Management

Craig Norris – Chief Executive Officer and President

Craig Norris is a high-technology industry veteran with over 20 years of front line experience leading profitable organizations in the areas of strategy, operations and sales. He has served as Chairman, President, CEO or COO of both private and public organizations, including Attensity, Ion Systems, Work Exchange Technologies and Connectinc. Craig has successfully navigated start-ups and early stage companies to IPO's and other significant funding events, and has been continuously engaged with the completion of major sales to Fortune 500 organizations and the Federal Government.

Craig also brings to Chiliad a strong management consulting and systems integration background, having been a regional vice president for leading international consulting firm CAP Gemini America. Craig graduated Summa Cum Laude with a B.A. degree in economics from Macalester College, St. Paul, MN and holds an MBA from Fairleigh Dickenson University, Rutherford, NJ.

Paul McOwen – Chief Operating Officer of Chiliad and President of Chiliad Federal

Paul McOwen leads Chiliad’s strategic business development efforts in the government sector. In this role, Paul has led engagements to extend the capabilities of the Chiliad Discovery platform with several major U.S. government agencies to deliver critical information management solutions These include the Investigative Data Warehouse, described by the FBI as “the central database in the FBI's information sharing approach in the post-9/11 world” and “one of the most powerful data analysis tools available to law enforcement and counterterrorism agents.”

Paul joined Chiliad in 1999. Four years earlier, he co-founded Sovereign Hill Software where he served as acting CEO during the company’s first profitable year, then as a corporate vice-president until the company’s acquisition in 1999.

From 1987 to 1995, Paul served as Associate Chairman and then Deputy Chairman of the Computer Science Department at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. There, he played a key role in establishing the National Science Foundation’s Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). He served as Administrative Director of the CIIR for its first four years, helping to secure more than $20 million in funding from Fortune 500 corporations, the U.S. Government, and the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.

Paul also served as Co-Founder, Executive Director, and Board Member of the Applied Computing Systems Institute of Massachusetts, a university-affiliated private research institute. And from 1982 to 1987, Paul was Founder and President of Amherst Computer Associates, a software consulting company.

Paul received a B.S. in Education and M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and pursued doctoral studies in Civil Engineering with a research focus on intelligent information systems.

Robert Cook – Chief Technical Officer

Bob Cook is responsible for technical management for the Chiliad technology portfolio and the Chiliad product development team. Bob has nearly 25 years experience in the development and implementation of intelligent information systems, including search, real-time filtering, classification, entity recognition, artificial intelligence, natural language processing, cross-lingual search, data fusion and federated search.

Bob has overseen the development of the Chiliad technology portfolio and has also served as chief architect for a number of high-visibility programs designed to exploit structured and unstructured data across distributed, heterogeneous data sources. Projects implemented under Bob's direction include the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s Integrated Data Warehouse and Terrorist Screening Center. As chief architect for these deployments, Bob worked closely with several inter-agency groups, including the Proactive Data Exploitation Unit and the Foreign Terrorism Task Force, to ensure optimum exploitation of available data resources across organizational lines.

Prior to joining Chiliad in 1999, Bob spent 10 years at the University Of Massachusetts Center for Intelligent Information Retrieval (CIIR). As part of the CIIR research staff, Bob investigated a wide range of information processing methodologies, and managed the application and integration of the resulting technologies into a number of commercial and government applications, including the Worldwide Customer Support system for Lotus Development Corp., the Infoseek Internet search engine, the Library of Congress Digital Library Initiative for the Congressional Records and American Memory Collection, and various Department of Defense and National Security Agency projects. Bob received the prestigious “Hammer” award presented by then-Vice President Al Gore for his development work on the U.S. Business Advisor.

Bob received a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Dave Logan – Chief Financial Officer

As Chief Financial Officer, Dave Logan brings more than 30 years of financial and operations management experience to Chiliad.

Prior to joining Chiliad in 2008, Dave spent five years at US Investigations Services, where he most recently held the position of Vice President and Corporate Controller with responsibility for all aspects of accounting, compliance and external reporting during a period of rapid growth. Earlier at US Investigations Dave served as Vice President of Treasury Operations.

Before joining US Investigations Services, Dave co-founded Torque Corporation. Prior to co-founding Torque, Dave spent 15 years at Fisher Scientific Company, followed by three years at Fisher Technology Group, where he served as the divisional controller for a $90 million safety products division. Dave began his career at Deloitte and Touche where he was a senior auditor in the distribution, manufacturing, banking, construction and health care industries.

Dave is a Certified Public Accountant and received a B.A. in Business Administration from Grove City College.