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.
Thomas M. O'Gara
Thomas M. O'Gara, one of our founders, has been our Chairman since our formation in August 2003. Mr. O'Gara previously served as Vice Chairman of the Board of The Kroll-O'Gara Company, a publicly traded provider of specialized products and services to the risk mitigation and security markets, from 1997 until 2001. He served as Chairman of the Board of The O'Gara Company from 1996 until the 1997 merger of Kroll Holdings, Inc. with The O'Gara Company. Mr. O'Gara also was Chairman of the Board of the O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company since 1990 and was its Chief Executive Officer from 1990 until 1995.