Leadership

President

Ms. Ford has built the company by earning the trust of customers and partners through continuous innovation and a relentless commitment to their success. She has years of experience supporting government agencies and industry leaders with innovative and emerging IT solutions.

Kristofer Chester

Kristofer Chester

Chief Technology Officer

Serves as an WTI Chief Technology Officer, provides insights into the future to provide the most up-to-date solutions and influence the development of next-gen solutions in advance of their need.

Denise Ferniza

Denise Ferniza

Chief Data and AI Officer

Denise Ferniza serves as WTI’s Chief Data and AI Officer and member of the executive management team. Denise brings more than 20 years of data management. She provides senior expertise on the utilization and governance of data across the organization, ensuring data accuracy, transparency, and value creation.

Janet Rowland

Janet Rowland

Controller

Janet Rowland serves as WTI’s Controller and is a member of the executive management team. She has extensive experience with financial functions and records. She has been with WTI for 10 years and could also be called the company’s financial historian.

Technical Advisory Board

Clayton Jones

Senior Technical Advisor

A former U.S. government senior leader with more than two decades of experience driving innovation across defense, intelligence, and diplomatic missions. Clayton Jones has led strategic initiatives in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, data science, and space-based systems, supporting organizations such as U.S. CYBERCOM, USSPACECOM, and the U.S. Department of State. His work spans global cybersecurity operations, AI-enabled threat detection, secure communications, and cross-domain mission planning.

John Suit

Senior Technical Advisor

A recognized authority in neuro-symbolic AI, ontology engineering, and secure digital transformation for the public sector. With over two decades of executive leadership, John Suit guides organizations at the intersection of artificial intelligence, knowledge engineering, and national security.

Mr. Suit specializes in the design and deployment of neuro-symbolic AI systems, integrating advanced large language models (LLMs) with formal ontologies to deliver explainable, trusted automation for complex government and defense applications. He has pioneered Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) solutions and knowledge graph architectures that empower real-time decision-making, compliance, and mission assurance in highly regulated environments.

Harpreet Singh

Harpreet Singh

Senior Technical Advisor

With over 20 years of experience Mr. Singh is a Transformational Leader, driving digital transformations and IT Governance. Previously served as Chief Technology Officer for Anchor Loans and Managing Director at Deloitte. His expertise guides our strategic technical roadmap and technology offerings in a dynamically-evolving, highly competitive environment.

Advisory Board

Charlie Moritz

Senior Advisor

A distinguished retired military officer who served as a Chief Warrant Officer Five (CW5) Green Beret and Senior Executive for the United States Special Operations Command (USSOCOM) within the Department of Defense. Mr. Moritz has over 30-plus years of military and government contract acquisition experience. As a senior advisor he offers valuable national security and government business solution services.

Dr. Peter Demitry (Col Ret, USAF)

Senior Advisor

Dr. Demitry retired from the U.S. Air Force after 28 years on active duty. Pete Demitry, Col (r) piloted over 37 different types of jet aircraft logging over 2,300 fighter and flight test hours. He later served as the Assistant Air Force Surgeon General and brings extensive expertise in DoD and VA clinical and business processes. His multi-discipline and technical skills facilitate integration of the basic sciences in operational and test environments.

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