About Us

Led by international lawyer Terence Murphy, 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. Kay Morrell is Managing Partner of MK Technology. Martin 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 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); Dr. Steven Goldman, former Director of Nonproliferation and Treaty Compliance in the Commerce Department with special responsibility for India and the bio-chem industry; Michael Turner, the DoC's former Director of Export Enforcement with decades as a senior Customs official and Frank Cevasco, a former senior DoD official and well-known global defense consultant. Other MK experts including 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, 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. He and Frank Record, Steve Goldman, Chris Kessler, Mike Turner and Frank Cevasco are MK's six members of the U.S. Government's elite Senior Executive Service.

With a strong collegial culture and a commitment to excellence in client service at all levels, MK Technology is based on the "McKinsey" model of international business consultancies. MK Technology was the founder 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.