While commissioned as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Swedish Armed Forces Reserve, from 1993 to 1999, Mr. Bjore was the Founder and Head of the Open Source Intelligence Section at the Swedish Headquarters, Military Intelligence & Security Service and was awarded the Royal War Academy silver medal for this effort.  Mr. Bjore has also served as a board member of Brimstone AB (SE) and an advisory board member of the US based Factiva, Inc.

Apart from his duties at OSINT Solutions; Mats Bjore is the Senior Partner and CEO of Infosphere AB; the co-founder and Director of the UK based Silobreaker, Ltd. and co founder and advisor at Dooreme, Inc. Prior to assuming these roles, Mr. Bjore served as the Scandinavian Knowledge Manager for McKinsey & Company.  Mr Bjore's 20 plus years of active participation within  the global intel community began in the late 80's; when he served as an intelligence instructor at the Swedish Army Intelligence School and the Artillery School.    More

Olessia Smotrova-Taylor

Olessia Smotrova-Taylor is president and CEO of OST Global Solutions, Inc. www.ostglobalsolutions.com, and a practicing capture and proposal manager. Her company provides consulting support and training, helping businesses grow by winning government proposals. OST’s client list includes three of the top five govt. contracting firms, and a variety of other mid-tier and small businesses.

Ms. Smotrova-Taylor has 15 years of experience in proposal and capture management, marketing, and communications. She has prepared more than 100 proposals, winning over $10 billion of new business with a win rate of 94%. Her skills span virtually every proposal function, from business growth strategy to customer-focused marketing, capture planning, proposal management, technical writing, graphics, editing, and production. She has developed and documented capture and proposal management methodologies that save time and money while yielding consistently high success rates.   More

Brace Barber

Brace lives by a “No Excuse” philosophy while pursuing opportunities to dramatically improve peoples’ lives. He appreciates the hard road that produces real growth.

Brace is a successful entrepreneur who has been the President/CEO of Decipherst, Inc. since its inception in July 2006. Decipherst has developed unmatched composite armor technologies and manufacturing processes, which are revamping the entire military helmet and police armor markets. The company boasts the first helmet, which will stop the AK-47 round. The company is currently pursuing applications for their light-weight composite technologies in the automotive, aerospace and sports industries.  More