Leadership Team
Decades of government contracting expertise combined with proven track records in scaling technology companies and building high-performing teams.
Lane is a third-generation government technology entrepreneur with over 20 years of experience in leading companies with emerging technologies and compliance technology. He is CEO and co-founder of GovSoft, an Ohio-based government technology company whose platforms are deployed statewide in a DMV system and integrate with over 80% of the banks in the United States. Lane contributes to GovSeek, the AI-powered government contracting intelligence platform, was the Secretary for the IEEE working group on Quantum Computing, and authored a patent for Decentralized Identity and Network for Consumer-Controlled Data Management. Earlier he built Syntress, ranked by CRN as one of the 250 fastest growing companies in the country two consecutive years before its acquisition. He is a longtime FBI InfraGard member in a leadership role and maintains deep connections in tech, finance, business, and defense, including the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base ecosystem. Based in Ohio.
Ali Mahvan is a defense technology executive who scaled Terasynth from founding to prime contractor status with the Department of Defense in approximately three years. As CEO, he leads a defense systems integrator focused on AI, autonomous systems, and extended reality environments for government operations. Terasynth won Most Innovative at I/ITSEC 2022, the world's largest defense simulation conference. Ali built GovSeek, an AI-powered contracting intelligence and proposal workflow platform designed to accelerate opportunity discovery, capture planning, and review-ready proposal drafting. Terasynth's product suite also includes TechEval AI for sole-source contract evaluation and Anya for defense document processing. He has published white papers on LLM-driven OODA loop analysis for multi-domain operations. Ali is a Forbes Business Council member and an alumnus of Y Combinator and Techstars, based in Orlando, Florida.
Sara Hand is CEO and Principal Advisor at Spark Growth, the strategic advisory firm she founded in 2013. Spark Growth designs growth strategies for emerging technology, dual-use ventures, and cross-sector initiatives spanning smart cities, economic development, and public-private collaboration. Sara serves as President of TiE Tampa Bay, an international entrepreneurship organization. She has deep connections to defense incubators, accelerators, and innovation networks, and is active in the dual-use innovation space, working at the intersection of university research and defense commercialization. Her work bridges defense, biotech, and international markets. Based in Bradenton, Florida.
Ryan Ramage serves as part of the operational team for US Defense Group, where he supports the identification, evaluation, and restructuring of defense, dual-use technology, and government contracting companies that may benefit from USDG's strategic advisory, operational support, procurement intelligence, and sector-specific execution capabilities. Ryan brings experience across investment banking, capital markets, structured finance, U.S. real estate transactions, operational leadership, and marketing strategy. His early technical foundation includes electronics, programming, network administration, and systems implementation, including six years of service in the U.S. Navy aboard the USS Princeton as a network administrator and electronics repair technician. Ryan is also Managing Director and co-owner of Ridger Capital Inc., a boutique investment banking and capital advisory firm. Securities transactions are conducted through GT Securities, Inc., member FINRA/SIPC.
Chris is a veteran tax strategist with over 25 years of experience managing complex global financial structures and estate planning for high-net-worth individuals, wealthy families, and international businesses. As co-founder of Impact Pockets, a private equity accelerator, he focuses on fund entity formation, investor tax strategy, and GP/LP alignment. His background includes serving as CEO of a payroll company, Managing Partner of his own CPA firm, and VP of Taxation for a mid-sized private company. His expertise spans domestic and international tax compliance, financial statement preparation, complex tax strategies, entity formation, asset protection, and acquisition/divestiture projects. He brings extensive experience across the service, manufacturing, recycling, and medical sectors, providing comprehensive financial and tax strategy guidance for complex multi-entity structures, operating partnerships, and defense-focused growth platforms like those supported by US Defense Group.
