Jeffrey Hamel

Mr. Hamel started his career at Raytheon Company where he worked in manufacturing, development and program management where he gained progressive authority over systems design, R&D, manufacturing and project management functions eventually leading the Patriot Program Office in charge of managing $500M+ development and production programs.

Mr. Hamel left Raytheon in 2000, joining RSA Security to lead the startup of a new engineering organization focused on innovation in the security authentication market. Mr. Hamel built, led and supervised the engineering design team consisting of firmware, software, quality assurance, PCB and mechanical design engineers tasked with researching, designing and developing new security authentication solutions.

Mr. Hamel joined Digimarc/L-1 Identity Solutions’ Secure Credentialing Division/Morpho Trust responsible for the 320 person Professional Services Organization consisting of program and operations managers; system architects, manufacturing, field service, call center and engineering staff. He managed program lifecycle implementing complete systems to provide citizen enrollment, biometric capture, fraud analysis, backend storage, processing and ID production services on time and within budget. He also had was responsible for P&L authority over 50+ domestic and international secure credential programs representing $650M+ in long-term customer contracts and 85% of the division’s yearly revenue.

Mr. Hamel joined IDSS in October 2012 as the President. Mr. Hamel is responsible for the Security business of IDSS Holdings overseeing the development and manufacturing of the DETECT™ 1000 Cabin Baggage Scanner as well as other solutions IDSS is bringing to market in the future.