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Xcalibur Unveils its Board of Advisors
Vienna, VA. (August 14, 2007)-XCALIBUR,
a leading provider of technology, engineering, and consulting services to the public sector,
today made public its Board of Advisors. This distinguished group includes nationally acclaimed
business leaders in public sector and commercial markets, as well as esteemed experts in defense,
intelligence and public policy issues.
The Advisory Board consists of the Honorable John Breaux, senior counsel with Patton Boggs and a
former U.S. Representative and Senator from Louisiana:. Mr. Sidney E. Fuchs, president and chief
executive officer of OAO Technology Solutions, Inc. and a former Central Intelligence Agency officer
and Northrop Grumman senior executive; Mr. Peter Marino, an expert on defense and intelligence issues
who held positions as the director of Technical Service at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and
president and chief operating officer at Lockheed Electronics Co.; Mr. Chris Cantarella, a principal
at Heidrick and Struggles who also held a key leadership role in Ernst & Young's Private Equity Practice;
and Mr. Tom Weston, executive vice president and chief financial officer for QinetiQ North America.
“I am honored to attract such a stellar group of highly accomplished executives who are firmly committed to
Xcalibur’s success. This is a reflection of their belief in us, our strategy for growth, and our ability to
execute,” said Rafael Fagundo, Xcalibur CEO. “This is an advisory board that any fortune 500 company would
benefit from.”
Members of the Xcalibur Inc. Advisory Board will help the company formulate its strategic
business portfolio and cultivate relationships to expand services and secure new customers.
Advisory board members and backgrounds
The Honorable John Breaux
Senator Breaux joined Patton Boggs as senior counsel upon his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 2005.
He provides strategic advice to the firm’s attorneys and clients on a wide range of public policy matters,
with special concentration in the areas of health care and energy law. With a long and distinguished public
service career, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1972, representing the 7th District of
Louisiana for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 1986.
Senator Breaux was a founder of the Centrist Coalition of Senate Democrats and Republicans and served as
Chairman of the Democratic Leadership Council. In 2005 president George W. Bush appointed Senator Beaux
as the Co-Chair of the President’s Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform, and was chosen in 2006 as a member
of the Advisory Committee on Transformational Diplomacy at the U.S. Department of State. Senator Breaux also
serves on the boards of CSX Corporation and IMG Corporation.
Mr. Sidney E. Fuchs
Mr. Fuchs is president and CEO, and a director of OAO Technology Solutions, Inc (OAOT), a privately held
global IT company that supports government and commercial customers worldwide. Previously, Mr. Fuchs served
as a corporate officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation and was president of Northrop’s Civilian Agencies Group
and TASC, Inc. Prior to this he held various leadership positions at Rational Software, Oracle and Digital
Equipment Corporation, and served as a Central Intelligence Agency Officer from 1987 to 1995. In 2002,
he was nominated by the White House and received a federal appointment to the Board of Visitors, National
Defense University (NDU) and in 2003 was named an NDU Distinguished Visiting Fellow.
A published author and speaker, Mr. Fuchs is also a member of the CEO Panel for the Information
Technology Association of America’s (ITAA) Coalition for America’s High Tech Future and served on
the boards of AFCEA International, Millennium Bank, Roam Secure, Inc., Joint Military Intelligence
College Foundation, Fairfax County Public Library Foundation, Tower Club, the LSU Department of Mechanical
Engineering, the Potomac Officer’s Club, the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and Pi Tau Sigma.
He earned BS and MS degrees in Mechanical Engineering from the Louisiana State University and has
completed numerous executive programs.
Mr. Peter Marino
Mr. Marino is a nationally acclaimed expert on defense and intelligence issues. Throughout his
distinguished career, Mr. Marino held various senior executive positions including the director
of Technical Service at the CIA, president/COO of both Lockheed Electronics Co., Inc. and Fairfield
Industries, Inc., Sr. vice president of E-Systems, Inc., and CEO and president of Fire Arms Training Systems.
A published author of several technical papers, Mr. Marino has also served on numerous boards,
including current membership on the Defense Science Board, chairman of the National Geo-Spatial
Intelligence Agency Advisory Group, and the Defense Science Board's task force on Intelligence for
Homeland Defense. Mr. Marino also serves on the board of Qinetiq North America. He received a BS in
Physics from Rollins College and a MS in Acoustics from Pennsylvania State University.
Mr. Chris Cantarella
Mr. Cantarella is a Principal at the global executive search firm of Heidrick and Struggles in their
Private Equity Practice. He focuses on placing senior executives for Private Equity backed aerospace &
defense, technology, and industrial companies. Previously, he was a key leader in Ernst & Young's Private
Equity Practice, working closely with scores of technology and defense-related companies, as well as with
the private equity and venture capital funds who backed them. Prior to becoming the CEO of a software
company, he was an internal auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers and he served as a U.S. Naval Officer.
Mr. Cantarella serves as a board member for the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC), the NVTC
Entrepreneurship Center, and the National Capitol Area Kidney Foundation. He is a regular guest lecturer
at the University of Maryland and George Washington University. Mr. Cantarella received a BS in Engineering
from the U.S. Naval Academy, an MBA from George Washington University, and is a graduate of Harvard's High
Potentials Leadership Program.
Mr. Tom Weston
Mr. Weston has 20 years of experience in the finance and accounting field and is the executive vice
president and chief financial officer for QinetiQ North America, a company that provides world class
technology and responsive solutions to its customers in the information technology and technology research
and development fields.
Mr. Weston joined QinetiQ North America from Apogen Technologies, Inc. where he led the sale of Apogen
Technologies to QinetiQ Group plc. Prior to this he was the senior vice president and CFO for federal
information technology services company BTG, Inc. and also led the successful negotiation and sale of
BTG to Titan Corporation. He has twice been a finalist for Northern Virginia Technology Council’s CFO
of the Year award and, in 2006, was a finalist for Executive of the Year at the 4th Annual Greater
Washington Government Contractor Awards ceremony.
