"…in the 8+ years I have worked with you…you go above and beyond to help me and any issues I may have with my system…I look forward to many more years of interaction with you…” - J. D., Property Manager, Suburban Developer of Class A Properties.

Ollivier Corporation enjoys the benefit of leadership from successful security professionals

Joel Rakow, Ed.D., President

• Joel Rakow, Ed.D., leads the Electronic Security Group at Ollivier Corporation and focuses on the integration of physical and data security. He is a former Technology Leadership Partner at Tatum Partners, where he founded the eCrimes/Risk Management Practice. Dr. Rakow is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) IT Security Council, a former advisor to the Secret Service and the Los Angeles Electronic Crimes Task Force, an active member of the FBI Infragard, the security representative on the Adobe Software's Advisory Council and on the Receivers Team for the State Courts of California. He has held such titles as Chief Technology Officer (6 years) and President and CEO (7 years) in highly successful national organizations and Assistant to the President of a publicly traded company that secures communications between the US Dept. of Defense and the White House, Chairman of the IT Steering Committee for an international public company. He is the architect of the national security plan for Danone’s Water Division and the data security plan for a $5B global manufacturer and marketer of alcoholic beverages. He has over 15 years of information systems and software development. He has developed over 40 commercially successful application software programs and has won numerous industry awards such as Microsoft Partner of the Year, 1998, PC World Best Product of the Year (3 consecutive years) and Great Plains Implementation of the Year, 2001. Major consulting clients include Northrop Grumman, Texas Instruments, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. Department of Transportation, , CAMICO Mutual Insurance Company, SSP Litronic, BankBoston, Pacific Healthcare and Bidz.com, LifeMasters, Planewide Games and the World Shoe Association, nearly all of which addressed security and risk management solutions. He is on the Advisory Council for Trusted Network Technologies, a Harvard University Fellow, National Science Foundation Fellow and on the faculty for the Los Angeles Police Department's Law Enforcement and Private Security 2003 conference. Dr. Rakow delivers over 20 presentations a year at national and international conferences, business meetings and technical seminars on corporate strategies for risk management in the age of electronic stored information and the Internet. 

Diosdado "Dave" Balcorta, Jr. - Co-Founder, Vice President

• Dave leads the Engineering group at Ollivier Corporation with responsibility for all designs and hardware configurations. Dave manages a group of computer science and electrical engineers. He has over fifteen years of experience in this position with the Company. In 1987, he joined Sonitrol, an alarm and access control company in the Bay Area owned by Jim Ollivier.  Dave received training and certification for a number of access control systems such as Del Norte, Control Systems International, Radionics, Lenel and many others. In 1989, Dave and Jim relocated the Company in Los Angeles, changing the Company's name. Prior to his career in security, Dave specialized in electronics. He attended college in automotive electronics, after a year of electronics training with the Navy ROTC program.

Gus Drulias, Vice President, Business Development

• Gus Drulias holds a top secret DoD security clearance. Mr. Drulias has over 40 years of high profile experience in Los Angeles law enforcement and security. He was Security Consultant for a major Orange County research and manufacturing firm and Talon Executive service's security systems design expert. Prior to that, Mr. Drulias was Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of Security Solutions, an integrated security system design/installation company, from 1997 to November 2003. From 1995-1997, he was the General Manager for Inter-Con Security Systems, a contract guard service in the greater Los Angeles area. Mr. Drulias managed weekly guard services in excess of 25,000 hours per week for enterprise level clients. From 1994-1995, he was Director of Security, Safety and Transportation at the Citicorp Plaza project and was responsible for managing a guard force of 74 people and 9 technicians assigned to monitor all access control, intrusion and fire alarm functions for a five-acre development, with multiple high-rise and commercial businesses. Finally, Mr. Drulias was with the Los Angeles Police Department and retired as a Captain in 1994.

Ron Wiliams, Board of Advisors

• Dedicating 22 years to the United States Secret Service, Ron Williams had the opportunity to work and supervise all divisions of the SS Treasury department in the Los Angeles Field Office. Gaining a wealth of security expertise and a highly regarded reputation within Federal Law Enforcement, Mr. Williams decided to start Talon Executive Services, Inc., a corporate security and investigations company.

  As a Secret Service Agent, Mr. Williams supervised the credit card and financial fraud squad, the counterfeit squad, and the elite Counter Assault Team (CAT) to combat terrorism.

  As the Lead Advance Agent, Mr. Williams was responsible for all advance security plans and logistics coordination for Presidential, Vice-Presidential, and foreign heads-of-state visits to Los Angeles. He personally protected Presidents Ford, Reagan, Bush, and Clinton, as well as such noted dignitaries as Queen Elizabeth, Yitzhak Shamir, and Pope John Paul and was the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Secret Service Director’s Award for Special Achievement on eight occasions.

  Focusing on the company he founded in 1994, Talon Executive Services, Inc., Mr. Williams has created a highly advanced team of former Secret Service and F.B.I. agents as well as other federal, state and local law enforcement officers.

  Threat assessment and physical site surveys performed by Talon include venues such as public transportation, entertainment and pharmaceutical. As a RAM-w certified agent, he performs threat assessments and develops remedial measures for water districts, identified as one of the nation’s critical infrastructures.

  Because of his expertise in the field of anti-terrorism, Mr. Williams was asked by the California Gubernatorial delegation in 2002, to meet with Tom Ridge regarding homeland security. His association with AFAUSSS (Association of Former Agents of the United States Secret Service), ASIS (American Society of Industry Security), ATAP (Association of Threat Assessment Professionals) American Water Works Association (AWWA) Association of California Water Agencies (ACWA) to name a few, keeps him abreast of all matters involving security and threat assessment. He is also an active member of the FBI’s InfraGard program, U.S. State Department Overseas Advisory Council (OSAC) and OCPST (Orange County Private Sector Terrorist Response).

  Mr. Williams frequently appears on Fox News Channel as well as other national shows as a security analyst and terrorism expert. He was also the keynote speaker at the 1999 Alabama Governor’s Conference on Violence in the Workplace Prevention, has made presentations to the California Association of Water Agencies which included a White Paper, and continues to educate organizations on various security issues through specialized seminars and training.

Erick Herring,
         - Former Dir. of Physical and Data Security, Zenith Insurance, Currently VP Engineering and
           Operations, Adapt.com, Board of Advisors

Erick has been involved in Internet software development, product development, and security management since the first commercial applications were available online.

Prior to joining Adapt, Erick held executive positions in companies providing Web-based services, such as Zenith Insurance Company, Digital Evolution, LRN, Full Moon Interactive, Danish Technology Institute, and the Aalborg University Library.

Over the past 20 years, Erick has been responsible for creating a unified management structure for all security and privacy initiatives for a billion dollar workers' compensation insurance company; designing the security architecture for service-oriented architecture management products; managing design, development, and operations for a vendor of compliance solutions to 75 companies in the Fortune 100; and building innovative technology groups that brought clients to the Internet as early as 1987 and the Web beginning in 1994.