ahec Board member

Arpad Gregory Toth

Arpad Gregory Toth

Chairman and CEO
ALACERA INTERNATIONAL
P.O.Box 3169, Oakton, Virginia, 22124, USA
Manama Centre, Office No. 74, 7 floor - Building 58,
Government Road - Area 316, Manama, Kingdom of Bahrain
Office: 703-938-7714
Cell: 703-608-8640
atoth [at] alacera.com

Arpad Toth, is a globally recognized technologist, and pioneer in the rapidly emerging practices of Converged Security Protection (CSP), Macro and Micro Urban Security Protection (MMUSP), and Smart Cities/ Smart Buildings”, He has spent his career in industries involved in cutting edge and innovative technologies such as telecommunications, digital television, imaging and security. Since September 2006, he has been Chairman and CEO of ALACERA International responsible for managing global growth in providing solutions and services for converged security protection, technology and products leadership and development of global alliances with vendor partners in the IT data and physical security fields, and solution implementers including the building construction industry.

Mr. Toth created and published his vision on the “Secure Model City of the Future” the first time years ago while being a young scientist at Nortel Networks in the 1970’s and 80’s. He was involved in the R&D of the world’s first broadband smart home solutions based on fiber optic, CATV and power-line communications as alternatives. The seeds of his pioneering work in this subject matured further while being the chief scientist of Philips Research in the late 1980’s. He became a key contributor to the EIA (now CEA) Smart House activities. Mr. Toth is also one of the inventors of the HDTV and in 1987 he published one of the first papers worldwide on a hierarchical, scalable multi-resolution digital video system that led to the definition of the MPEG TV standard family, including MPEG-2 HDTV standard, and motion JPEG. In the 1990’s, he continued these efforts at Kodak as the chief digital imaging architect at the Kodak R&D Center. Under his leadership, more than two dozens Internet-enabled digital networked imaging patents were created at Kodak for the professional, medical, and consumer imaging fields. For his innovative work at Kodak, Mr. Toth was awarded for lifetime membership in the Kodak Research Scientific Council.

Most recently, Mr. Toth was Chief Technologist for GTSI. He was responsible for overall IT, homeland/physical security, and force protection technology leadership within the company. He was also the Chairman of the GTSI Technology Council ensuring that GTSI solution development and integration align with new technology-driven capabilities and government customer demand.

Mr. Toth was the founder of the InteGuard Alliance, a group of more than 60 corporations in the physical security field, which provide trusted physical security protection services to governments. He currently serves as its Chairman.

As the former head of the GTSI Physical Security Protection (PSP) technology practice, Mr. Toth, led the team that provided the security protection master plan for the U.S. Federal Government Department of Homeland Security Head Quarters complex; He was also heading a multi-company team to design and implement the video surveillance system for Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Florida that included the protection of the entire downtown of the City of Jacksonville, all major highways and the river, and the Stadium. He was also involved in dozens of physical security projects including university campuses, hospitals, macro urban development project of the city of Baltimore, airports, etc.

Mr. Toth has a Top Secret security clearance with the Department of Defense (TS-SSBI, Level-4).

Throughout his 35-year career, Mr. Toth has held a variety of executive positions with leading public and private sector technology companies. He was the co-founder and the senior vice president of a wireless data solutions startup firm; served at Circuit City as chief technology officer and corporate vice president; was chief imaging architect and executive director of Eastman Kodak; and chief scientist – HDTV at Philips. He is a scientist, inventor and business executive, contributing to the formulation of fundamental patents for HDTV systems, online networked imaging solutions, and broadband telecommunications including ISDN, broadband-ATM and SONET. During his career, he has created numerous highly successful businesses.

Mr. Toth concluded his PhD studies and holds an MSEE in telecommunications, both from the University of Toronto. He earned a Master of Management degree from the Technical University of Budapest and his EE Telecommunications degree, summa cum laude, from the same university. He completed executive management programs at Harvard University and at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.