Paul J. Karch
Mr. Karch is President/CEO of Gardant Global Inc., an industry leading boutique consulting, technology and investment organization with expertise in business development, market strategy, mergers and acquisitions and technology assessment and review.
Mr. Karch has led international contract strategy, winning technology architecture and solution sales that have exceeded over $2.9 billion in revenue and deployments in over 50+ countries, on 6 continents. These contract wins include large scale government contracts and commercial/international efforts in finance, manufacturing, petrochemical and media vertical markets.
His focused specialization includes solutions for citizen services, information security, network management, imaging and knowledge management, staffing and management process and operational logistics. He has managed corporate divisions in the areas of Homeland Security, GWAC programs and state and local. Mr. Karch has also created, managed and directed sales, operations, and marketing for leading Hardware, Software, Outsourcing, Technology Services and Call Center/CRM companies.
Mr. Karch accomplishments have also included positions as International Vice President and GM (UK based) of a leading neural network content-based retrieval software corporation and Chief Operating Officer of a leading hosted Application Service Provider focused on delivery of ERP, CRM and HRIS systems in a hosted environment…Computing in the Cloud..
Mr. Karch is a featured speaker and writer and has been interviewed by Lou Dobbs, CNN Money Line with representative segments including “After Y2K, Personnel, Opportunity and the Future.” – January 2000; Featured Articles in Washington Post, Washington Technology, Federal Computer Week, London Daily Telegraph, The Independent (London) and numerous other publications and is currently a member of the Everything Channel (formerly Gartner Group) Advisory Board tasked with providing leadership to industry in the areas of government channel development, solution relevance and technology vendor packaging.
His papers and presentations include –
- Keynote presentation at the American Teleservices Association (ATA) Government Summit 2009
- Panel Member on “Healthcare IT Solutions for Compliance”, Everything Channel Government XChange
- “E-Business Economics-Beyond the Hype” presented to The US Executive Council in Miami, Florida;
- “The Economics of Profitable Thinking” detailing the change from Communism to capitalism and the challenges involved in thought process modification presented to The Slovak Republic Institute of Economics – Bratislava Slovakia
- “Bridging the Digital Divide” – detailing the conundrum of adding inaccessible e-government to poverty level users --- presented to the FL State Senate Tallahassee Florida ;
- “The World is Your Oyster” relating to the challenges US companies' face in globalization presented at The International Imaging Conference, NEC London England;
- “Information Analysis, Classification and Security” AFCEA- Brussels Belgium
- “Imaging and Automated Document Capture in a full content world” – Edinburgh Scotland & Singapore
- Multi-lingual search and retrieval for multinational organizations presented in Caracas Venezuela
- And numerous press briefings in US, Europe, Latin America and Asia.
Also Mr. Karch is the inventor of a patented technology for “Controlling Access/Delivering Digital Content” and is a classically trained network/computer engineer with experience in design deployment and support of secure and non-secure networked computing environments.
Mr. Karch is a member of various industry related associations and organizations including the Business Executives for National Security (BENS), the American Teleservices Association (ATA), the South Florida Technology Alliance(SFTA) and others.
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