Executive Leadership

Angela N. Amidon
President & Chief Executive Officer

• Served honorably as a Military Intelligence Officer from 1998-2006. Specialized in Counterintelligence, Personnel Security, Special Security, Classified Couriering, Foreign Disclosure, Information Systems Security, Physical Security, Base Defense, and Security Guarding, Patrolling and Escorting. Her service included deployments ISO Operation Enduring Freedom and Operation Iraqi Freedom to Afghanistan, Kuwait, and Iraq with the XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, NC. She achieved the rank of Captain.
• Due to her specialized intelligence and security experience, she was instrumental in ensuring maximum force protection at numerous base camps by implementing Quick Reaction Force (QRF) training, base defense procedures, and security positioning plans. She also designed security measures/layouts, and worked closely with military engineers to construct tiered-entry control points, layered perimeter protections, security towers, and entire base layouts.
• Formed a “Fusion Cell” that currently researches and develops several new technologies and training methods to better prepare and protect the modern warfighter in the current operating environment.
• Worked with a start-up defense contracting company that now has offices in Alabama, Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New Mexico, and North Carolina.
• Attended Marion Military Institute where she graduated as Valedictorian. She was the first female to ever reach the rank of Cadet Lieutenant Colonel in the history of the academy. She also attended North Carolina State University where she earned both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
• Licensed Counterintelligence Professional, Courier, Private Investigator, and Security Guard & Patrol Professional
• Licensed Commercial General Contractor

Clayton Amidon
Senior Vice President & Chief Operating Officer
 

• Served honorably in the United States Air Force from 1992-1999, which included deployments to Bosnia, Italy, and Sicily ISO Operation Deny Flight 1995 and Operation Deliberate Force 1999. He was instrumental in the USAF night vision modification for the A-10 attack aircraft. He achieved the rank of Staff Sergeant.
• Worked for the Raleigh Police Department from 1999-2005 in the patrol division. His duties consisted of responding to all types of calls, crime scenes, and crimes in progress in the most active part of the city. He was promoted to Field Training Officer, training over a dozen new officers on the street. He achieved the rank of Master Officer.
• In addition, Mr. Amidon served on the Raleigh Police Department “strike team”. The strike team’s primary area of responsibility was to counter violent street level crimes to include armed robbery, gun traffickers, drug traffickers, high-risk search warrants, surveillance and apprehension operations, etc. Mr. Amidon crossed-trained with the Investigative Division where he was assigned and assisted in numerous investigations from larceny and armed robbery to homicide and narcotics trafficking. Mr. Amidon routinely worked in conjunction with various other local, state, and federal agencies to include the U.S. Marshall service, ATF, DEA, FBI, and the U.S. Secret Service. Mr. Amidon worked closely with both the local D.A.’s office as well as the U.S. Attorney’s office.
• Attended Louisiana Tech University and Western Carolina University.
• Licensed Commercial General Contractor