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Tom Myers
Vice President of Business Development
Information in Place, Inc.
tom.myers@iforces.org
Myers leads the IIPI effort to identify and develop business opportunities in the defense, federal and public sectors. He is also the company’s military and aviation subject matter expert. He currently is working with one of the U.S. Army’s Future Combat Systems Family of Systems (FCS) lead systems integrators to develop standards of excellence for design, logistics, and maintenance for manned ground vehicles and related systems, including command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (C4ISR).
He is a former lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserve, with 25 years of active and reserve duty in armor, infantry and civil affairs assignments in the United States, Europe, and Asia. He occupied many leadership positions, including tank platoon leader, company maintenance officer, commander of a tank battalion headquarters company, and company commander of an infantry basic training cadre unit. He developed and supervised unit training exercises in operations and training sections at battalion and brigade levels, and was part of an Army service school team that conducted field development tests of tank weapons system training modules and evaluated effectiveness of vehicle maintenance training programs.
Myers has nearly 20 years’ experience in technology-based product development and marketing. While working in the medical device and medical distribution industries, he headed efforts in new product marketing, domestic and international marketing and sales, and business planning. His marketing assignments also included technology transfer for Department of Defense laboratories and Indiana University, where he specialized in areas of information technology, computer technologies, engineering, basic sciences, and analytical instrumentation. Myers has extensive experience in starting and managing small companies, including commercial photography, aviation services, and e-learning course management firms.
Before joining the U.S. Army, Myers was a reserve deputy sheriff in a rural Indiana county. He also has experience as a hospital emergency room technician and as manager of an ambulance service. He is a commercial pilot and flight instructor with single, multiengine and instrument ratings. An expert trainer, he has taught college-level aviation courses, a wide range of military subjects, and rescue, first aid, and survival courses.
Myers holds a master of business administration (MBA) degree from Indiana University, is an officer and director of the regional chapter of the National Defense Industrial Association, and is chairman of a county airport development advisory committee.
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