EDCI’s
Management Approach:

• To establish project cost schedules with detailed milestones.
• To establish a cost of work breakdown outline to track the cost of each element.
• Bench testing to ensure no surprises in the field.
• A team approach to all projects.
• Management staff and employees who can perform multiple functions.
• To continue the quest for new technologies and incorporate the most viable ones in order to keep EDCI on the cutting edge.

Frederick W. Major
Founder and
VP of Technology

Mr. Major has enjoyed a long career as a pioneer in space technology. He was with General Dynamics for 31 years, serving as director and chief engineer for new technology, director of the Tomahawk Cruise Missile programs, and director of the Atlas Centaur space programs. The Atlas Centaur space systems comprised a $300 million per year management and engineering contract, a $200 million per year production contract, and a $150 million per year launch services contract, operating out of Florida under Mr. Major's control and responsibility. After leaving General Dynamics, he served as CEO and president of Oak Leaf Corporation, supervising the development of a new internal combustion engine. Prior to his association with Oak Leaf, he was a management consultant for Chamberlain Manufacturing Co. in Waterloo, Iowa, and for Hamilton Sundstrand Power Systems in San Diego, California. Mr. Major is a graduate of St. Louis University, where he received his bachelor of science degree in aeronautical engineering, in addition to pursuing graduate studies in business management. In both 1975 and 1978, he was selected by General Dynamics as Manager of the Year, and in 1987, he received the U.S. Air Force's Extraordinary Achievement Award for Management Excellence.

Jeff Pryor
President

For over 20 years, Mr. Pryor has been responsible for developing tremendous growth in marketing, sales and sales management in the electronic component and electronic production equipment industry. For the past six years, he's been the owner and manager of a consulting and integration security company, specializing in video surveillance, access control and general security systems for commercial properties, government agencies and school districts. Mr. Pryor holds a bachelor's degree in marketing, and a master's degree in business administration, with a major in technology management. His strong leadership and business generation skills are now focused on the development of EDCI.

Don Kalland
Senior VP of Marketing &
Business Development

Mr. Kalland serves EDCI's worldwide project and business development initiative, following 35-years of industrial and commercial marketing, sales, and engineering success as an independent contractor, generating new business for US companies to a wide variety of industries and markets. He leads the current sales strategy for the company. Before joining EDCI, Mr. Kalland consulted to WTE marketers, and developed a plan for selling a .NET sequel server based XML software communications program in California that was designed to provide real time information to multiple market users. He also produced new sales and service materials, brochures, training, presentation guides, E-commerce enabled web sites, public and private order online programs for a 3M Abrasive Products distributor. He spent 20 years as an associate contractor for Thomas Register, where he developed strategy, market planning & execution to a variety of industrial B2B companies. Mr. Kalland's industrial background includes metalworking manufacturing, factory automation and related machinery produced systems for aerospace, government, metal/plastic fabrication and production industries world-wide. He has designed and built multiple machine-tool servo control systems (hydraulic & electronic) used to semi-automate various machinery & worked to improve original equipment tolerances. At Grumman Aerospace, Propulsion dept., he was awarded “Employee of the Month” for a tool design used on the F-14 and the Lunar Module. Mr. Kalland is a Graduate of Nassau College with a major in Economics; and was honorable discharged from the USAF E-5, as a flight line top mechanic and field trainer.

Dr. Jan Pryor
CEO and VP: International
Enterprise Development

Dr. Pryor currently serves as director of research for the Fiji School of Medicine (FSMed), and as associate director of the Micronesia Human Resource Development Centre (MHRDC). He previously served as an assistant professor of family practice and community health at the University of Hawaii's Pacific Basin Medical Officers' Training Program in Pohnpei. In addition to his medical career, Dr. Pryor is also a successful business entrepreneur, with both for-profit (e.g., Pohnpei Waste Management Services, Pacific Health Enterprises) and non-profit (e.g., MHRDC) enterprises in the Pacific island countries. Dr. Pryor holds degrees in both biology and medicine, and a master's degree in public health. His experience in the health and science industries, as well as in the development and operation of successful business ventures in developing countries, are valuable assets to EDCI.

Mike Keller
Government Liaison,
Secretary
Asst. Treasurer

Mr. Keller has specialized in marketing and financial development for various publicly traded corporations in international markets, working in conjunction with the U.S. Department of Commerce. He's also served as the liaison for developing industrial manufacturing sites, working with the legal departments of international, local and federal governments to obtain permits and build support staff for the sites. In addition, Mr. Keller has extensive expertise in importing commodities and working with both U.S. and international import/export regulations. Mr. Keller's vast experience in working with various international governments' local regulations, legal departments and import/export facilities, as well as his background in manufacturing site development, provide valuable assets for EDCI. Mr. Keller holds a degree in forestry and land management.

Daniel Bender
ITC Manager

In addition to a decade spent working for a number of major broadcasting outlets (including CNN and the Disney Channel), Mr. Bender has both founded and assisted many start-up companies over the course of his career. He was founder and president of Cupid's Network, Inc., a software dating service started in 1990. The company developed matchmaking software for Helena VIP, a former matchmaking service in Beverly Hills, California. Cupid's Network, Inc. then teamed up with Automated Communications Corporation of Michigan to develop a sophisticated 900 number IVR system for the singles market. They also developed and maintained a database software system for an alternative lifestyles magazine publisher. In 1995, the company created two websites that eventually became leaders in the singles industry: American Singles (www.americansingles.com), originally based on the non-profit American Singles organization; and Cupid's Network, a directory listing over 2,000 singles websites. Cupid's Network was acquired by Match Net, PLC (now Spark Networks) in May, 1999, for $3.6 million. Shortly after selling his company to Match Net, Mr. Bender helped the firm to create and operate a German version of American Singles called DeutscheSingles.de (www.matchnet.de). Since 1995, he's also been operating the www.weather.org website, as a public service.