Who We Are
We’ve got the right team, at the right time.
Management
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.
Management
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.
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.
Justin Wiley
Director of Intel and Risk
As the Director of Intelligence and Risk, Justin brings nearly 15 years of intelligence collection, physical security, and personnel security management experience to the team. As the subject matter expert in intelligence operations, Justin facilitates the planning, development, and collection efforts for Alpha Recon. Justin served in the US Army from 2005 to 2014 as an all-source intelligence analyst which included service as an intelligence communications operator providing real-time situation intelligence directly to the Pentagon, Aerial Reconnaissance Support Team supervisor in Afghanistan, as well as the Special Security Officer for Army forces at the Aerospace Data Facility/ NSA-CSS Colorado.
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.
Orion Walther
Orion Walther is the Intelligence Director at Alpha Recon. He is responsible for production and technological enhancements of the companies intelligence mission. He has a Masters of Science in Strategic Intelligence from National Intelligence University, Washington, D.C. With 29 years in the US Air Force, Orion supported multiple combatant commands, intelligence centers, cyberspace operations, and special operations with experience in nearly all intelligence disciplines as an all-source analyst. He brings over 9-years of leadership experience working in cyberspace operations at US Cyber Command where he helped to stand up and was the Deputy Director of Operations for the Cyber National Mission Force
Steve Uecker- Director of Customer Success
As a mining engineer graduate from South Dakota School of Mines, Steve started his career as a mining engineer at Maptek in Colorado. He went on to hold several positions over 22 years while at Maptek including VP of Operations, Global Product Manager and Director of Client Experience. Customer focus and relationships has always been a priority in each role and I look forward to building on this experience with the new opportunity with Alpha Recon as Director of Customer Success.
Sean Keebler – Business Development Manager
After graduation from California State University, Fresno, Sean Keebler enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. An Infantryman, and member of 1st FAST, Keebler led team and squad size elements in combat operations in Afghanistan and Iraq. After his honorable discharge, he achieved a Masters of Business Administration from the University of Colorado. Keebler brings years of experience in business development, entrepreneurship and sales, specializing in value-added solutions and creative problem solving
Trina McKinzie- Product Director
Miss McKinzie has spent 20 years spearheading Business solutions to optimize organizational
performance, portfolio management, and product development in public and private
industries. Her experiences spans across organizations including the Navy, Air Force, State of
California, Yahoo!, and VSP. She is well-versed in liaising between IT professionals and
Business leaders to transform Business goals into actionable improvements and profitable
outcomes. She is well versed in various methodologies of the SDLC and has been a hands on
team leader in all phases. Miss McKinzie practices servant leadership and has demonstrated
success in developing and interpreting logical data models to identify opportunities for
performance improvement. Trina has released products for internal and mass consumption,
including executable, enterprise, cloud and mobile applications.
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P.O. Box # 50784
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
(855) 363-6362
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COMPANY
P.O. Box # 50784
Colorado Springs, CO 80949
(855) 363-6362