Who We Are
Beehive is based upon years of experience working with a wide variety of identity technologies, including social network analysis, face recognition, semantic text analysis, machine learning, sentiment analysis, and temporal profiling.
Our Team
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Mary Haskett – CEO & Co-founder
Mary Haskett is a seasoned entrepreneur with a history of successful exits from her previous two Texas companies. She has a strong technical background and experience managing security related software projects. Ms. Haskett’s first company was a skydiving school she co-founded when she was a student at Texas A&M University, where she earned a M.S. in Education Technology after receiving a B.S. in Applied Mathematics from The University of Texas at Dallas. The skydiving school was bootstrapped into a profitable business that operated three airplanes, taught thousands of students how to skydive and hosted regional skydiving competitions, including one broadcast on ESPN.
In 1998, Ms. Haskett founded HCI Training, Inc., an Austin, Texas-based training development company she ran profitably until it was acquired by Ideal Innovations, Inc. in 2007. HCI Training was also bootstrapped and growth was funded through revenue.
Ms. Haskett was asked to stay on as the Vice President of Software and Training for I-3 to lead system integration teams responsible for providing comprehensive biometric solutions to both U.S. and foreign governments. She was responsible for managing the first satellite office of I-3, growing from 4 people to 20 people with a project budget of $15M. Her tenure with I-3 resulted in exposure to the cultures and related needs of a variety of clients, including customers and end-users in Iraq, Kurdistan and Afghanistan. She has deployed to Iraq and Afghanistan on a number of occasions, and was responsible for deploying the National Afghanistan biometric database system.
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Dr. Alex Kilpatrick – CTO & Co-founder
Dr. Alex Kilpatrick has developed biometric applications for both the US and foreign governments and fielded them all over the world. As an Air Force officer, he worked in a variety of military research labs, and eventually rose to manage the entire Air Force basic research program in Computer Science. After leaving the Air Force, he built advanced training software for commercial companies, including Dell and USAA, producing solutions that were used by tens of thousands of large company employees. He also developed microcontroller solutions for DARPA, as well as applied research in the areas of intelligent training systems, social network analysis, intelligent agents, and knowledge-based systems.
Dr. Kilpatrick has extensive experience commercializing biometric technology. He developed a number of biometric and translation software products that were sold to the Government of Iraq and the Government of Afghanistan, and are still in use today. This included not only the biometric security system for the Jordan Police Academy (used to train Iraqi Police), the largest police academy in the world; the biometric security system for the court building used to secure Saddam Hussein’s trial; biometric credentialing systems for the Iraqi Ministry of the Interior, Oil, and Water; the Iraqi National ID card proof of concept; the Iraqi resident ID card; a system for extraction of latent fingerprints from Baath party record books; a collaborative workflow system for supporting teams of translators; the enterprise data management system for the Afghan and Iraqi National Databases, and database systems for both the Iraqi and Afghan police. He also served as the technical lead on the Afghan and Iraqi national fingerprint databases, as well as the lead for deployment of thousands of biometric collection stations in Iraq and Afghanistan.