James Dever, Esq.
Principal | Lockhaven Solutions
James is a Lockhaven Solutions Principal who leads global enterprise cyber risk management solutions for diverse clients including USG agencies, publicly traded companies, financial institutions, universities, medical centers, research facilities, and international law firms.
He is a former US Air Force Professor of Cyber Warfare. He taught Cyber Warfare, Information Warfare, International Humanitarian Law, Intelligence Law, National Security Law, Privacy Law, and Space Law at the Air Force Academy (USAFA), Air War College (AWC), Air Force Cyber College (AFCC), Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School (JAG School),Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), and Air Force Research Lab Information Directorate (AFRL), the nation’s premier research organization for Computers and Intelligence. He was a senior Cyber Warfare and Information Warfare legal advisor to Sixteenth Air Force (Cyber). In partnership with the National Security Agency (NSA) Cryptologic School, James designed and taught new graduate degree programs in Cyber Warfare Strategy to senior military officers, and Department of Defense (DoD) / Intelligence Community (IC) professionals. He taught Cyber Warfare Strategy to Nation States in Central and South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
James served on active duty in the US Army as a Judge Advocate (JAG). He was a Cyber Warfare JAG and his responsibilities included worldwide Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO), Defensive Cyber Operations(DCO), and DoD information network missions against Tier 1 Nation States and Proxies. He was Law Department Chair at the Army Intelligence School and advised on global intelligence activities. He taught Advanced Source Operations Law at the HUMINT Training Joint Center of Excellence (HTJCOE) and Interrogation/Detention Operations at the John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School (USAJFKSWCS). James served as the Cyber Warfare JAG at the Army Network Enterprise Technology Command (NETCOM) and the Army Intelligence and Security Command (INSCOM).
Prior to military service, James was a data privacy attorney at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). His portfolio included the Trusted Identities in Cyberspace and Privacy Engineering programs. He began his career, after a federal research judicial clerkship, at Deloitte Cyber Risk facilitating enterprise cyber and privacy risk management for Fortune 100 companies.
James has published peer-reviewed law articles and book chapters on Cyber Warfare, National Security Law, Intelligence Law, Counter-Terrorism Financing, Conflict Deterrence, and Internecine-Asymmetric Warfare. He has spoken at diverse venues including the Congressional Cybersecurity Caucus, The United Nations, The Hague, NATO Allied Command, the American Bar Association, and US Military Academies. He is Director of the Cyber Risk Management for Executives Program in Chicago and Advisory Director at the Center for National Security & Human Rights Law. He provides pro bono legal services to Veterans and Military Families suffering Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome.
Scott Hales, MBA
Chief Financial Officer | Lockhaven Solutions
Scott ensures the Organization has the capital, systems, information, and reporting to successfully deliver its solution set to governmental, commercial, and academic/institutional clientele. He has over 30 years of financial, operational, and advisory experience across multiple dynamic and high-growth industries.
He is the Founder and Managing Partner of Marksman Venture Partners, and spent the last decade as a CFO (including Interim/Fractional positions) serving both entrepreneurial founders, as well as their publicly-traded acquirers/successors and private equity/venture investors. Most of Scott’s 42 career transactions were at Citi Capital Strategies (then a division of Citigroup®), where he completed M&A, recapitalization, and capital raising deals valued at US$1 billion in the aggregate. Industries served as a corporate finance specialist to private growth enterprises include professional, financial, and engineering services, as well as technology (e.g., biotech, software, and IT).
He received his MBA from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and his B.S. in Finance from The University of Notre Dame.
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