Board Of Advisors

Members

1. Ashok Mehan
   

2. Murray Schooner
   

3. Scott Denniston
   

4. Jim Regan
   

5. Curt Adams
   

6. Eric Adolphe
   

7. Heidi Gerding

1. Ashok has extensive entrepreneurial experience with over 23 years of proven industry vision in the federal sector. He is the previous founder of two very successful firms in the federal sector, and possesses strengths across many lines of business. Efforts to create FEDMINE started in 2003, and the product went live in late 2007, after nearly four and half years of research and development.
   

2. As the founder and owner of FEDMINE, Ashok specializes in all aspects of running the firm, from researching federal data sets pertaining to federal contracts, grants and federal business opportunities, to fine-tuning the database architecture, and managing all aspects of software development and front-end user interface design of the application that runs FEDMINE.
   

3. Ashok delivers his core products and services with efforts to create social value for small businesses within the federal sector. He frequently conducts workshops is support of federal programs geared towards providing help to small businesses doing business in the federal sector.
   

4. Ashok has extensive use of analyzing federal contract data sets to aid in those efforts, and he frequently blogs at www.aronsblogs.com/gcsg a premiere federal contracting blog that provides  information to firms doing business with the federal government and professionals in marketing and business development.
   

5. Prior to FEDMINE, Ashok was the founder and CEO of SMAC Data Systems, Gaithersburg, MD, a company that was in business from early 1990 through 2002. At start-up and through 1994, SMAC specialized in semiconductor, computer and special PC hardware sales, servicing over 300+ computer resellers in the mid-Atlantic. In 1995 Ashok re-innovated his business by strategically investing in a state-of-the-art production facility capable of custom integration and assembly of 50,000+ systems and began implementation of ISO 9002 for his company. The firm grew to 75 employees in support of large high profile US defense and civil agency programs.
   

6. In 1998 Ashok successfully transitioned the company yet again, this time into a technology integration services and solutions firm, steering SMAC through constant innovation and change. Portfolio of work performed was extensive and diverse while revenue grew past $25 Million. To aid his business model innovation efforts he attended several workshops of Prof. John Donovan at Cambridge University.
   

7. Prior to SMAC, Ashok was at Zenith Data Systems where he spent several years selling technology to the federal government, a job he accepted after spending several years building and selling computers at one one of the area’s first computer manufacturing outfit at the time.
   

8. Ashok holds an MBA in Information Systems, with a major in Expert Systems from Marymount University, Arlington, VA.  He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in 1978, and studied in Salzburg, Austria before coming to the US in 1984.
   

9. Over the course of those years Ashok acquired many technical skills, some of the more important ones were within the planning and implementation of ERP systems using supply chain management tools, implementation of ISO 9002,  development of CRM applications, deployment of Enterprise LAN/WAN Hardware & Software solutions, and most recently the building of enterprise class web based application using open source tools like Linux, MySQL, Php.
   

10. Over the years Ashok has provided dozens of expert opinions to a large number of trade journals across the country, such as the Washington Business Journal, Washington Technology, International Data Corp. (IDC), The Government Executive, ERP Magazine, Computer Associates Advisor,  National Defense, Government Computer News, Federal Computer Week to name a few.