ahec Board member

Arpad Gregory Toth

Arpad Gregory Toth

Director of Global Business Development
POWERWAVE TECHNOLOGIES CORPORATION
Santa Ana, California, USA
Office: 202-595-2107
Cell: 202-469-9622
arpad.toth [at] pwav.com

Arpad Toth is a globally recognized technologist, pioneer and business executive in the fields of wired and wireless communications, Converged Security Protection (CSP), "Smart Cities" / "Smart Buildings", digital imaging and video.

In December 2010, he joined Powerwave Corporation as Director of Global Business Development responsible for leading Powerwave’s market development efforts specifically tactical and strategic plans that result in new 4G/LTE government business opportunities and ensure profitable and sustainable revenue streams. He manages the company’s Washington D.C. office, drives the efforts behind Powerwave’s global growth strategy, establishes the company’s credibility and helps individual product units develop market distribution for existing products via proper channels.

In September 2009, he rejoined GTSI as Chief Solutions Architect. His prime responsibilities included leadership in technology capability, solution plan and technical architecture development plus business strategy of new “mega-opportunities” for Federal and State – Local Governments.  In particular Mr. Toth has been intimately involved in developing the winning multi-company multi-million dollar program proposals for the DHS (EAGLE-II) and the NIH (NITAAC CIO-SP3).

From 2006 to 2009, Mr. Toth was Chairman and CEO of ALACERA International, a spin-off from GTSI, responsible for managing global growth in providing solutions and services for converged security protection, integrated building systems, building automation, energy management, technology and products leadership and development of global alliances with vendor partners in the IT and physical security fields.  He demonstrated exceptional leadership through co-founding of international operations with offices in Kuwait, Bahrain, Saudi Arabia and the USA; headed numerous safety and security protection projects in Kuwait, Qatar, Bahrain, Egypt and Saudi Arabia; formed and chaired international industry consortium to oversee homeland / physical security business opportunities in these countries. He was chair of the Alacera International Consortium. The Board of Advisors included top security experts and industry leaders of our nation, including former U.S. Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge, Retired General James Jamerson president of Lockheed Martin Mid-East operation, Jim Leto former CEO of GTSI, as well as former DHS Chief Security Officer Jack Johnson (now partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP) and former DHS Chief Information Officer Steve Cooper (now CIO at FAA). Alacera partners included Lockheed Martin, Cisco Systems, Schneider Electric / Pelco, ICX Technologies / FLIR, Ridge Global, PWC, Adesta, Ross & Baruzzini, Argonne National Laboratory, Atheeb Group of Companies - Saudi Arabia, and few specialized security solutions providers.

While being in the Mid-East, Mr. Toth headed numerous IT-enabled security related projects, including Egypt, Cairo Diplomats City security protection master plan, Kuwait Parliament building security, Kuwait Ministry of Interior Correction Facility, Kuwait Central Bank headquarters, Qatar Barwa Urjuan City security, Bahrain Petroleum Company, Oman New Muscat Airport, and Aramco heliports and oil drilling platforms. Under his leadership Alacera and its consortium prepared complex multi-year, multi-company project proposal for security of new city of 2.5 million in Saudi Arabia; developed the Technology Security Experience Center (TSEC) Academy business proposal for R&D and training institute for advancement of homeland security protection techniques, services, and solutions in Saudi Arabia to train up to 5,000 professionals annually; held numerous executive presentations to international executive audience in the USA and the Persian Gulf region; became a trusted advisor to the Saudi Ministry of Interior and SAGIA (Saudi Arabian Government Investment Agency) contributing to the Saudi New Economic Cities Security Master Plan.

Mr. Toth created and published his vision on the “Secure Model City of the Future^TM” the first time years ago while being a young scientist at Nortel Networks in the 1970’s and 80’s. He was involved in the R&D of the world’s first broadband smart home solutions based on fiber optic, CATV and power-line communications as alternatives. The seeds of his pioneering work in this subject matured further while being the chief scientist of Philips Research in the late 1980’s. He became a key contributor to the EIA (now CEA) Smart House activities.

Mr. Toth is also one of the inventors of the HDTV while being Chief Scientist at Philips Research. In 1987 he published and presented one of the first papers worldwide on a hierarchical, scalable multi-resolution digital video system structure that led to the definition of the MPEG TV standard family, including MPEG-2 HDTV standard,  and motion JPEG. In the 1990’s, he continued these efforts at Kodak as the chief digital imaging architect at the Kodak R&D Center and later as executive director. Under his leadership, more than two dozens of Internet-enabled digital networked imaging patents were created at Kodak for the professional, medical, and consumer imaging fields. For his innovative work, Mr. Toth was awarded as the lifetime member of the famed Kodak Research Scientific Council that has its origin back to the years of George Eastman founder of Kodak.

Prior to co-founding Alacera in 2006, Mr. Toth was Chief Technology Officer for GTSI. He was responsible for overall IT, homeland/physical security, and force protection technology leadership within the company.  He was also the Chairman of the GTSI Technology Council ensuring that the company’s solution development and integration align with new technology-driven capabilities and government customer demand. Mr. Toth was the founder and chairman of the InteGuard Alliance, a group of more than 60 corporations in the physical security field, which provided trusted physical security protection services to governments. As the former head of the GTSI Physical Security Protection (PSP) technology practice, Mr. Toth, helped creating a profitable operation, led the team that provided the security protection master plan for the U.S. Federal Government Department of Homeland Security Head Quarters complex; was also heading a multi-company team to design and implement the video surveillance system for Super Bowl XXXIX in Jacksonville, Florida that included the protection of the entire downtown of the City of Jacksonville, all major highways, the river, and the Stadium; was also involved in dozens of physical security projects including university campuses, hospitals, macro urban development project of the city of Baltimore, airports, etc.   

Throughout his career, Mr. Toth has held a variety of executive positions with leading public and private sector technology companies. He was the co-founder and the senior vice president of a wireless data solutions startup firm in Washington D.C., a spin-off from Us Mobility (formerly MetroCall); served at Circuit City as Chief Technology Officer and Corporate Vice President; was Chief Imaging Architect and Executive Director of Eastman Kodak; and Chief Scientist – HDTV at Philips.  He is a scientist, inventor and business executive, contributing to the formulation of fundamental patents for HDTV systems, online networked imaging solutions, and broadband telecommunications including ISDN, broadband-ATM and SONET. During his career, he has created numerous highly successful businesses.

Mr. Toth concluded his PhD studies and holds an MSEE in telecommunications, both from the University of Toronto.  He earned a Master of Management degree from the Technical University of Budapest and his EE Telecommunications degree, summa cum laude, from the same university. He completed executive management programs at Harvard University and the Chief Security Officers management program at the Wharton School of Business of the University of Pennsylvania.