Allegis corporate Officers bring over 70 years of relevant and operational experience to the card solutions enterprise. Comprised of engineering and management with emphasis in health care, corporate security, and product creation, a current, combined resume summary would list card technology development and applications deployment.
Fouad Yacoub: Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Allegis Technologies was founded by Colonel Fouad Yacoub and rooted on a single premise: a belief that the role and function of card technology is poorly understood and under utilized, particularly in terms of corporate cost savings, benefit administration and security. His unique perspective is the nexus of three decades of operational experience in management and industry. Though initially trained as a pilot, a majority of his military tenure was devoted to preparing for upper Management.
A Commanding Officer with 25 years of duty in the Air Force Reserve, Colonel Yacoub served as the armed forces equivalent of a typical CEO, with first-hand responsibility for personnel issues that is fully commensurate with his civil counterparts. His operational duties ensured supplying, paying, transporting, training, and providing medical care for those under his command, be it a few or a few thousand, not-to-mention all the necessary budgeting, accounting and engineering. That singular experience, along with the emerging yet incomplete use of card solutions within the Department of Defense, began shaping his vision for AllegisTech.
A decidedly different set of experiences helped crystalize his concept for the Company. As a longtime employee of a large commercial air carrier, he took additional inspiration from frustrations common to corporate benefit programs everywhere. He dealt with issues like claims forms, confusing plan details, reimbursement headaches and the like. And, of course, there's the whole matter of security in a post 9/11 world. The requirement for fast, foolproof, positive identity matching has never been more critical for corporate or national security. Because it's so important, he insisted on biometric authenticating options for the product. AllegisTech, Inc. marks five years of experience dedicated to maturing the card-solution technology he envisioned: one card, total solution.
Colonel Yacoub has degrees from the University of California , Los Angeles (BS, Electrical Engineering), Embry-Riddle University (MS Aeronautical Science) and is a graduate of numerous flight training schools and leadership colleges for Command Level military officers. An Air Force Command Pilot and Senior Captain at the airline, he's logged nearly 20,000 hours in numerous types of aircraft. Fluent in multiple languages, Colonel Yacoub also served as the lead negotiator for the United States in contract talks with overseas governments for multi-million dollar basing proposals.
Ray Pedden: Chief Operating Officer
In charge of operations for AllegisTech Inc., is Mr. Ray Pedden, an executive with an extensive background in corporate finance and healthcare. Intimately involved with the card-solutions industry since its inception, his particular area of expertise is the design and implementation of transaction processing technologies and the development of innovative strategies to enhance the information systems they rely on.
He is the former CEO, Heuristic Technologies, Inc, as well as Managing Partner, Heuristic Associates, LLC; member, TTM Associates; Executive VP of Health e Connex, Inc; CTO, Imperial Technology Solutions; Executive Director, Camino Medical Group; Senior Associate Director and Director of Business Operations, Stanford University Clinic; COO, Health Care Alternatives; Assistant Dean for Fiscal Affairs, University of California, San Diego School of Medicine; and Executive Director, University of California, San Diego Medical Group.
Mr. Pedden is a graduate of the Unites States Air Force Academy and has served on the faculties of the University of North Dakota; the University of California, San Diego; and the High Performance Physician Institute.
Sam Morcos: Chief Financial Officer
Serving as AllegisTech's CFO is Mr. Sam Morcos, an executive well-seasoned in both finance and engineering. For 30 years he's been involved in diverse but complementary pursuits that find common focus as the CFO of a card-technology company at the forefront.
From a background in business law, Mr. Morcos earned his monetary credentials by specializing in real estate finance. After years of successful ventures as an investor, broker and developer, he went on to head up Nova Investments. As Nova's CEO, he guided the company's commercial real estate brokerage business before joining AllegisTech, Inc.
Mr. Morcos also serves as technological consultant to the Company, a benefit with roots at NASA and beyond. As a young research engineer pursuing a post-graduate degree, he created a new engine valve prototype, a design he later perfected for use in the Space Shuttle's main propulsion system. After a career of "hands-on" project engineering, he joined the management team at Hughes Corporation. He served as the Department Head for the Electromechanical unit of Hughes' Satellite and Space Division.
Mr. Morcos was trained as a Mechanical and Aerospace engineer and holds advanced degrees from The Technical University of Denmark and Cairo University. He is also fluent in several languages.
Dr. Deborah Hill, M.D.: Marketing Director
Marketing Director, Dr. Deborah Hill brings to AllegisTech both an intimate knowledge of health care industry issues and entrepeneurial accumen honed as a consultant to organizations with global reach. As an adviser to a range of non-profit charitable organizations, she redirected their communications channels to more effectively promote product and service information to target businesses and audiences.
Coupled with formal training as a Physician, Dr. Hill's direct assistance to a variety of charitable World Aid Organizations focuses on the economic deployment and execution of relief efforts worldwide. She has marketed and coordinated efforts for non-profits participating in health programs and relief efforts in Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, South Africa, and India.
Dr. Hill is a Board Certified Pediatrician and received her Medical Degree from The Loma Linda University Medical School in California. Her experiences encompass both civilian and military health organizations including Kaiser Permanente and the United States Army.