Management Team
Board of Advisors
Mr. Douglas Burke
Chief Executive Officer, DefenseWeb
Mr. Douglas Burke is a member of the Board of Advisors to Sentek Global, a San Diego technology company. Mr. Burke is a DefenseWeb Director and also serves as the company's Chief Executive Officer. In this role, he drives the strategic vision for DefenseWeb and manages all company operations focusing on revenue growth, profitability, and new market development.
Prior to DefenseWeb, Mr. Burke was co-founder and CEO Prodesis and eHNC. Prodesis delivers a wide range of business and technology consulting services including product management, business development, sales, marketing, customer service, engineering, quality assurance, venture capital financing, and executive management. eHNC was an Internet spin-off of HNC Software. In his tenure, Mr. Burke grew the company to 80 employees and $8M in annual revenue.
Mr. Burke has also served as the Vice President of Product Management for Globeset, an electronic commerce startup company in Austin, Texas. Mr. Burke managed all strategic and tactical product initiatives for Globeset’s product line.
Mr. Burke spent three years at Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). During this time, Mr. Burke served as President and Chief Operating Officer of Tenth Mountain Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of SAIC. While at SAIC, Mr. Burke built a $4M per year professional services business in electronic commerce and led the team that helped Visa and MasterCard create the SET security protocol.
Mr. Burke has also been a research programmer and graduate student at the University of Pittsburgh where he developed some of the first distributed, 3-tier client-server database applications over the Internet, and worked for Integrated Decision Systems (IDS), a portfolio management software startup company. He was responsible for software release control, quality assurance, development, and customer support. Mr. Burke worked for Grow Group, a consumer products company, as a systems and financial analyst.
Mr. Burke holds a Bachelor’s of Arts in Economics from the University of California (1990) and Masters of Science in Telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh (1994).