Noteworthy

Joel Nelson, PMP

Director of Operations for the $500M SOFIA Science and Mission Operations Center at NASA Ames Research Center--operating the world's first airborne astronomical observatory on a Boeing 747

Skip Jepson, PMP

Served as Deputy Program Manager for Business Operations for the 65-person, $100M Navy Medicine Enterprise Information Assurance (IA) Program

Leadership

A Deeply Experienced Executive Management Team

Agilex has established an exceptional leadership team. They are distinguished by their strategic vision, significant management experience, uncompromisable ethical standards, and demonstrated commitment to client success. Alumni of multiple industry leaders, they are working with our professionals to establish Agilex as a preeminent provider of consulting, solutions and IT services.

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Office of the CEO

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Robert E. LaRose
President and CEO




Agilex Technologies, Inc., named for an organization with agility and expertise, is the third enterprise founded by Bob LaRose. Mr. LaRose is a serial entrepreneur whose focus is creating and building companies that specialize in software applications and integration services for government and commercial enterprises. His companies are known for having talented personnel, being consistently well-run, and highly profitable.

In 1976, Mr. LaRose founded his first company, Advanced Technology, Inc. which grew to over $175M in revenue and over 2,000 employees. It was sold in 1988 to Emhart Corporation, a division of Black & Decker, for more than $140M. Shortly thereafter, Mr. LaRose created Integic Corporation, which established itself in the federal healthcare market as the prime architect and systems integration provider for the DoD Composite Health Care System II – the largest electronic medical records initiative in the world. Integic was also recognized by Washingtonian magazine as one of the Best Places to Work in 2003 and won the Greater Washington Government Contractor (GovCon) Award as the Mid-sized Contractor of the Year in 2004. Integic had revenues of $180M and was one of the few privately held companies of its kind when Mr. LaRose agreed for Northrop Grumman to acquire Integic for over $300M.

Bob LaRose has served on the board of trustees for banks and universities. He currently serves with the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children & Women.




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Jay H. Nussbaum
Chief Operating Officer




As founding partner and COO, Jay Nussbaum is responsible for all marketing, sales and delivery of Agilex services. He is a seasoned sales and marketing executive, renowned in the technology field and Washington marketplace.

Mr. Nussbaum is an expert in creating and leading successful business units. Prior to Agilex, he was the Global Head of Sales, Marketing and Business Development for Citigroup Global Transaction Services (GTS) where he developed GTS’ global business development strategy and managed all sales, marketing and alliance programs worldwide. Before GTS, he created the Managed Services organization at BearingPoint, Inc. (formerly KPMG Consulting), and was later named head of all sales, marketing, and alliance organizations worldwide. During a ten-year career with Oracle Corporation, he oversaw the creation of Oracle Services Industries, comprised of the education, healthcare, communications, utilities and financial services global markets. With Mr. Nussbaum’s leadership, the organization grew from just under $60 million to more than $1.5 billion. Mr. Nussbaum began his career at Xerox Corporation, culminating his tenure as President, Integrated Systems Operations. While at Xerox, he was responsible for integration and consulting services in the commercial and federal government markets.

Mr. Nussbaum has served on a number of advisory boards and committees at the University of Maryland and was Alumnus of the Year in 1989. He has also served in various advisory capacities at George Mason University and James Madison University. Jay Nussbaum has served on the Board of Directors of KPMG Consulting, MicroStrategy, and Northrop Grumman Corporation.




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John Gall
Executive Vice President
Corporate Development




John Gall is responsible for major partner development, and merger and acquisition activity at Agilex. Mr. Gall is an experienced executive who has managed the financial operations of two companies. Each went from start-up through sustained revenue/profitability growth, to the eventual sale of each corporation for a combined $450 million. These ventures were developed in the technology services/software market and structured to realize significant equity value for their shareholders.

As Vice President of Finance for the Integic Corporation, Mr. Gall managed finance and accounting for this company that went from start-up to $160 million in sales. As Vice President of Finance for Advanced Technology, Inc. (ATI), he directed a finance operation that supported a company that also went from start-up to a company of 2400 employees and annual sales of $150 million. As each of these companies grew and achieved their long-term business objectives, they were sold to public corporations. As a member of the merger and acquisition team, Mr. Gall was involved in managing the sale of both companies.

John Gall received his Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Notre Dame and a Masters in Business Financial Management from George Washington University. Before he joined Advanced Technology, Mr. Gall served as Supply Corps Officer in the US Navy.

Sector Leadership

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Lawrence R. Albert
President
Healthcare Sector




Larry Albert leads the Agilex Healthcare sector. He is an accomplished executive with an expert focus on healthcare technology and military systems.

Before Agilex, Mr. Albert created and led the healthcare practice at Integic Corporation where it became a $100 million business unit within seven years. In this role, he led the design, development and deployment of the world’s largest electronic healthcare management system, the DoD’s Medical System: Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application (AHLTA). After Integic was acquired by Northrop Grumman Corporation, Mr. Albert expanded the business to include the National Health Information Network (NHIN), and supporting the United Kingdom National Health Service, and the Veterans Administration. He began his professional career at Advanced Technology where he was Vice President of logistics engineering, focusing on foreign military sales.

Larry Albert received his Bachelors degree in Operations Research from the U.S. Naval Academy, and completed graduate work at American University. Before he joined Advanced Technology, Mr. Albert served as a naval officer on nuclear submarines.

Learn more about the Healthcare Sector.

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John H. Edwards
President
Intel Sector




John Edwards leads the Intel sector at Agilex Technologies. He has an unwavering commitment to mission and a reputation for solving tough problems. Mr. Edwards has spent his entire career within the Intelligence Community, serving twenty years with the Central Intelligence Agency. At the Agency, he spent fourteen years providing overseas technical operations and engineering support, and six years serving as a Senior Agency Official within the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) where he played an integral role in implementing the DCI’s strategic and operational priorities.

Prior to joining Agilex, he served as Vice President for Special Programs at Blackbird Technologies where he developed and managed the technical programs, professionals, and product development team supporting the Intelligence and Defense Communities. In addition, he served as a representative of the White House Presidential Advance Office, as a Site Lead, where he coordinated official and political events receiving Presidential participation and supported senior staff that traveled with the President.

As a result of his many accomplishments, he was awarded the Intelligence Commendation Medal, the Intelligence Medal of Merit, and the DCI Director's Medal. Mr. Edwards holds a Bachelor of Applied Science degree in Electronic Engineering Technology from ITT.

Learn more about the Intel, Security & Defense Sector.

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Ira S. Entis
President
Government Services Sector




Ira Entis leads the Government Services Sector business at Agilex. He also serves as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer and is responsible for partnerships and alliances at Agilex.

A twenty-year veteran of the technology industry, Mr. Entis has served as a technology consultant and advisor to both public and private sector enterprises, led the development of industry solutions and defined the global market strategy for sector leaders.

Prior to Agilex, he served as the Vice President of Global Marketing at BearingPoint, where he led a team of professionals worldwide responsible for positioning in the marketplace, industry and product marketing, sales enablement, and client satisfaction programs. Mr. Entis began his career at Oracle Corporation, where he led a solutions group that combined Oracle technology, applications, and partner capabilities to drive value for Oracle Service Industries clients. During his tenure with Oracle, he also advised clients and implemented systems in a number of sectors, including law enforcement, education, public transportation, accounting and financial services.

Mr. Entis serves on numerous boards of small businesses in the Washington area and has served on the Advisory Board of the Information Technology Services Marketing Association. He is a graduate of The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and holds a Master of Business Administration from the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.

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Matthew Warren
President
Homeland Security Sector




Matt Warren is responsible for managing and growing the homeland security sector business at Agilex. Since joining the company in 2008, Mr. Warren has led a number of strategic initiatives within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) that have measurably improved the department’s operational performance.

Mr. Warren joined Agilex from Oracle Corporation, where he led the company’s strategic sales initiative for the federal civilian sector, including the Departments of Homeland Security, Justice and State. Previously, he held responsibility for the company’s DHS account and he managed Oracle’s business relationship with the Department of the Treasury prior to that. While at Oracle, Mr. Warren was named the company’s top sales representative within the public sector and he also received the Annual Achiever awards for exceeding quota for eleven consecutive years.

Mr. Warren began his career with GTSI, where he was the reseller’s top performing inside sales representative. He received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications from the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University

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Al Coffin
Vice President - Operations
Government Services Sector




Al Coffin brings more than thirty years of government IT and program management experience to his role as the Operations Director for the Government Services Sector. Throughout his career, he has led the development and implementation of major IT systems, and has managed large fixed price programs and multi-award contracts. Mr. Coffin also offers specialized expertise in the execution of formal process improvement initiatives, including SEI CMM/CMMI evaluations and acceptance testing. He has been a key member of the Agilex management team since the company’s founding.

Mr. Coffin joins Agilex from Vangent, Inc., where he served as Director of Program Management for the company’s Health Solutions division. In this capacity, Mr. Coffin led program management and process improvement initiatives for a range of government and commercial healthcare programs. He also supported the company’s Prescription Drug Program, a commercial fixed price operations and technical support contract.

Previously, Mr. Coffin was a Senior Vice President and Group General Manager with SAIC, where he built and managed a $150M services business supporting clients in the intelligence sector.

Mr. Coffin has also served with GE as a business leader and program manager for a number of strategic projects. They include a seven-year modernization program for the Foreign Broadcast Information Service; mission critical engineering support on a major National Program; and the pre-launch, integration, and test and operational support phases for the LANDSAT-D Earth Resources ground segment program.

He began his career as a Naval Officer on active duty in the United States Navy. Following undergraduate pilot training, he served in a series of challenging technical assignments supporting major computer systems for the Joint Chiefs of Staff over a six year period.

Mr. Coffin holds a BS in Electrical Engineering and Mathematics and a Masters in Electrical Engineering from Rice University.

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Rich Lowell
Vice President - Operations
Healthcare Sector




Rich Lowell brings significant technical and project management experience to the role of operations director for Agilex’ healthcare practice. He joins Agilex from Northrop Grumman, where he served as a Senior Technical Fellow within their healthcare team. Previously, Mr. Lowell served as Vice President for Technology for Integic’s healthcare practice. In this capacity, he oversaw the successful execution of Integic’s five-year, $250M CHCS II contract with the Military Health System.

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Dave Martin
Vice President - Operations
Intel Sector




Dave Martin utilizes his extensive experience in the Intelligence Community in his role as the Operation Director for Agilex’ Intel sector business. He joins the company following a 31 year career at the Central Intelligence Agency. He spent the past 11 years as a senior advisor/counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence (DCIA) and his executive leadership team--reporting directly to CIA’s Chief Operating Officer--and as the Agency focal point for managing the corporate relationship with CIA’s Inspector General. Mr. Martin is a results-oriented executive with extensive knowledge in strategic planning, senior policy/staff work, and intelligence analysis. As a result of his proven record of accomplishments at CIA, Mr. Martin was awarded the Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal.

Client Services

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Robert L. Otto
Executive Vice President
Advisory Services




Robert Otto heads the Advisory Services division at Agilex. He is one of the most distinguished and highly recognized CIO leaders in government and industry.

Mr. Otto comes to Agilex Technologies after 38 years of federal service with the last 27 years of service at the United States Postal Service where he served as both the Chief Information Officer as well as the Chief Technology Officer for this $75 billion organization. In this role, he led, managed and maintained the Postal Service’s IT infrastructure, provided IT business solutions to support business objectives of the organization, and managed one of the world’s largest technology networks and the world’s largest intranet. During his tenure at the Postal Service, Mr. Otto reduced the overall IT spend by more than $100 million annually while implementing cost avoidance solutions that annually saved another $50 million.

Mr. Otto oversaw a massive consolidation to standardize the entire organization’s systems, implemented Shared Services in IT, Finance, and Human Resources while simplifying their overall management and support. Under his direction, the agency transformed itself by modernizing its infrastructure, web-enabled their applications, refreshed over 200,000 desktops/laptops, implemented computer security and wireless technology, enabled mobile computing through hand held devices, and consolidated over 25,000 servers at hundreds of locations across the country to just 3,000 servers at two IT centers. Before leaving, he implemented virtualization and blade technology reducing servers and costs, saving the Postal Service millions more a year.

Mr. Otto also managed one of the largest email, wireless blackberry and data warehouse services as well as the USPS.COM web presence that annually generates over $500 million in revenue. His organization was the first business to implement a single instance of SAP Human Resources to support over 700,000 postal employees.

Mr. Otto has won numerous industry and postal awards including the Vice President’s Award in 1996 and 2000, the Inspector General Award in 2001, the Board of Governors Award in 2003, and the most prestigious John Wannamaker award in 2007. From 2004 to 2007, his organization was recognized as one of Computerworld’s 100 Best Places to Work in IT. This is an achievement that no other federal, state or industry organization has yet to achieve.

He received his education and training from the University of Virginia, Duke University, and the University of Maryland, with a Master’s degree in Public Administration from American University.

Learn more about the Advisory Services.

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Tim Hoechst
Chief Technology Officer




Tim Hoechst leads Agilex’s research and development of new technology solutions. He represents Agilex with its executive customers and provides counsel on IT issues.

Prior to joining Agilex, Mr. Hoechst spent 19 years at Oracle Corporation in a variety of roles. Most recently, he was a Senior Vice President in the Public Sector Division leading the technical professionals that supported Oracle’s Government clients in the United States and Canada. The product and industry experts on his staff helped Public Sector organizations exploit information by designing and building comprehensive information management solutions. Many of their innovations have become part of the Oracle product line and are used extensively by Oracle’s customers throughout the world.

As the Chief Technology Executive for Oracle in the Public Sector, Mr. Hoechst was also a spokesperson for Oracle on technical and industry issues. He has a special talent for describing sophisticated concepts in accessible language. He represented Oracle with customers, at conferences, on Capitol Hill, and in the media. He also sits in an advisory capacity to several Government organizations on science and technology issues.

Mr. Hoechst joined Oracle in 1988 as a consultant and built information systems for many of Oracle’s largest federal customers including the IRS, the VA, the Postal Service, and the Department of Defense. In 1990, he coauthored a book called Guide To Oracle as part of McGraw-Hill’s Database Experts Series. During his career, he has held a variety of technical positions working with development, marketing, sales, consulting, and Oracle internal IT. This breadth of experience has allowed him to develop the technical and social perspectives required to offer practical solutions to those he advises.

Hoechst received his Bachelors Degree in Computer Science from Harvard University.




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Wendell Ocasio, MD
Chief Medical Officer




Dr. Wendell Ocasio is responsible for Agilex's healthcare strategy. He is a renowned expert in Electronic Health Record architecture, design, integration, deployment, and training. His expertise spans both the domain aspects of medical informatics as well as the technical aspects of large-scale systems integration, performance, and capacity planning.

Dr. Ocasio was the Chief Architect for the Department of Defense’s $4 Billion global longitudinal electronic health record, AHLTA. He transitioned the system from a test platform involving two hospitals into the largest electronic medical record in the world, spanning hundreds of facilities and millions of patients in real time, worldwide. Dr. Ocasio architected groundbreaking modifications to the system allowing data to be stored in local caching repositories, greatly increasing system availability during network or data center outages. At the request of the Military Health System’s CIO, he led the tiger team of government and contractor senior engineers during the analysis, troubleshooting, and repair of a major performance issue. He oversaw the design, development, and implementation of major software and hardware enhancements, including critical database management system upgrade as well as an overhaul of the storage subsystem configuration.

Before Agilex, Dr. Ocasio was at Northrop Grumman where he was the lead architect for one of the four architecture prototypes of the U.S. Nationwide Health Information Network. There, he designed the prototype’s federated architecture approach using Service Oriented Architecture principles, and an HL7 RIM-based canonical data model.

Dr. Ocasio is a sought after speaker and panel participant in the healthcare IT forum. He has won many awards including the Department of Defense’s Military Health Service IT Professional of the Year in 2003.

As a Harvard National Scholar, he received his Bachelors degree magna cum laude in Engineering Sciences. He received his M.D., cum laude from the Harvard Medical School – Massachusetts Institute of Technology Health Sciences and Technology program, specializing in advanced technology and research. He completed his residency at the New York University Medical Center and is board certified in surgery.

Dr. Ocasio was a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force. He continues to practice medicine as a volunteer general surgeon at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, DC and the Kimbrough Ambulatory Care Center in Fort Meade, MD.




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Dr. Darren S. McKnight
Chief Scientific Officer




Dr. Darren McKnight provides Agilex with scientific and strategic leadership. He has been a pioneer in many areas from analog fiber optic data links and chemical/biological modeling to orbital debris analysis and innovation. Most of his career has been spent addressing difficult analytic problems related to modeling and simulation, space operations, chemical and biological warfare, counter terrorism, enterprise architecture, cognitive sciences, and knowledge management. His specialty is creating and establishing innovation practices for government and industry by combining the highly technical analytical and engineering capabilities with people oriented disciplines. He is the creator of the Agilex Innovation Methodology (AIM) and the Agilex System Engineering/Integration Methodology (ASEIM).

Dr. McKnight has led several major projects with significant contributions such as designing and providing an integrated decontamination strategy for the US Postal system; reinvigorating the IR&D program and developing a corporate-wide workforce productivity program at SAIC; and providing more innovative approaches to critical national security programs.

He currently serves on the Harvard Business Review Advisory Council and the National Science Foundation Expert Panel on Industrial R&D. He has recently served on the Office of Secretary of Defense’s Defense Science Board Summer Study and the IBM’s Global Innovation Outlook team. He is an elected member of the International Academy of Astronautics and a board member of the Knowledge and Intellectual Property Management Task Force.

Dr. McKnight received his Bachelors degree in Engineering Sciences from the U.S. Air Force Academy, his Masters degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of New Mexico, and his Ph.D. in Aerospace Engineering Sciences from the University of Colorado. He has coauthored two technical books (Artificial Space Debris, Chemical Principles Applied to Spacecraft Operations) and holds several patents ranging from biological agent decontamination solutions to a driving sensing/signaling device.

Operational

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Joe Donohue
Chief Financial Officer




Joe Donohue is the CFO for Agilex Technologies. Mr. Donohue is a seasoned financial executive who has managed the financial operations of companies ranging from a 75 year old Fortune 500 company, to a 15 year old software firm, to a startup solutions firm.

Before Agilex, Mr. Donohue led all business development and P&L management for the Customer Support & Education practice at Integic, a Northrop Grumman company. Under his lead, this business grew from $5 million in revenues and $1 million in profits, to $9 million in revenues and $3 million in profits, with customer renewal rates averaging 90%. Before Integic was sold to Northrop Grumman, he created and led the P&L management for multiple practice areas within the organization. He assisted in establishing the first product call center, and created, planned, and budgeted for launch of the company’s customer support and maintenance organization. He also assisted in the planning and negotiations of the sale of Document Systems Group for over $3 million to Moore Business Forms.

Prior to Integic, Mr. Donohue created and led the financial operations for a division with $232 million in revenues at Legent Corporation. During his tenure at Legent, he also led the financial management of the Customer Support Organization. Mr. Donohue began his career at the Marriott Corporation where he assessed the financial viability of new hotel development.

Mr. Donohue received his Bachelors degree in International Relations from Tufts University and a MBA in Finance from George Washington University.




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John Harllee
Vice President, Contracts & General Counsel




John Harllee serves as General Counsel & Vice-President of Contracts at Agilex. In this role, he provides leadership in terms of all contractual and legal activities, intellectual property and corporate pricing, and is a key member of our mergers and acquisitions team.

Mr. Harllee began his career as in-house counsel for Oracle and subsequently was in-house counsel at Netscape Communications and America Online. He returned to Oracle as Vice President for Sales Operations, where he managed operations for the company’s North American government, education and healthcare license sales unit. In this capacity, he served as the organization’s lead negotiator for large, complex software transactions. He was also responsible for directing and managing organizations which handled standing government acquisition vehicles, proposals, pricing, and the sales organization for the company’s channel business within the government, education and healthcare sectors.

Mr. Harllee earned his Juris Doctor from the University of Virginia and received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Michigan. He was admitted to the Virginia Bar in 1994.




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Carole J. Scott
Vice President
Corporate Communications & Administration




Carole Scott leads all corporate communications and public relations at Agilex and partners with the CMO in managing all branding and external relations campaigns. She is also responsible for the daily operations of facilities management and administration. She is the corporate Secretary for Agilex Technologies, and is supporting the Agilex Mentor-Protégé Program with Brown Technology Group.

Ms. Scott came to Agilex from Integic Corporation, where she directed all corporate internal and external communications, branding, public relations, and served as Corporate Secretary of the Integic Charitable Foundation. Previous employment included CEO support at Advanced Technology, Inc. (ATI) and office management responsibilities at a Fairfax law firm. Ms. Scott is a successful communications professional whose flair for eliciting corporate spirit, and creating and launching engaging communications programs, including radio spots, earned her the nickname “the voice of Integic.”

Ms. Scott received her Bachelors Degree in English from George Mason University.

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Charles E. Virtue
Vice President
Human Resources




Charlie Virtue is implementing and managing the comprehensive human resources program at Agilex. He brings with him more than twenty-six years of progressive leadership experience in all areas of HR.

Before Agilex, Mr. Virtue spent more than ten years at Integic Corporation prior to and after its acquisition by Northrop Grumman Corporation. At Integic, he led the company’s Human Resources organization and also served as a corporate officer. Prior to Integic, he held HR leadership roles in such organizations as GTE, Contel Federal Systems, Space Communications, and Bechtel.

Mr. Virtue has a Bachelors degree from Pace University and a Masters degree at Hood College.

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Theresa M. Nevarez
Vice President
Human Resources Operations




Teri Nevarez has responsibility for the daily operation of Agilex’s Human Resources organization. Ms. Nevarez brings more than fifteen years of HR leadership experience with a strong background in recruiting, employee relations, performance management and benefits within both the private and public sectors.

Prior to joining Agilex, Ms. Nevarez was the Director of Human Resources within the Intelligence Group at Northrop Grumman Corporation. She spent most of her career at Integic Corporation, which was later acquired by Northrop Grumman. At Integic, she held a variety of positions of increasing responsibility, most recently as Vice President of Human Resources. She began her career at SAIC in the Human Resources Department.

Ms. Nevarez received her Bachelors degree in Business and Finance from Mount Saint Mary’s College and her Masters degree in Human Resources Management from American University. She served on the Board of Directors of New Horizon Credit Union prior to its acquisition.