Rich Brown is the co‑founder and Chief Executive Officer of Project VIC International, a U.S.‑based non‑profit that equips law‑enforcement agencies worldwide with technology and victim‑centric forensic workflows to identify and rescue children from sexual exploitation. Over a public‑service career that spans policing, international child‑protection initiatives, and technology transfer, Brown has helped hundreds of agencies modernize their investigative capabilities and has championed open collaboration between government, industry, and academia.

Rich spent 25 years with the New Jersey State Police, progressing from cyber‑crime investigator and forensic specialist to Chief of Intelligence Management before retiring at the rank of Captain. His tenure included leading high‑technology crimes units and electronic‑surveillance programs that laid the groundwork for data‑driven, intelligence‑led policing across the state. After leaving state service, Brown served as law‑enforcement liaison for the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), supporting more than 40 countries in deploying tools such as PhotoDNA and Microsoft’s Child Exploitation Tracking System. Those relationships informed his co‑founding of Project VIC in 2012, where he now oversees global programs, licensing agreements, and technical training partnerships with the U.S. State Department, Homeland Security, INTERPOL, the UK’s NCA, and other agencies. Under his leadership, Project VIC hash sets and analytics have become standard resources in thousands of investigations, directly contributing to victim rescues and dismantling of international abuse rings. Rich Introduced the VICS data model governance framework, recently transitioning stewardship to Kindred Tech to accelerate global adoption. Drives research collaborations that fuse AI, digital‑forensics triage, and open standards, expanding capacity for investigators in developing regions. Rich holds a Master of Administrative Science with a graduate concentration in Computer Forensics & Network Security from Fairleigh Dickinson University and has taught courses on intelligence‑led policing and cybersecurity. Rich serves as a Director on our Board of Directors.

Cory Hall serves as our Chief Technology Officer. In this role, he leads our Steering Committee and a team of 10 volunteer engineers who discover, create, evaluate, and transition technologies to the law enforcement community to help find and rescue children from sexual exploitation (projectvic.org). Formerly he was a Group Leader, Project Leader, and Principal Cybersecurity Engineer at the MITRE Corporation where he led research teams to develop capabilities for cyber-domain analysis, to create machine learning applications for studying cybercrime data, and to develop new digital forensic examination methods. He has an MS in cybersecurity and a BS in information technology. He is a participant in several INTERPOL-led digital investigative groups, as well as a member of the American Academy of Forensic Science, the Digital Forensic Research Workshop, and other organizations. Cory previously led several cybersecurity teams at Lockheed Martin, following earlier roles in cybersecurity and systems engineering roles. Cory served as a musician and systems technician in the US Army.

Cory started as a volunteer in 2019 where he overhauled our website, then established a ticketing and knowledge management system for us. He helped establish workflows for us that helped us enroll 2000 new crimes against children investigators into the Project VIC ecosystem in 4.5 years. As a volunteer, he helped us bid on and win research and development grants from the End Violence Against Children fund, and from Microsoft AI for Good. While still at MITRE, Cory was the Principal Investigator of the sexual assault feature extraction and reduction (SAFER) research project that found novel ways to use machine learning to assist investigators while giving them tunable officer safety controls. He teamed up with investigators, the University College of Dublin and the University of New Haven to develop capabilities, develop training data and train models, and publish research. MITRE ended up licensing this technology to us, and Cory continued as a volunteer to help us get it integrated into a commercial vendor's solution and to share it broadly for free with law enforcement. Since 2019, he recruited other volunteer engineers and scientists to support us. He has led the development of other capabilities and several new initiatives that will be announced through 2026. Cory started working at Project VIC International full time in 2025 and our Board of Directors has named him as our incoming CEO starting in 2026. Cory has served as the Treasurer on our Board of Directors since 2020.