Management Team
Our management team possesses a long history of building and acquiring businesses focused on the security, safety and defense markets. We believe their experience and relationships within these markets have been instrumental in the acquisition, integration and growth of the businesses we have acquired to date and will be critical to the execution of our business strategy. Our founders, Thomas M. O'Gara, Wilfred T. O'Gara and Michael J. Lennon, previously managed O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company, a pioneer and leader in designing, engineering and manufacturing armored vehicles. In addition to the companies acquired since our inception, our founders completed 19 acquisitions during their previous ventures.
Steven P. Ratterman
Steven P. Ratterman has been our Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer since November 2005. Mr. Ratterman previously served as Group Controller of O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company from 2000 until October 2005; as Manager Financial Reporting of The Kroll-O'Gara Company from 1999 to 2000; Corporate Controller and Chief Accounting Officer of Brazos Sportswear, Inc., a publicly traded sportswear manufacturer, from 1996 to 1999; and a Senior Accountant with Arthur Andersen from 1992 to 1996.