Mission

• The TDI mission is very simple: To bring systems and technologies to market that help make our world a safer place.
  
  

What We Believe

• In today's rapidly changing and challenging global defense market, TDI believes that the ways in which new technologies are brought to market can and must be drastically improved.
• TDI believes by bringing multi-disciplinary teams of scientists, engineers and experienced defense professionals together that new visions and more effective solutions can be created, tested and deployed more quickly and cost effectively.
• Lastly, TDI believes its mandate is to provide the tools and solutions required to improve the defense capabilities of those personnel on the front lines while improving their war fighting effectiveness.
  
  

History

• TDI is incorporated and located in the US and is part of the Gamma Applied Visions Group SA, an innovative Swiss-based technology global technology development firm.
  
  
  

Management

Charles J. Kushell IV
CEO and Director

Chuck brings more than 30 years of global marketing, brand management, general executive management and management consulting experience to his two years with TDI and its parent company, Gamma Research and Technologies, SA.

His experience includes CEO and senior management positions in the retail, financial services, technology, automotive and communications sectors for such companies as IBM, Ogilvy & Mather, Montgomery Ward, Hill Holliday, Data Marketing International and Microsoft in the US and Australia, the UK, Japan, France and Switzerland. In addition, Chuck has spent considerable time in the management consulting business specializing in bringing new products and technologies to market through the design and implementation of integrated marketing communications programs for such industries as computer hardware, healthcare, medical technology, energy and defense/Homeland Security technologies.

He is an acknowledged thought-leader in the arena of branding and customer profitability management and has written and spoken extensively on the subject of helping companies identify and more productively attract, retain and monetize the value of customer relationships.

Andrew E. Finn
Senior Vice President, Business Development

Andrew is the Senior Vice President, Business Development of TDI, Inc. After serving in the United States Marine Corps, Andrew applied his talents to the financial world while employed at various investment banks including Merrill Lynch, Prudential Securities and Quarterdeck Investment Partners (focusing solely on mergers and acquisitions in the aerospace and defense community).

Andrew’s unique talents and combined military and financial background are key components in the successful growth of TDI and the subsequent infusion of its technology into the US military. Andrew also sits on the Board of Directors of Fraser Volpe, LLC., a company that produces stabilized optical and electro-optical devices for the US military and commercial markets.

Timothy C. Lindsay
Vice President, Director for Programs and Engineering

Tim served in the US Army for 26 years including 10 years in command and staff positions in missile and munitions logistics, and 16 years in research, development and program management. His overseas tours included Germany, Japan and Bosnia. He is a certified Level III acquisition professional with assignments as Product Manager, Force Provider; Deputy Director, UAV Joint Project Office and Commander/Director, Fire Support Armaments Center, ARDEC. He has a masters degree in material science from the University of Delaware and a masters in national resource strategy from National Defense University.

Following his Army service, Tim joined the defense consulting firm of Whitney, Bradley and Brown, Inc., Vienna, Virginia.

Joining the TDI in February 2005 Tim’s engineering management experience and knowledge of the defense acquisition system will be instrumental in driving TDI’s disruptive “breakthrough” technologies into the US Armed Forces and Homeland Defense markets.

Francis J. Dougherty
Executive Director, Government Relations

Mr. Dougherty served in the US Navy for 28 years during which he made eleven extended deployments including two combat tours to the Gulf of Tonkin in Navy fighter squadrons. He served as Executive Officer of the USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67) and commanded fighter squadrons 14 and 101, USS Concord AFS-5 and Service Squadron 2 (5 ships). Ashore he held senior position on the Navy’s Pentagon staff.

Following his Navy service Mr. Dougherty joined the defense electronics industry working for Magnavox Government & Electronic Industrial Corporation, Hughes Aircraft Corporation, Raytheon and L-3 Communications.

Joining the GAMMA Group in September 2004 Mr. Dougherty’s wealth of operational, command and business experience will introduce GAMMA’S disruptive “breakthrough” technologies to the US Armed Forces.