Subject: RE: Former Dep Asst Sec Def; Cyber happy to speak with Rosemont Seneca before or after Thurs meeting re BlackRidge
From: "Marc LoPresti" <[email-masked]>
To: "'Eric Schwerin'" <[email-masked]>, "'Franklin Tuck'" <[email-masked]>
Cc: "'Hunter Biden'" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2014 11:16:58 -0400

That makes sense to me.  Eric, will you be here on Thursday?

Best regards,

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From: Eric Schwerin [mailto:[email-masked]] 
Sent: Tuesday, March 25, 2014 11:16 AM
To: Franklin Tuck
Cc: Hunter Biden; Marc Lopresti
Subject: Re: Former Dep Asst Sec Def; Cyber happy to speak with Rosemont
Seneca before or after Thurs meeting re BlackRidge

Thanks, Scott.   That is very helpful.

I think it would make sense to schedule the call as a follow up to the
meeting on Thursday.   We can get a readout on the meeting and then a call
with Bob would serve as a good follow up.  Thanks for the offer.

Can we touch base after the meeting on Thursday and figure out a good time
to schedule?

Best,

Eric

 

Eric D. Schwerin

Rosemont Seneca Partners, LLC

1010 Wisconsin Ave., NW

Suite 705

Washington, DC 20007

(202) 333-1880

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On Mar 25, 2014, at 9:24 AM, Franklin Tuck <[email-masked]> wrote:

Eric,

I briefed the following to Marc who suggested I pass on to you and Hunter.

We mentioned that Bob Lentz (featured below) would be coming onto the
BlackRidge Board when formed.

I was on a new BlackRidge investor conference call (Marc can update) this
weekend where Lentz shared some specific inside baseball relative to DOD
enthusiasm/funding for BlackRidge as part of the Cyber solution.

As a highly credible, "interested 3rd party", Lentz shared his perspective
on the uniqueness of BlackRidge relative to competitors in the market as
well as the scalability of the technology across broad commercial and
governmental sectors. 

In addition to being on a current DOD task force and member of the
Automotive Safety Council, he is on the cyber hall of fame nominating
committee and per below, a Board Member of FireEye--- FireEye is a fan of
BlackRidge and there are potential partnering opportunities in the future.
The same is true for the firewall manufacturers as they are having thru-put
problems which we of course significantly reduce. 

Given Hunter's comments during our meeting that BlackRidge may be a bit
earlier stage revenue than Rosemont Seneca normally considers, yet also
recognizing BlackRidge to be a bit of a different animal, we wanted to offer
an independent conversation with Bob Lentz which you may find helpful
reconciling both near as well as intermediate/longer term DOD and
Governmental revenue, as well as comment on the commercial $$ opportunity.

Lentz is available to speak either Thursday or Friday this week by phone or
next week. You may prefer to speak with him before the Thurs meeting with
the BlackRidge team--- may make the meeting more effective for you, or as a
follow up-----I leave to your judgement should you find this helpful.

Thanks Eric---let me know and I will be happy to set up the call with Bob.

Kind Regards,

Scott

 

 

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Robert F. Lentz Joins FireEye's
Board of Directors

Lentz to Help Define & Implement FireEye's Federal Go-To-Market Strategy

Milpitas, California - Jan 20, 2010 -  <http://www.fireeye.com/> FireEye,
Inc., the leader in modern malware protection systems, today appointed
Robert F. Lentz to the company's Board of Directors. Lentz, a seasoned cyber
security expert and former Chief Information Assurance Officer (CIAO) for
the Department of Defense (DoD), will play an active role in further
defining and implementing FireEye's go-to-market strategies for combating
custom and targeted malware attacks in Federal and enterprise networks.

Lentz has more than 35 years of experience and service to the U.S.
government and its cyber-crime and information assurance efforts. As the
DoD's CIAO, Lentz oversaw the Defense-wide Information Assurance (IA)
program. This organization plans, monitors, coordinates and integrates IA
activities across the DoD. Simultaneously, Lentz served as Deputy Assistant
Secretary of Defense for Cyber, Information and Identity Assurance in the
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, Networks and Information
Integration/Chief Information Officer. Prior to serving as CIAO of the DoD,
Lentz spent 26 years at the National Security Agency.

Notably, Lentz received the NSA Resource Manager of the Year Award, the
Defense Meritorious Service Award, the 2006 "Top 20" Excellence.gov
<http://excellence.gov/>  Award, the 2003 Presidential Rank Award and the
2004 "Federal 100" award. In 2004, Lentz also received the highest-level
honorary award the Department can bestow on a civilian employee, the
prestigious Secretary of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award. "I'm
pleased to be joining the Board of Directors of such an innovative IT
security company," said Lentz. "FireEye's cyber security solutions help
protect against the highly sophisticated and custom malware attacks targeted
at the U.S. Federal Government and enterprise networks, including Critical
Information Protection (CIP) sectors, the Academic community and State and
Local government. I look forward to amplifying the company's federal sector
growth to strengthen our nation's cyber security infrastructure."