiguard’s Facility Security Officer and Weapons Custodian. Prior to his present position, Mr. Bruley served as Securiguard’s Director of Training.

He graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point in 1973 and was commissioned into the Military Police. He was later awarded an alternate specialty of Nuclear Effects Officer. For approximately twelve of his twenty years of active duty service, he successfully combined these two specialties in various nuclear surety/security positions. As an Ordnance Brigade staff officer, he conducted physical security assistance visits and inspections of the 67 nuclear storage units and sites throughout the command. Within the same brigade, he also served as a Military Police Company Commander responsible for the physical security of a nuclear weapons storage site, including the Personnel Reliability Program for the 200 person security force. Assigned to the Combat Developments Directorate of the Field Artillery School, he worked with the National Laboratories in the development of the insertable nuclear component (INC) technology. He has held successively responsible positions as the Chief of the Nuclear Surety Section at both the Corps and Army staff levels. In these positions, he was responsible for the oversight of the safety, security, survivability, and reliability programs of all nuclear capable and nuclear storage units within the Commands. For his final assignment, he was selected to join the On-Site Inspection Agency (OSIA) as a member of their Threshold Nuclear Test Ban Treaty Inspection Team. When the Soviet Union declared a moratorium on nuclear testing, he was reassigned within the Agency to direct their training program. In this position, he managed a staff tasked to develop, procure, schedule, and administer training programs in support of all international treaty requirements. The balance of Mr. Bruley’s career was devoted to Military Police assignments such as the Provost Marshal for the Kwajalein Missile Range, where he was responsible for all law enforcement, security, and public safety for two thousand people, the comprehensive missile tracking system, and all of the supporting facilities on the nine islands comprising the range.

Director of Training:
Patrick Marvil , Director of Training, develops, tailors, manages, and implements training programs for SGI’s customers. He is responsible for the overall development and execution of the training plan for the security force. Mr. Marvil has more than nine years experience in the field of security that includes extensive overseas work in support of military operations and training of foreign military personnel and foreign government security agencies.

During his active duty Marine Corps career, Mr. Marvil served in training roles as an instructor pilot and terminal attack controller instructor. He also served as a weapons and tactics instructor for Marines as well as foreign personnel. Mr. Marvil was involved in security operations in several overseas military operations. He brings a strong background in leadership, management, instruction, and weapons training. Mr. Marvil attends contract deliverable briefings and monitors our on-site staff’s performance for contract training compliance.

Director of Human Resources:
Leslie M. Howard, Director, Director of Human Resources, has more than 20 years of experience in personnel management, operations, and security. She is responsible for the recruitment, screening, selection, processing, and personnel management of all SGI employees. Ms. Howard oversees SGI’s Benefits Program and is also the lead SGI staff officer for all interactions with all of the various labor unions representing our employees on SGI contracts.

Ms. Howard began her career with SGI as a security officer and progressed up through the ranks to hold the position of Project Manager of a large federal contract in the District of Columbia before being selected for her present position. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology and has a unique understanding of the area’s security labor market. Ms. Howard’s expertise has been instrumental in SGI’s continued success in the areas of recruitment and retention. Ms. Howard attends contract deliverable briefings and monitors our on-site staff’s personnel records performance to ensure contract compliance.

Consultant to the CEO:
Blake J. Robertson, Special Projects, has over 30 years of public and private sector leadership and management experience. He has been in leadership positions for 28 years, served in senior management positions on a variety of large and small business programs on and off for 16 years, and been the senior leader for organizations as small as 14 to as large as 1167 members. He has a BS Degree in Law Enforcement as well as a MS Degree in Total Force Development.

Mr. Robertson completed 27 years of active duty service in 2001 as a Colonel in the U.S. Marine Corps by serving in senior command and three star level staff positions and culminating in the assignment as the Direct Reporting Program Manager, Advanced Amphibious Assault, in charge of and responsible for the Marine Corps’ only DoD Acquisition Category 1, Major Defense Acquisition Program and one of only two Program Executive Officer (flag) level equivalent program management positions in the Department of the Navy. Mr. Robertson has since served as a CEO / President level consultant to several private corporations as well as a Program Executive Officer/Program Manager level consultant on three multi-billion dollar programs with the U.S. Marine Corps, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Coast Guard, and on a mobility enhancement program for the U.S. Special Operations Command. Mr. Robertson attends all contract deliverable briefings with the CEO.

Director, Operations:
Mr. Robert F. Byers has 35 years of service in Federal law enforcement at the special agent, managerial, and executive levels with specialized experience in investigations, physical protection, and risk management. He has held senior positions in key government and law enforcement agencies and is a widely recognized leader in the aviation and transportation security industry. Most recently, Mr. Byers served as Deputy Assistant Administrator of the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Office of Law Enforcement and Deputy Director of the Federal Air Marshal Service (FAMS), where he led the effort to transform the pre 9/11 Air Marshal program from a small group of less than 50 agents, to a fully functional Federal law enforcement agency with thousands of air marshals. He also managed several critical components of the national strategy to secure air travel. He oversaw the state of the art Transportation and Security Operations Center (TSOC), led the expansion of the Federal Flight Deck Officer program that arms thousands of commercial airline pilots, and provided oversight and guidance to the TSA Canine program, which is one of the largest in the United States.

Prior to serving in the TSA, Mr. Byers served in the United States Secret Service for over 20 years and held posts in multiple field locations. His Secret Service career culminated in his appointment as the Deputy Assistant Director of Protective Operations, where he had direct oversight responsibility for the security and protection of the President, the Vice President, their families, and the White House. Prior to becoming Deputy Assistant Director, Mr. Byers completed 3 tours of duty with the Presidential Protective Division, the detail charged with the immediate safety of the President and first family under Presidents Reagan, Bush, and Clinton.

Mr. Byers began his law enforcement career as a police officer with the Fairfax County, Virginia police department, and later as an investigator with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms. He was a member of the Senior Executive Service for 10 years and holds a Bachelor of Science in Law Enforcement from Penn State University, a Master of Arts degree in Administration of Justice from George Washington University, and an additional Masters in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces. Mr. Byers also currently serves as an adjunct professor at George Mason University.