About Us
Led by Dr. Paul Freedenberg and Frank Record, MK Technology is a global trade consultancy based in Washington, DC with operations in Australia, China, Japan, Germany, the UK, Texas and on the East and West Coasts of the USA. It is staffed by former senior officials of the U.S. Commerce, Defense, and State Departments and the U.S. Customs Service, by the Vice Chair of the State Department's Defense Trade Advisory Group, and by a multinational and multidisciplinary team of lawyers and other internationally-known experts including Ph.D.'s, MBA's and trade-policy specialists. In addition to English, MK professionals speak French, German, Greek, Japanese and Spanish. Marty Kalin is founder and Chair of the MK Group.
Our close collaboration with Trusted Trade Alliance
gives MK-TTA a broad reach including imports
and supply-chain security where TTA is
particularly strong.
MK experts include Paul Freedenberg, former Under Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration, and Frank Record, former acting Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation (ISN) and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary for Arms Control, with extensive service on the senior staff of the House International Relations Committee (HIRC); and Frank Cevasco, a former senior DoD official and well-known global defense consultant. Other MK experts include former senior trade-control managers from Hewlett-Packard, Mitsui, Raytheon, Emerson Electric and Rolls-Royce. Another (also a former Commerce Department senior official) is an internationally-renowned trade-controls scholar and the only U.S. expert adviser to the UN Security Council on export controls in UN member states.
MK Technology's Chair and CEO Emeritus,
Terry Murphy, has extensive service as an
adviser to the Commerce and Defense
Departments. In addition to work on U.S.-UK
defense cooperation as a Senior Associate of
the Center
for Strategic & International
Studies, he is engaged with CSIS and
the National Academy of Sciences on "deemed
export" tech-transfer policy for the scientific
community. J. Christian ("Chris") Kessler
headed the Office of Conventional Arms Threat
Reduction in the ISN Bureau of the State
Department. Constantine
(Gus) Anifantis, from Hewlett-Packard,
has been co-chair of the Commerce
Department's Information Systems Technical
Advisory Committee (ISTAC), where he is serving
one of several terms in that
critically-important technical and regulatory
position. Toshio (Ted) Watanabe is an adviser
to the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
(METI) in Japan and was Mitsui's long-time
Global Trade Manager. George (Sam) Sevier is a
former Colonel USAF and senior official in the
Defense Technology Security Administration; he
now is Vice Chair of the DTAG in the State
Department's Directorate of Defense Trade
Controls.
With a strong collegial culture and a commitment to excellence in client service at all levels, MK Technology is the sponsor of the "must read" Export Practitioner. With MK-TTA, MK Data and other affiliates in the MK Group, we provide one-stop, comprehensive export-controls, including ITAR and import-related services.
Please click through to read more about MK Technology's export compliance solutions, data services, support for major law firms, deemed exports and research-community support, and client training.