Financial Compliance & Network Defeat Technology

Joe founded TransNexus after decades of experience in criminal prosecution and countering threat networks abroad. This informed the design of the TransNexus patented cross-domain software that screens against classified threats in real time - illuminating malign proxies and the totality of threat network activity. The software enables unprecedented preemptive measures while protecting individual privacy and intelligence classification.

For the past 20 years, Dr. Clifton has served as a professor in the Purdue University Department of Computer Science and the Department of Statistics – conducting extensive research on Data Mining and Database Management System Security. He has a rich academic and professional private sector career focusing on technical solutions to advance data privacy. This includes privacy-preserving data mining, data de-identification and anonymization, and limits on identifying individuals from models.

J.R. “Bob” McBrien is a retired Senior Executive Service (SES) official with 45 years of federal experience at the US Department of the Treasury, Department of Justice, and Department of Defense. His career focused on the development, coordination, and implementation of interdisciplinary and collaborative policy affecting US national security, particularly at the confluence of law enforcement, intelligence, and economic sanctions.

Mr. Reimers retired as the Senior Executive Advisor/Senior Intelligence Officer at the Defense Forensics and Biometrics Agency in 2019, after focusing his career on national security law policy and international intelligence sharing. Mr. Reimers co-authored and provided input to many US and international directives related to the collection, storage, and analysis of personally identifiable information (PII) data and the use of repositories, integrated systems, and cloud architectures in a manner compliant with US and EU privacy rights law.

Dr. Jerry McGinn is the Executive Director of the Center for Government Contracting in the School of Business at George Mason University (GMU). He established and is leading the first-of-its-kind university center for government contracting research and education - which is becoming a premier nexus for intellectual property and defense innovation.

LTG(R) Darsie Rogers currently serves as a Professor of Practice at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland. His focus is Cognitive Security (CS) - a socio-technical approach that integrates a number of disciplines including social/behavioral analytics, data science, artificial intelligence, models, and advanced computing to translate malign network methods into elements that can be addressed collaboratively by government, industry, and academia. CS enables intelligence technologies patterned on human thought processes to detect and address threats. He has an extensive background in irregular warfare, countering enemy threat networks, deterring weapons of mass destruction (WMD), and countering emerging or improvised threats through innovative and agile problem-solving methods.

Mr. Jason Lagasca currently serves as a consultant for commercial entities seeking government contracting opportunities and strategic growth partnering with the US Government. He served as the first General Counsel of TransNexus from 2019-to 2021. He is a retired Marine Corps Colonel with over 26 years of military service advancing our national security in key strategic roles.

Joshua Skule had a distinguished 21-year career in the FBI. As Executive Assistant Director for Intelligence, he led the organization’s Intelligence Branch. There, he advanced policy development, implementation, risk management, and tactical guidance for all intelligence, national security, criminal, and cyber programs across all FBI investigative programs. He oversaw collaborative information sharing efforts among the intelligence community, law enforcement at the federal, state, and local level as well as multiple foreign entities on policy, strategy, and operations. He served as Chair of the Domestic Security Alliance Council, a strategic partnership between US government and private industry comprised of over 500 companies representing every critical sector and industry - enhancing communication by promoting the timely exchange of security and intelligence information.

Mr. Amit Sharma is the CEO and Founder of FinClusive, a hybrid financial-technology and regulatory technology company dedicated to financial inclusion through innovative risk-based approaches. FinClusive serves the growing fintech, virtual asset/blockchain and other non-bank/alternative financial services sector by providing the ability to connect and on/off ramp to U.S. based banking and payments. This enables the facilitation of seamless cross-border transactions between crypto/blockchain and traditional payment rails - with an embedded full-stack global-standard financial crimes compliance (FCC) platform built for both traditional (Tradfi) and decentralized (Defi) financial services applications, virtual asset service providers, and other alternative blockchain-enabled payment networks.

Kumar Kibble has served for more than three decades as a military, law enforcement and corporate leader. His more than 24-year federal law enforcement career included service as the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Deputy Assistant Secretary and Deputy Director of US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the agency’s top career executive. He received the Presidential Rank Award for his leadership of a 20,000-person organization with approximately 50 international offices and a $6 billion budget. He spearheaded the development of the Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Illicit Pathway Attack Strategy. This international, multi-agency information sharing initiative detected and countered cross-border vulnerabilities, transnational criminal networks, illicit trade, and financial crimes.

Greg Belanger retired in 2012 as a United States Navy Captain, Judge Advocate Generals Corps. Prior to attending law school, he served as a US Navy Special Warfare (SEAL) officer as a platoon leader. As a Navy lawyer, he served with distinction in positions as a General Counsel to Commanders, two years as a Commanding Officer, and seven years of postings as a trial lawyer conducting federal criminal and civil litigation. Since his retirement, he has served as General Counsel at global security and data/information operations services companies. In these positions, he has managed risk associated with litigation, contracts, and transactions to include mergers and acquisitions. He has also led companies through deferred prosecution and consent agreements. He is in private practice as a founding partner of Belanger & Rae, PLLC, which provides legal services to commercial entities contracting with the Federal Government and partnering with other commercial entities.

John Barton is a partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP in Global Sourcing & Technology Transactions where he counsels global industry leaders on complex commercial and legal issues that arise in sourcing and technology transactions. Among the most experienced advisory practices worldwide, Pillsbury has structured more than 1,000 strategic outsourcing and technology transactions over the past 30 years, with an aggregate value exceeding half a billion dollars.

Steve Meltzer is a Corporate, Securities, and Technology Partner at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP where he advises clients in the government IT, defense, intelligence, and aerospace sectors. Mr. Meltzer is a longstanding Board and Executive Committee member of the Maryland Technology Council and serves as the organization’s Corporate Secretary.