Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> March 28, 2005
BEN JAMIL is Chairman and CEO of Security Intelligence Technologies,
Inc., the parent company of Homeland Security Strategies, Inc., which
markets to and sells authorized government agencies such equipment as
advanced bomb jamming technology, voice and data logging and management
systems, cellular intercept and electronic surveillance countermeasure
equipment. Mr. Jamil's place as an international authority and industry
leader in the security world has been earned through years of experience
with security professionals in every field and encompassing every
electronic specialty; through business associations with advanced
product research and design engineers; and as a consultant with open
lines of communication to government leaders and representatives in the
international law enforcement and military communities. As a creative
marketer, he opened new channels to provide end users in the corporate
and private sectors with professional investigative and privacy
protection equipment previously available only to the government and law
enforcement communities. Subsequent to working with Polard Electronics,
a subcontractor for the Poseidon Nuclear Submarine Defense System, Mr.
Jamil's dynamic career in the security industry began in the early
1950s, when, without an attorney, he successfully challenged the AT&T
monopoly on phone instruments, wiring and attachments such as answering
machines and automatic telephone dialers. After fostering an entire new
industry in phones, related equipment and communication systems, he
turned to designing and manufacturing sophisticated high tech products
for phone security, voice and data privacy, personal protection and
electronic surveillance countermeasures. Examples of citations he
received early in his career: 1969 for proprietary test equipment which
aided and supported the successful Apollo 11 moon landing; 1980 from the
XIII Winter Olympic Committee for his key role as security consultant as
well as for providing equipment and training to the New York State
Police; 1981 for design and implementation of security systems for Radio
Free Europe; 1982 from the US Embassy in Paris for having provided
special security services for then President and Mrs. Ronald Reagan.
During the 1970s, Mr. Jamil organized and conducted educational seminars
and specialized training sessions for such local law enforcement groups
as the New York City Police Academy Security Operations, the Police
Crime Prevention Section and the Police College and Tactics School, as
well as for numerous state-run law enforcement groups both in this
country and abroad. He is considered a leading authority, ahead of his
time in anticipating security and protection needs not only for
governments and related governmental agencies, but also for Fortune 500
companies and their CEOs, VIPs, celebrities and management teams whose
security needs and concerns have grown in direct proportion to the
proliferation of crime, white collar crimes, industrial and economic
espioage, and acts of terrorism. Mr. Jamil, most recently a keynote
speaker at a John Jay College sponsored conference, 'Al Qaeda, The New
Face of Global Terrorism,' continues to be active in virtually every
sphere of security expertise. Profile
Mr. Jamil: Our company's management started in the late 1950s doing
research on ways to adapt the emerging technologies, which
