Patriot's Affiliated Subject Matter Experts

Maj Gen (ret) Duane Jones

Duane brings 36 years of logistics leadership to the Patriot team. His experiences include maintaining the President's Air Force One, operating a mobility base in the Western Pacific, generating aerial-refueling & reconnaissance missions during the war in Kosovo, building combat bases in the mid-east, organizing a new 5000+ person unit in Washington DC, and coordinating relief efforts during the 2010 Haiti earthquake. He's a team player who helps partners best achieve their organizational goals.

Ric Harshman

Ric is a founding shareholder of Royalty Exploration and serves on its Advisory Board. He also founded LPR Energy, an oil & gas exploration company which owns gas fields in Kentucky and Tennessee. He is the President and CEO of International Electric, Inc. (IEI), an industrial and  commercial electrical contracting company founded in 1985.  Ric has over 25 years of experience in the electrical field. He also owns Pure Colorado, a private label bottled water company and Accelerated Funding, a mortgage brokerage firm. Ric attended Denver University and holds master electrical licenses in multiple states.

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Ron Olson

Ron has over 40 years of experience in facility management and is a Licensed Professional Engineer in Colorado.  His individual positions included working for the Army Corps of Engineers as a construction manager and working for the Air Force as a design engineer; construction, design and programming division leader, and Deputy Base Engineer at the Air Force Academy and RAF Lakenheath AFB, England. His most recent experience is being a Project Manager in the private consulting industry.