Vice President Parsons, Information Systems & Security Sector Before co-founding Secure Mission Solutions, Phil was an Executive Vice President for security provider Olive Group where he was a key member of the team that obtained acquisition funding as well as led its technology-enabled security practice through a period of dramatic growth in Middle East markets. Prior to joining Olive Group, he was a Senior Vice President and General Manager of the Integrated Security Solutions Business Unit of SAIC which was a unit he created from the integration of three business units into a single integrated security business unit of over $250 million. Phil previously was the Vice President, of the Secure Mission Solutions line of business at General Dynamics where he managed the $300 million security and systems business in the Intelligence Community, DoD and civilian agencies. Prior to General Dynamics, Phil was a Senior Vice President of Veridian where he was a key member of the corporate team that assembled Veridian through acquisition of Calspan, Veda, MRJ, Trident, Erim, & Signal. Additionally, he was President for the Information Technology Information Sharing and Analysis Center; a consortium of IT industry-leading companies working together to share threat, vulnerability and incident data and providing an industry interface to government. Phil was also Director for the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure Protection where he led the commission staff documenting vulnerability of the nation’s critical infrastructure, providing recommendations to the President and supporting the government’s initial critical infrastructure and nationwide cyber protection actions. Phil had a full career and retired from the US Air Force, before joining industry. 








