Ashton Technology Group (fka ASTN)

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Fred S. Weingard
Fred Weingard is currently a director of Ashton and UTTC. He also serves as Executive Vice President and Chief Technology Officer of Ashton and leads the design and implementation of their strategic systems.

Mr. Weingard provides management and technology leadership for development projects, designs financial analytical tools, and performs due diligence for technology of strategic plans, partnerships and acquisitions. Mr. Weingard briefs and demonstrates the products to a diverse spectrum of audiences, supporting marketing, selling, training, and operations with respect to the implementation of new products, services and systems.

Mr. Weingard’s recruiting, design, implementation and testing led to the final development of the eVWAP™ trading system. He led efforts that produced a state-of-the-art security infrastructure for eVWAP and for future products including: advanced encryption, authentication, multilevel firewalls, B-2 & C-2 level trusted subsystems, and proprietary access control mechanisms.

Prior to joining Ashton, Mr. Weingard was a Principal at Booz•Allen and Hamilton Inc. During his eleven years at Booz•Allen, he founded and directed the Advanced Computational Technologies Practice (ACTP) that grew to over 50 technology and systems personnel in three locations. Mr. Weingard and his staff were responsible for marketing, selling, and the successful performance of over $45 million of federal and commercial contract work involving complex system design and implementation, and application of advanced computational technologies. Application domains included: military; intelligence community; financial; marketing; law enforcement; biometrics; health care/medical; and manufacturing. Application areas included: pattern recognition; risk assessment; tracking and prediction; information and concept representation; filtering, fusion and analysis; modeling and simulation; autonomous decision systems; multimedia and intelligent databases; parallel and distributed processing systems; information compression and security; and speech, signal, image, text processing and recognition. Technology areas included: artificial intelligence (AI); neural networks; advanced statistics and mathematical modeling; parallel processing; and client-server, middleware and database technologies.

In 1991, Mr. Weingard and several of his staff won the highly coveted Booz•Allen Professional Excellence award. Just prior to leaving Booz•Allen, Mr. Weingard headed a team to recruit, challenge, and retain world-class technology and systems.

Prior to joining Booz•Allen, Mr. Weingard spent five years as a senior intelligence analyst for the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC. Prior to DIA, Mr. Weingard spent five years as a lead Nuclear Engineer for an architectural engineering firm in New Jersey.

A nationally recognized expert in the field of neural networks, Mr. Weingard has been an invited panelist and lecturer for government, industry, academia, and professional societies. He has authored or co-authored over 12 scientific papers and publications and is a National Science Foundation national mathematics award winner. For over 16 years he has held US government clearances above top-secret and holds Professional Engineering licenses in mechanical engineering from New York and Washington States. Mr. Weingard is the sole inventor of two US patents in the field of neural networks and is accredited with inventing five Booz•Allen proprietary technologies/products.

Mr. Weingard received his Bachelor’s degree in Physics and his Master’s degree in Nuclear Engineering from Cornell University in New York, and a Master’s degree in Computer Science from the George Washington University in Washington, DC.

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