Corporate Officers
Louisa L. Jaffe
President/CEO
LTC Louisa Jaffe (ret) USAR (formerly LTC Louisa Cullem) is a 28-year Army retiree with over 30 years experience in business ownership and management, public affairs, and information technology. She retired from the Army Reserves in January of 2002 after recall to active duty in the time of national emergency following the events of September 11, 2001.
She served in the Pentagon as a Media Relations and Public Affairs Officer for the Secretary of the Army Public Affairs during the first Gulf War and for twelve years following. She also provided Public Affairs support for the Army Materiel Command, the US Readiness Command, TRADOC, the Army CIO, and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence. Throughout her military career in public affairs she supported Army Senior Leadership as a spokesperson responding to the Press on a variety of sensitive issues. While serving as a reservist during the last half of her military career, Ms. Jaffe worked simultaneously with in private industry. Her positions included time as a commercial real estate appraiser, a marketing manager for a major media/cable provider, and a facilities manager for Xerox Business Services. In addition, all of her adult life, Ms. Jaffe participated in family business operations including the still ongoing both ownership and executive management of a citrus grove retail, shipping, and wholesale business in Parrish, Florida.
Following her retirement from the Army in 2002 Ms. Jaffe met William Jaffe. They married in 2003 and incorporated TAPE that same year. As President and CEO of TAPE she currently also serves as COO managing TAPE's operations, business affairs, client relations, administration, corporate relations, and marketing outreach. She is a member of the Women in Defense, Women in Technology, Retired Military Officers Association, National Defense Industrial Association, and several women's executive groups.
Following her retirement from the Army in 2002 Ms. Jaffe met William Jaffe. They married in 2003 and incorporated TAPE that same year. As President and CEO of TAPE she currently also serves as COO managing TAPE's operations, business affairs, client relations, administration, corporate relations, and marketing outreach. She is a member of the Women in Defense, Women in Technology, Retired Military Officers Association, National Defense Industrial Association, and several women's executive groups.
William W. Jaffe
Vice President / General Manager
Mr. Jaffe has more than 30 years of computer industry experience as a program and project manager, business developer, and senior division executive, 20 of which has been in the Federal Sector. During the past 5 years, Mr. Jaffe realized his vision of leading TAPE to a position of prominence within the Information Technology industry, serving its customer and capability base with enhanced efficiency, as well as assuring a highly profitable corporate structure. Mr. Jaffe has brought a specific concept of consulting and enterprise support to TAPE, focusing the company's support services on the area of performance management and the use of metrics to develop a performance-based management approach. He created a proprietary methodology for the evaluation of metrics called the Behavior Based Performance Metrics Methodology (BBPMMT). Mr. Jaffe's expertise in performance and project management, and in acquisition support, has lead to TAPE's growth over the past several years.
Mr. Jaffe's prior experience includes Vice President for Corporate Development, GAITS, an Small Business Administration (SBA) 8(a) certified company providing a focused array of professional services. Over a 24-month period, he was instrumental in achieving a steady growth of the company's annual revenue from $3 million per year to $9 million per year. During the same period, the GAITS appeared as #1 on the Washington Technology Fast 50 list. He also developed the systems engineering practice at SETA Corporation (now part of APPTIS), also an SBA 8(a); as over an eight-year period he assisted in spearheading SETA growth from 8 people in 1990 to $60 million per year in Federal IT consulting before being sold to APPTIS. At SETA Corporation, Mr. Jaffe established, managed, and grew a 150-person software development and systems engineering practice. Mr. Jaffe also brought SETA to CMM Level 3. At GAITS, Mr. Jaffe established an ISO 9001 certification, and helped to obtain GAITS' Army Mentor-Protégé program.
Mr. Jaffe holds a Masters in Business Administration from Dartmouth College, and a Bachelor of Science in International Studies from Georgetown University, both with Distinction.
Rosemary McDowell
Vice President, Corporate Development
Ms. McDowell is an experienced professional with over 30 years of management experience in both the Federal and Commercial Sectors. For the past five years, she has run her own business management company with a 30% increase in revenue each year, and won over $20 billion in business for her clients.
She directed business development at UTA and SOZA in the financial arena, transition management for new contracts, and program management over several contracts, generating over $35 million in new revenue in three years.
After writing the winning proposal for TAPE's $69 Million Army Training Models proposal, Ms. McDowell became a TAPE partner in 2007. Ms. McDowell brings expertise in Contract and Business Development, Proposal Management Pricing, Orals, Coaching, Writing, Program Planning and Management, Operations Assessments, and Transition Management. She has demonstrated expertise in management, marketing, and technology with proven business acumen.
Ms. McDowell is an accomplished speaker and presenter on Federal Government contracting for small to mid-size businesses communicating advice on marketing, contracting, proposal, and pricing strategies. She is currently writing books on winning proposals and winning grants based on her 25 years of experience both developing government requests for proposals and contracts and preparing responses and managing the contracts.
She is a member of eWomenNetwork, American Small Business Coalition, Women Impacting Public Policy, Greater Washington Board of Trade, Virginia Chamber of Commerce, National Contract Management Association, National Association of Government Contractors, and Sponsor Chair for AFCEA NOVA's Army, Air Force, and Naval IT Days; and a graduate of Georgetown University, LEAD VA's 2005 Inaugural Class, and Leadership Fairfax Class of 2004. Her Post-Graduate studies are in Financial Management and Contract Management. She is a former government Contracting Officer.
Mark Mohler
Vice President, Programs, Acquisitions and Engineering
Mr. Mohler is the retired Deputy Director for Networks Integration and Transformation; having also served as the Assistant Deputy, Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (Navy); and the Director, Programming and Business Analysis. Mr. Mohler is a results-driven innovator and Senior Executive Service change agent with an extraordinary record of success in making Defense and Naval systems more effective and efficient by creating and returning financial savings through business process improvements, policy enforcement, enterprise governance, and management of the acquisition of information technology resources. He has demonstrated the ability to build new organizations and to develop leaders who share the desire to excel and win.
As former Director for Programming, Mr. Mohler served as the senior civilian responsible for developing the Navy Program Objectives Memorandum or POM, a six-year projection of Navy resources, the first year of which directly supports development of the budget. In his prior executive position, he served as the Director of the Force Planning Division in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Program Analysis and Evaluation. Other government positions include service in the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Office of the Comptroller; Naval Air Systems Command, Joint Cruise Missiles Project Office; Naval Sea Systems Command, Spruance Class Destroyer Program Office. As a result of these assignments, Mr. Mohler has gained extensive experience in organizational development, acquisition management, resource analysis, information technology management, and operations research.
Mr. Mohler has an MS, Applied Mathematics and Statistics, State University of New York at Stony Brook, 1973, a BS, Marine Engineering and Transportation (Dual Major), United States Merchant Marine Academy, 1972, and during his Federal career took a variety of courses and programs at Harvard University, the Federal Executive Institute, and the Navy Post-Graduate School.
John Long
General Partner
Mr. Long is a retired Air Force Master Sergeant with over 16 years of project management experience. He is TAPE's Southeastern Regional Director covering major DOD activities in AFSOC, FORSCOM, Naval Bases in Southern Coastal Regions, and TAPE's Katrina reconstruction response. He also oversees TAPE activity in the US Army Reserve Center in Atlanta as part of our Army Training Models contract. His experience includes managing multi-billion dollar equipment and facilities, maintaining aircraft, writing training material, and training personnel for worldwide deployment.
Mr. Long is a retired senior non-commissioned officer who served in the United States Air Force for over twenty years. He has managed the operations of aircraft maintenance and logistics facilities, entailing the management of significant budgets, human resources, and material. He is a Service Disabled Veteran.
