Greg Fair - G Force Technology Consulting Leadership

Gregory Fair, C.E.O.
G Force Technology Consulting, Inc.

Mr. Fair has demonstrated success in leading many national/global business and technology initiatives, specializing in Business Consulting, Technology Consulting, Business Development, Program/Project Management, and Change Management.

Having worked with many Fortune 500 companies, governments, as well as small medium businesses, Mr. Fair excels at understanding the core of successful business and government agency operations.

His technical career began with the U.S. Army as a Station Technical Controller, assigned to the U.S. Army 5th Signal Command in Europe where he managed many worldwide Department of Defense (DoD) and North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) communications networks.

Then specifically selected for an assignment at The Pentagon in Washington, D.C., he managed many Top Secret communications networks for the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS), the National Military Command Center (NMCC), the DoD, C.I.A., NSA, D.E.A., Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the State Department, and the White House, including Air Force One communications and the Washington to Moscow Hotlink (The “Red” Phone), as well as many other Top Secret government networks.

The Pentagon assignment allowed Mr. Fair to work on many cutting edge technologies at the time, including one of the first Fiber Optic systems, the beginning of video compression technology, and working on the classified "Internet" (the ARPAnet and Defense Data Network) before it became the public Internet, this was pre-TCP/IP.

He also consulted on the world's first DNS Server on the Internet. The "Internet" had only one thousand end users at the time.

After completing specialized training at the U.S Army Special Forces school, he was deployed to support the U.S. Army Special Forces and other U.S. Intelligence Agencies on many overseas Top Secret missions.

Security Clearance held: Top Secret/SI/SCI - NATO, ATOMAL.

Post-military, Mr. Fair joined Timeplex, Inc., in Washington, D.C., and continued to support many government clients and many critical national and global network infrastructure projects.

At Timeplex, Mr. Fair established himself as a leading expert in emerging network technologies, and notably resolved a very complex global network-wide problem that had been perplexing Sprint engineers for several years, Mr. Fair solved it in less than 30 minutes upon arriving on-site at Sprint, which led to a multi-million-dollar contract for Mr. Fair to spearhead a global project to redesign the entire SprintNet worldwide backbone network (The Internet).

He also developed and conducted comprehensive Project Management training programs while managing large-scale national and global projects for clients such as The F.B.I, The State Department, The NSA, C.I.A, Bank of America, Blue Cross, and Walt Disney.

Following Timeplex's downsizing, Madge Networks recruited him as a Senior Systems Engineer to manage their largest accounts, Cigna, Aetna, and GE Capital.

His expertise extended to energy infrastructure projects, working with the then Governor George W. Bush on the Texas Natural Resource Conservation Commission (TNRCC) as well as many other oil, natural gas and energy infrastructure companies.

Then when Madge Networks downsized, Mr. Fair was recruited by Nortel Networks as a Sales Engineer, where he excelled in designing and selling multi-million-dollar Core Internet Backbone solutions.

He also worked with many international companies like B.M.W. and Mercedes Benz and assisted in opening their new manufacturing plants in the United States, and worked with many other international clients such as Boeing, Airbus, Lufthansa, TWA, Alcon/Brazil, Deutsche Bundespost, and France Télécom.

And with many financial institutions like The New York Stock Exchange and Morgan Stanley, as well as many US and international banks including Banco Do Brasil, The Bank of Thailand and The World Bank.

He was as a leading Network Security Expert, and consulted with agencies like the DoD, F.B.I., C.I.A., NSA, and The White House on global network security trends.

In 2001, he founded G Force Technology Consulting, Inc., providing comprehensive business and technology consulting and Program/Project Management services.

In 2004, he simultaneously established Uniform Display, Inc., to develop and patent The Uniform Display Case.

Then as Sr. Program/Project Manager at The Department of Treasury, he led the development of multiple simultaneous large scale agency public facing portals as well as developing and building out the associated back-end policies, procedures, tracking, reporting, and training:

The Treasury Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) public and internal portal.
The Treasury Equal Opportunity (EEO) public and internal portals.
The Treasury Inter-agency Document Request and internal portal.

He later worked with A1 Consulting Group providing business management support on major civil engineering infrastructure projects in the Washington, D.C. area such as the redesign D.C. Waterfront, the Washington Metro Area Transportation Authority (WMATA) Metro/Silver Line Expansion, and the $1.5B Southeast Corridor Projects.

Then working with The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Mr. Fair managed multiple simultaneous complex initiatives, including:

DHS OBIM (Office of Biometric Identity Management) – Secure IT Help Desk
DHS Science & Technology – Enterprise Architecture – Cloud Data Migration.
DHS Transportation Security Administration (TSA) – A.I. Hardware/Software Upgrade.
DHS Immigration and Customs Enforcement – A.I. Software Development/Deployment.

And most recently with the U.S. Treasury Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Mr. Fair was a Senior Program/Project manager overseeing multiple simultaneous cybersecurity initiatives:

Known for exemplary leadership, innovation and integrity, Mr. Fair leads by example and sets a high standard in work ethics, business communications, and professionalism with a clear focus on delivering solutions.

Core philosophy – Every challenge inherently contains the right solution buried within it, using an experienced based, guided and collaborative approach, the correct path forward always reveals itself.

Mr. Fair excels in coordinating at multiple organizational levels, as well as interpreting intricate technical and business challenges to deliver complex and comprehensive solutions.

Being highly "mission-driven" Mr. Fair also understands that different departments possess different areas of expertise, making it essential to convey and interpret the goals effectively within an organization in order to effect change.

Mr. Fair attended PhD programs at MIT and CalTech, and completed his MBA at St. Petersburg College in Florida, as well as Project Management Institute - Project Management Professional (PMP) training.