Astra Veda Corp (ASTA)

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LOOK ! ASTA Our Ventures and Innovations
We co-found technology companies and incubate them to maturity to generate revenue for Astra and our partners. We build winning products in a capital-efficient way, using design thinking, lean startup and agile development methodologies.



Ballistic Barrier Products

Ballistic Barrier Products (BBP) is a manufacturer of premium lightweight and flexible roll goods certified to NIJ Level IIIA and UL752 Class 3 for hand gun threat protection. Their main products are bullet resistant window shades and door shields for homes, businesses, schools, government buildings and other public places.

The proprietary fabric design with a core of custom weave of Kevlar® XP para-aramid fiber and a patented mounting design, makes products offered by Ballistic Barrier Products superior to bullet-resistant glass products. Bullet-resistant products offered by Ballistic Barrier Products are cheaper and lighter than bullet-resistant glass or doors and easier to install.



Paranotek LLC

Paranotek is a global innovation company focused on developing mobile apps and licensing robust technologies that increase personal and corporate information privacy through breakthrough advancements in encryption.

Paranotek began as a Finnish technology and design company working together with US partners. Paranotek has developed a disruptive and future-proof encryption technology called Parano™ that can be integrated into existing software and apps for everyday life.



Punchzee

Punchzee is a joint venture development effort between Paranotek, LLC and a group of private investors. Punchzee is a disruptive data-driven project management and team communication platform for the construction industry, property management companies and home developers and inspectors.

Punchzee currently manages over 100,000 critical life, safety and fire certification and inspection tasks for companies throughout the eastern United States, including the NYPD and hospital systems through the area.



Sayphr Messages

Securing your communications by cutting off the eavesdroppers. Sayphr is a instant messaging app in development with all the typical features of a premium messenger with the added bonus of unbreakable security.

To ensure the best possible security for your communications, Sayphr Messaging uses the Parano protocol, a unique end-to-end encryption protocol that makes Sayphr currently the only quantum computer resistant messenger app. Altogether Sayphr Messaging features an astonishing three-layer security technology.

https://www.astra-veda.com/ventures

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Incubating innovative success stories
Astra is a launchpad for disruptive technology startups. Read more about our process below.

About Astra
Astra brings disruptive and innovative technologies to market through a rigorous due diligence and opportunity assessment program called the Astra Gate. The end result is a revenue producing opportunity that has the highest possibility of success and returns for stakeholders. The process is agile, lean and highly optimized for rapid execution focused on the growing demand for software and security between consumers and producers of internet-based content enabled by smartphones and tablets.

Through our subsidiary co-investment and affiliate partnerships, Astra Veda provides a variety of unique tools and software applications that innovative resources for customers and partners to enhance and secure existing platforms.

https://www.astra-veda.com/

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Our Team

https://www.astra-veda.com/team

Mick Davis
Chairman, CEO and Co-Founder

Other experience: CEO, Paranotek; Director, Celsus Advisory Group; Enterprise Architect, Department of Defense; Sr. Advisor, US CYBERCOM; Chief Technologist, ETS Capital Management; Combat Air Crew, US Navy.
After attending the University of Cincinnati and serving active duty as a combat flight crewman with the United States Navy. After his service with distinction, Mick started several companies throughout his civilian career in the technology, security and government research and development contracting spaces.

Mr. Davis' most significant business achievement was in his role in the founding of High-Speed Access Corporation contributing to the more than Two Billion-dollar initial public offering on NASDAQ. A year later, the company was later purchased by Charter Communications owned by Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen.

Mick earned the distinction of being elected by industry peers from the National Cable Television Cooperative (NCTC) to serve as an Associate Director to the Board of the American Cable Television Association. Mick has since proved his technical creativity as a cyber warfare subject matter expert for the Army; as Chief Technology Advisor for ETS Capital; as a Senior Advisor for USCYBERCOM, and Chief Executive Officer of other US-based privacy and security company.

In addition to his academic achievements in Cognitive Human Behavior from the University of Maine, he maintains an active Top Secret clearance from the US government. Mick continues advising government agencies on a variety of confidential initiatives as a highly compensated expert (HCE).

Jeff Ballard
Acting Chief Operating Officer

Other experience: HudsonPacific Properties; Honda American Motors; CIO Advisor, ColoradoAccess; CIO Advisor, SDI Media; Executive Director and Global Head of IT Support Services, Sony Pictures Entertainment.
With over 25 years of corporate leadership and management experience, and a BS in Information Systems, Jeff has a demonstrated ability to deliver multinational organizational, operations and IT initiatives of up to $90M USD in scope.

Before joining Astra Veda, Jeff was brought in to reorganize and reimagine the IT operations for Hudson Pacific Properties, the $5B US West Coast real estate investment trust and the largest owner of independent movie studios in the US. Prior to Hudson Pacific, Jeff drove corporate-wide, multi million dollar initiatives for companies such as Honda, SDI Media, Colorado Access, United Health (Pacificare Health Systems) and Stewart Title. Jeff joined Sony Pictures as a local IT Manager in 2002, leaving Sony after 12 years as their Executive Director and Global Head of IT Support Operations, leading a team of 76 technical engineers supporting one of the largest entertainment companies in the world.

Lauri Tunnela
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder

Other experience: CTO, Paranotek; CTO Swantry; Software Engineer, Verkkovaraani; Developer, Klopal; Director of Web Development, FanBlaze
Lauri is an IT professional who holds a BEng in Information Technology and has over 15 years of broad experience from the IT industry. He masters everything from cybersecurity, embedded hardware design and C-programming to HTML5 based web development, mobile app development and UI design. Lauri's mindset and expertise ensures that data security always comes first in Astra's products.
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Starting as a Director of Web Development with FanBlaze, Lauri turned his creativity and technical expertise into co-founding Astra ventures Paranotek and Punchzee.

Ron MacDonald
General Manager and Director of Sales

Other experience: VP International Sales, Stone Creek Global; Managing Partner, Tecstar Games; Co-Founder CTO, Pocketjobs; Sr. Security Engineer, Dell/EMC
With over three decades of international leadership experience in business and charitable organizations, Ron formerly worked as VP of International Sales for SCG, and was Co-Founder and CTO/CEO of several tech startups. Fitting in well with the rest of the Astra Veda team, Ron also has experience leading IT security efforts at Fortune 500 companies. Ron is based in Buenos Aires, Argentina, and currently leads Astra Veda’s sales and marketing initiatives across our various investment vehicles.

Johannes Maliranta
Director of UX and Service Design

Other experience: UX Designer / Digital Service Designer, Nitro Group; UX Designer and Co-Founder, Paranotek; Web Designer, Verkkovaraani; Designer & Co-Founder, Pixed Creative
Johannes designs services and products in which business results and great customer experiences are achieved through human-centered design and continous improvement. He has 12 years of experience in designing digital services and holds a BEng in Information and Communications Technology. As the head of service and experience design, Johannes utilizes design thinking and lean methodologies to envision and build winning products in a capital-efficient way.