Advisory Board

Eric Basu

Chairman Of SIA Advisory Board

Eric is the founder and CEO of Haiku Inc, a maker of video games and gamified training simulations for those wanting to learn cybersecurity skills. Previously Eric founded, built and sold Sentek Global, which grew to be the largest small defense contractor in San Diego. Eric has an MBA from the EMBA program at UCLA, a BS in Molecular Biology from San Jose State University, and is a former USN SEAL officer.

Stephanie Brown

Vice President, Marketing and Public Relations

Stephanie Brown, Vice President of Marketing and Public Relations for Manchester Financial Group, oversees all of the Marketing, Media, Community and Public Relations on behalf of the company. Stephanie joined Manchester Financial Group after serving as the Senior Director of Marketing and Public Relations for the San Diego Union-Tribune, in which she oversaw community relations, business development and advertising sales. Prior to joining the Union-Tribune, Stephanie began her career as a Financial Advisor for Merrill Lynch in La Jolla, California, and as a Productivity Consultant and Regional Banking Consultant for Wells Fargo Advisors in the greater Los Angeles/Orange County region. Stephanie received her Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing with a minor in International Peace Studies from the University of Notre Dame in which she was a distinguished student-athlete receiving numerous honors and awards, including two-time academic All-American recognitions. Upon completing college, Ms. Brown played professional softball for the Chicago Bandits, located in Lisle, Illinois. Stephanie serves on Promises2Kids, Origin Entertainment, and is a LEAD Graduate and FBI San Diego Citizens Academy Alumni.

Michael Julian

PI Advisor

Michael Julian has worked in the investigations and security profession since 1985 when he began his career working as a surveillance investigator for National Business Investigations, Inc. He’s a long-time member of multiple national and international PI and security associations including the California Association of Licensed Investigators (CALI), of which he was President for two terms. He is a graduate of the Executive Protection Institute, studied surveillance detection and covert protection at Executive Security International, and has certificates in behavioral threat assessment and active shooter survival training. His company, founded by his father in 1967, has provided executive and asset protection services to corporate executives, celebrities, natural and man-made disaster victims and people at risk, and investigative services to the corporate and private sector for five decades. He is a certified Personal Protection Specialist (PPS), is a Certified Professional Investigator (CPI) and is one of less than 50 Certified Security Professionals (CSP) in California.

Michael created the A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival program, which he teaches throughout the US and wrote the book, 10 Minutes to Live: Surviving an Active Shooter using A.L.I.V.E., which is sold worldwide.

Kirby D. Horrell

Navy SEAL Master Chief retired, Special Operations Consultant, Vice Chair

MASTER CHIEF KIRBY D. HORRELL (SEAL) 1967-2014
Master Chief Horrell (SEAL) graduated from Normandy High School in 1966 and enlisted in the Navy November 15, 1967.

After attending boot camp in San Diego he made his first Westpac deployment on the USS Piedmont and returned to BUDS training in San Diego in November 1968.  He was assigned to BUDS training class 49 and graduated with class 50 in June 1969.  After graduation, he attended Basic Airborne Training, SEAL Basic Instruction (SBI) course and then was sent to SEAL Team ONE as a Point man for a number of Platoons.  He was moved into the training cadre with SEAL Team ONE.

His next duty station in 1975 was Naval Special Warfare Reserve Unit Pac 119 in NAB Coronado, CA.  He was the leading Land Warfare and Weapons Instructor for the training department until get called back to active duty in 1990 for Desert Storm.

His next duty was Unit 2 in Stuttgart, Germany and the lead Maritime LCPO for Naval Special Warfare on the newly form ESAT program. He deployed on three NEO operations as the NSW component to Monrovia Liberia, Sierra Leone and Republic and the Republic of Congo, Brazzaville. 

He started the RST/ISP U.S. Embassy survey teams working out of SOCEUR and surveyed over (12) Embassy compounds from Africa to Russia. Deployed to Bosnia four (4) times in support of Operation Enduring Freedom.

After 4 years he was brought back to San Diego and Group 1 with the responsible of supervising and integrating all ordnance and weapons programs for SEAL Teams 1, 3, 5. After this job was completed he received orders in 2000 to Unit-10 to Rota, Spain as the LCPO of training and Spanish liaison for the Spanish Military.  He deployed to Kosovo as Task Unit LCPO several times and conducted Joint Operations with Spanish, Portuguese, Polish, Greek and Italian Special Operations military units.

He was selected to the rank of Master Chief and became the oldest SEAL to go through SDV School in Panama City.  After completion of school, he was assigned as Combat System Officer of SDV Team One in Hawaii in charge of the AIR, WEAPONS and DIVING Department for 3 years and then took over the ASDS program in Hawaii as AOIC of the ATC School House and taught LIO lockout tactics from the ASDS until the end of the program.

He received orders to WARCOM in 2009 as the Naval Special Warfare Force SEAL Delivery Vehicle Program Manager to run the operation and maintenance of the SDV Fleet.  He was responsible for the SDV Fleet reliability and supervised the integrity of a 10 million dollar budget to ensure the fleet's operational readiness for the theater Commanders.

He received orders to Naval Special Warfare Group 1 as Master Chief of the Range Department in 2012 and supervised all NSW ranges for the West Coast.

Master Chief Horrell is a graduate of the Air Force Senior Enlisted Academy. 

His personal decorations include the Bronze Star with valor (two), Purple Heart, Joint Commendation, Navy Commendation Medal (four), Joint Achievement Medal, Navy Achievement Medal (two), Combat Action Ribbon (two), Expert Rifleman Medal, Expert Pistol Medal and numerous unit and campaign awards.

Master Chief Horrell is married to the love of his life, Terri.  They have been together over 40 years.  They have a son, John and three granddaughters.  They reside in Alpine, California.

Paul H. Foley

Father/Parent Advocate

Paul Foley has experience in both corporate and entrepreneurial positions. As Vice President of Operations for a national financial services company, he supervised 13 district managers across a 14-state territory with 195 financial centers.  As an entrepreneur, he had a business servicing the automotive industry. 

In 2017, Paul and his family contacted Saved In America to help them find their missing child.  This was the beginning of a longstanding relationship.  With the dedicated help from Saved In America their daughter was rescued and returned home after eight agonizing weeks.

Two years later, Paul had to contact SIA once more to rescue their child.  On this occasion, SIA located and returned her in only five days! Despite that effort, the healing process took much longer for the family. Ultimately, they turned it into an opportunity for learning and growth for all; Saved In America gave them a second chance and they took full advantage of it.

Today, Paul focuses on providing support and sponsorship to families as the Virtual Meetings Coordinator for a drug recovery program consisting of 14 different online recovery meetings.  He also helps families of missing children navigate their way through this very difficult and painful time. In 2018, he was named San Bernardino County’s Father of the Year.

 In his off time, Paul enjoys spending time with his wife Marina and his children, who love the outdoors and spend time riding motocross, racing buggies through the desert and camping.

“It is an honor to give back what was so freely given to me, by serving on the advisory board of Saved In America.”  

Mark Gillespie, MFS, TBCI, A.L.I.V.E., CCDI

Investigations Coordinator
Gillespie Forensics and Investigations

Mark Gillespie is a Texas board-certified private investigator, board certified criminal defense investigator, forensic scientist, and certified A.L.I.V.E. Active Shooter Survival Program trainer. He has been president/CEO of Gillespie Forensics and Investigations since 2004. Mark specializes in criminal defense investigations, cold cases, forensic science consultations, and personal safety, handgun training and security awareness. He has a master’s degree in forensic science from George Washington University and spent a career as an Air Force officer and special agent in the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). As a special agent he commanded investigative units in the US and overseas conducting and managing felony investigations that undermine the mission of the U.S. Air Force and the Department of Defense. After retiring from the Air Force, he served as the Forensic Science Director for the Austin Police Department. He also introduced a forensic science course curriculum to St. Edwards University which led to the creation of their forensic science undergraduate degree program where he also taught courses in forensic science, criminal investigation and crime scene processing.

Mark is a past president and board member of the Texas Association of Licensed Investigators (TALI) and is a member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences as well as a number of other state and national private investigation and professional associations. In 2017, he and Joseph Travers co-founded the National Association for Missing and Exploited Children (NAMEC). He is a frequent lecturer throughout the US and has been featured on many cable and local news networks discussing forensic science, private investigation, cold cases, missing persons/human trafficking and active shooter survival.

Mark is married to Cheryl and they have five children and seven grandchildren.

DeVonna Drey

Worship Leader and Children’s Minister

DeVonna has served in ministry as a Worship Leader and Children’s Minister in local churches for over four decades. Currently she serves on staff with Peninsula Community Church in Rancho Palos Verdes, California. She served as a worship leader until God called her to serve kids and their families. DeVonna has an education background in Music and Children’s Ministry. She began her ministry serving with Rick and Kay Warren at Saddleback for 20 years. Since that time she has lead multiple ministries in churches in New York, Hawaii and California. She loves her husband Pete who is a Special Ed High School Teacher and partner in her ministry. They have three sons, two daughter-in-loves, three grandsons. Coming from a background of sexual abuse , DeVonna is passionate about helping to rescue children who are being trafficked for sex in United States of America. In the past few years she has developed several ministry opportunities and events like  “Rescue Sundays” and “On Behalf Of Our Children”, to help bring awareness and education to local churches in order for them to support the efforts of organizations like Saved In America. Her objective is to encourage churches to financially, spiritually, and physically support the efforts to rescue victims of trafficking, and to help provide restoration and healing to these victims and their families. 

Larry Ray Hardin

Author

Former Senior Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)

Former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as an Adjudicator Officer

Larry Ray Hardin has over 32 years of in fighting crime. He retired from the government service after serving almost 24 years with the United States Department of Justice as a Senior Special Agent with the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). He served with the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) as an Adjudicator Officer, with the Federal Bureau of Prisons as a Correctional Officer, and over six years in the military service, primary with the Marine Corps.  Mr. Hardin holds a Master of Arts in Management and Human Resources Development from Webster University.  Mr. Hardin is a licensed Private Investigator and the President and CEO of L.R.H. Investigations. Mr. Hardin is a consultant and lecturer on law enforcement, international/domestic terrorism, and intelligence methodologies. Mr. Hardin is the co-author of Path of the Devil/Camino Del Diablo and author of Fighting My Greatest Enemy: Myself, Home is Never the Same, and Life’s a Journey Between Heaven and Hell.