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.
Wilfred T. O'Gara
Wilfred T. O'Gara, one of our founders, has been our President and Chief Executive Officer and a director since our formation in August 2003. Previously, he served as Co-Chief Executive Officer and a director of The Kroll-O'Gara Company and Chief Executive Officer of its Security Products and Services Group from 2000 until 2001 when that company's O'Gara-Hess & Eisenhardt Armoring Company subsidiary was sold. He served as Kroll- O'Gara's President and Chief Operating Officer from 1997 to 2000 and as Chief Executive Officer and a director of The O'Gara Company from 1996 until the 1997 merger of Kroll Holdings, Inc. with The O'Gara Company.