TAKING THE REINS: Mike Wells

Vice president of government markets, Riptech Inc., Alexandria, Va.Nov. 20 47 Flint, Mich. Herndon, Va. Wife Julie; daughters Stacy, Heather, Stephanie "Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mount Everest Disaster" by Jon Krakauer Howard Berens George Benson John Grisham Samuel L. Jackson Boating, boat building, water skiing, jet skiing, long-distance running Piano, Keith Jarrett "Where there is a Wells, there is a way." Anything on the Discovery Channel Clarksville, Va."Hire only first-class engineers. If you hire second class, they hire third class, and your business suffers." ? Tom EgerExecutive master's degree, George Washington University, WashingtonMaster's degrees in computer science and computer engineering, bachelor's degree in computer science, University of Maryland, College Park, Md.Associate degree in telecommunications, Community College of the Air Force, Maxwell Air Force Base, Ala.? Worked as an Air Force engineer, building secure architectures for the National Reconnaissance Office.? Director of telecommunications for Litton-TASC. Built secure architectures for the intelligence community.? Information assurance director for Microsoft Federal. Assisted customers building secure architectures using Microsoft technology."My first job will be to position Riptech as the 24x7 managed security services provider of choice for federal, state and local government. That is, based on the technical and business backgrounds of senior management at Riptech, we understand government business and government security requirements, and will work closely with the government to ensure they have the very best security offering.""The opportunity at Riptech enables me to leverage my government expertise (government employee and contractor) to solve security problems for both civilian and federal government security customers. The biggest change is doing this at Internet speed."