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ahec board members
Mr. Toth is a globally recognized technology
and business leader who has spent his career in cutting edge
products innovation in telecommunications, digital television
and imaging. He is the founder and chairman of the INTEGUARD
Alliance, an industry leading group of more than sixty corporations
in the Physical Security field. As the chief technologist
of GTSI Enterprise Technology Practices, he is responsible
for overall IT, homeland / physical security and force protection
technology leadership. In the past two years, he created and
built a business unit of GTSI Corporation in Physical Security
Protection (PSP). Among many business initiatives, he led
GTSI to implement video surveillance for the Jacksonville
Florida Super Bowl event, and completed Phase-1 design of
the Department of Homeland Security headquarters security
protection. Mr. Toth is a member of the distinguished group
of ASIS-International Executive Roundtable for Chief Security
Officers advising and guiding ASIS’s active partnerships
with Congress, the White House, the DHS, the U.S. Chamber
of Commerce, and other major institutions which set our nation’s
business and public policy agendas, including those related
to security.
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ARPAD GREGORY TOTH
Chief Technologist,
Enterprise Technology Practices,
Founder and Chairman of the InteGuard Physical Security
Protection Industry Alliance
GTSI CORP.
3901 Stonecroft Boulevard, Chantilly, VA 20151-1010
Office: 703-502-2017 / Cell: 703-608-8640
arpad.toth@gtsi.com
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| Prior to joining GTSI, Mr. Toth was an executive consultant
to Northrop Grumman Inc. focusing on international IT opportunities
in Europe and the Persian Gulf region. In this capacity,
he was also a technical advisor to the Commander General
and the CIO of the United Arab Emirates Air Force. His focus
was on secure wireless communications, high security infrastructures
for physical and data security. Before that, he co-founded
Inciscent a wireless data solution provider specializing
in wireless-IT, C4 military, civilian govt. and enterprise
markets. As senior vice president, he had multiple executive
responsibilities at the company including business and products
development, operations and marketing management, strategic
alliances, and government contracts development.
Before joining Inciscent, Mr. Toth was Chief Technical
Officer and corporate vice president for Circuit City Stores
Inc. He was responsible for technology leadership to define
the company’s $10B+ consumer electronic product portfolio
(PCs, digital TV, telecommunication products/services) for
retail sales. He was also responsible for exploration of
new technologydriven investment opportunities for the company.
Prior to Circuit City, Mr. Toth served in several senior
management roles for the Eastman Kodak Company. He was executive
director, corporate marketing with responsibilities for
new business development in digital networked imaging. New
businesses he identified included military, medical and
professional networked imaging systems and applications.
He served as the lead alliance executive on the "You
Got Pictures" online digital networked imaging partnership
with AOL. Prior to this assignment, Mr. Toth was chief architect
and head of R&D for new generation networked imaging
products and services including solutions for the Internet/Intranet.
Mr. Toth and his team made more than two dozens of patented
contributions to advancing digital imaging technology over
the Internet in the professional, medical and consumer imaging
fields.
Mr. Toth is one of the inventors of HDTV. Before Kodak,
he worked for Philips as chief scientist responsible for
HDTV and multimedia systems planning and development. Under
his leadership, several early generation HDTV systems and
patents were developed. He was instrumental in contributing
to the formation of the U.S. HDTV Grand Alliance and was
one of the technology leaders in creating MPEG digital video
standards and its derivative the digital HDTV broadcast
standard.
Mr. Toth spent his early career at the R&D center of
Nortel Networks (formerly known as BNR) and was involved
in fiber optic broadband network research. He was one of
the lead designers of the world’s first fiber access
systems to the homes (Toronto/Canada, Orlando/FL). He also
worked on the system development of ATM, SONET and ISDN.
Mr. Toth, a native of Hungary and a naturalized U.S. citizen,
is also a founder and board of directors’member of
the American Hungarian Executive Circle, a non for profit
organization for the advancement of trade and R&D collaboration
in high technology between the United States and Hungary.
Mr. Toth spearheaded the creation of HTEC a technology enterprise
center for Hungarian high technology know-how that was incorporated
in Northern Virginia in 2003. Currently, he is assisting
several Hungarian high technology firms to establish their
presence in the United States.
Mr. Toth received his education and advanced degrees in
electrical engineering at the University of Toronto and
the Technical University of Budapest, and in executive management
at the Harvard University and the Wharton School of Business. |
Laszlo Horvath founded online media agency Active Media
(www.activemedia.com)
in 1996, establishing extensive relationships with leading
interactive and consumer brands. The award winning agency
created successful online advertising programs, search engine
research, marketing and optimization campaigns and online
distribution channels for Fortune 100 companies, ecommerce
ventures and associations alike. The firm’s client list
includes leading technology companies, global consumer product
brands, government agencies and foundations.
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LASZLO HORVATH
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| Prior to launching Active Media, Laszlo was tapped as
a Strategic Consultant for America Online in 1995. His clients
included the Greenhouse of AOL Studios, the AOL Finance
Channel and a wide range of interactive brands like the
Motley Fool, iVillage and NetNoir. Laszlo placed the first
advertising program on AOL’s largest content site.
Laszlo received his MBA from Harvard Business School in
1995. He graduated from the Film Academy of Budapest in
1989, as a film and television director, including a study
period at the BBC in London. Laszlo received his Bachelor
of Arts degree in literature from the ELTE University of
Budapest, Hungary.
He serves on the board of directors of the American Hungarian
Executive Circle and Carnation Consulting (www.carnation.hu),
the leading Central-European online development firm. Laszlo is a member of the Harvard Club of New
York. Laszlo is a sought after speaker at conferences on
online marketing, advertising and Internet strategy, including
Fortune Magazine, the CEO Club, the Virginia Economic Development
Partnership, and the Better Business Bureau.
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Michael R. Geroe is general counsel of Adknowledge,
Inc., a privately held advertising company assisting customers
in reaching their audience more effectively through the Internet,
using proprietary technology. Previously, Mr. Geroe spent
ten years in a private law practice based in Washington, D.C.,
as a partner in the business transactions group of Williams
Mullen and an attorney in the trade and litigation groups
of Dewey Ballantine. Mr. Geroe has counseled privately held
and public companies in Internet, technology and allied industries,
on corporate transactions, financing, regulatory and litigation
matters.He is admitted to the bars of the District of Columbia,
New York, California, Missouri, the U.S. Supreme Court and
the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, among others.
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MICHAEL R. GEROE
General Counsel
Adknowledge, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
USA
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| He sits on the Board of Directors of the Jewish Vocational
Services of Kansas City and the American-Hungarian Executive
Circle, and is a Trustee of the Bar Foundation of the Bar
Association of the District of Columbia (BADC), co-chairman
of the Corporate Law Committee of the BADC, and is a member
of the steering committee of Operation Crackdown, a BADC
project fighting drug crime. Mr. Geroe received his juris
doctor degree from Columbia University School of Law in
1993, and graduated summa cum laude from Georgetown University’s
School of Foreign Service. He lives in Leawood, Kansas with
his wife and two daughters. |
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