Christopher T. Blisard
Co-Founder  & CEO

Christopher T. Blisard, co-founder of VirtualArmor, currently serves as VirtualArmor's Cheif Executive Officer. Mr. Blisard brings 18 years of operational, business development and leadership experience to this position.

Mr. Blisard’s also serves as Circadence Corporation’s Chief Operating Officer, a position he has held since 1999. By holding overall P&L and daily operation, development, and sales & marketing responsibility, Mr. Blisard directs tactical planning to maximize Circadence’s growth and development. His intuitive leadership from product conception to execution and crucial role in the planning and execution of overall product strategy continues to provide the company with a clear path to success.

Mr. Blisard has been fundamental in creating a number of strategic partnerships with prominent industry leaders such as Hewlett-Packard, Accenture, Dell, Vodafone, Cisco Systems, CSK Ventures (Hitachi), Microsoft, Deutsche Telekom, Global Crossing, and Pacific Century Cyberworks Japan (PCCWJ). His leadership has also been vital to the development of significant business relationships within the defense and security industry including the Department of Defense, the four major military branches, Northrop Grumman, L3, and others. Mr. Blisard’s in-depth understanding of these markets and his leadership skills make him uniquely capable to serve as VirtualArmor’s Chairman.

Mr. Blisard has also been involved in a number of successful enterprises, including: VR•1, Inc.; Online Network Enterprises (ONE), an Internet Service Provider acquired by Rocky Mountain Internet (RMI) in 1997; SolarTech Enterprises LLC, a designer and developer of patented chemical ultraviolet sensors, winner of the USWest New Venture Fund and the recipient of two National Cancer Institute research grants; Armor Holdings, Inc. (formerly ABA), a top supplier of human safety and survival systems to all branches of the U.S. military and major aerospace and defense prime contractors; and GCCTechnologies, an innovator in combining reliable hardware and revolutionary software to produce high-performance computer peripherals

Mr. Blisard also sits on the Board of Directors for the Mile High Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). He has continued to further his education specific to his profession by attending classes at the Wharton School of the Aresty Institute of Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania. To stay current with trends and developments within the defense and security industry, Mr. Blisard is a member of the NDIA and the Association of the United States Army (AUSA).

In addition to his work with VirtualArmor, Mr. Blisard is also a co-founder and Managing Director of Sage Canyon Advisors, a Colorado-based middle market investment bank focused on providing merger and acquisition advisory services for corporate and privately-held companies. He also actively advises several companies in both the public and private sector serving as a director and as a strategic business consultant.

Todd Kannegieter
Co-Founder & COO

Since 2002, Mr. Kannegieter has served as the COO and a member of our Board of Director bringing 23 years of finance, accounting and treasury experience to this position. Mr. Kannegieter’s experience includes private equity placements and debt issuances for start-up Communications and Internet services companies, strategic and financial planning, mergers and acquisitions and managing finance and accounting activities for both domestic and international businesses in the Communications and Internet services sectors.

In addition to VirtualArmor, Mr. Kannegieter serves as the Vice President, Finance for Circadence Corporation, an industry-leading provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization technology to the US Government and commercial enterprises, a position he has held since 2001. In this role, Mr. Kannegieter is responsible for all accounting, finance and treasury matters for Circadence and has been involved in raising both debt and equity financing and structuring a debt facility with GE Capital and Dell Computer for purchasing end-user equipment.

Prior to joining VirtualArmor, Mr. Kannegieter served as CFO of Rivien Communications, Inc., a telecommunications company providing integrated voice and data applications, where he was responsible for accounting, finance and investor relations functions. Mr. Kannegieter was a key member in raising private equity, raising debt for acquiring a telecom company and selling the company to Allegiance Telecom for $27 million in 2001. Prior to Rivien, Mr. Kannegieter was Vice President, Finance at COMSAT International, acquired by Lockheed Martin in 1999, where he had complete accounting and finance responsibility for operations in 11 countries with $400 million in investment and $115 million in annual revenue.

While with US West MediaOne (now Comcast Cable) prior to COMSAT, Mr. Kannegieter held various finance positions including CFO Westel Cellular in Budapest, Hungary where he played an integral role in helping US WEST’s consortium win a 900 GSM license and then building and operating the company prior to its acquisition by Deutsche Telekom for approximately $1 billion, which represented a 20x return on investment. He also served as the Executive Director of Finance responsible for start-up operations in Southeast Asia and India and Executive Director of Finance working the New Vector merger with Airtouch cellular in 1997. Mr. Kannegieter started his career with KPMG Peat Marwick and spent 5 years as an auditor on multi-national oil and gas, real estate and financial institution engagements.

Mr. Kannegieter has volunteered his time for several non-profit organizations and currently serves as the CFO/Treasurer for Flagstaff Charter Academy, a K-8 charter school in Longmont, CO, where he was one of the Founders in 2003.

Mark Precious
CTO

Mr Precious brings more than 18 years of IT experience to VirtualArmor. He has designed and implemented real-time financial trading room systems in London, New York and Hong Kong. He was fortunate to be involved in some of the first major systems integration projects for Reuters in the early '90's and has used this experience to build highly stable applications in complex environments. He was the system architect and manager of software engineering to deliver the Jeppesen Aviation Database. The Boeing company's leading global repository of aeronautical navigational data for the commercial airlines.

At Merill Lynch, Mr Precious defined the deployment standards and led the implementation for a new global trading plaform for equities and derivatives. As senior infrastructure consultant for the Open Group in Distributed Computing, he helped design the internal security infrastructure for a major European Telecommunications company. Prior to joining VirtualArmor, Mr Precious concentrated on delivering secure Open Source platforms and Web Services.

Michael S. Wasik
President/CEO RoomLinx, Investor and Board Member

Wasik joined the RoomLinX Executive Management team in August of 2005 after executing the merger of his company, SuiteSpeed with RoomLinX. Currently Wasik is responsible for leading RoomLinX, which supports over 37,000 internet connected (wired and wireless) hotel rooms in 20 states and continues to grow through acquisitions and organically.

Prior to the RoomLinX merger Wasik was the CEO/Founder of SuiteSpeed Inc. a wireless Internet provider within the hospitality market. Having launched SuiteSpeed in late 2002, Wasik was responsible for defining technology architecture, market direction, and the overall vision for this fast growing WiFi company. SuiteSpeed’s customer brands include Renaissance by Marriott, Marriott Courtyard, Holiday Inn, Best Western, Radisson, Embassy Suites, Days Inn, TownePlace Suites by Marriott, and Hampton Inn & Suites, as well as many boutique hotels.

Since starting RoomLinx, Wasik has expanded the company’s geographical coverage from its Denver backyard to serving hotel chains and independents across the U.S. His focus at RoomLinx has been on simplifying the hotel user’s wireless connection experience, providing solutions that increase REVPAR for client hotels, and driving new and repeat guests to RoomLinx’s hotel partners. Under his direction, RoomLinx has been on Mercury’s top 100 fastest growing companies list for 2003 and 2004.

Wasik is also the Founder and Chairman of the Board of TRG Inc. an IT consulting company. Having launched TRG in late 1997 with no outside funding, Wasik has been responsible for the overall sales and marketing effort, and defining TRG’s overall vision. Under his leadership, the company has achieved average growth of 300% per year, over the first four years with positive EBITDA. Since starting TRG, Wasik has expanded the company’s billable resources from 6 consultants in 1997 to 60 consultants in 2000 serving Fortune 500 corporations across the U.S. Wasik has managed over 60 people in 4 offices throughout the United States.

Wasik has been nominated for the 2005 Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year award, has been asked to speak at the University of Colorado on Entrepreneurship, and currently sits on the Editorial Board for Hotel Executive publication.

Peter-Christian Olivo

Member, Board of Directors

Peter-Christian Olivo has served as a member of our Board of Directors since 2005 and has served as an advisor to the company since 2001.

In addition to VirtualArmor, Mr. Olivo serves as the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of Circadence Corporation, a Boulder, Colorado-based industry-leading provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization technology to the US Government and commercial enterprises, a position he has held since 2000. In this role, Mr. Olivo is responsible for all legal and regulatory matters for Circadence and has played an integral role in several high profile transactions for the company, including the sale of its VR-1 online game division to PCCW Japan for $48 million in stock and cash in 2001, and a $100 million debt and equity transaction with Hewlett-Packard Company in 2000.

Mr. Olivo is also active in a number of other ventures, including serving as a Manging Director, Chief Compliance Officer and a Co-Founder of Sage Canyon Advisors, LLC, a Colorado-based middle market investment bank focused on providing merger and acquisition advisory services for corporate and privately-held companies. Additionally, he is a Manager of VivID Technologies, LLC, a Tupelo, Mississippi-based provider of radio frequency identification (RFID) tags and sensor-based solutions to the industry and defense markets. Mr. Olivo also serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Bill Bass Concerts, Inc., a Denver-based live music promotion and production company, and as principal of PCO Consulting, LLC, a Colorado-based consulting firm providing advice to various clients in the live music and artist management fields.

Prior to joining Circadence, Mr. Olivo served as an associate at the international law firm of Hogan & Hartson, L.L.P., where he was a member of the Corporate and Securities Practice Group. Prior to joining Hogan & Hartson, Mr. Olivo was a senior associate for the international law firm of Holme, Roberts & Owen LLP. Mr. Olivo's expertise includes initial and secondary public offerings, private placements for both venture capital funds and companies receiving capital, mergers and acquisitions, strategic partnering and general corporate counseling to emerging growth clients in the telecommunications, Internet services, bio-medical and other high-tech industries. During his time in private practice, Mr. Olivo served as lead associate on several major securities transactions, including a $1.5 billion offering on the Amsterdam Stock Exchange, which at the time was the largest non-privatization IPO in the history of the ASE, as well as over $300 million of private equity and venture capital financings.

Mr. Olivo has volunteered his time for a number of local non-profit organizations, including serving as outside counsel for the Eldora Mountain Ski Club and serving as the founding Vice President – Finance for the Mile High Chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). Mr. Olivo currently serves as a Board Member for Concious Alliance, a Boulder-based 501(c)(3) organization that delivers food to Indian Reservations across the West, and serves as a volunteer for Boulder County Cares, a community outreach program that provides services to Boulder’s homeless population.

Rob Shaughnessy

Advisor to the Board

Robert Shaughnessy currently serves as Vice President, Business Development and Engineering Services for Circadence Corporation, an industry-leading provider of wide area network (WAN) optimization technology to the US Government and commercial enterprises. With over 20 years experience as an executive, consultant and practitioner in the technology sector, Mr. Shaughnessy is responsible for the operation of Circadence’s strategic business development efforts, partnerships and product direction. 

Mr. Shaughnessy has been in leadership and advisory positions with several successful startup companies providing secure communications software, specialized IT consulting, and network security solutions. Prior to joining Circadence Mr. Shaughnessy was Vice President, Business Solutions Division at Reliacom, Inc., a leading IT consulting firm in Northern Virginia. Principle areas of business included high performance networking, secure web-based audio and video, and complex heterogeneous network consolidation for a diverse client base which included Verizon, AT&T, Land Rover, The General Services Administration, Discovery Networks and the Washington Redskins.  Mr. Shaughnessy was instrumental to Relicom being recognized in the annual Inc. 500 awards in back-to-back years.

Mr. Shaughnessy is a Lifetime Member of the Association of the US Army (AUSA) and IEEE and is active in regional and national efforts to promote entrepreneurship and provide access to technology across economic and geographic boundaries.