Jane Chappell, CEO

Chief Executive Officer

Jane Chappell is the Chief Executive Officer of Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Jane Chappell is CEO, Altamira Technologies.  Prior to joining Altamira, Jane spent 37 years at Raytheon. She was Vice President of Raytheon GeoSpatial Intelligence Solutions (GIS) from 2015-2019 with responsibility for developing customer-focused strategies, partnering with customers and industry teammates to shape markets, delivering on commitments and driving growth in the Intelligence, Commercial and International Space Ground business.  Prior to GIS, she led Business Development and Strategy for Raytheon Intelligence, Information and Services (IIS) from 2009-2015. Chappell also served on the Board of Directors for Raytheon Australia Pty Ltd from 2015-2019 and Raytheon Systems Limited from 2008 to 2011. She has progressed through various engineering and management positions supporting a number of strategic customers. She won the Raytheon CEO Leadership Award in 2008 and the Tim Moe award in 1999 for outstanding achievement in business development. She is a graduate of Raytheon’s Executive Leadership Summit.  Chappell received a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and computer science from Western Kentucky University.

Blaine Worthington, COO

Chief Operating Officer

Blaine Worthington is the Chief Operating Officer of Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

As Chief Operating Officer, Blaine Worthington oversees Altamira’s intelligence business operations, drives the company’s overall business results, and ensures effective operational procedures.

Blaine Worthington is a dedicated professional with a proven history of success in managing multi-million dollar acquisition programs building and leading top-performing teams. Since joining Altamira in 2013, Blaine has expanded our Dayton, Ohio office from 10 employees to 225 employees.

Prior to Altamira, Blaine spent 21 years in the Air Force as an Acquisitions Officers where he served at the Space and Missile Systems Center (SMC), the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), Space Command, the U.S. Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT), and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). While in the Air Force Blaine oversaw the acquisition, development, and implementation of cutting-edge intelligence systems and led a more than 250-member acquisition and engineering team. Upon retirement, he spent four years at Booz Allen as a Senior Associate managing intelligence contracts for NASIC.

Blaine holds a master’s degree in Strategic Leadership from AFIT along with a master’s degree in Computer Resources and Information Management from Webster University and a bachelor’s degree in Engineering from South Dakota State University (SDSU).

Adam Omar, CFO

Chief Financial Officer

Adam Omar is Chief Financial Officer for Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

At Altamira, Adam is responsible for the company’s finance, accounting, treasury, tax, contracts and compliance.

Adam has over 25 years of experience in financial management and business operations for global, technology and services companies in the government and commercial markets.  Prior to Altamira, he served as the Chief Financial Officer for CyberCore Technologies, a cyber security and engineering firm providing services and technology to the U.S. Government.  Prior to CyberCore Technologies, Adam held the Chief Financial Officer position for PlanetRisk, Inc., a provider of geospatial software technology and professional services to the U.S. Government and Orchestro, Inc., a SaaS predictive analytics software sales and development company. Both companies were acquired by prominent private equity, publicly traded or privately held firms.

Adam has previously served in finance leadership roles at SAIC, LexisNexis and Software AG.  He has been responsible for development and implementation of business strategy, financial management and mergers and acquisitions for the assigned segments of the companies.

Adam holds a Master of Science in Finance degree from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from George Mason University.  He is a Certified Public Accountant in the Commonwealth of Virginia and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.

Caroline McConnell, CHCO

Chief Human Capital Officer

Caroline McConnell is the Chief Human Capital Officer of Business Development of Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

As the Chief Human Capital Officer at Altamira Technologies Corporation, Caroline is responsible for helping Altamira’s most valuable assets, its employees, to achieve professional success and growth.  Caroline is responsible for developing and guiding Altamira’s talent management philosophy, and maximizing the organization’s strategy for acquiring, developing, rewarding and retaining the best talent.  Altamira offers the utmost employee value proposition:  providing incredible benefits offerings, recognizing great performance with rewards and promotional opportunities, providing training and development, hiring the best talent, and engaging with employees to make Altamira both a rewarding and fun place to work.

Caroline has over 30 years’ experience in human resources management, serving as a human resources executive at various DC-area based government contractors such as LabCorp, Metamor-PSINet, and over 12 years as Vice President, Human Resources for SAIC. Just prior to joining Altamira in 2020, Ms. McConnell served for five years as Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer for Engineering Solutions & Products LLC (ESP).

Ms. McConnell holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from George Mason University and has several professional certifications, including Senior Certified Professional from Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM-SCP), Strategic Workforce Planning (SWP) from the Human Capital Institute (HCI), as well as BIL Facilitator and Trainer certification with Development Dimensions International (DDI).

Richard Campos, Sr. VP Business Development

Senior Vice President of Business Development

Richard Campos is the Senior Vice President of Business Development of Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Richard Campos is the Sr. Vice President of Business Development, Altamira Technologies. Prior to joining Altamira, Richard spent 19 years at Raytheon. He was the Program Director for a National Cyber Program under Raytheon Intelligence and Space from 2019 – 2021. In 2019, he was part of the Program Management Excellence conducting analysis of systemic and individual program performance as well as recommend strategies to grow existing programs. Responsible for defining and deploying program leadership processes, tools, training, metrics and initiatives that lead to the establishment of an effective community of practice and IIS program execution excellence. He also served as Director and Portfolio Manager for Infrastructure and Platform Services under Solutions (GIS) from 2011-2018 where he managed and directed the strategy, execution and resources for the Infrastructure Development Programs, Procurement Programs and Common Application Services portfolio to include Strategic Sourcing and Procurement, ITSM programs, Operations and Maintenance, Development of High Performance Compute and Storage Programs, Cloud Deployments, COTS Deployments, Data Distribution Services, SIGINT Archive, and Common Software Services Platforms (DevOps, API Gateways, etc.). In 2016 and 2017, he was the Business Development Lead and Capture Manager and provided the overall capture strategy for GeoINT Processing Pursuits.

Dr. Melonie Richey, VP Technology

Vice President of Technology

Melonie Richey is the Vice President of Technology  for Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

As Vice President of Technology, Melonie oversees Altamira’s Research & Development (R&D) portfolio, technology strategy, and innovation across its strategic accounts. Melonie’s focus at Altamira is on Data Science and Engineering, and the integration of advance technology solutions and practice into critical mission programs within the domains of space, cyber, and intelligence analysis.

Before joining Altamira, Melonie ran analytic programs for several Intelligence Community agencies and, more recently, spearheaded the development of a Data Science and Engineering practice at a National Security solutions firm. She is a published author and adjunct lecturer in the areas of research and analytic methods, analytic writing, sociocultural modeling and simulation, and network science. Her areas of interest include large graph analytics, Machine Learning (ML) and deep learning, graph-based ML, and high performance computing.

Mel holds a PhD from George Mason University in Computational Social Science, an MS from Mercyhurst University in Intelligence Studies, and a BA from University of Florida in Linguistics.

Nicole Parrish, VP DOD Programs

Vice President of DOD Operations

Nicole Parish is Vice President of DOD Programs for Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

As Vice President of DOD Operations, Nicole Parrish oversees R&D and Intelligence Operations efforts within Altamira’s DoD accounts.

Nicole serves as Altamira’s Program Manager for multiple multi-million-dollar acquisition programs including the Advanced Technical Exploitation Program (ATEP II), the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA)’s Janus Geography program, the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Distributed Radio Frequency (RF) Sensing (DRS) contract, and the Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Southeast (SE) GeoReadiness Center (GRC) Program.

Before joining Altamira, Nicole spent 10 years as a Geographic Information System (GIS) Professional serving programs with the NGA and the National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC). Nicole was responsible for providing data analytics and GIS support across NGA and NASIC mission areas for warfighter support. Nicole also spent 5 years as a GIS instructor for the Advanced Technical Intelligence Center and Clark State Community College.

Nicole holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice from Tiffin University and a bachelor’s degree in GIS from Ohio University.

Jason Siminski, VP Business Development

Vice President of Business Development

Jason Siminski is Vice President of Business Development for Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

As Vice President of Business Development with Altamira Technologies Corporation, Jason has primary responsibility for Department of Defense and Intelligence Community business development. Jason is an accomplished and results-driven National Security leader with 23 years of experience across the National Defense portfolio as an active duty military officer, senior government civilian, and industry executive. Before joining Altamira, Jason served as Director of Business Development at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). Prior to his role at SAIC, he served in multiple senior leadership roles at the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and in the Office of the Secretary of Defense Policy (OSDP).

Jason holds a Bachelor of Science in Biology from Dickinson College, and a Master of Science in National Security Strategy from National Defense University, National War College. He was a fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Center for International Studies, Foreign Politics, International Relations and the National Interest, Seminar XXI. He is also a graduate of the Department of Defense Senior Leader Development Program (DSLDP).

James Freeman, VP Business Development

Vice President of Business Development

James Freeman is Vice President of Business Development for Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

James is a National Security professional, with over 18 years of military intelligence operations, security and intelligence consulting, mergers & acquisitions and revenue generating business development experience. James has served in multiple senior-level positions within the Executive and Legislative Branches of the U.S. Government. This ranges from being a U.S. Army Intelligence Officer, supporting a combat support agency; to being a U.S. Senate Military Legislative Assistant interfacing with the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee and the Commerce Science and Transportation Committee; to serving as a Congressional Officer at the department of defense’s Joint IED Defeat Organization. In addition, James has also supported multiple Special Operations and Intelligence Community entities through various military and industry engagements.

Originally from Houston, Texas, James is passionate about serving Community, Military Family and Veterans causes. He does so through various volunteer activities with organizations such as the Capitol Hill Lions and The Allied Forces Foundation. This stems from James being a product of a military family himself.  He comes from a long line of service to the Nation that stretches back many generations.

James holds an M.A. in International Policy (National Security and Diplomacy) from The George H. W. Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M University, an MS in Aviation & Space from Oklahoma State University, and a BA in Political Science & International Relations from The University of Oklahoma. He is a fellow at both The George Mason University School of Law National Security Institute and The Heritage Foundation’s 2020 George C. Marshall Fellowship Program, and an adjunct fellow at The University of Oklahoma’s Center for Intelligence and National Security Studies.

Gaston Goriup, Director of Intel Programs

Director of Intel Programs

Gaston Goriup is Director of USG Programs for Altamira Technologies Corporation, a data analytics, data sciences, and advanced engineering company supporting the U.S. national security community headquartered in McLean, Virginia.

Gaston Goriup is an energetic, mission driven, network and system engineering professional with over 22 years of consulting and leadership experience. His interpersonal and technical skills helped build the National Security account for Altamira.  At Altamira, he currently serves as the Account Manager and Director for all Intelligence Community agencies and contracts.  He has served as Director and Program Manager on an Air Force contract supporting the Chief Data Office where he directed and executed analysis and data science use cases for his client.  For his other Intelligence Community programs, he served as Director and Program Manager and Technical lead for Software Development, DevSecOps, and cross-domain solution contracts.

Gaston holds a Bachelor of Science in Business from Virginia Tech.  He also has advanced studies in the Master of Information Technologies program at Virginia Tech.  Gaston holds certifications in Microsoft, Cisco, and Information Technology Infrastructure Library.