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  Robert Gourley
  Crucial Point, LLC
 

Mr. Robert Gourley is the founder and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Crucial Point LLC, a technology research and advisory firm. He is a former CTO of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA), where he was the Senior Technologist and Engineer responsible for all technology decision making of the global DIA and DoDIIS enterprise. He was named one of the top 25 most influential CTOs in the globe by Infoworld in 2007 and selected for AFCEAs award for meritorious service to the intelligence community in 2008. Mr. Gourley is a strong advocate for user-focused software, and his contributions to the Google Gadget community have placed him on Google's list of the top 200 gadget programmers in the world. He holds three masters degrees including a M.S. in Scientific and Technical Intelligence from the Naval Postgraduate School, a M.S. in Military Science from USMC University, and a M.S. in Computer Science from James Madison University.