Vontella ‘Kay’ Kimball, Founder and President
The Security Oracle is a Women Led Team Founded to be a Catalyst for Change in Public Safety and Homeland Security.
As a Founder and President, Vontella ‘Kay’ Kimball is a visionary and goal oriented problem solver and team builder, with demonstrated success growing a start-up using the revolutionary Business Model Canvas. Personal mission to prove Carmine Gallo’s theorem: “Ideas, effectively packaged and delivered, can change the world.”
Charles is a former Edison Electric Institute (EEI) Security Committee member, with several years managing an electric power corporate physical security and critical infrastructure protection program. A primary focus was force-multiplying security and operations staff with integrated smart security technology, while achieving improved protective effectiveness.
Tim has 41 years of electric utility operations engineering and senior management, energy regulatory compliance, audit, transmission real-time operations, business continuity, change and configuration management, security policy design and development, process control and continuous improvement. Tim was a major contributor to the NERC 2003 Blackout investigation and root cause analyses of other major disturbance events in the ERCOT, PJM, MISO, SPP regions.
The Security Oracle’s (TSO’s) chief technology advisor and a ground floor owner is Dr. Samuel M. Smith; who received his Ph.D. in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1991. Dr. Smith invested a decade in academia at Florida Atlantic University, attaining full professor status. He has over 100 refereed publications in the areas of automated reasoning. Dr. Smith and TSO’s CEO Charles L. Butler, Jr. developed what, in retrospect, may be viewed as a first in master planning for a Smart/Safe and Survivable “City” in their visionary work with Miami Dade County in 2005-2006.
