ABOUT US

Marinus Analytics is an internationally-recognized, woman-owned and led, artificial intelligence company focused on protecting the vulnerable and ending systemic exploitation. Our mission is to serve those working on the frontlines of public safety by developing technology and services to help them detect and disrupt human trafficking, sexual and labour exploitation, child abuse, and cyber fraud.

This social mission is a part of our company DNA and inspired our formation.

It is a mission that has led world-changing social impact bodies like the United States National Science Foundation and Bank of New York Mellon to invest in our work.

It is why we continuously re-invest all of our own available resources in the effort to create the best tools for our clients and partners on the frontline.

And it is why our talented team of engineers, former law enforcement officials, human-trafficking issue experts, and data scientists are always willing to go the extra mile, inspired as they are by the urgency and value of what they do.

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Amazon Web Services (AWS) is a global cloud platform that offers over 165 fully featured services. AWS is unmatched in the innovative technology they offer in areas including Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence. AWS provides unrivaled security and services available in today's cloud computing environment.

Since 2017, Amazon Web Services has been partnering with Marinus Analytics in order to develop and apply AI tools to public safety spaces. Marinus Analytics used AWS services to add AI tools to the Traffic Jam platform. Amazon Web Services is supporting Marinus in generating tools to enable law enforcement to maximize their efficiency in recovering sex trafficking victims and dismantling organized crime rings.

The National Cyber-Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit founded in Pittsburgh, PA in 2002. Created by industry, academia, and law enforcement, the NCFTA provides a physical and virtual environment that enables two-way information sharing amongst industry and with law enforcement. Organizational goals are to work together to identify, mitigate, and disrupt cyber and cyber-enabled threats.

The NCFTA and Marinus Analytics have had a relationship for several years, enabling NCFTA analysts to successfully leverage the Traffic Jam tool to initiate and/or enhance anti-human trafficking research and investigations around the world.

The National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) is a leading nonprofit organization in the effort to protect children. Every child deserves a safe childhood, and that is what drives NCMEC's work to prevent abuse, recover missing children, and eliminate exploitation through the variety of programs and services they provide. NCMEC works with law enforcement, families, victims, private industry, and the public to assist in the efforts to prevent and combat child victimization.

NCMEC analysts have been given free access to Marinus Analytics's flagship tool Traffic Jam and use it to sift through thousands of missing children reports. Their use of Traffic Jam helps in identifying the location of missing children and assists in the recovery of exploited children.

Leadership Team

CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER
CARA JONES

CEO and co-founder of Marinus Analytics, Cara is passionate about high tech implementations that maximize the efficiency, and by extension, impact, of agencies. Her desire to serve the public safety and human services sector was influenced by her father's career as a forensic social worker. She has managed the maturation and commercialization of Marinus Analytics’s Traffic Jam software since the company's founding. She has a deep wealth of experience ranging from engineering autonomous robots, integration testing federal enterprise IT, and even coaching ice hockey, and leads Marinus's expansion across law enforcement, government, and corporate sectors. Her journey as a social entrepreneur intersected with becoming a new mother which has motivated a flexible operational culture at the company.

CHIEF STRATEGY OFFICER
DR. IAN KEARNS

Ian has over 25 years of experience working in the public, private and NGO sectors, the last 15 of them in organizational leadership positions, and brings deep expertise on progressive approaches to national security, public safety and the use of new technology to deliver social benefit. He is a former Specialist Adviser to the UK House of Commons/House of Lords Committee on National Security Strategy, a co-Founder, former Director and current Board Member of the European Leadership Network, and former Deputy Director of the UK’s leading progressive public policy think-tank, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR). He also previously served as a Director in the Global Government Industry Practice of Electronic Data Systems (EDS), a $20bn a year IT services firm, where he worked to develop ground-breaking ideas on the use of technology to deliver public value. He is the author, with Rick Muir, of Data-Driven Policing and Public Value.

CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER
ALYSON STOCKTON, CPA

Vice President of Business Administration, Alyson is responsible to the CEO for short- and long-term financial management, team oversight and communication, and human resources functions. She worked as a CPA providing financial leadership and public accounting services for five years before starting at Marinus in 2019. An Air Force veteran, Alyson is passionate about serving the public sector and the local community. She is a mother of two elementary-age girls, enjoys running, and volunteers her professional services to her church and parent-teacher association.