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Mr. Mena has been the Chief Strategy Officer of InferX since our acquisition of InferX Virginia in October 2006 and had been the Chief Strategy Office of InferX Virginia since August 2006. From November 2005 to August 2006 he was a data mining consultant to the Department of Homeland Security, Office of Inspector General, where he was the technical lead consultant on the first department wide audit of all data mining and advanced analytical systems. He held the same positions with the Sandia National Laboratories from April 2003 to November 2004, the National Counterterrorist Center from May to July 2004, and the General Accountability Office in April to June 2004. Mr. Mena is a world renowned expert in analytics and data mining, and has published several books, including Homeland Security Techniques and Technologies (2005), Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection (2003), Web Mining for Profit (2002), and Data Mining Your Website (2001). From April 2000 to February 2002, Mr. Mena was the CEO of WebMiner, Inc., a company in the business of Internet marketing. Prior to this Mr. Mena spent approximately twenty years with the Internal Revenue Service where he was the lead data miner and artificial intelligence specialist. Mr. Mena has a BA in Communications from the University of Texas, El Paso. | 