Leadership

Bryan Aucoin is the President, CEO and founder of Alanthus Associates. He is responsible for developing our strategic plan and provides the vision, direction and leadership to help the company reach its goals. Mr. Aucoin has over 25 years of experience in management, program management, systems engineering and architecture. He has managed a variety of government programs. He has acted as the CTO for an emerging company, Enterra Solutions, LLC. He spent five years as an active duty Naval officer, serving as a nuclear engineer in the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Directorate (NAVSEA 08). Mr. Aucoin received a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering from Tulane University and a Masters Degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute.

Dr. Stephen Black is our Chief Information Officer. Dr. Black has over 20 years experience and service as a senior technical contributor in the design, development, analysis, testing and integration of software and related applications, for complex imagery and other large complex data systems in secure environments. He has over 15 years of experience in project management for the development, implementation, and deployment of state-of-the-art imagery, geospatial intelligence systems (GIS), and text retrieval systems. Dr. Black completed his graduate work in mathematics in 1983 at Clemson University with his dissertation in the area of modern control theory.

Gayle Stephens is the Alanthus Accounts Manager. She has a B. S. in Business Administration from California State University, Sacramento. She has six years of experience in Small business finance and Human Resources in the Northern Virginia Region.