Robert R. Patterson, BA, MBA, AIFA®
Chief Executive Officer, Co-founder
Bob brings over 30 years of experience advising institutions and individuals in the U.S. and Europe on investment and fiduciary management strategies. One of the few AIFA® holders with extensive international experience, he is the only AIFA® with both education and expertise in cybersecurity. He has served on several nonprofit boards and committees in the U.S. and Europe.
- B.A., Virginia Military Institute
- MBA, IMD (Lausanne, Switzerland)
- Certificate, Cybersecurity: Technology, Application, and Policy – MIT CSAIL (2016)
John W. Whitworth, MBA, CGMA, ACMA, FCT
Treasurer, Co-founder
John has over 25 years of general management experience in the UK and U.S., specializing in treasury, financial risk mitigation, and global cash management for multinational manufacturing and marketing operations. He previously held senior roles at Invensys plc, a $12B global company operating in 36 countries, and served as Group Treasurer of Unitech plc, managing complex UK pension issues.
MBA, London Business School
Designations: CGMA, ACMA, FCT
Based in the UK, John will lead engagement with boards and trustees of multinational corporations outside the U.S.
Edith S. Patterson, BA.
Board Secretary
With 30+ years of experience in board development and training, Edith helps organizations refine and communicate their value proposition. She specializes in leadership development, team dynamics, and strategic communication. Edith has served on nonprofit boards, including the Junior League of Washington, D.C., and the Central Virginia Boys & Girls Club.
Edie will coordinate our client relations, board and staff education.
B.A. in History, University of Virginia
Diogenes-FG Code of Ethics
To our clients, we will:
- Act with honesty and integrity, avoiding actual or perceived conflicts of interest.
- Ensure timely, clear, and accurate disclosure of relevant information.
- Set fair compensation based on time, skill, experience, and circumstances.
- Recognize the limits of our expertise and refer clients to qualified professionals when necessary.
- Maintain confidentiality, disclosing information only when authorized or legally required, and never for personal gain.
- Uphold trust by not exploiting professional relationships or responsibilities.
Board of Directors
Charles F. Bryan, Ph.D. (American)
Chairman
Charlie is a founding partner with Daniel P. Jordan of Bryan & Jordan Consulting, LLC, which specializes in strategic planning, fundraising, board and staff relations, and executive searches for nonprofit institutions and higher education.
Charlie retired in 2008 after a twenty-year career as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Virginia Historical Society; Charlie remains as its CEO Emeritus.
He served as president of the American Association for State and Local History and was president of the Independent Research Libraries
Charlie is a member of the board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History. He is a board member of the VMI Foundation and serves as the Vice Chair of the Medical College of Virginia Foundation.
Charlie is a Distinguished Military Graduate of the Virginia Military Institute. He earned a Master’s Degree in history from the University of Georgia and his Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee with a speciality in the American Civil War.
Robert R. Patterson, AIFA®
Chief Executive Officer
Please see management team section.
John W. Whitworth, ACMA, CGMA, MCT
Treasurer
Please see management team section.
Edith S. Patterson
Vice President, Secretary of the Board, Communications
Please see management team section.
Advisory Board
Atin Basuchoudhary, Ph.D.
Colonel, Virginia Militia
Roberts Professor of Free Enterprise Economics
Fellow, Center for the Economic Analysis of Conflict, Ecole spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr
NATO ACT Innovation Hub Liaison
Department of Economics and Business
Virginia Military Institute
John Caulfield
John is an Advisor on systems engineering and intelligence operations and analysis for cybersecurity applications. Since 2018, he has been the Chief of International Strategy, Dark Watch Inc (formerly Zero Trafficking LLC), combating human trafficking by making it difficult for traffickers to use technology and commercial entities to conduct their illicit business. He had careers as a United States Air Force officer and a Program and Line Manager for TASC Inc, Science Applications International Corporation.
John is a graduate of the Virginia Military Institute and the University of Arizona.
Bill Carden
Bill is the co-founder of Carden Jenning Publishing Company, Ltd. Since 1985, Bill and his co-founder have provided publishing and design services in the medical, custom, and lifestyle markets. One of the other companies of which he was a co-founder and CEO is ScholarOne, a speciality medical publishing company, which he sold to Thompson Reuters a number of years ago. Bill is a special adviser for Diogenes-fg and has been working closely with Diogenes-fg on the design and development of our Diogenes Fiduciary Compliance System™. His belief in Diogenes-fg, experience in developing a similar software for ScholarOne, and his experience in growing and selling a business, adds further credence to the timeliness of what Diogenes-fg is offering.
Bill is a graduate of the University of Virginia and lives in Charlottesville, Virginia.
Duane Gran, CISSP, CRISC, and CIPP/E
Duane has over 20 years of experience in technology and security leadership in the public and private sector. Having been a founder and executive in several firms positions him well as an advisor to organizations in the security and governance sector. He holds a bachelor’s in Computer Science from Ball State University. He serves on the Privacy Advisory Group for ISACA and volunteers as a mentor with Cyversity.
Roger Levy, LLM, AIFA®
Roger L. Levy, LLM, AIFA® is CEO of Cambridge Fiduciary Services, LLC which provides services aimed at reducing the fiduciary risk for institutional investment committees, investment advisors, and asset managers, through consulting advice and assessments of their conformity with a fiduciary standard of care.
Roger earned the Accredited Investment Fiduciary Analyst™ designation from the Center for Fiduciary Studies and is a Lead Analyst for the Centre for Fiduciary Excellence (CEFEX). Through this affiliation, Cambridge Fiduciary Services, LLC has performed fiduciary assessments for investment advisors, pension plans, and fund administrators and has advised investment committees on fiduciary responsibility. Mr. Levy speaks at investment conferences on fiduciary issues and publishes articles on fiduciary topics. Roger was a coauthor of an Amicus Brief filed with the US Supreme Court in support of the plaintiffs in the 2015 Tibble v. Edison International case. The US Supreme Court, in their response, provided a landmark argument in holding fiduciaries accountable for their failure to continuously monitor their plans’ investments. The case was remanded to a lower court which confirmed the SCOTUS argument in 2017; the Defendants were fined an additional $5.2 million in penalties. He is the co-author with Dr. Peter Roland of Your 401K – The Danger Within, published by Amazon. In addition, he provides best practices for consulting services to law firms engaged in ERISA litigation.
Greg Osadetz, P. Eng.
Greg began his career as a registered petroleum engineer in 1978 with Imperial Oil / Exxon in Canada and then other multinational oil companies. Greg is the former CEO of a number of companies in the international power and infrastructure sector in Latin America and the Caribbean. On moving to Brazil in 2005 he established Mount Rundle Financial to provide strategic and financial consulting services to sophisticated investors with a focus on Latin America, particularly Brazil. He has lived in Brasilia, Brazil for the past eight years, where he is a permanent resident.
He earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Toronto School of Engineering and his MBA (with distinction) from IMD, Lausanne, Switzerland.
Service Providers
Tkxel Corporation
Tkxel is a global corporation focused on supporting the growth of Artificial Intelligence for a wide variety of applications. They are committed to helping us bring CyberGov™ to the global market
Boldset
Boldset, based in Paris, France, specializes in innovative communication design, including brand management. After a comprehensive evaluation of other agencies, Boldset was selected for its proven success in the international market and its ability to bring modern design to traditional industries. The firm will be responsible for the design and maintenance of all client-facing communications CyberGov™ platform.