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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.

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

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.

LASZLO HORVATH

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.



Michael R. Geroe

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.

MICHAEL R. GEROE
General Counsel
Adknowledge, Inc.
Kansas City, MO
USA

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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