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Tom McMillen |
Tom McMillen has become in the last four years a major player in the
Homeland Security industry.
Featured on the cover of Sports Illustrated Magazine for his outstanding skills
on the basketball court as a high school athlete, he is now President and CEO of
one homeland security company and Chairman of another.
Tom McMillen has an unparalleled breadth of experience and accomplishments your
readers would find remarkable.
An All American Collegiate basketball player, a member of the 1972 Olympic team
in Munich, an academic standout as a Rhodes Scholar, McMillen went on to become
an 11 season NBA star with the Atlanta Hawks and Washington Bullets.
He turned his passion for politics and sports into action. McMillen served 3
terms as a member of Congress from Maryland and President Bill Clinton appointed
him Co-Chair of the President’s Council on Physical Fitness and Sports.
Today he is one of the country’s foremost homeland security entrepreneurs.
When 911 occurred he recalled his experience as a young Olympic athlete in
Munich whose games were marred by terrorism. He knew terrorism would be a very
long lasting challenge for our government. But, he also realized the security
industry was too fragmented with over 50,000 companies and consolidation would
be required.
In 2003, McMillen founded Global Secure Corp. He served as founding CEO,
recruited a management team, arranged $30 million in financing, bought three
companies and set out to consolidate the first responder “solutions”
marketplace. Two years later Global recently filed an IPO for as much as $100m.
McMillen is the largest individual shareholder.
This past spring McMillen as Chairman launched Fortress America Acquisition
Corporation with a successful $46.8 m IPO. Among those serving as his advisers,
is former deputy Homeland Security Director Asa Hutchinson and former Oklahoma
Senator Don Nickles.
In late August he became President/CEO of Celerity Systems, that soon will be
renamed Homeland Security Capital Corp. The mission is to primarily focus on
control investments in small and medium-sized homeland security companies, under
$10 million in revenues that need capital and help in the government market.
McMillen has arranged $50 million in financing for this venture.
Tom would make a wonderful feature for your business section. An athelete,
scholar, politician and now a successful businessman. He has experienced
terrorism first hand and is now committed to fighting it.
I will give you a call to follow-up. If you have any questions or would like to
arrange an interview please call me at 202-674-6661 or email me at
thouck@mindspring.com.
I look forward to talking with you.
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