Having had the pleasure of working as Chairman and investor in a company where Edwin was CEO, I can emphatically comment on his capabilities on a first-hand basis. I know of no comparable CEO with the package of energy, tenacity and leadership Edwin exhibits on a continual basis. He assumed his new CEO role in a challenging economy and market. Through his analytical skills and creativity, he rejuvenated and repositioned the company, while increasing bookings and concurrently reducing headcount and expense. He is a student of management theory but combines this knowledge with strong leadership skills; a rare and powerful combination. While Edwin is decisive in style, he continually solicits input and guidance from his Board, investors and other sources of value. I believe Edwin can be a highly successful CEO in a wide range of companies due to these capabilities, versatility and unmatched motivation to succeed.

John F. Burton, General Partner, Updata Partners

“Technology CEO’s have a tough job.  To execute and win in this complex and ever changing technology landscape, CEO’s have to set vision, execute the strategy, and create a long-term winning culture in their team.  In doing so, they create long-term shareholder value.  As his Board Member, it has been truly amazing to watch Edwin do all this and more with speed, energy and high integrity.  As CEO’s go, and I’ve met some very good ones, Edwin is an 11 on a scale of 1 to 10.“

Tim Guleri, Managing Director at Sierra Ventures, Everest Software, Inc. Investor and Board Member

“Edwin Miller’s leadership approach combines vision, strategy and disciplined execution as well as anyone I’ve ever worked with.  His ability to simplify and articulate complex issues and to rally a team to action is remarkable.   Those talents were invaluable in transforming Infodata’s brand, market offerings and business results.  He’s an experienced and professional executive with extraordinary skills in addressing under performing assets.”

Kenneth Thornton, Retired General Manager, Global Public Sector, IBM Corp.

“Edwin is one of the most effective communicators I have worked with and, in doing so, is willing to listen and implement where appropriate.  He intimately involves his management team in the understanding and focus for success.”

Charles A. Lynch, Chairman, Market Value Partners Company, Former Chairman of Greyhound Line and DHL Airlines

“Edwin is the brightest and most competent CEO I have ever had the pleasure to work with.  He is always thinking, strategizing, and executing: he never stops!”

Dendy Young, Former Chairman & CEO of GTSI, Inc. (Nasdaq: GTSI)

“Edwin is a great leader and team builder.  I was able to observe firsthand how he guided Everest Software to a successful sale in very anxious market times.  He remained cognizant of the interest of all parties; shareholders, creditors and employees, as the transaction evolved.  The operating performance of his team in the face of unsettled market conditions and the distractions of due diligence activities was truly exceptional.  His transparency and integrity reflect his outstanding personal values.  I would gladly again serve as a board in whatever situation Edwin may be selected to lead.”

Jay Meriwether, Edgewood Advisors LLC and former Everest Software Board Member

“Edwin is a pioneer in the technology industry and he works tirelessly to bring innovative solutions to real problems such as fighting the war on terrorism and keeping pace with the growing needs of our intelligence community. Edwin not only leads his team with courage and vision but his passion inspires others to approach each challenge as an opportunity to make a difference and leave a mark.”

Donnie Blanks, EVP, Government Services, Perot Systems

“As Chairman of the Board of Directors of Infodata Systems I hired Edwin four years ago to be CEO. This was a turnaround situation and he moved quickly, brought in excellent staff and at the same time was sensitive in dealing with the existing staff making it a smooth turnaround without creating chaos – a difficult task.  Edwin is an excellent leader who knows how to motivate and get the best out of his employees. What makes Edwin unique is he is not only a good operating manager but also excellent in strategic planning and execution. The same tact he uses in operations works in negotiating alliances and strategic relationships and extends into sales.  I have been a director of over twenty public and private companies and Edwin is one of the more outstanding CEOs I have worked with. In summary, I consider him an extremely well rounded CEO.”

Richard T. Bueschel, Former Chairman of the Board of Directors of Infodata Systems

I first was introduced to Edwin through a colleague a couple years ago.  I was immediately impressed by his passion for operational excellence, strategic vision and team unity.  It made me rethink how I was running my company, and realized I needed to form a board to take our company to the next level.  I moved to bring Edwin to our board as our chairman, and he has played a key role in redefining our strategic planning and operational execution.  Edwin has been an encourager as well as voice of reason when we needed guidance as we continue to manage sky rocketing growth of 500% over 3 years.

Dean Parker, President & CEO, Callis Communications, Inc.

Edwin is very smart with no end to his energy and a unique ability to analyze for investment a technology and its market. He knows how to gather a board and advisors as well as a management team. His personality of excitement and commitment attracts top performers to the team. These combined with his organizational skills and management abilities have proven to be serially successful.

Raymond Rice, KenRay Partners, Executive Search and Investors

TESTIMONIALS ABOUT THE 9LENSES

“Throughout the years, since I first met Edwin, I have always been intrigued by all the different models that he was working on as he was hired to turn around, very successfully, a number of companies that were going through a wide variety of business challenges during diverse economic cycles.  Yesterday, after attending a Snapshot9 event, I was exposed to the ‘final product’ of all these years of hard work, experience, systematic, and methodical information gathering that Edwin has been able to translate into a compilation of tools called the 9Lenses.  At this event we had the opportunity to witness the simplicity of the application of one of the lenses (Financial) through the Snapshot9 Application and the remarkably positive impact that it can have in all types of businesses and organizations.  I look forward to other events where I can get to see, in more detail, the benefits of the other 8Lenses, and introducing them to my organization.”

Sam Sandler, President at SOL Capital Management

“Its very challenging to try to find a business framework that is comprehensive and cohesive and yet I can hold it in my head.  The 9Lenses accomplishes this.  I found the 9Lenses and Snapshot9 extraordinarily powerful after 30 years of working in executive programs and MBA programs around the country.”

Roy Hinton, Associate Dean Executive Programs at the George Mason University School of Management

 

“You have taken what can be a very challenging process and created a tool that can help create clarity for the evaluation of any business entity.  This is a tool that can be very useful to any CEO, investment banker, investor, or anyone interested in evaluating the true health of an organization.”

Aaron A. Tokh, Vice-President at Citibank.

“Whether your strategy includes acquisitions or internal operational fitness, the 9Lenses provide a framework to assess the key vital elements of an operation.  This lays out all the data points in an organized and systematic fashion in which you can logically measure strengths and weaknesses and clearly see where your opportunities for growth and improvement may abound.”

Jeff Howe – Sales Manager North America, Snap-On Tools

“9Lenses is an outstanding framework and web applications that provide a very comprehensive approach to measure and prioritize key opportunities from your entire company. It is an excellent platform to evaluate how efficient were the decisions taken overtime. In my opinion, all Business Executives should consider the platform to maximize results and improve visibility of its whole Organization.”

Gustavo Lisboa, Americas Lean & Quality Manager

“As a former public company CEO and current growth equity investor, I have always looked for a consistent method, both qualitatively and quantitatively, to objectively assess company merit and performance.  The 9Lenses is the only framework I have seen that performs that task, and does it across all types of companies.  Any CEO, Director or investor needs to learn about this game-changing approach.”

John Burton, Managing Partner, Updata Partners

 

“Snapshot9 has given my company outstanding clarity through a new way of looking at our business model.  We cannot only see where we can improve; Snapshot9 provides an approach to make the needed changes to the business!  The content of Snapshot9 provided a direct connect to action through the web application and provided me with an interesting and informative way of interacting with my staff to focus them on the operating metrics that ultimately drive our business. “

Andrew Sturner, CEO/Managing Member, Aqua Marine Partners, LLC

 

As a CEO, I have tried several different models to measure my company’s overall health and provide a framework for continuous improvement. But none were comprehensive enough or easily tailored for my business. The 9Lenses is helping me assess and align ALL aspects of my business. For the first time, I feel like I am implementing a framework that is comprehensive, repeatable, and will actually work for my company. The feedback from our initial assessment and application of the 9Lenses has been extremely positive. The web-tools make the implementation easy for my managers and me.

Robert Sperling, President and CEO of a.i. solutions, Inc.

 

“The 9Lenses web application provides a powerful visual overview of your existing business model.  We used the 9Lenses web application prior to our annual offsite strategy meeting to identify gaps within the organization and used the data to tackle and address the areas we all agreed would enhance our organization.  We spent a full day breaking into tiger teams identifying action plans to optimize our performance.  These action plans have become corporate initiatives that will be implemented throughout the year.”

Mark Serway, CFO, Qivliq, a NANA Company

KCG is widely recognized as the largest privately held cyber security services firm in the Federal market with annual double-digit growth since starting the company in 2000.  Our new business capture rate is above industry average and we have never lost a re-compete in 10 years of business.  We are in a great market with stable customers and a very talented workforce.  But as we continue to progress to another stage in KCG’s life, we felt it necessary to re-examine certain aspects of our business, and we selected the 9Lenses Assessment tool for this purpose.  We brought together our entire leadership team consisting of all executives, directors, and customer facing managers to participate in the initial assessment phase.  Although we are in the early stages of analyzing our 9Lenses results, the insight gained so far has been nothing short of amazing.  The 9Lenses has provided us a framework to examine every aspect of our business, not a just a few.  We now have a baseline of analytics within each lens and sub-lens that will be used to measure future progress.  Most importantly, 9Lenses has uncovered communication gaps among the leadership team, misconceptions about our business model and strategic direction, and even a few unhealthy attitudes within the leadership team.  After reviewing the results, my first thought is that it takes a certain amount of courage to assess your company from the inside out.  I now believe it would be leadership suicide not to assess the company on a regular basis.  We are currently prioritizing our action list and building the Tiger teams to close the gaps uncovered by the 9Lenses Assessment.

As a businessperson I know, ignoring the weaknesses will not foster continued long-term growth and increased enterprise value of KCG. We look forward to measuring our results and assessing the company again, through 9Lenses. Not only are the results of the 9Lenses Assessment on KCG noteworthy, the entire 9Lenses process to achieve the deep dive analysis into KCG was straightforward and uncomplicated.  There was no labor investment required to accomplish the 9Lenses Assessment.  In the past, we’ve used the well-known consulting firms to analyze the company and provide us an assessment.  It was intrusive and invasive on everyone’s in the company’s time, took far too long for results, and the amount of time KCG had to educate the consulting firm on our business was enormous.  Not to mention the results were mostly what we told them versus what they analyzed and identified.  The price for the baseline assessment as well as monthly licensing is a tremendous bargain.

Dusty Wince, CEO, Knowledge Consulting Group, Inc.