John David Liddell, President and CEO

Mr. Liddell has over twenty-five years experience in International Business; Marketing; Intelligence Systems Testing and Evaluation; Physical and Electronic Security; Counter-Narcotics; Counter-Intelligence; Information Technology; Special Event Planning; Film Production, Editing and Scripting; Website Design; Local and Wide Area Networks; Computer and Applications Training; and, Quality Management.

Mr. Liddell has held positions as Chief Executive officer, President, Director of Operations, Chief Information Officer, Special Projects Officer and other Corporate Management posts. He is a veteran of the U.S. Army Intelligence Corps and a former French commando. He has and still holds clearances at the highest level to include special access programs. Within the purview of the United States Government, He was responsible for the design, implementation and execution of on-site user testing and evaluation of Strategic Intelligence Systems fielded worldwide for the United States Army Intelligence and Security Command. During his service, Mr. Liddell was a Special Projects Officer and Mission Coordinator for SIGINT Operations and developed Russian, Czech, Serbo-Croatian, Polish and East German mission-related language and technical training programs.

He received numerous awards and decorations during his military service to the United States. Mr. Liddell provided training on mission planning to the U.S. Army Special Forces Command and each of the SF Groups in the United States. He provided on ground bomb search and detection training to the Saudi Special Forces following the Desert Storm conflict for border clean-up operations. He provided on-the-ground HUMINT support to the EUCOM Special Forces in Kosovo. He provided counter-narcotics support within the United States and provided support to EPIC as well as Project Alliance. Assisted in the conduct and evaluation of security vulnerabilities at CEC facilities.

He has also been responsible for the composition of financial data transfers, program/project management and business development initiatives to include the promotion of Angel Investment Networks for small and medium sized businesses in both the government and the private sectors. Mr. Liddell assisted the U.S. State Department during it transition to Local Area Networks by satisfying their training requirements. As an Expert Systems Engineer for the DynCorp Corporation, he provided third echelon support to the DoD Comptroller and assisted in the design, development and implementation of in-house user friendly programs. He has provided training support at the Naval Research Laboratories. He has and continues to assist in the project management for a variety of energy plants both CONUS and OCONUS.

He is involved in the development and execution of Business Development, Commerce and Environmental programs along the United States and Mexican Border States in conjunction with the Department of Commerce, Department of Energy, Department of Defense, and the Environmental Projection Agency. Mr. Liddell is the Chief Information Officer for the Seven Principles for Sustainable Development, a joint program with the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency and Information Technology Liaison Officer for the “Wiring the Border” program with the Department of Commerce.

He is the President and CEO of Ravensworth Consulting; a Board Member for Active Capital, a network of over 450 Angels investing one to five million; Vice President of the Middle Path Foundation which develops government to business and business to business trade relationships between China and the United States; Director of Information Technology for the U.S. Mexico Chamber of Commerce on joint venture projects along the border and between the United States and Mexico. Co-Executive Producer of the IMAX movie “Yosemite, the Film”; Board Member for the Chinese Women and Children Development Foundation

He is a Special Advisor to the President and CEO for the Minority Business Roundtable (MBRT) representing the top 100 Minority Businesses in the United States and sits as co-chair on a number of their committees. He is a consultant to the West Virginia High Technology Consortium Foundation. He provides support to the Department of Defense, Government Agencies and the Special Operations Command on a periodic basis both in the United States and overseas. He is a Special Advisor for business development for Vicom, an Internet and website design company in Mexico. He also holds various prominent positions with a number of other organizations involved in manufacturing and distribution in the Americas and overseas.

Mr. Liddell is a United States citizen, born in Oxford, England. His mother is from the Cannon family for which the Cannon House Office Building is named, while his father is from a long line of public servants in the U.K. His grandfather was a Chief Inspector at Scotland Yard, and one of the three founding member directors of MI5. His family has served the British Crown at the ministerial and diplomatic levels for more than four hundred years. His formative years were spent at St. George’s School at Windsor Castle and at Sevenoaks School in Kent. He is a graduate of the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, California and the Foreign Language Institute in Munich, Germany. Mr. Liddell speaks Spanish and French, and is conversational in German and Czech. He holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from the University of Maryland in East European