Board of Advisers
Scott B. Alswang – Senior Vice President, SOS Security Incorporated
Mr. Alswang is a world traveled security expert having provided protection services for US Presidents, Heads of State, Dignitaries, and ongoing, high profile global executives and prominent individuals. Scott served for 20 years in the United States Secret Service, and retired as the assistant to the special agent in charge of the New York office of the United States Secret Service. In his service Scott protected every U.S. president from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush and also conducted protective advances for almost every major foreign head of state that visited the United States of America.
Mr. Alswang routinely oversees protective advances in his present position with SOS Security and is an integral participant in the continued growth of the corporation. Scott started his career as a Police Officer in West Orange, New Jersey. Mr. Alswang graduated from William Paterson University with a BS in Public Safety Administration and completed a MA in Criminal Justice at City University of New York’s John Jay School of Criminal Justice.
Peter E. Boyle – Senior Vice President NYSE Euronext
Mr. Boyle is a senior management professional with over 20 years experience delivering in high profile mission critical information technology business environments. Peter’s substantial experience includes leadership roles covering strategic planning, engineering, operations support, project management, information security, budgetary management, and administration.
Peter is currently Senior Vice President of Technology at NYSE Euronext and is responsible for managing the NYSE’s Trading Floor Support, Corporate Development, and Infrastructure Support environments. Prior to joining the NYSE in 1997, Mr. Boyle held an IT management position with Hoffmann-La Roche, Inc.
J. David Gibbs – Managing Director and General Counsel Alacrity Services LLC
David Gibbs is owner, Managing Director and General Counsel of Alacrity Services LLC, a leading insurance claims network provider and supply chain management firm, Genesis Solutions Design LLC, a creator of innovative claims and technology solutions, and Sitatunga Services LLC, a sporting arms business. He also is the founder and principal member of The West Bridge Group, LLC, an advisory services firm specializing in risk and insurance claims management, technology-assisted service innovation, and strategic business improvement.
Before forming West Bridge in 2002, Gibbs served as President and Chief Executive Officer, Claim Services, for Travelers Property Casualty Corp., then a wholly owned subsidiary of Citigroup (NYSE: C). As the Travelers senior executive responsible for service delivery and claims payout for all primary lines of insurance, he was responsible for payout of $3.5 billion annually, 10,000 employees, and an annual operating budget in excess of $600 million. He also served as Chairman of Constitution State Services LLC, the Travelers fee for service claims management business which generated $500 million in annual revenue. Under his leadership, leading insurance broker Marsh named Travelers Claim Services number one in the industry in 2000 through 2003. In addition, Gibbs had design and business oversight responsibility for Synchrony, an integrated disability management joint venture from Travelers and MetLife.
Prior to joining Travelers in 1996, Gibbs was Senior Vice President with American International Group (NYSE: AIG), where he served in a variety of legal and executive positions with AIG’s domestic brokerage group insurance and service companies from 1990 – 1996. Before joining AIG, he practiced law in Washington, D. C. from 1984 through 1990 with Steele & Fornaciari, a firm whose practice was devoted to complex trial and appellate litigation and business law. Earlier, David served as Associate Counsel for Sentry Insurance Group in its Atlanta, Georgia regional office, following several years in law practice with Bovis, Kyle & Burch, a prominent Atlanta-based firm.
Gibbs is a graduate of the University of Richmond (B.A., 1976) and Emory University School of Law (J.D., 1979).
Mr. Gibbs is former Chairman and current member of the Board of Trustees of the Klingberg Family Centers, New Britain, Connecticut – a leading provider of educational and therapeutic services for abused children and their families, and serves on the Richmond Council, an alumni advisory body at the University of Richmond, Virginia. He has served as a member of the Board of Governors of the National Insurance Crime Bureau and as Chairman of Crossroads Greater Hartford, an organization dedicated to promoting ethical business leadership practices among executives in the region.
David is a member of Omicron Delta Kappa national leadership honor society, the Federation of Defense and Corporate Counsel, the American Bar Association, and is admitted to practice law in the District of Columbia, Georgia, Maryland, Massachusetts, and New Hampshire.
Lewis C. Shealy – Board Advisor Information Defense Corporation
Mr. Shealy has expansive experience and expertise in the security, loss prevention and asset protection business arena. His forward thinking, innovative techniques, vision for the future and leadership has set the stage for many break-through ideas and solutions over his career. Mr. Shealy served our country for more than 20 years in the United States Air Force, as an OSI (Office of Special Investigations) agent with assignments as Chief Liaison for OSI to the FBI and CIA headquarters, in Washington, D.C., as well as a tour in Vietnam, in the Central Highlands. Mr. Shealy was also one of the very few people to receive the award of gold cuff links with the fingerprints of his right and left index fingers from Mr. J. Edgar Hoover for his exceptional service to the bureau.
After the military, Mr. Shealy joined Woodward and Lothrop, in Washington D.C., where he became Vice President of Security. After thirteen (13) years at “Woody’s”, he was recruited to Marshall Fields, in Chicago to head the security, loss prevention and asset protection sections as Vice President of those areas. Upon the sale of Marshall Fields to Target Corporation, Mr. Shealy moved to Eckerd Corporation, in Tampa, Florida to become the Vice President of Loss Prevention, Security and Safety. After five (5) very successful years, he retired to his current home in Birmingham. Since his retirement, Mr. Shealy has served as a consultant to The Academy Group (a group of former Secret Service and FBI senior staff) for several years.
Mr. Shealy’s awards and recognitions are broad and widely know to all those that have touched the retail and government circles. He has served as the Chairman of the Loss Prevention Advisory Council for the National Retail Federation and was honored as the initial inductee to their prestigious “Ring of Excellence” for his lifetime of achievements in the retail industry in 2007.
