Grant Youngman has more than 25 years of networking expertise. At Stealth, he finds new network, communications, and speech-recognition technologies and leverages them into products and services for commercial applications. Previously, as Stealth's vice president of engineering and operations, he led engineering and technology services for customer sales, customer support, and internal information-technology operations, built an organization of vendor-certified engineers, and managed operations and business relationships with vendors. Before that, he spent 15 years at Contel and later at Verizon, where as director of complex initiatives he led the evaluation, program management, and risk management for the company's major contracts, including the engineering design of advanced noise and Internet protocol (IP) data network solutions for Sandia, Lawrence Berkeley, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories. Previously, as data program manager at Northern Telecom, he was instrumental in developing an integrated wide-area data-networking program for branch offices. Before that, at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, he directed the development and implementation of technology for the FRCS-80 Network, largest private X.25 network in the United States, Mr. Youngman received an MBA from Georgia State University, and master's and bachelor's degrees in electrical engineering from Rice University.