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.
Jeffrey Curtis, Strategic Advisor
Former DLA and OSD SES with 32+ years at DOD and another five in commercial industry and consulting. Specializes in supply chain, operations research and analytics at a large scale.
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.
Manuel Trujillo is CEO of Swain Techs and President/Partner of Ace JV 8(a) NHO. Under his leadership, Swain Techs has secured $40M in prime contracts across six federal agencies (12 contracts). His company specializes in Artificial Intelligence, Software Development, and Testing & Validation.
Before his current role, he was the Global Director of Product Marketing at Motorola, where he successfully grew product line revenue from $40M to $400M in four years. Manuel holds a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering, an MBA from Columbia Business School, a Certificate of Special Studies in Management from Harvard University Extension School, and is a Six Sigma Black Belt Quality Certified.
Manuel completed four specializations from Stanford University Professor Andrew Ng at DeepLearning.AI in Generative AI with Large Language Models, Machine Learning Engineering for Production (MLOps), Deep Learning, and Machine Learning. Outside of his professional activities, Manuel enjoys spending time at parks and biking with his family.