Ramon C. Barquin, PhD is founder and Chairman of Barquin Solutions. Prior to founding the Company in 1994, he led a 20-plus year career with IBM spanning both technical and managerial roles, including Asian and Latin American leadership postings. Through his technical knowledge, academic training, and industry experience, Dr. Barquin became an internationally renowned expert in the fields of data science, knowledge management, analytics, and IT strategy.

Dr. Barquin co-founded and was the first president of The Data Warehousing Institute, a leading professional organization within data sciences. He also founded and leads the Computer Ethics Institute. Dr. Barquin was the founding editor of the Prentice Hall series on data warehousing, co-edited two books on knowledge management in the public sector, and has published over 100 technical and management articles on information technology. He has organized and chaired the E-Gov Knowledge Management conference series, the most important knowledge management forum for the public sector in the world, which has held annual conferences since 2000. He has also conducted executive seminars in electronic government and knowledge management for the Brookings Institution.

Dr. Baquin earned his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and is an electrical engineer and mathematician by training. He has taught and lectured at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the University of Maryland, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Nolan Clifford is a Strategic Partner of Barquin Solutions. He has over 20 years of technical leadership experience within cyber, IT, and related disciplines. Clifford founded Information Security Solutions (ISS) in 2009, leading and growing a cyber, cyber compliance, and IT-focused business in the government and commercial space. The company was acquired by Assured Information Security (AIS) in 2015, with Clifford managing the acquisition process and joining as director of the ISS business unit for AIS following close. In addition to serving various technical and leadership roles at Deloitte, PwC, and General Dynamics before founding ISS, he served in the US Navy where he developed significant technical and leadership skills, culminating in his role as a Crytopgraphy and Information Warfare Officer. Clifford joined the US Navy in 1992.

Clifford earned a bachelor’s in Biology and Chemistry from Salisbury State University and attended Medical School as an Active Duty Naval Officer, Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences.

George Kinchen is Director of Recruiting and Human Resources for Barquin Solutions. With over 27 years of experience, he has successfully built, lead, and managed recruiting and staffing organizations of increasing scale of complexity and responsibility. Over time, he has developed specific cybersecurity expertise within the intelligence community in addition to other technical markets. Previously, George was a Recruiting Manager and Program Manager for Secure Shot. Prior, he was a Senior Technical and Intelligence Recruiter with Chameleon Integrated Services. Before that, George was a Program Manager for the US Army PaYS Program for Prairie Quest Consultants and held roles with Triple Canopy, SBI Technologies Corporation, and General Dynamics. In addition, he has provided strategic recruiting services to a number of outstanding organizations, to include American Systems, MacroSolutions, Hire Velocity/PayPal, Cubic Corporation subsidiary Abraxas Corporation, SOSi International, and ManTech International.

George completed a 24-year career with the U.S. Army culminating in his role as Senior Hiring Manger in 2007. He earned a Bachelor’s degree from Liberty University and a Masters in Business Administration degree from Columbia Southern University.

Kelley Willitts is the Vice President of Finance and Administration for Barquin Solutions. Willitts brings to Barquin Solutions over 25 years of extensive experience in a wide range of leadership, management and advisory positions, with an intimate understanding of government accounting and contracting. She provides oversight of the accounting and finance operations, as well as design and maintenance of all financial reporting structures. In addition to Kelley’s accounting and finance oversight responsibilities, she offers broad management, internal control, and strategic advice to senior management. Moreover, Willitts has developed, implemented, and managed the Company’s business policies and procedures within the human resource, recruiting, and security functional areas. Willits joined Barquin Solutions in 1997.

Joseph "Joe" Leo is the former Chief Information Officer (CIO) for the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He served in that capacity during 2000-2001 and provided USDA agencies with information technology (IT) policy guidance and oversight, data center and telecommunications operational support services, capital planning and investment control, computer security, privacy, information management and electronic government planning. Department-wide, he managed approximately $1.3 billion annually in USDA agency IT investments. He was also assigned direct management responsibility for all funding appropriated and requested for the Service Center Modernization's Common Computing Environment (CCE).

C. Lawrence Meador is Chairman of MGI Strategic Solutions, a Boston area strategy and technology consulting firm.  He has served on the academic and research staff of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) where he held various teaching and research appointments for several years while consulting with numerous public and private organizations in that time frame.  He previously served as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of CIGNA Property & Casualty and before that led the development of the technology strategy for Transamerica Insurance Group in advance of its initial public offering on the New York Stock Exchange (as TIG Holdings, Inc., symbol TIG, 1993).  He has worked on technology strategies with other organizations including TRW, Pfizer, MITRE Corporation, IBM, Motorola/Codex, Johnson Controls, Abbott Laboratories, RAND Corporation, Nationwide Insurance, AEROSPACE Corporation, IDS/American Express, and multiple elements of the US National Security Community.  While at MIT, he was a co-founding member of the Clinical Decision Making Group at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (previously Laboratory for Computer Science)  and was Assistant Director of the Center for Information Systems Research at the Alfred P. Sloan School of Management where he contributed to the original development of the field of decision support systems.  He has lectured at Oxford University's Center for Management Studies (now Templeton College, Oxford) and the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland.  He is a member of the international honorary honorary societies Sigma Xi, Tau Beta Pi and Pi Tau Sigma. His graduate degrees in engineering and management are from MIT.

After being nominated by President Bush, William "Bill" Navas was confirmed by the Senate on July 12, 2001 as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower and Reserve Affairs a position he held until December 2007. In January 2008 he was appointed as the Executive Director of the National Security Professional Development Integration Office responsible for the implementation and development of a national strategy for the development of national security professionals pursuant to Presidential Executive Order 13434 of May 2007.

Previously, Bill served as a citizen-soldier for over 33 years, holding a myriad of command and staff positions, to include a tour of duty as a Combat Engineer Company Commander in Vietnam. His final Army assignment was as the 17th Director of the Army National Guard in the National Guard Bureau in Washington, one of the highest positions for a National Guard officer in the Department of Defense. During his tenure as Director he formulated, developed and coordinated all programs, policies and plans affecting the Army National Guard and its more than 362,000 citizen-soldiers. He oversaw the Army National Guard’s participation in numerous overseas deployments and domestic crisis responses. He is the recipient of numerous U.S. military awards and decorations, including The Bronze Star Medal and the Distinguished Service Medals of the Departments of the Army and Defense.

Nicolas "Nick" Barquin is Managing Director at EJF Capital. Previously Nick was Director of Investor Relations at Birch Grove Capital. Prior to Birch Grove Capital he served as Managing Director at Colliers International, a global commercial real estate services organization.  Nick co-founded Cabana Cachaça LP, a $35M Brasilian Spirits Import Company while in graduate school at Columbia University in 2005. While at Columbia he worked on the development of 101 Warren Street, a 1.1 million square foot mixed-use real estate development in Lower Manhattan. Until late-2008 he worked as an associate at Eastdil Secured LLC, a US based Real Estate Investment Banking subsidiary of Wells Fargo. In February of 2011, Nick completed a merchant banking transaction with Family Dining Group LLC, a holding company he co-founded for the purpose of acquiring and managing the metro Washington, DC Applebee’s franchise. Family Dining Group controls 30 restaurants in 4 states, and produced 2011 revenue in excess of $65M.

Throughout his career, Nick has been involved in over $7.5 billion of real estate related capital markets executions across North America and abroad as both Principal and Advisor. He has worked alongside REITs, Sovereign Wealth Funds, Real Estate Private Equity and Mezzanine Debt Funds, Independent Developer/Owner-Operators, and other capital and operating partners across all property types.

Nick earned his BA with honors in Art History and Economics from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in 2002, and an MS in RE Development from Columbia University in 2006.