IAN Team Management
IAN and its Affiliated Market Partners (AMPs) are committed to working with the best available resources who will provide solutions for some of the most pressing threats to the viability of communities and their technical infrastructure. If you, your company or institution are among those who share that concern, we welcome you to get in touch with us and join our effort.
IAN Management
Chuck Manto, CEO, has over 25 years of public and private sector technology experience managing high-tech start-ups, Gartner Group's Venture Capital Service, a county Economic Development Corporation, industrial defense conversion, broadband CLEC operations, and this joint venture in critical infrastructure protection. He serves as a strategic advisor to Public Technology Institute, IIIA of James Madison University and the Engineering and Physics department at Frostburg State University. He also has five issued patents and others pending. For a list of his publications and management background, see his biography at www.ChuckManto.com. See this letter of reference on Mr. Manto and the entire IAN team from Steuben Foods.
Robin B. Frazier, VP, serves as a county commissioner in Carroll County, MD,was a project leader in the Maryland Governor's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs and mortgage banker. Her past projects included organizing disaster relief and recovery activities for Hurricane Isabel and the development of numerous policies and public works projects at the county level. She facilitates participation of financial institutions and local and state governments in IAN projects.
IAN Affiliates
IAN welcomes leading firms and consultants to protect, enhance and fund critical infrastructure vital for sustainable communities. The following industry leaders participate with IAN to assess facilities to see how they may become EMP-safe as quickly and inexpensively as possible.
– Dr George Baker, James Madison University Institute for Infrastructure and Information Assurance (Cyber and EMP Security)
– John Kappenman, Storm Analysis Consultants (Space Weather and Utility Assessments)
– Dave Fromme, SARA Inc (Testing)
– Bill Kaewert, SENS, Inc (Generator Power Assessments)
Since EMP can be caused by natural events such as a geomagnetic storms or manmade causes (such as pulse generators, EMP pipe bombs and ordinance, and nuclear blast), IAN assessments will cover all of these contingencies in its assessments.