Shahin Samadi

President

Dr. Samadi has over 20 years of extensive experience in managing technology organizations, including all different phases of software and system engineering lifecycles of complex, industrial-strength information and data-processing systems. Prior to forming Innovim, Dr. Samadi was the Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President of Merkle Data Technologies.

His business unit was responsible for application development, integration, deployment, and operation of custom solutions for a wide array of commercial and non-profit businesses across North America. Merkle is a $100M privately held company and a leading firm specializing in Database Marketing and CRM solutions and services. Prior to Merkle, he served as Vice President of Engineering for a streaming media company, Vodium and a senior management role for BNA where Dr. Samadi was responsible for setting up the technology and infrastructure that allowed BNA to migrate from a paper-based content provider to an internet-enabled vendor of electronic news and information. Prior to BNA, he served as NASA Technical Director for the Earth Observing Satellite missions, where he was responsible for management, design, deployment and operation of mission-critical systems. He also founded, ran, and sold a privately held boutique-engineering firm, SAK Technologies. Dr. Samadi serves as adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, teaching Software Engineering, System Design, and Management of Information Systems. He has presented and published many technical papers in the area of software and systems engineering. Dr. Samadi has a Ph.D. and M.S. in Computer Science and B.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University.

Neal Most

Vice President Corporate Development

Mr. Most has 20 years of experience in applications and systems development. Over the course of his career, Mr. Most has spent significant time as a programmer, technical project manager and team lead. Mr. Most has led teams through all aspects of full lifecycle software development. Mr. Most has served at a senior level in many organizations, focusing on developing product for clients and markets and managing those product development activities.

He has served in a variety of diverse roles such as client acquisition, product management, customer relations, and partnership development.

Mr. Most started his career at Eastman Kodak in Rochester, NY. In their fledgling digital technologies department he served in many roles, from C/C++ Programmer to Technical Sales and Project Manager. Upon relocating to the Washington D.C. area in the mid-90s, Mr. Most took a position with Claritas, Inc., a leading provider of marketing data and analytics. There he led a team involved with porting the company flagship desktop product 'Compass', from DOS to the Windows environment. Mr. Most was responsible for requirements discovery, specification, development, QA, release and maintenance. Upon product release, his time was split between client support and designing & developing new Java-based products for the Internet. Mr. Most's next position was with Merkle, developing marketing databases for clients. His tenure here found him fulfilling familiar roles such as Project Manager, Architect and Relationship Manager, while also honing his database design and administration knowledge.

Now at INNOVIM, he brings a breadth of technical, managerial and CRM experience to his clients. Mr. Most has been Project/Program Manager of the NASA Applied Sciences Invasive Species Forecasting System, an enterprise systems development project jointly being developed by NASA & USGS, with a national focus and multiple federal agency customers.

Mark Amole

Vice President of Finance

Mr. Amole possesses 30 years of experience in corporate finance and contracts management for government contractors. At INNOVIM, he manages corporate accounting, budgeting, purchasing and invoicing, contracts and agreements, payroll, pricing, and government compliance.

Prior to joining INNOVIM, Mr. Amole served at OAO Corporation for many years in a variety of roles, such as PMO Officer, Controller and Accounting Manager. He designed price and cost models enabling development of successful bids on contracts for DoD, NASA and EPA. As well, he managed all financial activities, including financial planning and analysis, budget development, reporting, billing, forecasting, cost accounting, cost analysis and control, capital planning, asset management, procurement, compliance and cost disclosure for government contracts, strategic planning and financial systems improvement. In recent years, Mr. Amole has conducted mergers and acquisitions, negotiated large contracts and constructed teams to support government programs. Mr. Amole has served on successful ISO 9000 certifications. Mr. Amole earned an MBA from George Washington University and is a CPA.

H. Mark Helfand

Chief Scientist

Dr. Helfand has over 35 years of experience as an earth scientist, climate analyst, numerical modeler, and designer of computational algorithms for the representation of physical systems, most of it with NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center and Goddard Institute for Space Studies. His expertise is in numerical weather prediction, atmospheric dynamics, climate modeling, climate change and variability, parameterization of physical processes in atmospheric circulation models, and especially in the areas of turbulence, statistical representations of atmospheric flow, the atmospheric boundary layer, the Great Plains Low Level Jet, the atmospheric moisture budget, moist atmospheric convection, and the dynamics and statistics of severe flooding. He was the Principle Investigator and group leader for research and development of the Goddard Laboratory for Atmospheres General Circulation Model.

He has written numerous scientific papers, delivered many lectures and conference presentations, acted as a reviewer for numerous proposals and journal articles, and edited organizational brochures for NASA. He has taught at Cornell University, the State University of New York at Purchase, New York University, Columbia University, and the University of Maryland. He is a member of the American Meteorological Society and the Sigma Xi Science Research Society. He was won the Rentchler Prize for Mathematics, the Louis B. Rogow Scholarship, and a NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Laboratory for Atmospheres Scientific Research Peer Award.

Dr. Helfand earned his B.S. in 1968 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics in 1974 at Cornell University. He has served as a member of the U.S. WOCE Committee on the Modeling of Air-Sea Interactions and as a member of the Joint Action Group for Atmospheric Transport and Diffusion Modeling -- Research and Development Plan (JAG/ATD-R&DP) of the Office of the Federal Coordinator for Meteorology (OFCM). He represented NASA at the Domestic Threat Response Incident Management meeting at the White House Conference Center in 2004. He has also served more recently as a NASA/Goddard Ambassador.

Ashok Saxena

Chief Operating Officer

Mr. Saxena translates the corporate vision to operational goals and strategies, develops and monitors effectiveness and efficiencies of various departments as well as lead key capture management activities.

He is an innovator in technology and business spanning aerospace, telecommunications and information processing disciplines. These traits have enabled him to succeed as a serial entrepreneur. He:

• Founded and operated INFORMATICS, an aerospace company, for a period of 11 years. The company designed and fabricated hardware, developed ground and flight software. Clients included NASA, NOAA, DoD, IBM and General Motors.
• Founded and operated SigmaNet Network Corporation, a web applications and infrastructure company that was acquired by a public company at a handsome return on investment for the venture capitalists who had invested in the company.
• Co-founded and provided the initial funding to One97 Communications, a telecom company that develops and operates applications and associated infrastructure for cellular communications. Now funded by Intel Capital, the company provides voice, SMS and WAP services to 250 million users that perform over 2.5 billion transactions every month.

Mr. Saxena held Director level and higher positions in three public companies performing Program and Capture Management roles. His systems engineering and management experience includes civilian, DoD, intelligence and commercial satellite programs, unmanned aerial systems, water launched and conventional launch vehicles and submarines; software development on various platforms from embedded microprocessors to mainframes, telecom services deployed on global fiber networks to wireless communications.

Mr. Saxena authored several papers on Navigation, Guidance and Control and co-authored a book that served as the standard reference book in space agencies around the world. He served on the national technical committee for computer systems of the AIAA and on the IT Transition committee for Gov. O’ Malley. He received the President’s award for Program Management at Fairchild Space Company. His work on anti-terrorism led to the state requesting him to author a white paper on how to make Maryland safer for its citizens. He was invited to serve as a panelist by the National Press Club.

Mr. Saxena holds a Master’s degree in Aerospace Engineering with a minor in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Tech. He completed all PhD courses at Virginia Tech and took graduate courses in Electrical Engineering at MIT.

Sammy Samadi

Chief Executive Officer

Ms. Samadi has over 15 years of extensive experience as a marketing executive working for highly successful organizations. Prior to forming INNOVIM, Ms. Samadi did the strategic marketing for Pepco and was a Senior Director of Sales and Marketing for BEC. During that period she implemented and oversaw all different phases of sales, marketing and product development. Previously, she held various senior positions in small to mid size companies. Ms. Samadi has a BA and MS in Business from Johns Hopkins University.

William Engelmeyer

Vice President Strategic Development

Dr. Engelmeyer has more than 35 years of successful experience in senior program management, training, and technology planning in positions serving private industry as well as Federal Government agencies. He has managed many complex information technology (IT), scientific, and engineering support programs, including the Professional, Administrative, Computational, and Engineering (PACE) contract at NASA Glenn Research Center in Cleveland, Ohio and served as Director Program Manager for the NASA Goddard MODIS Program.

Dr. Engelmeyer has held Secret Security Clearances for both Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Energy (DOE) projects and held a TS-SCI with Special Access and NSA Polygraph(active) clearance.

During his career, Dr. Engelmeyer has actively participated in Strategic Business Development activities as a consultant and senior executive including full life cycle capture management for major-impact programs. He actively participated in multiple Captures for NASA NOAA, NSA, and DoD. Dr. Engelmeyer has a high career win ratio and is accomplished in the art of business development through training and practical experience. He knows the Scientce, Engineering and IT communities well.

In addition, Dr. Engelmeyer has designed and conducted training programs for government and private-sector clients in the United States and Europe. He is an accomplished speaker and presenter, having addressed forums of the National Science Foundation (NSF), Johns Hopkins University, University of Maryland at Baltimore County (UMBC), NASA, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). He has served as an Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, and Towson University.

Dr. Engelmeyer’s degrees are a Ph.D.,in Mathematics Education from the University of Maryland, a Master of Arts (M.A.)in Mathematics, from Morgan State University, and a Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), in Mathematics Education, from Towson State University.