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Headquartered in Alexandria, Virginia, Halifax provides an extensive, geographically distributed network of technology professionals and service locations. Our comprehensive Enterprise Maintenance Solutions provide the reliability, coverage, and response to satisfy the technology support needs of our solution provider, commercial and government clients.

Halifax’s management team is dedicated to building the premiere Enterprise Maintenance Solutions organization. Our management team has the broad experience and leadership skills necessary to assist Halifax on its continued development and growth while ensuring our customers with world-class technology services. This experience from years within the information technology industry across a multitude of business sectors allows us to listen and understand our customers' support issues and offer the most effective, innovative and aggressive solutions available in the industry.


Executive Team | Board of Directors

Halifax Management Team

Charles L. McNew
Charles L. McNew
President and CEO

As President and Chief Executive Officer of Halifax Corporation Charles McNew is responsible for directing the profitable growth and strategic evolution of the Company. He has recruited a talented new senior management team who are actively building a focused and responsive Enterprise Maintenance Solutions organization. Mr. McNew has over 25 years of progressive management experience and has held senior level management positions with a variety of public telecommunications and services companies.

Mr. McNew joined Halifax in July 1999 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in May of 2000. Prior to his current position he served as Executive Vice President for the Company. From 1994 to 1999, Mr. McNew was Chief Financial Officer and then Chief Operating Officer of Numerex Corporation, a publicly traded wireless telecommunications solutions company. Mr. McNew has a Masters in Business Administration from Drexel University and a BS in accounting from Penn State.

 

Hugh Foley
Hugh Foley
Vice President, Operations

As Vice President of Operations for Halifax beginning in April 2002, Mr. Foley is responsible for all aspects related to the development and delivery of services and support to over 1,000 Enterprise Maintenance clients. Mr. Foley joined Halifax in November 1998, initially to manage and implement the Virginia Department of Transportation / Virginia Retirement Systems seat management contract. Prior to joining Halifax, Mr. Foley spent 16 years in the computer service industry in various sales, operations and financial management positions with Sorbus, Bell Atlantic Business Systems, and DecisionOne. In addition, Mr. Foley has held key management positions with value added reseller organizations such as Emtec, Inc., MicroAge, Pride Technologies and Computerware. Hugh has a Masters in Business Administration from Drexel University and is a graduate of Villanova University with a BS in Business Administration, with a major in accounting.

 

Arthur Whalen
Vice President, Planning and Pricing

As Vice President of Planning and Pricing Mr. Whalen is responsible for developing service plans and preparing competitive pricing for or all new business opportunities. Art joined Halifax in 1993 as the Director of Planning and has also served as Vice President of the High Availability Service. Prior to Halifax, Mr. Whalen worked for Electronic Associates in both sales and operations and also worked for Systems Research Laboratories as a Project Manager. Mr. Whalen holds a BA in Management from Antioch University.

 


Charles A. Harper
Vice President, Strategic Development

Charles Harper is responsible for developing and implementing strategic initiatives for Halifax. Charlie joined the company in October, 2004 through the acquisition of AlphaNational Technology Services where he served as Senior Vice President, Business Development from 1997 until joining Halifax. Prior to AlphaNational he was with IBM where he spent over 30 years in various service related positions. After several executive field management positions he was Director of Complementary Product Service where he launched and managed IBM’s multi-vendor services business for 10 years. Prior to his retirement from IBM he managed IBM’s alliance and acquisition efforts for Availability Services for North America. Charlie received a BA in economics from North Carolina State University in 1972 and a Masters in Business from Columbia University in 1986. He received a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University in 1996.

 

Doug Reece
Doug Reece
Vice President, Sales and Marketing

Doug Reece is responsible for Halifax’s sales, marketing and business development efforts targeted at the commercial and public sector marketplace. Doug joined Halifax in November 2001 and brings over 15 years of sales experience in information technology services. Prior to joining Halifax, Doug worked for Veritas Software and Ernst & Young Consulting where he held various services sales and operations positions. Doug holds a BA degree in political science from West Virginia University and an MA in International Transactions from George Mason University.


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Board of Directors

John H. Grover
Chairman of the Board, Halifax Corporation
Vice President, Treasurer, Director, Research Industries, Inc.
John H. Grover has been a Director of the Company since 1984. He has served as Executive Vice President, Treasurer and Director of Research Industries Incorporated, since 1968 and as a Director of TransTechnology Corporation from 1969 to 1992.

John Toups
Former President/CEO, Planning Research Corporation
John Toups, elected Director of Company on September 17, 1993, served as President and CEO of Planning Research Corporate (PRC) from 1978 to 1987. He also served as interim Chairman of the Board and CEO of both the National Bank of Washington and Washington Bancorp. and is currently a Director of CACI International, NVR and Telepad Corporation.

Thomas L. Hewitt
Former CEO, Federal Sources
Thomas L. Hewitt founded Federal Sources, a market research and consulting firm, in December of 1984 and served as the Company's CEO until the recent sale of the Company. Prior to Federal Sources, Mr. Hewitt served as a Senior Vice President of Kentron, an information technology professional services company acquired by PRC, and held several senior level positions at CSC, an IT systems integration company, including President of the Infonet Government Systems Division and VP of Program Development of the Systems Group.

Daniel R. Young
Former Vice Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Federal Data Corporation (FDC)
Mr. Young recently retired from FDC after serving the company in various executive capacities for more than two decades. He joined FDC in 1976 as the Executive Vice President, and in 1985, was elected President, and Chief Operating Officer. Following the acquisition in 1995 of FDC by The Carlyle Group, Mr. Young assumed the position of President and Chief Executive Officer. In 1998, he was elected Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors. Before joining FDC, Mr. Young was an executive with Data Transmission Company. He ultimately became Executive Vice President, and prior to that held various engineering, sales, and management positions at Texas Instruments, Inc. He also served in the U.S. Navy as a sea officer. Mr. Young is a graduate of the University of Texas where he earned a B.S. Degree in engineering and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.

Arch C. Scurlock, Jr.
Vice President and Director, Research Industries, Inc.
Mr. Scurlock has been a Director and Vice President Research Industries (a private investment company) since 1983. Prior to that Mr. Scurlock worked as a Chemical Engineer for Atlantic Research Corporation. Mr. Scurlock is a graduate of Harvard University with a Master’s in Business Administration. He also holds an MS and BS in Chemical Engineering from the University of Maryland.

Charles L. McNew
President and CEO
Charles L. McNew joined the Company in July 1999 and was appointed President and Chief Executive Officer in May 2000. Prior to that he was Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining the Company, from July 1994 through July 1999 Mr. McNew was Chief Financial Officer and later Chief Operating Officer of NumereX Corporation, a public Company that develops and markets communications and information products and services.

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