About Us
GNI International is a Delaware Limited Liability Company, minority and woman owned, and LSBDE Certified in the District of Columbia.

MANAGEMENT TEAM


Giadha A. DeCarcer
President & CEO
gdecarcer@gni-intl.com

Ms. DeCarcer has over a decade of experience in business management and strategic business development with an emphasis on emerging markets.  Her current interest and focus lies in PPP opportunities and contract brokering between US-based firms and high-growth markets such as India, China, and Sub-Saharan Africa.   

Prior to founding GNI International, Ms. DeCarcer worked as a consultant in the Defense, Technology, and Telecommunication sectors providing premier defense firms such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, and EDS, as well as foreign utility firms such as TEPCO, FEPC and Tohoku, with innovative business development guidance and effective growth approaches. 

Before moving to Washington D.C., Ms. DeCarcer worked with JPMorganChase in Manhattan and London, where she specialized in new business development and operational efficiency optimization.  Preceding her investment banking experience, she ran Florida-based First Federal Transportation as its Chief Executive Officer.  

Ms. DeCarer received a B.A. in International Relations and Trade from the University of Pennsylvania and an M.A. in International Security from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service.  She has traveled to and worked in over twenty five countries and speaks five languages fluently.  



William A. Blinder
Vice President
wblinder@gni-intl.com

Mr. William Blinder is a Program Manager at Lockheed Martin where he has overseen technology development programs for federal government clients as well as the development of Lockheed Martin’s primary Maritime Domain Awareness product line for military and law enforcement customers including the US Navy, US Customs & Border Protection, and others.

Prior to joining Lockheed Martin, Mr. Blinder served as a commercial transportation and maritime security expert for Lloyd’s Marine Intelligence Unit, where he focused on developing and refining automated risk analysis algorithms for use by government clients. 

Mr. Blinder also has an additional six years of experience providing private consulting services to Fortune 1000 firms and investment banks.




DEVELOPMENT TEAM

Sonny Choudhury
Managing Director
schoudhurty@gni-intl.com

Mr. Sonny Choudhury, President and CEO of Fedsolutions, founded the company in January 2003 and has since maintained aggressive growth. In addition to cementing successful relationship in the Federal and Commercial space, Mr. Choudhury has completes FedSolutions GSA Schedule and gained 8a certification with the Small Business Administration.

Mr. Choudhury has an extensive background in the Information Technology industry. He started his career as a Systems Analyst at TechnologyNet, a position he was offered after completing an internship during his final semester at University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland, where he received his BS in Information Science.

Mr. Choudhury has over ten years of experience in the Information Systems, Telecommunications and broadcasting industries with more than 12 years specializing in Network Administration.

Mr. Choudhury is a Microsoft Certified Solutions Expert and was recently awarded the SMARTCEO by the SMARTCEO MAGAZINE in January of 2007. Mr. Choudhury also serves on the Executive Biz board and completed Executive education from Dartmouth University at the Tuck School of Business.





Gabino M. Guerengomba
Chief Network Architect
gguerengomba@gni-intl.com


Mr Gabino M Guerengomba has over 10 years in IP architecture; Network security; Satellite communications and Database integration gained at fortune 500 companies such as Discovery Channel; iDirect communications; Xerox and Real Networks.

Mr Guerengomba holds  various industry certifications such as: CISSP (Certified information Security Professional); Satellite Communications GVF (Global VSAT Forum) Certified Field Engineer; CCDA For IP Network Architecture (Certified Cisco Design Associate) and MCSE (Microsoft Certified System Engineer); He is also a Memotec Certified Field Engineer.




ADVISORY BOARD

Cal Simmons

Cal Simmons is a highly successful business executive, venture capitalist, long time angel investor, and business author. He is co-founder and manager of the Dinner Club, eMedia Club, and Washington Dinner Club, early stage venture funds that leverage the capital, expertise, and relationships of angel investors to identify, invest and grow promising young technology companies. Cal Simmons has recently become Chairman of Five Star Alliance, an online travel agency promoting luxury hotels worldwide. Also, recently, Cal co-founded and served as managing partner of ASAP Ventures. Previously, he founded Cal Simmons Travel, which he grew to become one of the top 100 agencies in the country. In l997, after 22 years as its President, he sold the agency to publicly traded Navigant, the 2nd largest travel company in America.

In 2001, Cal co-authored with John May the highly acclaimed early stage investment book, Every Business Needs an Angel (Random House/Crown Business.)

Cal has extensive experience in the world of private equity, both managing funds and as an angel investor. He has personally invested in some 30 early stage companies, serving on the board at numerous privately held companies. He is a current member and past Chairman of the Washington area chapter of the Young Presidents Organization (YPO). A nationally ranked tennis player and active supporter of area charities, he and his wife, Sally, reside in Alexandria, VA with their son and two daughters.

Cal was recently appointed by Mark Warner, the Governor of Virginia, to serve a six year term as a member of the State Tourism Commission.



Mark Cohen

For twenty-two years, Mark was an internationally recognized civil trial lawyer, founder and managing partner of a national litigation boutique firm. He is a former Assistant United States Attorney (Civil Division) and earned two Department of Justice awards in recognition of his meritorious service. After serving as the youngest partner in one of the nation’s first national law firms, he founded and was the managing partner of Mark A. Cohen & Associates, P.A., a highly successful litigation firm. Mark personally represented more than 50 of the Fortune 500 companies, as well as 5 foreign sovereign nations. He tried 57 major civil cases during his career and was lead counsel in 12 class action lawsuits.

Mark was appointed Receiver of a large, international aviation parts business. He ran the company, personally oversaw litigation around the world, and repatriated more than $50MM of assets. He also served as outside general counsel to 3 insurance companies and as national supervising counsel to several other major corporations.

Since leaving the active practice of law, Mark has sat on several corporate Boards and has spent the past 18 months creating QUALITAS.

He is active in a number of civic and philanthropic interests, serving on the Board of The Washington Ballet and The Corcoran College of Art and Design, as Trustee of a charitable Foundation he helped to create, and as a Founder of Mt. Sinai Hospital, Miami Beach, Florida.

Mark is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vassar College, the institution’s first Rhodes Scholar Nominee. He earned 3 postgraduate degrees from Oxford University as well as a J.D. degree from the University of Connecticut.



Stephane LeBouder

Mr. Stephane LeBouder currently works as head of business development for a Danish startup, called MyC4, which has built a revolutionary online peer-to-peer lending platform dedicated to microfinance lending in Africa.  He joined the company when the business model was still being developed, and well before the website, www.myc4.com was launched. 

At MyC4, St?phane played a critical role in developing the overall operational setup and transaction processes to disburse microfinance loans in Africa via the Internet.  He is responsible for launching activities in each new country, and successfully opened operations in Uganda, Kenya and Cote d'Ivoire, and is scheduled to launch activities in Ghana, Senegal, Rwanda, Tanzania and South Africa before the end of 2008.  MyC4 expects to disburse $20MM in microfinance loans in Africa in 2008, to 10,000 African entrepreneurs. 

Mr. LeBouder is also involved with several other startups, all in the technology space, typically with a focus on Africa, and assists these companies' founders on matters related to finance and strategy. 

Prior to joining MyC4, Mr.LeBouder worked as a financial derivatives consultant and trader at Chatham Financial, where he advised mid-sized American banks on interest rate risk management, using both on-balance sheet strategies and derivatives trading to mitigate or hedge risks.  He also worked for the Corporate Executive Board in Washington DC, providing best practices research to corporate treasurers at Fortune 500 companies, and worked several months in South Africa for a startup investment bank. 

Mr. Le Bouder was born in the Central African Republic, and grew up in Washington DC. He holds a B.A. and M.A. in economics from McGill University in Canada, and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  He is fluent in French and English, spends significant amounts of time traveling in Europe and Africa for work, and spends time scuba diving every opportunity he gets.

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