Markos Fuson
CEO
Mr. Fuson is the grandson of the former military governor of Athens, Attica and the western provinces of Macedonia, as well as a member of the family that owns and operates the founding brokerage house of the Athens Stock Exchange. Possessing three prime ministers in his extended family, Mr. Fuson inherited a legacy of distinguished service that has shaped his approach to life to become constantly aware of the dedication and direction instilled within him by his Greek heritage.
Mr. Fuson is the Founder, Chairman and President of an international holding corporation dedicated to establishing an indelible world-wide footprint on economies that leave a legacy of accomplishment and contribution. He was a Vice President for Right Management Consultants, the world’s largest publicly traded (NASDAQ: RMCI) human resource consulting firm. Mr. Fuson has also been a Hospital Administrator at Loma Linda University Children’s Hospital. He maintains a solid network of top-level contacts in business, government and entertainment both in Greece and the United States.
Mr. Fuson completed his Bachelors of Science in Business Management from the University of Redlands and has completed selected work at Loyola Law School.
Ray Winn
President
Mr. Winn studied electrical and nuclear engineering at Capital Radio Engineering Institute, Washington, D.C., and spent 20 years on-the-job training by staff physicists and nuclear engineers at Los Alamos, Sandia, and Lawrence Livermore Labs, where he engaged in nuclear weapons testing, high energy physics, high-speed photography, remote site construction of technical/housing/research facilities and the nuclear submarine program. Mr. Winn developed and sold a high resolution photo-polymer system for sub-micron imaging as applied to semiconductor photomask, then started Advanced Semiconductor Products, Inc., engaged in manufacturing and licensing products relating to his inventions for the semiconductor and related industries with technological patents that are the prerequisites to the manufacture of over 95% of the world’s semiconductors. Since 1995, Mr. Winn has also been a real estate investor, acquiring and exchanging distressed commercial buildings, and remodeling, managing and leasing properties in both California and Texas.
Mr. Winn’s real estate project responsibilities include the selection of architects, engineering and construction firms including Bechtel Corporation, Parsons Engineering, Reynolds Engineering, Charles Luckman Architects, Selected GSA and commercial approved auditing firms for project monitoring. He currently holds 7 commercial buildings in Texas as investment properties and a trophy home in Montecito, CA which he is currently remodeling to sell.
J. Mailen Kootsey
COO
Dr. Kootsey had a 41 year career in university education, followed by 10 years of consulting. He has been associated with three universities – Duke University (20 yrs), Andrews University (10 yrs), and Loma Linda University (11 yrs) – having at various times faculty appointments up through full professor, department chair, academic dean, and academic vice president. Dr. Kootsey has taught electro, human and mathematical physiology, pharmacology, cell biology, biophysics, nuclear physics, computer science and software engineering. He was Principal Investigator and Director of the National Biomedical Research Resource, a research facility at Duke University funded by the US National Institutes of Health. He is owner and President of Simulation Resources, Inc., developing mathematical models for medical research at Health Canada and F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd (Basel) and patient records software for the neonatal unit at Lausanne University Hospital (CHUV).
Dr. Kootsey has traveled the world lecturing and teaching and has many published papers, abstracts, chapters in books, and blog articles on physiology, computer software, and science and religion. Grants to Dr. Kootsey for research from the US National Institutes of Health and other entities have totaled more than US$10 million. He also holds two patents, one on medical instrumentation and one on Web software.
Dr. Kootsey received his B.A. in Physics from Pacific Union College, and then went on to Brown University to get both his Sc.M. and Ph.D. in Physics.
Ghassan Hannoudi
EVP Iraqi Relations
Mr. Hannoudi is a mechanical engineer with more than 25 years of experience managing and coordinating a variety of projects for US companies in Iraq. He founded businesses that managed the drilling of 140 water wells around Iraq for Bechtel and Parsons and manufactured pumps for the wells. His business also coordinated supply services for parts for government vehicles and other goods. He was also General Manager for the Badad Auto Company who contracted with the U.S. military to maintain and repair all cars and SUV’s belonging to the U.S military Victory Base Complex (VBC) in Iraq. Since 2013, Mr. Hannoudi has been Sales Manager for A&H Industry LLC in San Diego, California, planning all aspects of sales including price schedules and discount rates, customer preferences, budgets, and sales projections.
Mr. Hannoudi has a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Technology in Baghdad, Iraq. He completed a 30-day course in Business Administration on the US Victory Base and also received a certificate of appreciation and medals from the US military for good execution of contracts. Mr. Hannoudi is fluent in both English and Arabic and has excellent oral and written communication skills.
Roger F. Villere Jr.
Vice Chairman
Roger F. Villere, Jr. was Chairman of the Republican Party of Louisiana from 2004 through 2017. During his time as Chairman, the party made historic gains – increasing the number of elected Republicans in the State Legislature and U.S. Congress as well as in Louisiana’s Statewide offices & the State Supreme Court, BESE Board & Public Service Commission. During his tenure, Villere has communicated a message of competent conservative change and reform and Republicans have achieved success across Louisiana’s diverse political landscape.
The Chairman has been a part of and led numerous community programs and organizations, such as the Alliance for Good Government, Jaycees International, the Lafreniere Kiwanis Club, the East Jefferson Hospital Foundation, and the Women’s New Life Center. He also has played a leadership role in the local business community with positions on the Jefferson Chamber, the Small Business Council, East Jefferson Council of the New Orleans Chamber of Commerce, the American Academy of Florists, and the Louisiana State Florist Association.
Chairman Villere attended the University of New Orleans, is a fellow of the Loyola Institute of Politics, the LSU Academy of Politics, and the UNO Government Leadership Institute.
Jeff DeRosia
EVP Domestic Sales
Mr. DeRosia has more than 30 years experience in oilfield construction while employed by Grand Isle Shipyard based in Galliano, Louisiana. He began as a welder and was promoted to Construction Foreman running small offshore crews. A year later he became Construction Supervisor for Conoco’s project building one of the first deep water wells in the Gulf of Mexico. He later moved to piping and structural drafting for the fabrication side of the Shipyard. He supervised crews ranging from 10 to more than 100 in projects for ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips, Chevron, Shell, and BP. 22 months were spent off the coast of Nigeria for a Shell project and a year for Shell in Brazil.
Currently, Mr. DeRosia is Operations Manager over the Project Management and Offshore Solutions divisions of Grand Isle Shipyard.
A. Stephen Alexander
EVP HR & Org. Development
Dr. Alexander received his B.A. in Psychology at Eastern College, and then a masters in Theology from American Baptist Seminary. Upon receiving his Ph.D. in Clinical Psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology in Los Angeles, he went on to serve as the Senior Manager for the Human Resource Strategies Group at Deloitte & Touche, LLP, then VP of Organizational Consulting at Right Management Consultants, then Organizational Development and HR Consultant at Spherion Human Capital Consulting.
Since 2006, Dr. Alexander has been at Value Options, Inc. consulting large clients (Northrop Grumman, Boeing, Rockwell, Avery Dennison, Nike, Aramark, Providence Health Care, etc.) on a wide range of organizational development issues, including educating management and supervisors on performance behaviors and approaches to increase employee productivity while ensuring a positive work environment.
Dr. Alexander has an extensive track record consulting to and serving in large and/or growing companies developing, delivering and leading organizational change, leadership development programs, EAP and processes and HR strategy and tactics. He maintains the following certifications: 1) Birkman Assessment Methodology consultation, 2) Leadership Architect (familiar with Lominger’s entire suite of products), 3) Zenger/Miller Trainer, 4) Change Works – Change Leadership and Change Management, and 5) PDI Profilor Assessment.
Joseph Papay
VP Logistics
Joe Papay, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, completed his Bachelor of Arts degree at East Stroudsburg University and took advanced studies at Harvard University in negotiations, Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Supply Chain Management, and Duke University for Business and Finance. Joe served in the U.S. Marine Corps, retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel.
Mr. Papay has acted as a senior consultant to Mr. Fuson providing strategic, operational, logistical guidance and solutions. Joe has more than 25 years of extensive experience in leadership, operations, logistics and global supply chain management, both in the Marine Corps and civilian sector. His resulting expertise in strategic and day-to-day issues provides clients planning and problem-solving techniques that ensure communications and cooperation are at the optimum levels necessary to deliver success.
Joe’s extensive background in military intelligence coupled with his leading the strategic theater in the conflicts in Eastern Europe lends his experience to logistical expertise. When complicated decisions are needed and time is of the essence, he can deliver. Joe will be expanding the company’s global presence with an emphasis on its core value of building lasting relationships.
Mr. Sherman Copelin, Jr.
Senior Advisor to the CEO
Sherman Nathaniel Copelin, Jr. is the former Speaker Pro-Tempore of the State of Louisiana’s House of Representatives. Copelin launched his public service career as a student ambassador to the White House, an honor bestowed on Copelin by the thirty-seventh United States President, Lyndon B. Johnson, for Copelin’s achievements as Student Body President of Dillard University. Upon graduation, Copelin served as an executive assistant to two mayors of New Orleans (Victor Schiro and Moon Landrieu). Next, he became the first black tax assessor for the city of New Orleans. Copelin then became an entrepreneur and founded what would become one of the largest employers in the State of Louisiana — Superdome Services, Inc. (SSI). Copelin owned two hospitals in New Orleans, LA from 1990 until 1996 (New Orleans General and St. Claude General). He was then elected to the Louisiana House of Representatives for District Ninety-Nine, Lower Ninth Ward. He went on to become Speaker Pro Tempore of the Louisiana House in 1992, a position he held until 1996. Copelin remained in the House of Representatives until 2000.
During his fourteen-year tenure in office, Copelin served in various leadership positions including Chairman of the Black Caucus, the National Democratic Committee, the National Business League, and he served as an Elector for the State of Louisiana in the 1992 Presidential Race. Copelin chaired Jessie Jackson’s 1988 Presidential Campaign in Louisiana (winning a deep South State) and co-chaired Jessie Jackson’s National Campaign, leading him to become a member of the transition team that set the foundation for current historical progressive actions.
Kay Carney
EVP Global Communications,
Media & Public Affairs
Kay Carney is a highly experienced corporate communications, media, public relations, and community engagement professional having served in executive-level positions for global, national, and regional organizations. She has directed international communications and media campaigns on issues including environmental justice; crisis and risk mitigation; diversity, inclusion and equity; public health; human rights; housing and transportation; education; economic development, emerging technologies, and more. Her experience also includes establishing public/private partnerships, and strategically connecting “people of impact” for maximum outcomes.
Kay was a principal founder of the award-winning boutique marketing communications firm, Carney-Hammond-Filmore, that serviced an expansive client base of corporate, government, and nonprofit organizations. Her career also includes stints as a writer and producer for ABC, NBC, and PBS television stations in San Francisco; serving as an on-air segment host for SFO Magazine (KPIX-TV), and co-host on the political commentary program Democracy 2000 (KPFA Radio).
Kay holds a BA from UC Berkeley, MPA from California State University East Bay, and a PhD from Golden Gate University.