Executive Management

Mark Fuller is an accomplished leader and manager with over forty years of experience in public and private companies, large corporations and start-up ventures with businesses in the commercial and government sectors. He has served in numerous executive roles including Chairman, President, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Operating Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Revenue Officer. In addition, he has held senior leadership positions responsible for engineering, operations, sales, corporate development/strategy and service delivery.

Mark's work history includes commercial companies and government contractors across various industries; telecommunications, Internet, software, cyber security, energy management, renewable energy, real estate and consulting. As part of management teams and as an outside advisor, he has raised over $3 billion in funding for the growth and expansion of businesses. In 2003 he was a founding shareholder of Chesapeake Government Technologies, which was acquired by Widepoint Corporation (Amex: WYY) in 2004 where he served as a Director and CEO. He has also led and been involved in various mergers and acquisitions.

Mark is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, New York where he received a Bachelor of Science in Engineering and has earned FINRA (NASD) Series 7 and 66 licenses.

Jay Wright has over twenty years of experience in finance and public markets. As the Chairman, Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial Officer of three public companies over the past eleven years, he has structured numerous private and public financing transactions. He also served as Chief Financial Officer for TAMSCO, a privately held government contractor, which he helped sell for $83.5 million in 2003, and was a founding shareholder of Chesapeake Government Technologies, which was acquired by Widepoint Corporation (Amex: WYY) in 2004. He has expertise in all aspects of structuring private placements and in creating exits via mergers and acquisitions and open market sales.

Previously, Mr. Wright worked as an investment banker with Merrill Lynch in New York and a mergers and acquisitions lawyer with Foley & Lardner in Chicago and Skadden, Arps in New York. Mr. Wright received his law degree from the University of Chicago Law School and his Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from Georgetown University, summa cum laude, where he also serves as an adjunct finance professor. Mr. Wright is a member of the Illinois state bar and is Series 7, 24 and Series 66 qualified. Mr. Wright is the co-author of Finance and Accounting for Nonfinancial Managers, Sixth Edition (Perseus Books, 2010).

Captain (Retired) Glen Ives is responsible for establishing and growing Castellum's Navy and Marine Corps Division. Additionally he will identify companies for potential acquisition. In his previous role as President and CEO of Sabre Systems, he brought together a world class team of technology leaders and professionals and transformed the company into a leading technology solutions and services enterprise, providing software and systems engineering solutions for mission critical requirements across the high value domains of Cyber, AI/ML, C5ISR, Data Science and Analytics, Cloud Technologies, and Digital Transformation. A graduate of the United States Naval Academy and United States Army War College, he served as a Naval Officer and Naval Aviator deployed throughout the world and across the United States.

His last Navy assignment was in Southern Maryland as Commanding Officer of the World's Finest Naval Air Station Patuxent River, the nation's premier Research, Development, Test and Evaluation Center of Excellence for Naval Aviation; representing a $45 billion enterprise of over 22,000 engineering, technology and business professionals.

He also served as President of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance and helped lead Maryland's efforts to become a FAA designated UAS Test Site for UAS integration into the National Airspace, and he coordinated and brokered a partnership with the states of Maryland, Virginia and New Jersey and their respective state universities.

His leadership while President of the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance, also helped to bring the University System of Maryland to the Southern Maryland region with an anticipated $85 million Academic and Research, Development and Technology Innovation complex at the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland. This new multi-million dollar center will fuel technology innovation, transfer and commercialization, and new startups. It will also significantly strengthen the Southern Maryland region's work force through education and training opportunities, grow better paying, higher quality professional careers and jobs, and diversify the region's economy and industry base.

Glen also served on the Board of Directors of the Professional Services Council (PSC), the leading advocate of the government technology and professional services industry, as well as the Southern Maryland Navy Alliance (Past President). He is a member of the Board of Trustees of St. Mary's College of Maryland and the Advisory Board for the University System of Maryland at Southern Maryland.

David Bell has 28 years of experience in the public accounting profession with both Arthur Andersen and Deloitte, including 14 years as an audit partner with Deloitte. He has a proven track record leading service engagements and advising C-suite and boards of public and private companies in aerospace & defense, technology, and other industries. David has extensive knowledge of revenue recognition, leases, derivatives, consolidation, and internal controls.

While at Deloitte, in addition to serving as the lead client service partner for many accounts, David served in Deloitte's national office as an accounting consultation partner and as chief of staff. As a consultation partner, he consulted with engagement teams addressing complex technical accounting issues. In his operational role as chief of staff, David focused on technical and organizational efforts to restructure and refocus the accounting, SEC reporting, and auditing divisions to better serve clients.

David graduated with a degree of Bachelor of Business Administration in Accounting, summa cum laude, from Harding University, where he also serves on the university's President's Council. David is a Certified Public Accountant (“CPA”), licensed in Illinois and Virginia, and a member of the American Institute of CPAs, Illinois CPA Society, and the Virginia Society of CPAs.