NJN Foundation Board of Trustees

William R. Craven

Bill Craven joined the NJN Foundation Board of Trustees in May 2005. Mr. Craven is the Chairman and CEO of Federal IT Systems, LLC, a New Jersey based company focused on providing software tools for intelligence analysts. Federal IT serves both the US Government intelligence agencies as well as the US Army and US Marine Corps with analysis products and communications systems.

Mr. Craven is the former the President and CEO of Paravant, Inc. (NASDAQ:PVAT) which was a world leader in digital battlefield equipment serving the US Army and USAF, and in providing high speed signal intelligence processing systems to the Intelligence community. Mr. Craven sold Paravant to DRS Technologies in November 2002.

Prior to joining Paravant, Mr. Craven served in product development and senior management roles for the Mead Corporation of Dayton, Ohio, ultimately serving as President of the Seiko Mead Company, a joint venture between Seiko Group of Japan and the Mead Corp. of Dayton Ohio.

Mr. Craven started his career with Anderson Electric Company, where he began work as a Scientist I, and later served as Sales Engineer for the Systems Division.

Mr. Craven, has a B.S. Degree in Physics and Mathematics from Birmingham-Southern College, and received an executive type MBA from Rutgers University. Mr. Craven is married, has three daughters and enjoys mountain hiking, golf and reading.