Leonard Moodispaw

LEONARD MOODISPAW is President and CEO at Essex Corporation. He joined
the Essex management team as President and Chief Operating Officer in
1998. A seasoned veteran as a lawyer, an executive at ManTech
International Corporation and a former NSA employee, Mr. Moodispaw’s
history with Essex dates back to 1988, when he acted as Director and
Corporate Counsel to Systems Engineering and Development Corporation
(SEDC), a company acquired by Essex that year. Mr. Moodispaw was named
Chief Executive Officer in August 2000, and immediately closed a
financing deal with Networking Ventures and, the Global Environment
Fund, designed to increase stockholder value by focusing the company’s
core competencies on the development of optical products for the
commercial telecommunications market. Mr. Moodispaw received a Bachelor
of Science degree in Business Administration from American University,
Washington, DC; a Master of Science degree in Business Administration
from The George Washington University in Washington, DC; and Juris
Doctor in Law from the University of Baltimore, Maryland.