The Security Oracle

Charles’ 35+ years in law enforcement, industrial security and consulting have been largely served in senior leadership positions in the USAF Security Forces, county E911 and the electric power industry, and 9 years in Europe working with military, law enforcement, and security authorities. He previously founded two successful security consultancies (Innovative Security Solutions and A Secure America, Inc.) and was Director of Security Programs at Gannett Fleming. Charles designed and implemented security projects collectively valued at $50+ million for energy, chemical, water, airports, seaports, dams, telecommunications, aviation, financial, criminal justice, transit and rail transportation, and military bases. As a USAF Security Forces Officer, Charles commanded large security forces responsible for law enforcement, antiterrorism, and defense of nuclear weapons, aircraft, and space program assests that included space launch facilities. He led development and testing of air base defense plans aimed at protecting air base communities, aircraft, critical infrastructure, and nuclear weapon systems from attack by terrorists and enemy special forces. Charles is co-inventor of TSO’s ‘Defense and Denial Method’, patented in the European Union, Japan, Hong Kong and Canada, and Patent Pending in the United States. MPA from Troy University and BS from Southern Illinois University (SIU). As an adjunct professor, Charles taught Manufacturing Management, Industrial Purchasing, and Quality Improvement for SIU's College of Engineering. Charles L Butler, Jr. is a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and has been certified as “train-the-trainer” in Sandia National Laboratories’ Risk Assessment Methodologies for Chemical Facilities and Communities (RAM-CF and RAM-C), plus RAM-W for water utilities systems.

As Co-Founder and President, Vontella ‘Kay’ Kimball is a visionary and energetic goal oriented problem solver and team builder, with demonstrated success growing a start-up using the revolutionary Business Model Canvas. Her personal mission is to prove Carmine Gallo’s theory: “Ideas, effectively packaged and delivered, can change the world.” Under her leadership, The Security Oracle, Inc. has engineered, deployed and marketed a first-of-its-kind, artificial intelligence (AI) driven solution that “Delivers action at a distance to thwart the adversary prior to adversary success.” (SAFELY!) Kay is co-inventor on TSO’s Defense and Denial Method, which is patented in the European Union, Japan, Hong Kong and Canada, and Patent Pending in the United States. *Vontella Kay Kimball is an inventor on a provisional patent, in March, 2015, that was combined into a single utility patent FILED ON 6.3.2015, along with a provisional patent with co-inventors Charles L Butler, Jr. and Dr. Samuel Smith.* Kay also crafts and manages TSO’s 158 registered trademarks: Robots in the Sky®, Robots on the Move™, Robots on the Rails™, Robots on the Seas™ and RCADS™ in 35 countries around the globe. Together, the TSO TEAM is Changing the World of Security, One Robotic Defense Platform at a Time. The Security Oracle is Solving Wicked Problems of Active Shooters and Threats Against Critical Infrastructure, Assets and People Around the Globe. Kay is all about relationships. She has many years working closely with executive suite and other senior corporate clients in sales and marketing roles. As the President, Kay’s most important role is to keep the TSO TEAM working in perfect harmony and follows the example of Andrew Carnegie in his life long achievement of working as a master mind alliance leader. In this way Kay works with the revolutionary TSO TEAM, including the Wizard of Security Oracle (Anna Wang), a highly distinguished Polymath (Dr. Samuel M Smith) and a Visionary Problem Solver (Charles L Butler, Jr.), and every team needs Winning Coaches, so cue Tim Z Cole for his leadership as TSO’s Team Coach, and James F Stanfield as TSO’s Directors’ Coach!

Chase has been a trial attorney since he graduated from law school in 1986. His practice has focused on a broad range of litigation - Chase has tried matters in Utah State, United States Federal District Court, and before various administrative agencies. His extensive experience is a valuable resource in determining both substantive and procedural strategies in contested matters. One thing that is not contested, however, is Chase’s willingness to be not only ‘hands on’ with TSO’s visionary problem-solver team, but also ‘hard-hat-on’ and attending demos and exhibition events traversing the country, from coast to coast, all in a day’s work of General Counsel. Chase Kimball participated in The Security Oracle’s first major milestone event as booth exhibitor during PowerGrid Resilience Summit and has been guiding the team through legal mazes for more than 7 years. Chase Kimball wears many hats -- a greater honor recently bestowed upon Mr. Kimball is that of being appointed Chair of the Executive Board of the Bachauer Foundation.

When Richard joined The Security Oracle alliance, in October 2014, he was motivated by TSO’s embrace of Sun Tzu’s philosophies of SPEED SURPRISE MANUEVER, “even in something like crunching the numbers.” He said: “The best way to defend the bottom line is to aggressively grow it substantially and sustainably!” As The Security Oracle exists primarily to save more lives and better defend property, our finance and accounting program is about balance, not about myopically driving the business towards immediate, high returns. Right now, the world economy is in a high state of flux due to the recent pandemic and associated increasing crime, global insecurity, supply chain disruptions, and food shortages, coupled with massive technological breakthroughs that will profoundly impact the world of work. Richard, with 35+ years in finance and accounting and 22 years as a CPA, believes that the company’s financial success hinges on avoiding costly surprises via close collaboration with TSO’s Board of Advisors, particularly in the areas of business intelligence and supply chain logistics. As always, of paramount importance along are sales, marketing, and sustained delivery of an unparalleled customer experience. Company finance is about adding value to a sound, adaptable company business model that provides our customers what they want, while increasing returns for investors. At The Security Oracle, Inc. everybody is an investor, and we view every investor a part of our team!

Proven researcher in artificial intelligence, automated reasoning, and intelligent control. A ground floor owner of TSO, Dr. Samuel M. Smith, received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1991. Dr. Smith invested a decade in academia at Florida Atlantic University, attaining full professor status. He has over 100 refereed publications in the areas of automated reasoning. Dr. Smith and TSO’s CEO, Charles Butler, developed what, in retrospect, may be viewed as a first-of-its-kind in master planning for a Smart/Safe and Survivable “City” in their visionary work with Miami Dade County in 2005-2006. Dr. Smith’s forte is to understand and to solve problems both technical and business using a holistic systems design approach. He has developed expertise in systems using machine intelligence (aka, artificial intelligence and automated reasoning) to build very cost efficient and highly performant active physical protection systems, e.g., TSO’s Remotely Controlled Active Defense and Denial System (RCADS™). Beginning in 2014, Dr. Samuel Smith collaborated with The Security Oracle’s technology team in engineering a system of systems that has moved the old best practice of “Detect, Delay and Respond” to “Detect, Engage and Neutralize” (SAFELY). Dr. Samuel Smith also developed an open source elliptic curve based end-to-end encrypted and authenticated protocol for reliable asynchronous event transport (RAET).

Anna has 30 years of process control system security design, energy and telecom regulatory compliance, audit, asset management, business continuity, data warehousing, change and configuration management, security policy design and development, process control and continuous improvement. Anna Wang specializes in providing consulting services pertaining to: Compliance program governance, organization and leadership development, NERC 693 Reliability Standard compliance and mock audit, NERC 706 CIP Standard compliance and mock audit, Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI) Cyber Security Controls compliance, NEI 08-09 critical digital asset identification and compliance reporting, International Instrument Users’ Association (WIB) security process control domain security designs, AURORA mitigation, compliance & security awareness and in-depth training.

A career, seasoned power grid executive who masterfully saved a power utility from financial disaster. Jim filed a legal motion to intervene with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) on behalf of TSO who had an interest in the process of developing a new regulation to upgrade security for the power grid against terrorist tactics. He and TSO's CEO presented TSO’s new Remotely Controlled Active Defense and Denial System (RCADS™) system to FERC commissioners and their security staff. Jim was also instrumental in securing a contract with our early adopter who agreed to purchase deployments of TSO’s RCADS™, aka Robots in the Sky®, that have now been protecting critical infrastructure for 5 years.

James helps TSO constantly perform a "Reality Check" and tweak our Machine as a Service (MaaS) business model. He is a Senior Executive with strong entrepreneurial skills who has demonstrated his ability to exceed company objectives as well as create and sustain strong, vast relationships with customers, partners, and employees in all aspects of security industry. Having built and sold a multi-regional security systems integration company that was merged for sale to ADT Commercial Security Systems, James Fairbanks passion for growing a business to the next level is well established in businesses ranging from start-ups to billion-dollar corporations.