Gary Connor and Matt Rogers Join Torch Technologies Board of Directors

August 26, 2010

Torch Technologies is pleased to announce that Gary Connor and Matt Rogers have been elected to the Torch Technologies Board of Directors.

Gary Connor, Brig Gen, USAF (Retired), joins the Board after a distinguished 31-year Air Force career, most recently serving as the Deputy Program Manager for the Ballistic Missile Defense System, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) in Huntsville. He brings over 20 years of senior executive management experience leading multi-billion dollar enterprises and 1000's of people to develop and field fighter, missile defense, command & control, and intelligence/surveillance/reconnaissance systems for the US, NATO & Allies.

Other notable senior leadership positions were: Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) Director, MDA; Deputy Chief of Staff for Communications, Multi-National Force, Iraq; Commander, Command & Control (C2) Intelligence Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) and Battle Management Systems Wings, Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts, and; Director Reconnaissance Systems Program Office, Wright Patterson AFB, Ohio. Since his Air Force Retirement in September 2009, Mr. Connor started his own consulting company, Connor Group, LLC, supporting a diverse array of Federal, Defense and commercial technology endeavors.

General Connor earned a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering and a Master of Science in Computer Engineering, both from the University of Lowell, Lowell, Massachusetts.

Mr. Matthew Rogers served as an executive in the Intelligence Solutions Division of General Dynamics Information Technology from March 2003 until May 2010. There, he established a rapidly growing business unit providing technical services to the Intelligence Community.

Before joining General Dynamics, Mr. Rogers served 29 years in the United States Navy. He was the Director of the NRO’s Low-Earth-Orbit Systems Program Office; the senior Naval officer establishing the office of the Department of Defense Space Architect directing engineering and investment strategies for satellite communications and command and control for the Department of Defense and NASA; and Program Manager of the Navy’s Global Command & Control Systems.

Mr. Rogers earned a M.S. in Electrical Engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.

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