IRONHAWK - Key Persons
General Bloomer is Chairman of the Board of Ironhawk. He retired from 31 years of active military duty, where he was last the commanding general of the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro and the commander of Marine Corps Air Bases, Western Area. A highly decorated veteran, General Bloomer was awarded two Legions of Merit, the Distinguished Flying Cross, a Bronze Star with combat V (for valor), 17 Air Medals, the Republic of China Kuang Hua Medal and numerous other campaign medals. His other career highlights include:
Recognition by President Reagan for Installations Excellence two consecutive years, 1984-1985
Head of legislative liaison for the U. S. Marine Corps, 1981-1983
Special assistant and Marine Corps aide to the secretary of the Navy, 1976-1979
330 combat missions flown in Vietnam as a photo and electronic reconnaissance pilot
R&D test pilot at the Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD, 1965-1968
General Bloomer was previously the executive director of the Orange County Regional Airport Authority (OCRAA), comprising 14 Orange County cities representing over one million Orange County residents. He joined OCRAA in 2001. Prior to that, between 1986, when he retired from active duty, and 2000, he was executive vice president, principal officer, and major shareholder of American Protective Services (APS), the fourth largest privately-held contract security company in the nation. General Bloomer has previously been a Director for numerous firms, including the RNC Liquid Assets Fund, a $125 million publicly-held mutual fund (he was Chairman between 1990-1992), the RNC Mutual Fund Group (six publicly-held mutual fund companies), and Avtel Services, Inc., a privately held aircraft services company.
General Bloomer is Chairman of the Board of Ironhawk. He retired from 31 years of active military du Read Bio
Job Titles:
- CEO
- Member of the Executive Team and Advisory Board
- President
David Gomes is the president & CEO of Ironhawk Technologies, Inc., which he founded in 2001 (under the name Integrated Data Corporation or IDC). With over 20 years' experience, twelve at the helm of Ironhawk, he has directed the day-to-day operations and led key strategic growth initiatives focused on the company's core commercial and defense-based markets. He has further overseen the overall strategy and development of Ironhawk's proprietary intellectual property, and ensured visibility for the firm throughout the global defense, intelligence, and aerospace markets. Under Mr. Gomes' direction, Ironhawk continues to generate record growth and profit for shareholders.
Equally important is Mr. Gomes's leadership in planning, directing and managing government affairs: he represents Ironhawk to federal government agencies and the United States Congress. In this capacity, he reviews federal budgets and policies that may impact business, and works directly with federal agencies and representatives from Congress. He also maintains solid working relationships with the Washington, DC representatives of prime contractors, subcontractors, vendors and other trade associations of relevant defense, intelligence, and aerospace firms and organizations.
Formerly, Mr. Gomes was a top sales and marketing executive at Stryker Corporation, where he held the position of vice president of business development at Optimize, Inc. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and a master's degree from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). Mr. Gomes has also successfully completed executive education courses in finance and mergers & acquisitions at the Harvard University School of Business and the Wharton School of Business.
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- Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe Commander, NATO Allied Air Component Comm Read Bio
LYLE BIEN
Advisory Board
Vice Admiral Lyle G. Bien USN (Ret.) is a member of the Board of Advisors for Sentek Consulting, Inc Read Bio
Vice Admiral Lyle G. Bien USN (Ret.) is a member of the Board of Advisors for Sentek Consulting, Inc., a San Diego-based technology company. Between March 1999 and October 2002, VADS Bien worked at Teledesic LLC, where he was responsible for all matters involving the Government customer, including incorporating DoD requirements into the Teledesic and ICO satellite system designs, products and services.
Prior to that, he was the Deputy Commander-in-Chief and Chief of Staff at the United States Space Command, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado. He retired from that position on December 2, 1998, after completing 31 years of active duty service.
VADM Bien's assignments before becoming Deputy Commander-in-Chief included commanding an F-14 Fighter Squadron, two Carrier Airwings, a Carrier Battle Group and the Naval Space Command, Dahlgren, VA. From October 1990 to March 1991 he was the senior Navy striker planner for Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM. He was in command of the Nimitz Battle Group throughout her response to the Taiwan Missile Crisis in 1996.
A Naval Flight Officer, VADM Bien served aboard multiple aircraft carriers over 11 major deployments to the Pacific flying the F-4 Phantom and the F-14 Tomcat. He has 5,500 flight hours in Navy fighter aircraft, 1300 carrier landings, and 225 combat missions. He is a graduate of and former instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (TOPGUN). He is an Augustana College Distinguished Alumnus (1995), a member of the Augustana College Board of Regents, and a 1997 inductee into the South Dakota Hall of Fame.
A native of South Dakota, VADM Bien is a 1967 graduate of Augustana College with a degree in Biology, and attended the National War College in 1992.
Between October 1994 and his retirement in September 1997, General Fogleman was chief of staff of the United States Air Force. During his tenure, he was known as a no-nonsense consensus builder who would have the Air Force work more cooperatively with the other military branches. He also added to the definition of global presence "to include not only…air, land, and sea forces, but…space forces and information-based capabilities." Prior to that, in August 1992, he became commander in chief of U.S. Transportation Command and commander of Air Mobility Command at Scott AFB, Ill., where he was promoted to four-star status. He previously served as deputy director of programs and evaluation at the Pentagon as well as chairman of the Air Staff Board.
Gen. Fogleman is also a veteran of 240 combat missions in Vietnam. On Sept. 12, 1968, when stationed at Bien Hoa Air Base, South Vietnam, he was shot down by multiple hits from small arms fire. He ejected over hostile territory and hid on the ground from an enemy that was as close as 20 yards. He was picked up by a Cobra helicopter and rode on the outside until reaching the safety of a Special Forces camp, only to fly combat again the next day.
Gen. Fogleman attended the Army War College and holds a Master of Arts degree in military and political science from Duke University along with a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Air Force Academy. He has taught at the Air Force Academy as an associate professor of history.
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Job Titles:
- Chief Technology Officer
- Member of the Executive Team and Advisory Board
Mr. Gill has over two decades of experience of leading teams in the building of distributed systems using plain-old TCP-sockets, CORBA, UDP, SOA, even SFTP, JMS, and HTTP for a diverse group of enterprises.
Starting with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) at Pasadena, California, where he helped build a state-of-the-art near real-time event distribution system (middleware) to function over United States Army's tactical radio networks, Mr. Gill has been acutely focused on efficient distribution of data over global enterprise networks, where long-distance bandwidth is a premium resource, round trip time (RTT) between two remote units may be in seconds, and long periods of network segmentation are common.
At Ironhawk, Mr. Gill's team built the new Ironhawk SmartSync® line of software products to be out-of-the-box ready at required technology readiness levels (TRL) to significantly reduce network footprint of disparate enterprise workflows, yet nimble in design and configuration to allow transparent injection of SmartSync® state-of-the-art delta-compression into legacy data transfers. Mr. Gill has a Bachelor's of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Texas at Dallas.
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Based in Detroit, Mr. Theodore is a Partner of Wynnchurch Capital, a Chicago based private equity firm with $500 million under management for control equity investments in middle market, industrial manufacturing and service businesses facing complex operational performance and financial issues. As a private equity investor for over twenty years Mr. Theodore has acquired, financed and improved the operational performance of industrial companies throughout North and South America, and Europe.
Prior to joining Wynnchurch in 2005, Mr. Theodore was a Managing Director with Questor, a private equity firm affiliated with Alix Partners. Prior to joining Questor in 2000, Mr. Theodore was a co-founder and principal of Kamm Theodore, LLC, and a principal of Kidd, Kamm & Company LP, private equity firms that invested in high-potential businesses in partnership with successful, industry focused management.
Mr. Theodore's current board positions include SafeWorks Inc., Henniges Automotive, and Highway Technologies Inc. He has also previously served on the of Breuners Home Furnishings Corporation, Bristol Farms, Millennium Rail Corporation, Renaissance Cosmetics, Inc., TK Aluminum Ltd. and Wright Medical Corporation. He has also served in numerous interim management positions within portfolio companies. Mr. Theodore has extensive experience in all aspects of private and public leveraged finance, both in the United States and internationally. Mr. Theodore received his bachelor's degree in business economics from UCLA.
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Job Titles:
- Member of the Missile Defense Agency ( MDA ) Graybeard Panel
- Naval Flight Officer
VADM Bien has been a member of the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Graybeard Panel on National Missile Defense since its inception. He serves in a senior leadership position at all service Title X Wargames, Schriever Series Space Wargames, and MDA Wargames and Simulations at the Joint National Integration Center at Schriever AFB. He works extensively on the related issues of Space-based Communications, C4ISR, and Global Missile Defense to include senior mentoring in these areas at several Combatant Commands and with Industrial Partners. He is a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, National Security Space Architect Board, where he worked on the Transformational Communications Architecture (TCA), the U.S. Naval Space Panel on FORCEnet and naval space and communications, and the U.S. Strategic Command Advisory Board.
Gen. Tom Hobbins was Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, NATO Allied Air Component Command, Ramstein; and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. His responsibility for Air Force activities encompassed a theater spanning three continents, covering more than 20 million square miles, 93 countries and territories, and possessing one-fourth of the world's population and about one-third of the world's Gross Domestic Product. Gen. Hobbins is also a command pilot with more than 5,100 flying hours, primarily in combat aircraft.
Gen. Hobbins entered the Air Force in December 1969 as a graduate of Officer Training School. He has commanded a numbered air force, two tactical fighter wings and a composite air group. He has served as the Director of Plans and Operations for U.S. Forces Japan, the Director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Atlantic Command, the Director of Operations for U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and as a Deputy Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. As the USAFE Director of Operations, he was responsible for the planning, beddown and execution of combat forces in Europe for Operation Allied Force. As 12th Air Force Commander, the 12th Air Force Air Operations Center deployed to Southwest Asia as operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom's alternate AOC. As Deputy Chief of Staff for Warfighting Integration and the Air Force's Chief Information Officer, Gen. Hobbins developed and implemented the Air Force's C4ISR Roadmap for networks enabling predictive battle-space awareness and targeting. As Director of the Joint Air Power Competence Centre, he guided the development of NATO's C4ISR and Unmanned Aerial Systems Roadmaps.
Gen. Hobbins holds a Master's degree in business administration from Troy State University, and a Bachelor of Science degree in business finance from the University of Colorado. He attended Leadership at the Peak at the Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado Springs, the National Security Leadership Course at Syracuse University, the Joint Force Air Component Commander Course at Maxwell AFB, the Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course, at Maxwell AB, the Air War College, also at Maxwell, AFB, the Armed Forces Staff College in Norfolk, Virginia, and the Squadron Officer School at Maxwell AFB.