Our Leadership Team

Narjis Ali, Founder/CEO

Narjis Ali is an entrepreneur, thought leader, IT subject matter expert, community leader and the Chief Executive Officer of Sure Secure Solutions. With more than thirty years’ experience providing IT solutions to private and public clients, Narjis is a passionate leader that understands business development, contract negotiation, strategic decision-making and small business management. Narjis is also heavily involved in many non-profit leadership roles including for a global entrepreneurial organization, educational and cancer institute.  A multi-cultural leader looking to change the world, she is a female entrepreneur empowering those around her and motivated by her love of being a connector and extrovert. Her leadership mantra is to “take the people who matter to places that matter“.

She is the recipient of many awards in recent years including the ASHA for Women Award of Excellence, Heroines in Technology® Awards 2011, Smart CEO Brava Award and selected as an SBA Emerging Leader.

Adam Kamran, COO

Adam has over thirty years advising on or managing major projects involving legalities, finances, and developmental strategies, and has gained an immense amount of experience and knowledge through this work. He is an accomplished Senior Executive and thought-leader with demonstrated success across the IT, legal, government contracting, and financial industries. Adam Kamran has been instrumental in Sure Secure’s success over the years and has served as a key contributor to numerous organizational achievements. He is a researcher at his core and an early adopter of IoT and smart home technologies. Adam has also served as the Editor-in-Chief of an award-winning magazine and is a certified Russian translator. Adam holds a PMP in addition to post graduate and M.S. degrees in computer science and physics.

Mickey Afzal, Executive Vice President/CTO

Mickey is an accomplished IT executive and the 2017 recipient of the Outstanding Achievement Award from the Chief NASA Engineer Ralph R. Roe for his contribution to the Agency Cloud Provisioning Initiative. With more than 22 years of experience executing IT operational strategies for commercial and federal clients, promoting organizational growth and implementing emerging technologies, Mickey intimately understands rapidly changing IT landscapes and resolving mission critical challenges to ensure organizational success. Also known as the “Chief Tinkerer” you can catch Mickey dissecting new gadgets and putting them back together.

James J. Butler, Director Infrastructure Solutions

A technical leader, James has twenty plus years of experience as a senior infrastructure and enterprise architect and has been a key player in deploying every aspect of software delivery, integration, and maintenance. His experience in modernization projects has contributed to successful cloud and distributed environment migrations. James has worked with many commercial and federal clients to include CBP, IBM, and the U.S. Army.

The Late John “Mike” Lounge, Former Astronaut and Founding Partner

Twenty years as an aerospace executive with business and technology development responsibilities. Supported NASA Human Space Flight programs as an operator (NASA Space Shuttle), a systems developer (NASA and SPACEHAB, Inc.), and a service provider (The Boeing Company). Mr. Lounge worked on strategic planning and action alignment during his time at Sure Secure Solutions.