Our Team
Our executive team brings expertise from some of the world’s leading identity, security and technology companies.
Michael Marcotte is a proven, relevant CEO with extraordinary expertise combining polymathic breadth and depth.
He has served as the CEO of numerous companies and corporate boards from startups and fast growth pre-IPO companies to publicly traded companies.
He is the former Global Chief Information Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and President (Hughes Cloud Services) of the global EchoStar/EchoStar International/Dish Network/Hughes/SlingTV, etc. family of companies. He was one of the very first people ever, to serve as a Chief Digital Officer for a major global corporation.
He has served as a corporate officer with 7 major corporations. He has M&A experience in billions of dollars of revenue and valuation. He is a partner at New Republic Studios.
Marcotte is a co-founder of the public/private National Cyber Security Center (NCC) and was the founder and Chairman of the NCC’s Rapid Response Center (NCC/RRC).
He is a former board member of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT). He has been a senior advisor for several state Governors and United State Senators, on both sides of the aisle.
He was a recipient of The Business Journals Forty Under 40 award.
He is a two-time winner of the NASA award for engineering excellence and United States Air Force Award of Engineering Excellence.
In his spare time, he enjoys health-related service work, flying aerobatic aircraft, and data driven longevity research.
Todd Bryant is the Senior Vice President of Engineering and oversees the architecture and implementation of all software systems design, support, research and development and cloud deployment, as well as the design and development of inimitable cyber security applications that define Q5iD as the leader of cyber security solutions. A technology veteran with more than 30 years of hands-on experience, Bryant brings deep expertise in cyber security, video, video streaming, information technologies, and cloud architecture to Q5iD.
Bryant has held significant technical and product development executive leadership roles in a multitude of companies focused on improving productivity, stability, and scalability.
Bryant is a serial entrepreneur and built startup companies that include BOXX Technologies, New Cinema and iVrata. He has a BS in Solid State Physics and Astrophysics from the University of Missouri and holds several patents in hardware and video encoding technologies.
Tony Clem is an esteemed author and sought-after global speaker, sharing his firsthand knowledge and expertise on risk management, cyber security incident response, and IT systems planning. He is a contributing author to multiple technical and business journals including the SANS Institute and numerous Technical White Papers.
With his in-depth technical knowledge, Anthony is able to help companies navigate the complex government-mandates and business standards associated with platforms such as; PCI DSS, HIPAA, EU Privacy, SSAE 18, CIS, CSA, ISO 27001, NIST 800-53, GLB, SOX, NERC CIP, and FedRAMP.
Tony is an innovative and forward-thinking leader with a mission to effectively lead teams and improve corporate security measures on a large, global scale while spearheading the development and implementation of data security projects deploying and evaluating systems aimed at quality and efficiency improvement.
Brian Grant, as CFO and Corporate Secretary, leads finance, accounting, and human resources. Grant reports directly to Marcotte. With over 30 years of experience as a financial executive, he has held leadership roles in several industries, including software, high tech and telecommunications. Before Q5iD, Grant was an assurance and consulting partner for an esteemed CPA firm where he managed and rapidly grew the firm’s emerging and growth clients who had complex capital structures and were involved with domestic and international expansion, and mergers and acquisitions. Brian initiated and led the firm’s transaction services practice, providing all aspects of buy-side and sell-side due diligence for private equity and strategic clients. He held significant leadership roles with the firm, including the firm’s innovation and expansion committee, which analyzed existing and future firm investments in service lines and geographies. Brian’s public accounting experience also includes many years with a national firm as an assurance and consulting professional. In addition, he spent several years in private industry in various executive roles.
Dominic O’Dierno is the EVP of Strategic Development and co-founder of Q5iD. In 2001, he co-founded SureID, Inc., the leading provider of identity management and access control solutions for the Departments of Defense and Homeland Security, serving as its Senior VP of Strategic Development. Dominic was responsible for SureID’s intellectual property, strategic partnerships, capital funding requirements and investor relations. Prior to SureID, he was VP and co-founder of Peregrine Holdings, Ltd. (“PHL”), involved in the acquisition, merger, and re-organization of privately held companies with sales up to $150 million. Dominic has over 30 years of experience in strategic development, operations, and capitalization strategy, graduating cum laude with a Bachelor of Science in Finance and Marketing from the University of Oregon, receiving multiple Dean’s list honors, merit-based scholarships, and other recognition.
Dianna Collinson, a co-founder of Q5iD, has more than 20 years of sales experience in B2B and B2C environments, working across multiple channels including Direct Sales, Retail, Indirect B2B & National Sales. Dianna currently leads Strategic Partnerships, Sales & Business Development for Q5iD, and is responsible for revenue generation and brand partnership monetization. Prior to joining Q5iD, Dianna was VP of Strategic Partnerships at SureID, responsible for the development and implementation of key strategic relationships across the business.
Debbie Bingham joined Q5iD as Vice President of Communications in 2022. Debbie developed and is executing all aspects of Q5iD’s communications, marketing and PR strategy to achieve both short and long-term strategic and financial objectives. During her career, she has developed and managed a range of B2B and B2C business and marketing strategies for startups in e-commerce, hospitality, CPGs, and media. Prior to joining Q5iD, she led the launch and development of the renowned hospitality platform, VEGAS.com as Vice President of Business Development. While at VEGAS.comshe was also responsible for global strategic partnerships, leading and managing several brands and business units including SaaS products, retail ticketing, tour and concierge companies, and global hospitality ecommerce platforms. She’s also served as Chief Revenue Officer at One Degree World, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Sundance Helicopters, and Director of Advertising at Condé Net. Her volunteer work includes serving on the non-profit boards of Win-Win Entertainment and Miracle League.
Q5iD Solutions
Q5iD is THE premier cybersecurity software company delivering the BEST identity management solutions in the WORLD. Proven, authenticated, trusted, secure, and managed identity protection, now.
Proven Identity
Q5iD’s patented Proven Identity solution provides a fast and frictionless way for companies to stop fraud, identity theft, and data breaches. We provide each person with one universal identity, delivering the highest level of assurance that each person is who they say they are.
Q5iD Guardian
The Q5iD Guardian app revolutionizes how missing people can be found. Powered by the patented Proven Identity technology, community volunteers, and instant user-initiated alerts.
Know Your Employee
Know Your Employee (KYE) by Q5iD proves and authenticates potential candidates during the pre-employment process by going beyond standard ID verification and background checks. Protect your business, employees, customers, and reputation by proving who your potential employees are before hiring them.
Our Board
Michael Marcotte is a proven, relevant CEO with extraordinary expertise combining polymathic breadth and depth.
He has served as the CEO of numerous companies and corporate boards from startups and fast growth pre-IPO companies to publicly traded companies.
He is the former Global Chief Information Officer, Chief Digital Officer, and President (Hughes Cloud Services) of the global EchoStar/EchoStar International/Dish Network/Hughes/SlingTV, etc. family of companies. He was one of the very first people ever, to serve as a Chief Digital Officer for a major global corporation.
He has served as a corporate officer with 7 major corporations. He has M&A experience in billions of dollars of revenue and valuation. He is a partner at New Republic Studios.
Marcotte is a co-founder of the public/private National Cyber Security Center (NCC) and was the founder and Chairman of the NCC’s Rapid Response Center (NCC/RRC).
He is a former board member of the Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT). He has been a senior advisor for several state Governors and United State Senators, on both sides of the aisle.
He was a recipient of The Business Journals Forty Under 40 award.
He is a two-time winner of the NASA award for engineering excellence and United States Air Force Award of Engineering Excellence.
In his spare time, he enjoys health-related service work, flying aerobatic aircraft, and data driven longevity research.
Mr. Hunt is President and CEO of Hunt Technology, the company he started after his retirement from Federal service. Hunt Technology, LLC, focuses on strategic IT planning, cyber and data-centric security, big data analytics, AI/ML, and cloud computing. Previously he was Managing Director and Cyber Lead for Accenture Federal Services in Arlington Virginia and Chief Architect for Bridgewater Associates, a hedge fund located in Westport, Connecticut. Mr. Hunt currently serves on the Board of Directors for ePlus and VAST Data Federal and on the Board of Advisors for Intel Federal, LookingGlass, iNovex, Enlightenment Capital, and Mission Link.
Mr. Hunt retired from the Central Intelligence Agency (“CIA”) as their Chief Technology Officer (CTO) after a 28-year career. As CTO, Mr. Hunt set the information technology strategic direction and future technology investment plan for CIA. He was the conceptual and motivating force behind CIA’s decision to aggressively move to the Amazon cloud and the Agency’s initial foray into AL/ML through IBM’s Watson. Mr. Hunt developed CIA’s Accelerated Technology Adoption Process to enable CIA to dramatically speed-up its processes to discover, evaluate, acquire and implement new capabilities in support of its business requirements.
Prior to becoming CTO, Mr. Hunt served as the Director of Applications Services for CIA. In this role, he was charged with building the information technology capabilities the enable CIA’s operational and analytic missions. He set the vision and direction for application development at CIA by shifting to Agile Development techniques, implementing a service oriented architecture, building the Agency’s data lake and delivering Security as a Service. He also implemented earned value‐management and total‐cost‐of‐ownership business processes to dramatically improve management decision effectiveness.
Mr. Hunt joined CIA in 1985 as an analyst in CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence and subsequently served in positions of increasing responsibility across the organization to include: the Directorate of Intelligence, Non-Proliferation Center, Crime Narcotics Center, and Open Source Program Office, and the CIO.
Mr Hunt began his career in 1979 working as an aerospace engineer for Rockwell International and General Research Corporation designing advanced manned space flight systems and satellite orbital transfer vehicles. He holds a BE and ME in Civil/Structural Engineering from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. He is married with 2 grown children and 4 beautiful granddaughters. In his spare time, Mr Hunt enjoys skiing, biking, tennis, and photography.
Jed M. Wood is currently the Director or Managing Director for numerous private companies including a private equity company that specializes in corporate restructuring and venture start-up capital.
Mr. Wood entered the oil industry in 1979 and worked his way through the ranks to the level of new technology manager for a major oil and gas producer in Canada. This is where he developed and pioneered the technology of horizontal drilling and the technology which is commonly used for Hz multi-stage fracking today.
In 1993, Mr. Wood founded High Arctic Energy Services LLP, which he then organically grew in a Publicly Traded International Oilfield Drilling and Service Company which operated in 17 different countries. Between 1993 and 2009, he served as President and CEO; and within that tenure he was awarded two patents for oilfield drilling equipment and was nominated the 2006 Ernst Young Alberta Entrepreneur of the Year.
Mr. Wood also has served as the Board Director, Lead Director, and Chair on numerous publicly traded companies.
Since 2010 he has financed and provided operating support to numerous companies including US and Canadian Casino and Hotel property development, a US oilfield drilling technology company, a petroleum exploration company in Papua New Guinea, multiple North American based medical care providers (one of which is directly related to the non-evasive approach to breast cancer detection and treatment with cryosurgery), a clinical-stage biotechnology company, a medical cannabis and psychedelics R&D company and an e-commerce company for the fashion Industry.
Mr. Wood is currently a member of the Private Pilot Association, PADI, and Mensa International.
John Blair is the retired Senior VP of The Juice Plus+ Company, a Marketer of plant-based Nutritional Products. John was born and raised in Southern California. He has an undergraduate degree from Dartmouth College and an MBA from UCLA.
John started his career in 1970 as a CPA with Price Waterhouse in Los Angeles.
In 1979 John took on the challenge of reorganizing and revitalizing the struggling Yokohama Tire Corp. of North America. The company doubled sales every year for four straight years and returned to profitability. Yokohama Tire Corp. is now a $Billion+ enterprise.
In 1984 John became a Managing Director of Geneva Corporation, a pioneer in Middle Market Mergers & Acquisitions where he was involved in the sale of over 100 small businesses.
John joined The Juice Plus+ Company (formerly, NSA, LLC) in 1989 as the VP of Corporate Development. In 1992, John spearheaded the development of the first “whole food based” dietary supplement, JuicePlus+®, which has since become the largest selling nutrition product in a capsule in the world. Part of that product’s success is due the support of 47 Independent, Peer-Reviewed, Published Clinical Research Projects that have been conducted in some of the most prestigious Universities and Research Centers around the world.
John is currently Chairman of the Board of Habitat for Humanity in the Rocky Mountains from Aspen to Parachute (The Roaring fork Valley and much of the Western Slope). During his tenure the Habitat affiliate has gone from building two homes per year to 20; from being cash poor to $1 million in the bank; we built a 60,000 sq. ft. ReStore 5 years ago that now sells $400,000/month in used furniture and employs 50 people. Our current homes are all “Net Zero” with the ultimate goal of being “Carbon Neutral”.
John was previously on the Board of Directors of the Council for Responsible Nutrition in Washington, DC – the leading trade association for the Nutritional Supplement Industry. He was Chair in 2013 and 2014. He is a frequent speaker on health, fitness and whole food-based nutrition to audiences around the world.
John strives to live an active and healthy lifestyle, and is an avid golfer and skier. He was formerly a world-ranked Masters Handball player earning 15 U.S. National Handball Championships.
A Certified Protection Professional, Mr. Humphrey is Owner and President of Humphrey & Company. He evaluates homeland security preparedness, deterrence, business continuity, consequence management, the introduction of leading-edge security technology, and similar initiatives and activities at the municipal, state, national, international and organizational levels.
After retiring from the U.S. Military Police with accelerated promotions and numerous U.S. and foreign awards and decorations, he was one of the highest pure revenue generators at Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) and was head of security at Xerox Corporation. He served as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC).
He has held every leadership position within ASIS-International, and is co-founder, past president and former board member of the International Security Management Association (ISMA). He is a co-founder of the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime Unit Industry Information Group, and has served on the advisory council of the U.S. Financial Fraud Center of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), the Board of Directors of the National Cargo Security Association, and the President’s Commission on Drug Control.
A frequent speaker at leading police, intelligence, and security summits (both domestically and internationally) he has also participated in fact-finding inquiries for the U.S. Department of State and was a serving member of its Accountability Review Board (ARB).
He has held adjunct or full professorships of security and police management programs at Northeastern University, Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe Community College, State University of New York, and Bocconi University. He was also involved with New York State’s Comprehensive Education and Training Act (CETA) programs.
He has served as a board member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) Foundation; committee chairperson of the U.S. Department of State’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC); and members of the (U.S.) President’s Export Council Subcommittee on Encryption, the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), and the National Counterintelligence Center (NACIC). He currently serves on the Naples’ (Florida) Citizen Police Review Board.
He has a Masters of Public Administration Degree from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School (New York), an undergraduate degree from Norwich University (Vermont), and is a graduate of the U.S. Army’s Command and General Staff College.
He has provided background material for a number of espionage and intelligence fictional books, and was the main character in a fictionalized novel several years ago. He was one of the subjects of a definitive 60-Minutes Special, as well as a similar BBC documentary concerning transnational and counter-terrorism. He has also co-authored “What Corporate America Needs to Know About Bioterrorism, in The Executive’s Desk Book on Corporate Risks and Response for Homeland Security” (National Legal Center for the Public Interest, 2003).
Rick King is a former executive of Thomson Reuters, a leading provider of business information services. From 2000 until his retirement in 2021, King held numerous executive-level roles at the company including CIO, CTO, COO, and Managing Director. Prior to Thomson Reuters, King held executive-level positions at Ceridian Employer Services, Jostens Learning and WICAT Systems Inc. He began his career as a teacher and coach in Vermont.
King serves on the board of directors for Huntington Bancshares, Incorporated. He was named by Minnesota Governor Tim Walz to chair the Blue Ribbon Council on IT in 2019 and he currently chairs the Technology Advisory Council. The Governor also reappointed him to chair the Metropolitan Airports Commission, where he has served since 2011 having been appointed twice by former Governor Mark Dayton. In 2009, he was named by former Governor Tim Pawlenty to chair Minnesota’s Ultra High-Speed Broadband Task Force.
King earned bachelor and master’s degrees from the University of Vermont as well as a Certificate in Cybersecurity Oversight from the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.
