Founder and Executive Vice President

Co-founder of B&A, Paul Mangus has been integral to developing some of the country's most critical homeland security systems created over the last twenty years. Paul's outstanding accomplishments include:

• creating the Advanced Passenger Information System (APIS) and the Land Border and Airport Primary Query Systems - systems that perform real time enforcement queries on vehicles and/or persons entering or exiting the United States
• initiating the US Visit and Immigrant Status Indicator Technology (US-VISIT) program, which initially deployed an integrated solution to capture biometrics at US ports of entry
• serving as a technical advisor to many foreign governments and organizations
• providing technological solutions on border management and law enforcement
• consulting with the Canada Customs & Revenue Agency, Mexican Customs Bureau, United Nations, and the World Customs Organization
• serving on a panel discussion of the United States’ secure passenger information systems at the Homeland Security Conference
• serving as the on-site chief researcher and functional/technical lead on special projects at Customs and Border Protection

During his career, Paul has held positions as a systems analyst and as a systems engineer at Lamarian Systems, Inc., Planning and Research Corporation, and at Electronic Data Systems.

Paul received his BS degree in Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland.