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Terrance Boult, Founder and CEO
Securics is Dr. Boult's third startup involvement, both of which still
ongoing with installations worldwide. Dr. Boult has over 20 years of
experience in image-based technologies and security technologies. Boult
has an extensive funding record with over 10 million in
academic/industry funding for security related research in biometrics
and surveillance over the past decade. Dr. Boult was part of the
DARPA Human Identification at a Distance Program, where he greatly
expanded his work in biometrics and lead to some of the technologies
underlying Securics.
Dr. Boult is also El Pomar Endowed Chair of Innovation and Security at
Univ of Colorado at Colorado springs and was an endowed professor and
founding chairman of Lehigh University's CSE Department. He served on
the faculty of Columbia University for 8 years. Dr. Boult studied at
Columbia University, earning his B.S. in Applied Mathematics in 1983,
and his M.S. and Ph.D degrees in computer science in 1984 and 1986
respectively. He received an NSF Presidential Young Investigator
award, and has won teaching awards at both Columbia University and
Lehigh University, was named CU Innovator of the year for UCCS and was
a finalist for the EE Times 2007 Innovator of the year.
Dr. Boult has published over 150 papers and holds 6 patents, and has 8
patents pending. He publishes in Computer Vision/Robotics as well as in
Networking and Mobile Computing. He has been the co-organizer of multiple
workshops of Visual Surveillance, Performance Evaluation of Tracking Systems,
and computer vision related topics. He has been on program committees for
more than a two dozen IEEE and SPIE conferences and workshops on computer
vision and sensor fusion and as well on the ACM program committee in software
engineering. He has served as an associate editor for IEEE Trans. on Pattern
Analysis and Machine Perception (IEEE PAMI) and the IEEE PAMI TC Chair.
A full vita can be found
online
Securics is building on technology developed by Dr. T. Boult and
students at the Vast Lab of
University of Colorado at Colorado Springs and the Colorado Institute of Technology
Transfer and Implementation.
Jim Wittenburg, President and Chief Operating Officer
James R. Wittenburg has over 30 years experience in the high tech
industry, manufacturing, and utilities. He began his career with
Schlumberger and Rockwell International. In 1985 he founded his first
venture-backed company, which developed the first on-line reservation
system for the travel industry. He has held President and CEO
positions at start-up and emerging companies in telecommunications,
software, and computer industries. Jim is also the Managing Partner of
Bajardin Ventures, LLC. and is on the board of directors of Peak
Venture Group is the Director of the Southern Colorado Investment
Group, an organization sponsored by the Colorado Springs Chamber of
Commerce consisting of private, accredited investors interested local
investment opportunities and on the Board of Advisors for the Colorado Institute of Technology
Transfer and Implementation, University of Colorado Colorado
Springs.
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