FIGI Board Members

 


Tom Rosato
CEO of FIGI
Chairman of Total Site Solutions


Mr. Rosato serves as a Director of the Board, but also holds a position as Chief Executive Officer of Fortress International Group Inc. He is also Chairman of Total Site Solutions. Mr. Rosato has over 25 years of experience in mission-critical service businesses.


Professional Background
 
2002-2006 Served as the co-founder and chairman of Total Site Solutions and the co-founder and chairman of Vortech.
1998-2001 Served as the President of Group Maintenance of America/Encompass Services Corporation, National Accounts Division.
1995-1998 Served as the founder and President of Commercial Air, Power & Cable, Inc.
1980-1995 Served in various capacities at Com-Site Enterprises, most recently as Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer.
1973-1980 Mr. Rosato started his career as a certified public accountant at Coopers & Lybrand.
  Mr. Rosato received a Bachelor of Business in Accounting from Temple University. Mr. Rosato is also a Certified Public Accountant in PA and MD.


 


Gerard J. Gallagher
Director, President & COO of FIGI
CEO & President of Total Site Solutions


Mr. Gallagher serves as a Director of the Board, as the President and Chief Operating Officer of Fortress International Group Inc., as well as the Chief Executive Officer and President of Total Site Solutions. Mr. Gallagher has more than 25 years of experience in mission critical fields.


Professional Background
 
2002-2006 Served as the co-founder and President of Total Site Solutions.
1998-2002 Served as the President of the Total Site Solutions division of Encompass Services Corp.
1997-1998 Served as the President of the Total Site Solutions division of Commercial Air, Power & Cable, Inc.
1991-1997 Served as the Chief Facilities Operations and Security Officer of the International Monetary Fund.
1980-1991 Served in various capacities at Com Site International, most recently as Senior Vice President of Engineering and Sales.
 
Mr. Gallagher received a Bachelor of Science in Fire Science from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Management (Summa Cum Laude) from Columbia Union College.


 


Harvey Weiss
Director & Chairman of FIGI


Mr. Weiss has over 35 years of experience in the information technology and security market place. Currently, he is Chairman of the Board of Directors for Fortress International Group. In addition to the normal and expected duties of chairman, he also handles acquisitions, strategic planning and client relationships.



Professional Background
 
2002-2004 Chief Executive Officer and President of System Detection, Inc., a software security company and is presently serving as a consultant.
2000-2002 President of Engineering Systems Solutions, Inc., a security and biometrics integration firm.
1999 Chief Executive Officer and President of Global Integrity Corporation, a SAIC subsidiary specializing in information security and served as a Director until the company was sold in 2002.
1996-1998 President of the Commercial Division, Secretary and Director of Trusted Information Systems, Inc. (sold to Network Associates, Inc.), a NASDAQ-listed security network company.
1994-1996 President of Public Sector Worldwide Division for Unisys Corporation.
1991-1993 Vice President of Sales and the President and Chief Operating Officer of Thinking Machines Corporation, a massively parallel processing company.
1971-1991 Digital Equipment Corporation; Vice President of Government Systems Group, Vice President of U.S. Operations and Vice President of Mid-Atlantic and Southern Territory.
 
Mr. Weiss serves on the Board of Forterra Systems, Inc., a simulation company, is a member of the Brookings Institution Council, and is a trustee of Capitol College. Mr. Weiss received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from the University of Pittsburgh.


 


C. Thomas McMillen
Vice Chairman, Board of Directors of FIGI


Mr. McMillen serves as Vice Chairman of the Board for Fortress International Group, as well as the President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Homeland Security Capital Corporation, a consolidator of homeland security companies that provides capital, management advice and investments for developing companies. He also serves as Chairman of Washington Capital Advisors, LLC., a merchant bank.

Professional Background
 
2004-2005 Mr. McMillen served as a consultant to Global Secure Corp. and as Chairman of the Board of Global Defense Corporation, a development stage company focused on acquiring companies in critical infrastructure security.
2003-2004 Co-founded Global Secure Corp., a homeland security company providing critical and served as its Chief Executive Officer. Mr. McMillen served as Vice Chairman and Director of Sky Capital Enterprises, Inc., a venture firm, and until February 2005 served as a consultant. Mr. McMillen also served as Chairman of Sky Capital Holdings, Ltd, Sky Capital Enterprises’ London stock exchange- listed brokerage affiliate.
2001-2002 Served as Chairman of TPF Capital.
1994-1999 Served as the Founder, Chief Executive Officer and Director of NASDAQ-listed Complete Wellness Centers, Inc., a medical multi-disciplinary clinic management company.
1993-1997 Appointed by President Clinton to Co-Chair the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
1987-1993 Served three consecutive terms in the United States House of Representatives from the 4th Congressional District of Maryland. Prior to that, Mr. McMillen played 11 years in the National Basketball Association.
  Mr. McMillen received a Bachelor of Science in chemistry from the University of Maryland, and a Bachelor and Master of Arts from Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.


 


Donald L. Nickles
Board Member


Mr. Nickles has been a member of our board of directors since February 2005 and currently serves as the Chairman of the Compensation Committee and is on the Board of Directors of Washington Mutual Investors Fund. He is also a member of the board of directors of Chesapeake Energy Corporation and Valero Energy Corporation. In 2005 after his retirement from the United States Senate, Senator Nickles founded and is currently Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Nickles Group, LLC, a consulting and business venture firm headquartered in Washington, D.C.

Professional Background
 
1980 Elected to the United States Senate, where he represented the state of Oklahoma and held numerous leadership positions, including:
1996-2002 Assistant Republican Leader.
2003-2004 Chairman of the Senate Budget Committee.
1979-1980 Oklahoma State Senate and worked at Nickles Machine Corporation in Ponca City, Oklahoma becoming vice president and general manager.
1970-1976 Served in the National Guard
 
Senator Nickles also served on the Energy and Natural Resources Committee and the Finance Committee. While serving in the Unites States Senate, Senator Nickles was instrumental in several key areas of legislation including securing Senate passage of the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the legislation creating the Department of Homeland Security and the 2003 Tax Relief Act. Mr.


 


Asa Hutchinson
Board Member


Mr. Hutchinson serves as a member of the Board of Director’s for Fortress International Group Inc. in both the Audit Committee and the Compensation Committee. Hutchinson was elected to three terms as U.S. Congressman from Arkansas, and he is currently a partner at Venable LLP in Washington, DC and is the Founding Partner and CEO of the Hutchinson Group, LLC, a business development and federal affairs consulting firm located in Little Rock Arkansas.

Professional Background
 
2003-2005 Under Secretary for Border and Transportation Security at the Department of Homeland Security.
2001-2003 Administrator of U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration
Member of U.S. Congress (3 rd District – Arkansas) and served on House Select Committee on Intelligence; Judiciary and Transportation Committees.
1986-1996 Partner Kerr and Hutchinson Law Firm, Fort Smith, Arkansas.
1982-1985 U.S. Attorney Western District of Arkansas, appointed by President Ronald Reagan.
1975-1982 Private Practice of Law, Bentonville, Arkansas.
  Congressman Hutchinson has a B.S. degree in accounting, Bob Jones University – 1972, and a law degree from the University of Arkansas at Fayetteville.


 


John Morton
Board Member (Audit Chair)


Mr. Morton is a member of the Fortress International Group Inc.’s Board of Director’s Compensation Committee as well as Chairman of the Audit Committee. Prior to retiring in September 2005, Morton was President of Premier Bank and a member of Bank of America’s Management Operating Committee. As President, Premier Bank, Morton managed a national network of 2100 Client Managers deployed in more than 790 financial centers and offices throughout our nation’s most affluent markets.

Professional Background
 
1997-2001 Served as President, Mid-Atlantic Region, Bank of America, providing leadership to more than 14,000 commercial and consumer associates with responsibility for 400 banking centers, 1000 ATMs and all banking operations throughout Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C.
1996-1997 Served as President of the Private Client Group at Bank of America.
1994-1996 Prior to Bank of America’s purchase of Boatmen’s Bancshares, Inc. Morton served as CEO and President of The Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis.
1991-1994 CEO and President of Farm & Home Financial.
1990-1991 Served as Perpetual Financial Corporation’s Chief Executive Officer and President.
1970-1980's Morton held various positions with Maryland National Bank.
 
Morton’s Board of Director positions have included: Chairman – Perpetual Financial Corp. (NYSE);Chairman – Boatmen’s National Bank of St. Louis; Farm & Home Financial (NASDAQ); ERC International (NYSE); Barry-Wehmiller Inc; Dynamac International. Morton was a member of the Executive Committee of the Federal City Council in Washington DC and a former chairman of the Greater Baltimore Committee. He has served on the Board of Directors of numerous non profit boards in Baltimore, Washington DC, Kansas City and St. Louis. Morton holds a bachelor’s degree from the U.S. Naval Academy (1967) and a Master’s in Business Administration from Harvard University (1973). He served in the U.S. Navy as a lieutenant aboard the nuclear submarine U.S.S. George Washington Carver.


 


David J. Mitchell
Board Member


Mr. Mitchell has served as a member of our Board since its inception and has over 20 years of investment, finance and mergers and acquisition experience. He continues today to serve as a member of Fortress International Group Inc.’s Board of Directors as a member of the Audit Committee as well as the Compensation Committee. Mr. Mitchell is President of Mitchell Holdings LLC, a New York-based merchant banking company he founded in January of 1991, and since June 2004, Managing Partner of Las Vegas Land Partners LLC, a real estate development firm.

Professional Background
 
2002 Mr. Mitchell served as a Director of Kellstrom Industries.
1999-2001 Director of Direct Furniture Inc.
1996-1998 Founder and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Americash LLC. until the business was sold to American Express.
1996-2003 Director of Centerpoint Corporation (including its predecessor companies).
Prior to 1991 Various senior positions at New York Stock Exchange member firms.
1988-1990 Managing Director and Principal of Rodman & Renshaw, Inc.
1985-1988 Managing Director of Laidlaw Adams & Peck, Inc.
Prior to 1985 Bear Stearns and Oppenheimer & Co.


 


William Jews
Board Member

Mr. Jews serves as a member of the Audit Committee for Fortress International Group Inc.’s Board of Directors.




Professional Background
 
1993-2006

Prior to joining Fortress, Mr. Jews was President and Chief Executive Officer of CareFirst, the seventh largest Blue Cross Blue Shield Plan. He recruited new trustees, formed a new management team and introduced a new corporate identity. He also restructured the company and introduced the "one vision, one company" concept to the marketplace. Under Mr. Jews leadership the company went from bottom ranking to an award winner among Blues companies. Mr. Jews has also served as a board member of the National Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association.
1990-1993 Mr. Jews served as President and CEO of Dimensions Health Corporation, a $220 million multi-faceted health care corporation including two full-service acute care hospitals, a for-profit and a not-for-profit nursing home, a free-standing emergency ambulatory/surgical center, a for-profit venture partnership corporation and corporate offices.
1979-1990 Mr. Jews served as President and CEO of Liberty Medical Center Inc., Lutheran Health Care Corporation.
 
Mr. Jews has a Masters Degree in Urban Planning and Policy Analysis, with Health Administration emphasis from the Graduate School of Urban Studies, Morgan State University, Baltimore , MD , 1976.