Who We Are

Toby Houchens

CEO & Founder

After graduating from the University of California, San Diego with a bachelor’s degree in Neuroscience and a master’s in Biology, Toby went on to join the U.S. Army where he became a medic and eventually a member of the Army’s Special Forces Group, more commonly known as the Green Berets. After leaving the military with over 10 years of experience, Toby founded Alpha Recon in 2013 as a travel risk management company providing destination intelligence for individuals traveling abroad and businesses and organizations conducting business overseas.

Toby served around the world in high threat areas advising senior military and U.S. government officials and dignitaries. Engaging with the locals he gained first-hand security experience in complex environments, strategy, and unconventional warfare. During this time, Toby became an expert in risk management and mitigation in various threat environments.

Toby is currently on the technical committee and working group for ESRM on behalf of ASIS, developing the Enterprise Security Risk Management guideline.

Eamus Halpin

CTO

As CTO of Alpha Recon, Eamus brings the strategic and operational support of over 30 years in the industry to help shape and drive the long-term technology direction for the organization. Located in the UK, Eamus has spent the last 10 years supporting and implementing both corporate and technology strategy for many organizations and has been significantly involved in the mobile app tech industry. With both significant operational and commercial experience, Eamus was heavily involved in the initial creation of the SaaS solutions marketplace in the UK in 1997/8. Since then he has held C Suite positions in Public and Private tech organizations in the UK leveraging his financial background in the areas of software development, network architecture, business process re-engineering and, data center design and build. Eamus also has significant experience in M&A and fundraising transactions in the last 15 years.

Maurizio Milani

CFO

Maurizio is a technology sector focused senior executive, investor and investment banker. As an advisor, and acting CFO for Alpha Recon, Maurizio brings enterprise SaaS start-up management and fundraising expertise and over 18 years of experience advising entrepreneurs and corporations on M&A, joint ventures, debt and equity capital raising, strategy and valuations.

Maurizio Is the founder and principal of Kalyke Advisors and the CFO of Daisy Intelligence, an applied A.I. SaaS start-up focused delivering autonomous decision making to clients in the retail and financial services sectors. Maurizio has worked for a number of investment banks and was more recently the National Co-Head of Corporate Finance and M&A Advisory for the Technology, Media and Telecommunication (TMT) sector at Deloitte Canada and member of the TMT industry executive and Fast 50 program. He has participated as a speaker or mediator on various panels around the topics of technology, M&A and venture capital.

Joseph Smugeresky

Technical Lead

As the Technical Lead at Alpha Recon, Joe brings over 25 years of software development experience to Alpha Recon. Joe studied Computer Science at Thomas Edison State College, holds a Certified Scrum Master Certificate from the Scrum Alliance, and has had his architecture design published for an important NASA mission. He was recently the Chief Software Architect for a well-respected software services company where he lead teams building projects for the DoD, the DoE, the NSA, NORAD, NASA and the Air Force. Joe has expertise in GIS systems, DevOps, testing, and QA. He also has significant experience in teaching teams to be agile.

Joe manages the development team at Alpha Recon and is responsible for the implementation, testing, and QA of the Alpha Recon software.