John Aggrey, Chairman & Chief Executive Officer

Mr. Aggrey has spent many years in the technology sector and is responsible for the long range strategic plans of the company. Previous experiences include serving in a Vice President or Director position for several companies including Edgewater Technology. Inc., a publicly traded premium IT services company; B2e markets, a strategic sourcing software company which was acquired by VerticalNet; and KnowledgeMax, Inc. an eLearning corporate training company. Mr. Aggrey's experience as an entrepreneur also includes serving as the Founder and CEO of Serious2Learn, a streaming media corporate portal which was acquired by KnowledgeMax, Inc. in 2001.

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Marc F. Benson, Managing Director

Marc Benson's career is anchored by three extended tours of duty; corporate, entrepreneurial and venture capital. Early in his career he spent eleven years with AMF, Incorporated, where his responsibilities spanned financial, sales, marketing and international functions, culminating in the Managing Directorship of one of AMF's European divisions. He subsequently joined and later led the leveraged buy-out of Independent Products Company, a manufacturer of injection-molded housewares, where he served as CEO for four years before selling the company to publicly traded Selfix, Inc. Marc joined MAVF as a partner in 1992 and opened the firm's Northern Virginia office in 1996. He has funded more than twenty-five startup and early stage ventures including Visual Networks, NET2000 Communications, Sequoia Software and Wisor Telecom. He holds a B.A. degree from Virginia Commonwealth University.

mbenson@useunicorn.com

Richard Waugh, Managing Director

Prior to joining Unicorn, Mr. Waugh served as Vice President of Supply Management Research for Aberdeen Group where he lead the organization in pioneered ground-breaking market research into global adoption of On Demand delivery models and Best Practices in Advanced Sourcing.

Prior to his time at Aberdeen Mr. Waugh was the Co-founder of B2e Markets, Inc., a leading provider of Strategic Sourcing software and services to the Global 1000, acquired by Verticalnet (VERT) in July 2004. During his tenure the company raised $60M in venture funding from CIBR, Friedman, Billings & Ramsey, Accenture Ventures and others. Company generated over $10M in annual revenue from over 50 Global 1000 clients.

Prior to B2e Markets Mr. Waugh spent over 17 years at General Electric serving in many management roles within the organization.

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Robert Lawrence, Ph.D, Managing Director

Prior to joining The Unicorn Group, Dr. Lawrence was the Chief Technology Officer at BAE Systems Inc where he provided senior leadership and direction across a broad set of technical and business projects. He has extensive experience in system engineering, technical management, program management, and business development. He has expertise in communication, radar, and combat systems; signal processing; system architecture; and has specialized in technology development and management. Before joining BAE Systems, Dr. Lawrence was the chief engineer of MITRE’s Navy Division and was the founding Director of their Signal Processing Center. Dr. Lawrence started his career at Bell Laboratories after receiving his Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and has over thirty continuing education credits. He attended the NATO International Summer School for Advanced Study, was an associate professor with two local universities, and taught at the undergraduate and graduate level. He was one of the founding members of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium (NCOIC) where he led much of the technical effort and was a member of the executive committee. He is a past member of the MILCOM Board of Directors and previously was technical program chairman. Dr. Lawrence is a past member of the Washington AFCEA Board of Directors and was the technical chairman of the AFCEA Spring Symposium on Information Security. He also has had the pleasure of supporting both the Army Science Board and the Naval Studies Board.

rlawrence@useunicorn.com

Rick Luebkemann, Managing Director

Prior to joining The Unicorn Group, Rick Luebkemann served as Chief Technology Officer and Vice President of Technology for an e-commerce firm focused on information delivery and corporate knowledge management. Prior to that Mr. Luebkemann founded and managed a thirty-five person $11M business unit that provides client/server applications and professional services in the electronic document management, workflow, and imaging arenas of the pharmaceutical and healthcare markets. This organization became the largest and most profitable vertical business unit within the parent firm. Prior to that Mr. Luebkemann led the acquisition and overall program management of a large-scale, distributed information delivery project for the world's largest aircraft manufacturer. The system made available the manufacturing standards documents (which are subject to FAA regulation) to authorized users of all levels designers to engineers to plant floor technicians to mechanics. Operating as both an authoring/editorial and document delivery system, this truly ‘mission critical' system was accessible on virtually every hardware and operating system platform used world-wide by over 50,000 employees, suppliers, and clients.

rluebkemann@useunicorn.com

Lauri Rodich, Managing Director 

Lauri Rodich is a Managing Director. Prior to joining The Unicorn Group, Ms. Rodich was a Partner and Director of Business Development for Rose Financial, a large accounting outsourcing firm in the DC area. She began her career at ARA Services Magazine and Book Division before moving to contract administration for the Universal Studios’ Licensing Division. She has an MBA from Pepperdine University and received her undergraduate degree from California State University at Northridge. Ms. Rodich currently serves on several committees for the Northern Virginia Technology Council.

lrodich@useunicorn.com