Fund Leadership Team

 Peter Kaufman – President & CTO

Mr. Kaufman is the Founder, President and CTO of GTIF. With over 30 years of experience in engineering and consulting in the electronics manufacturing and product design industry, he has acquired an extensive array of industry contacts and resources and participated in a very wide variety of project areas in product development and R&D. Patent development includes electro-optical, imaging, photonics, magnetics, medical devices and semiconductor device development.

He has been involved with development projects for Firematic, Law Enforcement, Corrections and Emergency Services products and many more. His work areas include optics, video, touch sensors, power systems, broadcast and closed circuit RF, power line RF, radiation safety, abatement and compliance, power and control audio, speaker development, fiber optics, motor technology, thermodynamics, Thermo-Electric Cooling, energy management, security electronics, electronics packaging, video monitors, µC system hardware design, interfacing, control and sensing software, specialized low power RF, vertically polarized RF systems, law enforcement products, Firematic products, audio enhancement systems, ultra wide band optics and lenses, multi-spectral imaging camera design, semiconductor wafer fabrication design, MEMS semiconductor design and fabrication, laser illumination, laser targeting, laser distance measurement, ballistics engineering, photonic detonators, laser communications, electronic toys & others. Compliance engineering & agency approvals: UL, CSA, VDE, FCC, FDA, MP3, etc. Projects for: General Motors: Delco Radio Division & Delco Remy Motor Division, Apple Computer, Phillips/Amperex, NASA, NYC Board of Education, US Postal Service, Dept. of Justice, Federal Bureau of Prisons, NYPD, NYC Dept. of Corrections, Altec Lansing, Atari, Sony, Hitachi, EDS/Vanstar
and many more. Mr. Kaufman has fulfilled custom contract work for many notable customers and has done work in and for radio communications, Firematic systems, SONY, General Motors production line systems, NASA Space Shuttle Simulator Display systems, certified Apple Computer Developer and many others that all required diverse engineering and product development skills

Oscar de Leon – Director

Has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry via his firm, Cytec Software Systems Inc. that had several offices in the Southwest U.S., Mexico and India.
Currently as a government relations consultant he has been involved in marketing, business development, and management for technology clients. He has marketed and conducted business development activities for major national commercial accounts, national labs, major universities and defense industry clients.
His contract management capabilities include over 25 years working experience on projects requiring a thorough understanding of federal, state and local government regulations, laws, and related requirements. Most importantly, his technical writing skills include preparing technical proposals, point papers, and
statements of work comprised of process maps, project plans, cost estimates, and risk assessments. Mr. De Leon is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin with an advanced degree earned from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Gib Dunham – Financial Advisor

Mr. Dunham is the Chief Investment Officer at Bridgeway Wealth Partners where he is responsible for originating public and private investments, including private equity, real estate and hedge funds. He was formerly a Managing Director with Hywin Capital Management, a $20 billion Asian institution. He was the Chief Investment Officer for Alternative Capital Advisers, a multi-strategy hedge fund allocator. He was a Partner at a $4 billion multi-family office responsible for security selection, risk management and alternative allocations. Before that he was a Vice President at Emigrant Capital, a $150 million private equity fund. Previously he was also the portfolio manager at $4.5 billion hedge fund group where he was seeded and launched his own fund. His career began at Bear, Stearns in investment banking in the telecommunications group. He is a graduate of Dartmouth College and has received his CFA, CAIA, CMT, QFA and CIC designations and has a certificate in structured products.