Our Team

Karen Dickey, CPA, MBA, Finance

With 30+ years of experience in accounting and finance, primarily for the federal government contracting industry, with expertise in corporate accounting, financial reporting, governance, and strategic planning. A controller for a $500M federal contractor and CFO for a company that grew from $3M to $30M in five years.

Richard Dinnis, Senior Business Development / Capture Executive, Health IT

Business Capture Executive with over 25 years of experience and a focus on bringing high-value to HHS, CMS, and MHS/DHA customers. A results-oriented leader with a successful career in developing and implementing IT strategy in concert with business objectives to grow business from $10M to $1B in the Federal Government Services market.

Joe Foley, Business Development Lead, FAA and Navy

Former Operations Director for Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock, Philadelphia, and seven other sites around the U.S. Responsible for Leading the Operations Department for a 2 Billion Dollar a year Organization.

Under Manny’s leadership, Swain Techs has achieved CMMi ML3 Development & Services appraised and ISO 9001 certified and has won over 12 prime contracts in six federal agencies.

Manny specializes in: Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps), Deep Learning, and Machine Learning and a Course in Generative AI with Large Language Models.

Prior to Swain Techs, Manuel was the Global Director of Product Marketing for Motorola growing product line from $40 million to $400 million in four years.

Manuel holds a Bachelor in Science in Civil Engineering, an MBA from Columbia Business School in New York, a Certificate of Special Studies in Management from the Harvard University Extension School , a Black Belt Digital Six Sigma Certification while at Motorola and Graduated from the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Business Program.

Manuel (Manny) Trujillo, President and CEO