Security First Corp. Board of Directors

Security First has assembled an outstanding management team and Board of Directors which together form the strong leadership required to build and mature the revolutionary technology of the SecureParser into powerful IA solutions.

Leo Guthart
Chairman
Leo Guthart, Founder, Chairman and CEO of Topspin Partners, LP of New York, a high tech venture capital and private equity firm based on Long Island New York. Before forming Topspin Partners, LP Leo was the President, CEO and Chairman of Ademco, which he joined in 1964. Under his tenure, Ademco grew from a fledgling manufacturer to become the Pittway Corporation Security Group, a $1.5 billion enterprise. This group encompasses the world's largest manufacturer and distributor of security systems, in addition to a number of security-related businesses. Leo currently serves as a trustee for the Acorn Group of Funds. He also serves as a Board member of Symbol Technologies (NYSE:SBL), the Aptar Group (NYSE:ATR). He is also a member of the board of trustees of Hofstra University, where he served as Chairman from 1993-1996. Leo received his A.B. in Physics from Harvard College and his MBA from Harvard Business School where he was a Baker Scholar. He also received a Doctorate from Harvard Business School with a specialty in Corporate Finance and served on the faculty there where he was a Ford Foundation Fellow.
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Walter B. Kissinger
Director
Mr. Kissinger is the Founder and Honorary Chairman of the Board of the Long Island Research Institute. The Institute is a Consortium of Brookhaven National Laboratory, Stony Brook University and Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who are the founders as well as North Shore University Hospital. Its purpose is to accelerate Technology Transfer from these research institutions into commercial applications. It also, independently, does contract research drawing on the scientific resources and staff of these organizations. He also directs the Kissinger Family Foundation and is President of WBK Associates, an investment and consulting group. He has been Vice Chairman and continues as a member of the Board of Trustees of Hofstra University and has chaired the Academic Affairs Committee. He serves on the Board of the Stony Brook Foundation. He has been a Director of various public and private companies and quasi-public Boards such as the National Council for U.S. /China Trade. From 1969-1988 he was Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of The Allen Group Inc. (Now Allen Telecom). The Allen Group Inc. (NYSE) is an international manufacturer and marketer of automotive products including test and assembly equipment, truck components and mobile communications products. During World War II, he served in the U.S. Army in the Pacific Theater (1943-1945); and he had a brief recall during the Korean War in 1950. For almost two years following military service, he held a position in the Foreign Service of the War Department during the Military Government phase in Korea. He was discharged with a reserve commission of Captain. A graduate of Princeton University (1951); he received his M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School (1953). Mr. Kissinger is the recipient of a Doctor of Humane Letters Degree from Hofstra University (2001). Mr. Kissinger and his wife, the former Eugenie Van Drooge, have four children and reside in Huntington Bay, Long Island, New York. He is listed in Whos Who in America and Whos Who in the World.
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Al Berkeley
Director
Alfred R. Berkeley III currently serves as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer for Pipeline Trading Systems, LLC of New York. Mr. Berkeley has over 25 years of experience in the financial industry. Prior to joining Pipeline, Mr. Berkeley served as President and then Vice-Chairman of the NASDAQ Stock Market, Inc from June 1996 until August 2003. Before NASDAQ, Mr. Berkeley was a General Partner and then a Managing Director of Alex. Brown & Sons, an investment bank. Mr. Berkeley co-founded the Firms Technology Group in 1975. The Group completed about 500 financial offerings for clients while he was associated with the firm. Mr. Berkeley is a graduate of the Wharton School of Finance of the University of Pennsylvania (MBA) and the University of Virginia (BA). He served as an officer in the United States Air Force.
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Greg Laughlin
Congressman (1989-1997)
Director
After serving four terms in the United States House of Representatives representing the 14thCongressional District of Texas, Mr. Laughlin has been in private practice focusing on public policy, energy, international trade and tax law. Mr. Laughlin joined the Washington, DC office of Pillsbury in February 2006. As a member of Congress, he served on the Committee on Ways and Means, the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure (where he served on the Subcommittees on Aviation, Surface Transportation and Water), and the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries. The legislation Mr. Laughlin worked on as a Member of Congress included the Intermodal Transportation Safety and Efficiency Act, Pipeline Safety, Deep Water Royalty Relief Act, Oil Pollution Act of 1990, Private Property Protection Act and the Military Reserve Revitalization Act of 1995. Mr. Laughlin was founder and co-chair of the U.S./Former Soviet Union Energy Caucus and helped initiate the Duma-Congress meetings to better understand and resolve problems involving oil and gas development confronting U.S. oil companies operating in Russia. During his Congressional career, he undertook many energy and economic development missions to Russia and the Central Asian republics, including Azerbaijan, Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Mr. Laughlin previously represented the Republic of Turkey in a wide range of issues including public policy, infrastructure development, economic development, international trade and foreign investment. A colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves, Mr. Laughlin was the only member of the U.S. Congress to see active duty during Operation Desert Storm in 1991. While on active duty, he was stationed at Sinop, Turkey during 1968-69. Prior to his election to Congress in 1988, Mr. Laughlin practiced law in Texas. He also served as assistant district attorney for Houston, Harris County, Texas, for four years.
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Mark OHare
President and CEO
Mark OHare is the Founder, President and CEO for Security First Corp. which he founded in 2002. Mark has over 32 years of experience in leading multi-million dollar commercial and government security, engineering, and manufacturing programs. Mark has held previous positions as Chief Executive Officer, President, Chief Operating Officer, Executive Vice President and General Manager for new start-up companies for Safeguard Scientifics incubator company XL Vision Inc 1998-2001. Prior to his work at XL Vision Inc., Mark was a Captain in the United States Navy, serving as the Principal Executive Officer (PEO) for the U.S. Navys Aircraft Carrier Program in a two star Admirals position as head of the U.S. Navys $25 billion Aircraft Carrier Program. In this role he was accountable for all aspects of the Department of Defenses Aircraft Carrier Program including acquisition, research and development, design, construction, delivery, overall budget and management of the entire Aircraft Carrier program. Mark served a distinguished career in the U.S. military enjoying such duties as Head of Aircraft Carrier New Construction and shipboard assignments as intelligence officer, Chief Engineer of ships including a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier. He was a certified Navy Engineer and was the senior technical advisor to the French and British navies on aircraft carriers. Mark received his Bachelors of Science Degree from the United States Naval Academy and his Masters Degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Naval Post Graduate School. He also attended the Senior Advanced Executive Schools at Northwestern University Kellogg Graduate School of Management and the Senior Executive Program at the University of Virginia Darden Graduate School of Business. He also is a graduate of the Department of Defense, Defense Systems Management College of Defense Acquisition and Senior Executive programs.
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