Mr. Vollmer is the founder and President of VII Inc. (www.viiinc.com), a strategic planning, systems engineering and investment capital firm specializing in government and business initiatives. VII’s clients include major government agencies and corporations. Recent strategic planning assignments involve: national/homeland/information security, aerospace and defense, energy, intelligence, network-centric operations and distance learning. Current systems engineering activities include: experiment aircraft, information technology, water purification, biometrics, and energy initiatives. Venture capital efforts involve: leveraged buy-outs and financing of major projects.

Mr. Vollmer is the President and co-owner of Quasar International LLC (www.QuasarGroup.com), an investment firm, a VII joint venture. He also is the co-owner of International Sports Marketing & Management Inc., a VII joint venture, working with the World Olympian Association to promote security in the Olympic Games. Mr. Vollmer is on the Board of Directors of the International Center for Religion and Diplomacy (www.ICRD.org), dedicated to peacemaking via a network of religious leaders and diplomats, and Liberty Counsel (www.LC.org), a non-profit legal firm dedicated to securing religious freedoms. He is a Board Member of Alchem LTD (www.alchemltd.com), an emerging energy firm with innovative gas-to-liquid technology, and Cybrinth LLC (www.cybrinth.com), a cyber-security firm recently spun out of the World Bank. On occasion, he serves on various US government Commissions and Science Boards.

Mr. Vollmer has substantial experience with national and homeland security. He works with senior officials in the Congress, Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security. He assisted leaders on force transformation authoring the USAF’s VECTORS campaign, the Air National Guard’s VANGUARD campaign, and DoD’s “Rapid Dominance” concept. Other efforts include: national and homeland security studies, vision documents, strategic and business plans, concepts of operations, architectures, marketing and consensus-building efforts.

Mr. Vollmer has significant experience with the MidEast with emphasis on Israel, Palestine and the Arab Gulf region. He developed the “Vision 2010” for the Arab Gulf Cooperative Council (GCC) Air Forces and the UAE Air Force. In concert with USCENTAF, he conducted 12 symposia in the GCC attended by senior leadership of the GCC, Jordan and Egypt. He is currently involved with ICRD on initiatives in Iran, Sudan and Pakistan. He has been involved in Israel and Palestinian security issues and has extensive knowledge of the Israeli and Arab security establishments. He is currently working with the State Department to bring energy technology to Gaza and is working with the World Olympics Association to bring the Olympics and the Olympic ideal to the MidEast.

Mr. Vollmer has considerable experience with information security and information operations. He worked with Wall Street to start an information security company and is active with Washington policy institutes on cyber security. Mr. Vollmer has conducted four conferences on network centric operations for the DoD, and developed the national vision for a national computer network defense system for a foreign government. He is the author of numerous publications including the Information Operations Vision for the USAF. VII Enterprise Solutions, a VII subsidiary, works with the US government (Departments of State, Transportation and Labor) and commercial clients regarding IT solutions.

From 1991 to 1996, Mr. Vollmer was a Partner at Booz•Allen & Hamilton, Inc. He organized and managed one of the four largest U.S. consortiums involved with industry privatization in the former Soviet Union. These consortiums accomplished the largest privatization effort in history converting over seventy percent of state-owned industries to private enterprises. Mr. Vollmer was a co-founder of the Community Learning and Information Network Inc. (www.CLIN.org), a distance-learning corporation that has installed several hundred sites across America. He was instrumental in helping establish the National Automotive Center in Warren, Michigan. Mr. Vollmer established the first USAF practice for the corporation and was involved in development of the USAF’s Global Engagement Vision.

From 1985 to 1991, he founded and was the Vice President/General Manager for General Dynamics Corporation’s new business and high-technology organization, called the Defense Initiatives Organization. In this capacity, he founded a dozen new organizations including a Nuclear Biological Chemical Reconnaissance System that was used extensively in Operation Desert Storm, a Strategic Defense Initiative Division, and a Diamond Film Development Company involved in growing synthetic diamond substrate material for electronic systems. Within three years, he captured over a quarter of a billion dollars of contract awards. Prior to this, Mr. Vollmer was the Director of Strategic Planning and Operations Analysis for a Fortune 50 company and the world’s second largest aerospace corporation.

From 1979 to 1985, he was a senior engineer at McDonnell Douglas and was on the initial design teams of F-15E and Stealth aircraft. As a marketing director, he was largely responsible for the $30 billion sale of the F-15E to the USAF.

Mr. Vollmer served 10 years active duty in the USAF and 13 years with the Air National Guard. He accumulated over 3,000 hours in various fighter aircraft, flew 175 combat missions in Southeast Asia, and received six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eleven Air Medals. Mr. Vollmer received a B.S. degree in Engineering Management from the USAF Academy in 1969, a Masters Degree in Education from Northern Arizona University in 1976, and attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School for Senior Executives in 1987. He is married to his high school sweetheart, Trish Eagan, from Lewisburg, Pennsylvania. They have a son (who works for VII Inc.) and two grandsons.