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STANTON
E. ROSS
Chairman and
Chief Executive Officer
Mr. Ross has served as Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer since
September 1, 2005. From March 1992 to June 2005,
Mr. Ross was the Chairman and President of Infinity,
Inc., a publicly held oil and gas production and
service company (IFNY), and served as an officer
and director of each of Infinity’s subsidiaries.
He resigned all of his positions with Infinity,
Inc. in June 2005, except Chairman. From 1991
until March 1992, he founded and served as President
of Midwest Financial, a financial services corporation
involved in mergers, acquisitions and financing
for corporations in the Midwest. From 1990 to
1991, Mr. Ross was employed by Duggan Securities,
Inc., an investment banking firm in Overland Park,
Kansas, where he primarily worked in corporate
finance. From 1989 to 1990, he was employed by
Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., a member of the New
York Stock Exchange, where he was an investment
executive. From 1987 to 1989, Mr. Ross was self-employed
as a business consultant. From 1985 to 1987, Mr.
Ross was President and founder of Kansas Microwave,
Inc. From 1981 to 1985, he was employed by Birdview
Satellite Communications, Inc., which manufactured
and marketed home satellite television systems,
initially as a salesman and later as National
Sales Manager.
KENNETH L. MCCOY
Vice President
of Sales and Marketing Ken McCoy is 60 years old and has been
involved in the Law Enforcement Industry for the
past 35 years with the following history:
In 1969, Mr. McCoy joined Kustom Signals, Inc.
He began at the age of 23 working with the National
Sales Manager and President of the company for
the Radar Division. He was instrumental in establishing
the first company nationwide direct sales force
to market speed radar devices. He was also instrumental
in introducing the first solid state radar and
first moving radar in the market. After leaving
Kustom, Mr. McCoy joined CMI, Inc. as National
Sales Manager and Vice President. While at CMI
he also established a nationwide sales organization
and introduced the very first Hand Held Radar
Gun (the Speedgun), the first one-piece moving
car radar with dual readouts, the Speedgun II
and the first infrared alcohol breath testing
instrument (the Intoxilyzer).
In 1976, Mr. McCoy and two partners founded and
started MPH Industries, Inc. in Chanute, Kansas.
They had facilities in Chanute and Lee’s
Summit, Missouri. He served as President of MPH
Industries from 1976 to 1988 overseeing all business
operations at both facilities. MPH employed approximately
100 employees with a nationwide employee sales
force and service organization. MPH became known
as one of the industry leaders in traffic speed
enforcement products.
In 1988 MPH Industries, Inc. was purchased by
MPD, Inc. located in Owensboro, Kentucky. Mr.
McCoy became Vice President of the Law Enforcement
Division of MPD, Inc. Under his supervision they
purchased CMI, Inc. from Federal Sign and Signal,
Inc. and moved the entire organizations of CMI,
Inc. and MPH Industries, Inc. to Owensboro, Kentucky.
In 1992, Mr. McCoy formed his own Marketing Organization
to sell Law Enforcement products throughout the
USA and Canada. The first contract for the organization
was with Applied Concepts, Inc., the manufacturer
of Stalker brand radar. They became the exclusive
marketing organization for the Stalker Radar line.
Mr. McCoy served as Director of Marketing for
Applied Concepts, Inc. where he started with zero
in sales and within seven years the company was
doing over $12 million dollars per year in Traffic
Radar and become known as the Technology Leader
in this industry. During this period he also introduced
and sold In-Car Video systems.
In 2004, Mr. McCoy became special advisor to the
CEO of Decatur Electronics, Inc. Decatur is a
fifty year old company that designs, manufactures
and markets police radar, traffic safety equipment
and other law enforcement products. Mr. McCoy
graduated in 1968 from Pittsburgh State University,
Pittsburgh Kansas, with a degree in business with
a marketing major.
THOMAS HECKMAN
Chief
Financial Officer, Treasurer and Secretary
During the years
2001-2007, Mr. Heckman provided consulting and
business
investment services to publicly traded and
private companies. He has been
involved in the successful completion of a
number of initial public offerings
(IPOs), reverse mergers and other transactions;
drafted, filed and achieved SEC
effectiveness for Form SB-2 filings; assisted in
the raising of capital for
private companies in a variety of industries;
and developed multiple private
placement memorandums.
From 1983 until 2001, Mr. Heckman was employed
by Deloitte and Touche, LLP, a
subsidiary of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, one of
the largest auditing, consulting,
financial advisory, risk management, and tax
services organizations in the
world. During his 18 years with Deloitte and
Touche, LLP, including six years as
Accounting and Auditing Partner in the Kansas
City office, Mr. Heckman
specialized in IPOs and public reporting
entities. He served as partner in
charge of a high-technology and
emerging/high-growth company market segment for
cross-discipline marketing efforts, assisted
companies in preparing for public
offerings and other liquidity events, and was
involved in numerous
initial/secondary financings and
merger / acquisition transactions for public and
private companies. He is experienced in all
facets of SEC financial reporting
and compliance matters.
Mr. Heckman earned his Bachelor of Arts degree
in Accounting at the University
of Missouri - Columbia.
LEROY C. RICHIE
Lead Outside
Director Mr. Richie has been the Lead Outside
Director of Digital Ally since September 1, 2005.
Since 1994, Mr. Richie has been a director
of Infinity, Inc. Mr. Richie has also served as a member of the board of directors and other capacities for RiverSource Funds, J.&W. Seligman & Co., OGE Energy, Vibration Control Technologies, Great Lakes Assemblies, among others.
Mr. Richie served as
Chairman of H.P. Devco, Detroit
Public Schools Foundation, Brazeal Dennard Chorale, Plowshares Theater Co. and the American Bar Association. Mr. Richie was formally Vice President
of Chrysler Corporation and General Counsel for
automotive legal affairs, where he directed all
legal affairs for that company’s automotive
operations from 1986 to 1997. Before joining Chrysler,
he served as director of the New York office of
the Federal Trade Commission. Mr. Richie received a B.A. from
City College of New York and a J.D. from the New
York University School of Law.
STEVEN PHILLIPS
Vice President of Engineering
For the past 11 years, Steven Phillips held a variety of engineering and management positions with Garmin International, where he was most recently in charge of that company’s development program for its marine radar product line. He was also the leader of a team that designs or consults on the designs of Garmin’s antennas for all of its products. Garmin is the global leader in satellite navigation, and most of its products are enabled by GPS technology. Mr. Phillips joined Garmin in 1998 to develop its second-generation GPS RF integrated circuit, which was used in all of Garmin’s navigation products.
During the years 1988 to 1998, Mr. Phillips worked for Puritan Bennett, a medical electronics company that produced mechanical ventilation and respiratory care devices, where he was responsible for oximetry and ventilator product engineering design teams. While at Puritan Bennett, he was issued a patent on a circuit that senses and controls a patient’s airflow.
For five years (1981 to 1986) prior to joining Puritan Bennett, Mr. Phillips served as Vice President of Engineering at Birdview Satellite Communications, a microwave electronics design and manufacturing company. He was responsible for, and contributed to the design of, Birdview’s line of microwave products, including C-band low-noise block converters, antennas and baseband receivers.
Mr. Phillips joined Kustom Electronics (now Kustom Signals, Inc.), which currently designs, manufactures and markets traffic speed radar systems, lidar, in-car video systems, and mobile roadside speed monitoring trailers, upon graduating from Texas Tech University with a B.S. degree in Electrical Engineering in 1971. During his years at Kustom Electronics, he was involved in the design of mobile terminals for law enforcement, aviation test equipment, and audio products.
EDWARD E. SMITH
Vice President of Operations
Edward Smith joined Digital Ally in April 2008 after spending the previous nine years as a Vice President and General Manager with Suntron Corporation, where he was responsible for a number of plants, including a $260 million (sales) contract manufacturing/assembly operation with 1,500 employees in multiple locations. Suntron provides manufacturing services and solutions in the medical, aerospace, defense, industrial, networking/telecommunications, and semiconductor industries.
From August 1994 to September 1998, Mr. Smith was Director of New Product Introduction and Test Engineering for AlliedSignal Business and General Aviation, where he was responsible for the introduction of new avionics products, including the selection of processes, sourcing strategies for supply chain management, procurement and transition to production. He was an Operations Manager and Corporate Manufacturing Technology Chairman at Lockheed Missiles & Space Co. from December 1990 to August 1994. While at Lockheed, Mr. Smith managed over 100 professional employees involved in materials and process engineering, manufacturing/tool engineering, standards, quality and test engineering, inspection, production control and production quoting.
For twelve years prior to joining Lockheed, Mr. Smith served in various management positions with ITT Corporation, including Production Operations Manager with ITT Aerospace/Communications (August 1988-November 1990), Manager of New Product Development with ITT Defense Communications Division (August 1986-July 1988), Plant Manager with ITT Network Switching Division (July 1983-July 1986), and Operations Finance Manager with ITT North Electric (August 1978-June 1983).
MICHAEL CAULFIELD
Vice President of Strategic Development Mr. Caulfield was most recently (2006-2009) a Managing Director at Banc of America Securities (“BAS”), where he was responsible for the investment banking firm’s relationships with a broad range of large industrial companies. He was also in charge of BAS’s global investment banking activities involving the Safety, Security, Engineering and Construction Industries.
Prior to joining BAS, Mr. Caulfield spent six years (2000-2006) as a Managing Director with Morgan Stanley in New York City, leading that global investment banking firm’s efforts in the Aerospace and Defense Industries. He was also responsible for the investment banking relationships with a number of Morgan Stanley’s largest clients.
From 1989 to 2000, he worked at General Electric Capital Corp., where he served as a Managing Director and head of the Corporate Finance Group. In this capacity, he advised GE Capital and the industrial divisions of General Electric on such issues as capital structuring, mergers and acquisitions, and private equity transactions.
DARRIN MCCOY
Director of
Sales and Marketing Darrin McCoy has over 20 years experience
working in the law enforcement industry. He started
working for MPH Industries at a young age where
he performed several different job functions and
gained a vast knowledge about all the products.
While working on his Bachelor degree in college
his father and him founded and started Chanute
Radar Service. After completing his degree in
Business Management he decided to work full time
for the company. He served as General Manager
and was responsible for setting up, managing and
maintaining all operations involved in running
the business. This also allowed him to refine
his experience in all aspects of business management,
including financial planning and reporting, hiring,
training and supervising employees, developing
marketing plans and strategies, implementing sales
strategies, designing and developing sales and
marketing materials, budgeting and forecasting,
and overseeing daily operations.
In 1998, he accepted a position with Applied Concepts,
Inc. as an independent representative to market
and sale all of their traffic safety products
while continuing to be involved in running Chanute
Radar Service. He ranked within the top three
in total sales and was once ranked number one
while selling their products.
In late 2000 he founded McCoy’s Law Line,
Inc. along with Ken and Roz McCoy where he resided
as Vice President and was involved with every
aspect of planning, organizing and managing all
operations of the business. He was also responsible
in developing and managing all marketing activities
and materials in print and for the website. Setup
and maintained a network server and all computer
systems.
McCoy’s Law Line merged with ICOP Digital
in 2002 to design and market a state of the art
digital video system for the law enforcement industry.
Mr. McCoy was a key member in the design and development
of the ICOP 20/20. He served as Director of Marketing
and New Products where he was responsible for
planning, developing and leading comprehensive
marketing strategies to support business goals
and objectives. He was responsible for all aspects
and activities associated with new product development,
such as Marketing, Sales, Operations, Engineering
and Customer Service. He also developed and managed
a wide range of marketing tools, including promotional
materials, direct-mail pieces, stationary, multimedia
presentations and website content.
In September of 2004 McCoy’s Law Line sold
their product line to Decatur Electronics and
merged some of the company functions. Mr. McCoy
served as Product Manager for Decatur with emphasis
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