Management Team

Experience and dedication to achieving success for our partners and customers defines InfoZen's leadership:

Raj Ananthanpillai - Chairman, CEO and President

Dwight Carmichael - Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Manuel Miranda - Senior Vice President, National Security and Intelligence Markets

Greg Mundell – Senior Vice President, Business Development

Michael Stull - Senior Vice President, Capture and Proposal Management

Alain Kouyate - Chief Technology Officer

Jeffrey Rosolio – Vice President, Human Capital

Aaron Kilinski – Vice President, Strategy and Solutions

Dr. Michael Lay - Chief Scientist

Raj Ananthanpillai

Chairman, CEO and President

Mr. Ananthanpillai is the Chairman, CEO and President of InfoZen and has been with the company since January 2004. Previously he was a Partner at The MIRA Group LLC, a Business Strategy and Financial Consulting Firm. Prior to that, he served as the Chief Strategy Officer of ePlus, Inc. (NASDAQ: PLUS), a business process automation, asset management and financial services company, responsible for technology, marketing, analyst relations and business strategy. Prior to that, he was the president and CEO of NetBalance Corporation, a venture capital backed multi-million dollar software products and services company, which was successfully sold in February 2000.

Before founding NetBalance Mr. Ananthanpillai was the Vice President of strategy and marketing at I-NET, Inc., a $300+ multi-million dollar company, where he was responsible for developing new products, services, markets, strategic business alliances and overall strategy. He had also served as the Vice President and General Manager of one of I-NET's business units, growing a multi-million dollar IT outsourcing and managed services business offering to Fortune 100 and public sector customers. Prior to joining I-NET, Mr. Ananthanpillai spent several years at AT&T and was responsible for directing and managing the company's global messaging system managed services.

Mr. Ananthanpillai holds an M.S. in Engineering Physics, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering, and Executive Management degrees in International Business Management and Financial Planning. He is also a Certified Financial Planner (CFP ®), with a US Patent on managing networked systems, and the author of two books in the area of Systems Management and Managed Services. Additionally, Mr. Ananthanpillai is a frequent speaker at executive forums and universities and is widely profiled in industry trade and business publications. He has appeared on business television programs, and mentors several emerging companies. Mr. Ananthanpillai is also a practitioner faculty at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, teaching in the University's MBA program.

Dwight L. Carmichael

Senior Vice President & Chief Financial Officer

Mr. Carmichael is responsible for directing and overseeing all financial and accounting activities for InfoZen. He has 20 years of experience in chief financial officer positions and 11 years of Big Four public accounting experience. He has extensive experience in government contracting with midmarket companies including chief financial officer positions with American Institutes for Research, DCS Corporation and two divisions of Computer Sciences Corporation. Prior to becoming a chief financial officer, Mr. Carmichael was a senior audit manager with Arthur Andersen & Co. for five years and held controller positions with two companies.

Mr. Carmichael received a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration from Trinity University in San Antonio, Texas and is a Certified Public Accountant.

Manuel Miranda

Senior Vice President, National Security and Intelligence Markets

Manuel Miranda is Senior Vice President for National Security and Intelligence Markets. In this position, he is responsible for the ongoing operation and continuing growth of an InfoZen organization that supports developing and maintaining national security programs in high-threat, high-profile environments.

Prior to joining InfoZen, Mr. Miranda spent nearly 30 years at Unisys, Identix, UNITECH and other companies providing senior leadership to Engineering and Information Technology programs for Federal Government, State & Local Government and International programs in Japan.

The wide span of technical organizations that Mr. Miranda has led includes Information Technology Services, Software Application Development, Electrical & Systems Engineering, Distant Learning Software Solutions, Biometric Security Solutions and Product Life Cycle Development. Some of the programs and customers that he has worked with include NASA, USDA, ATF, Army, USMC, Navy, TSA, CBP, DHS, DTRA, White Sands, National Guard, State Department and DOE.

Mr. Miranda has over 30 years of innovative, entrepreneurial, collaborative and customer partnering leadership experience. He received a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland and completed postgraduate work in Biomedical Engineering at George Washington University.

Greg Mundell

Senior Vice President, Business Development

Greg Mundell is InfoZen’s Senior Vice President for Business Development. Mr. Mundell is responsible for developing, overseeing and directing new business growth for InfoZen. Mr. Mundell possesses a broad network of senior-level contacts in government and industry. His experience is a balanced combination of business development, capture management, teaming, and delivery in Federal IT.

Previously, Mr. Mundell was a Vice President at Pragmatics. There he was successful in growing Pragmatics to be a top contractor at DHS on the EAGLE contract through wins at several of the DHS components, as well as improving the overall Pragmatics BD capability. Prior to Pragmatics, Mr. Mundell was a business development manager at Deloitte LLP and Titan Corporation and made several key sales at DHS and DOJ. He was instrumental in establishing Titan as a key alliance partner with Accenture for the multi-billion dollar DHS United States Visitor and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) contract. Mr. Mundell has held various information technology and management consulting positions for Commerce One, James Martin Government Consulting, and Computer Data Systems, Inc.

He is active in several professional associations including the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), the Industry Advisory Council (IAC), and Tech America. For the Bethesda chapter of AFCEA, Mr. Mundell is the Vice President of Breakfast Programs and for IAC he is a graduate of the Partners Program. In 2008, Mr. Mundell was chosen by 1105 Government Information Group as a Rising Star Award winner.

Mr. Mundell has a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of Maryland and an MBA from Johns Hopkins University.

Michael Stull

Senior Vice President, Capture and Proposal Management

Mr. Stull is the Senior Vice President for Capture and Proposal Management at InfoZen. Mr. Stull has 20 years of progressively responsible IT experience supporting both commercial and federal clients. He has extensive experience in systems infrastructure and operations, software development and systems lifecycle management methods, and management consulting services.

As an InfoZen Vice President, he managed key projects and programs, providing project leadership, program control, and customer satisfaction for federal clients over the past few years including, GSA, USPTO, DHS/ USCIS, CMS, DoD clients and others. This work has included management and technical support in areas including large Web portals and Web infrastructure, complex data warehouses, organization planning and development, data center planning and operations, and mission-based services including counterterrorism and Intel support.

Mr. Stull began his career in the federal sector planning enterprise-wide new technology rollouts, then worked as a Sr. Consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton(BAH) supporting the information technology and management requirements of both federal and commercial clients. He subsequently founded an e-Healthcare and Health informatics-related startup organizations after leaving BAH to better connect large health providers with physicians and consumers. Prior to joining InfoZen in 2004, Mr. Stull consulted to federal and commercial organizations in the U.S., Europe, and Asia regarding strategic planning, global partnerships, and large web presence and knowledge management initiatives. He has significant IT experience in emerging markets including Russia and China, and speaks a number of foreign languages.

Alain Kouyate

Chief Technology Officer

Alain Kouyaté is the Chief Technology Officer at InfoZen and has spent twenty years designing and implementing solutions for mission critical initiatives such as web portals, complex process automation, transactional database systems, data warehouses, client/server applications, legacy system integration and enterprise application integration, ETL and data mining.

Following his graduation from Carnegie Mellon University’s prestigious software engineering program, Alain worked for a large financial organization and built the foundation of the bank's first eCommerce platform. In 2002, he joined InfoZen and since then, Alain has architected, designed and built some of the largest and most successful national security threat assessment systems within the Department of Homeland Security.

As InfoZen's CTO, Alain focuses on contributing his broad understanding of software engineering, process improvement frameworks (CMMI and ITIL), threat analytics and fraud detection to the continued expansion of the company. His current area of focus is the automation of risks assessment, identity assessment problems and the development of modernization strategies using Service Oriented Architecture, Desktop/Server Virtualization and Enterprise Service Bus technology for national-security government projects.

Jeffrey Rosolio

Vice President, Human Capital

Jeffrey Rosolio is a senior human resources executive with over 20 years of experience in the government contracting arena. He is responsible for directing, guiding and nurturing the entire employment experience at InfoZen, including talent acquisition, organizational development, strategic HR initiatives and the ongoing support of the team of employees who contribute to InfoZen’s continuing success.

Over the course of his career he has had the opportunity to use his expertise to leverage the value of human capital endeavors beyond traditional boundaries to help businesses thrive. His accomplishments include developing effective leadership teams, improving talent acquisition strategies and galvanizing workforces around key business objectives. Jeff has developed business-oriented human resources programs that support effective, high performing workforces at variety of IT services and telecommunications companies including I-NET, E-spire Communications, INDUS Corporation and Integral Systems, Inc. He has experience in dealing effectively with labor unions, collective bargaining units and knows the importance of successfully defending the legal position of the organizations he serves. He also assists InfoZen senior management with their team building and management development efforts. While not part of the typical HR role, he also likes contributing to winning new business and creating organic growth by participating in marketing, public relations and business capture efforts.

Mr. Rosolio holds a bachelor’s degree in Psychology from the University of Maryland and a master’s degree in Public Administration from The George Washington University.

Aaron Kilinski

Vice-President, Strategy and Solutions

Aaron is Vice-President of Strategy and Solutions, focusing on corporate strategy for solutions, branding, and strategic business development. Aaron has broad experience within Homeland Security and an in-depth understanding of current information technology marketplace solutions and trends. By aligning business and technical strategies, he is highly adept at communicating to both business and technical experts, to solve business needs with technical solutions. This experience allows him to deliver transformative business solutions that leverage innovative information technology services.

Prior to joining InfoZen, Aaron held multiple positions in the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), where he supported the strategic planning and systems integration of multiple stove-piped people screening systems. Aaron directed the development and deployment of both an enterprise investigative case management system, and a data integration/business intelligence solution; which provided the basis for an enterprise reporting and performance management system, for all TSA screening and credentialing programs. Aaron was also actively involved in market analysis and industry outreach activities regarding the use of identity analysis, resolution, and verification products, within the Homeland Security and Intelligence Communities.

Before TSA, Aaron worked for Accenture, where he held multiple technical and project management positions. His most recent Accenture experience was within the Department of Homeland Security, where he supported the design, development and deployment of an automated identification system. This system integrated Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), License Plate Reader (LPR), and real-time data acquisition technologies, as part of a Services Oriented Architecture, to evaluate the use of these technologies for an automated Entry/Exit Tracking System.

Prior to Accenture, Aaron worked for Bechtel, where he worked as a Mechanical/Nuclear Engineer, at multiple US-based nuclear power plants.

Aaron holds a Bachelors of Science degree in Chemical Engineering, from Virginia Polytechnic Institute (Virginia Tech) and is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®).

Dr. Michael Lay

Chief Scientist

With more than 30 years of experience in the field of computer science, Dr. Michael Lay's knowledge ranges from system architecture and programming to leading large implementation teams. His expertise in information storage and retrieval systems has developed from concentrated study of indexing theory in graduate school where he graduated with a PhD in Computer and Information Science. Later, while teaching at the University of Maryland, he further developed his ideas of information retrieval in distributed databases and honed his programming skills by implementing many new techniques for distributed database retrieval.

While employed by Computer Sciences Corporation, Dr. Lay led several large projects that implemented ground control systems for NASA near-earth satellites, where he contributed considerably to the design and implementation of database engines supporting these facilities. After joining Online Computer Systems, later Reed Technology and Information Services (RTIS), Inc., Dr. Lay concentrated on the design and implementation of compact, speedy indexing and retrieval techniques. He also spearheaded the development of some of the first commercial CD-ROM database products known to the industry.

At InfoZen, Dr. Lay has focused his efforts on building next-generation information systems centered around the Internet and database applications. He is an accomplished designer and a proven implementer of complex systems, and employs a wide variety of design and implementation tools.

Highlights

  • Established in 1995
  • Headquartered in Rockville, Maryland
  • Named to the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies in America.
  • We employ people of exceptional creativity, expertise and determination who work closely with one another and with our customers.

Recent Contract Wins

  • GSA - a new Federal Supply Schedule for IT services.
  • CBP - a mutli-year project to provide administrative and training support to Customs and Border Protection.
  • ALLIANT - a $15 billion, 10 year multi-award government-wide acquisition vehicle for a broad range of IT services.