Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> January 10, 2005

KEN DUCEY JR. – MARKLAND TECHNOLOGIES INC (MRKL)

KEN P. DUCEY JR is President and CEO of Markland Technologies, Inc. Mr. Ducey began his career as a trader at Salomon Brothers, where he was responsible for actively traded technology companies listed on the NASDAQ exchange. In 1988, Mr. Ducey launched Palmtop Utilities, a consulting company that developed the first link between the Sharp Wizard and ACT! Contact management software. Mr. Ducey led Palmtop Utilities to become the largest dealer of Sharp Wizards, and secured licensing arrangements with Sharp, Contact Software International, and Microsoft. After successfully selling the assets of Palmtop Utilities, Mr. Ducey helped to develop The Outsourcing Institute, where he developed and sold multi-million dollar contracts to MCI and PricewaterhouseCoopers. Mr. Ducey was nationally recognized in September 2000 as a leading expert in outsourcing. For the last three years, Mr. Ducey successfully led the remarkable growth of three small technology companies while working under the venture capital firm, Spencer Trask. Profile
TWST: Would you begin with a brief historical sketch of Markland

Technologies, Inc., and a picture of what you are doing at the present

time?

Mr. Ducey: We've moved forward very fast, which