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CIC Selects Two New Companies Focused on Crucial Homeland Security Issues: Improving Human Performance & Physical and Cyber Security

Annapolis, MD (Aug 9, 2004) — One is a Ph.D in educational psychology; the other a veteran of elite Israeli military units. Both run companies that address major needs in the homeland security marketplace and are the newest members of the Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC), America’s first business incubator for the homeland security high technology sector.

Dr. Paul Elliott is CEO of Exemplary Performance (EP), LLC, which provides services that drive exemplary organizational performance by enabling exemplary human performance. EP identifies how an organization’s star performers achieve their results and helps spread their characteristics to the rest of the work force. The company currently assists clients such as Microsoft Corporation and Delphi Corporation with projects focused on enhancing sales force performance and managing supply chains. Elliott, whose experience includes extensive work with the U.S. Coast Guard, is now pursuing multiple opportunities to bring these techniques to the federal sector, where organizational and human performance is a key requirement in the homeland security arena.
www.ep-us.com

The critical intersection of human performance, physical security, and cyber security is a specialty of Alon Moritz and his company, Moozatech Inc. Moritz gained invaluable practical experience in security during years of service in Israeli special operations and intelligence units. Through its work with organizations around the globe, Moozatech determines breaches in networks, applications, policies and procedures by analyzing physical and digital security elements – all in the name of protecting its clients’ core assets. Drawing from its heritage in combating cyber-terrorism, the company goes beyond the efforts of traditional security firms by employing proprietary methodologies. This comprehensive auditing approach allows customers to “connect the dots” and create more effective defenses against the threats they face.
www.moozatech.com

“Protecting America’s homeland requires more than superior technology; it also demands the integration of human factors into physical and cyber security systems, along with generating peak performance from government and corporate work forces,” said Mark Sauter, COO of the CIC. “That’s why Exemplary Performance and Moozatech are such important additions to the CIC.”

About the Chesapeake Innovation Center:
The Chesapeake Innovation Center is a public-private partnership supported by the Anne Arundel Economic Development Corporation (AAEDC) in partnership with the National Security Agency, Innovent Nokia, ARINC, Piper Rudnick, LLP, Whiteford Taylor and Preston, LLP, Kelly FedSecure, and Sturn Wagner Lombardo & Company. Based in Annapolis, MD, it now serves fourteen high technology companies with plans to increase that number substantially in the near future in response to strong demand for its services. The CIC helps client companies achieve success by providing them with strategic business assistance, mentoring, market intelligence, flexible office space and exposure to networks of potential investors, customers and strategic partners.