leadership TEAM

SELINA HAYES • Founder & CEO

Stemming from her extensive experience developing and executing emerging and disruptive strategies and technologies, Selina Hayes founded Hayes Group International to provide unique access to people, places, and data. With this unparalleled access, HGI is able to extend opportunities for unexpected and overlooked contributors, ideas, technologies, and methodologies with her desire to resolve intricate problems across the world. 

 

Designed to disrupt, Selina has access to strategic partners and networks across Africa and the Pacific. With her intelligence background and unique on the ground experience, the company has developed and delivered solutions involving multi-int sensors, information gateways, information operations, cultural intelligence, data collection, geospatial, ISR, and Space-as-a-Service.  

 

In addition, and in close collaboration with our global partners, the company has leveraged Selina’s international experience to provide robust operational solutions that are always mission-focused. She has been at the forefront of the introduction of disruptive technologies to deliver comprehensive solutions to unique problem sets.

She has extensive experience leading defense and international business development strategies for emerging and disruptive ISR, PED, and geospatial technologies. Selina has successfully combined the innovation of Silicon Valley with Washington, having successfully launched three new technologies in the DoD ecosystem to expand the capabilities of our country. 

 

As CEO, Selina has introduced her connections in Africa and the Pacific with this unique access to exquisite data sources and nonconventional methodologies. Hayes Group, under her leadership, has benefited and is able to understand, identify, and analyze potential influences that affect our clients’ ability to complete their mission.

 

Founder & CEO
SELINA HAYES

 

Stemming from her extensive experience developing and executing emerging and disruptive strategies and technologies, Selina Hayes founded Hayes Group International to provide unique access to people, places, and data. With this unparalleled access, HGI is able to extend opportunities for unexpected and overlooked contributors, ideas, technologies, and methodologies with her desire to resolve intricate problems across the world. 

 

Designed to disrupt, Selina has access to strategic partners and networks across Africa and the Pacific. With her intelligence background and unique on the ground experience, the company has developed and delivered solutions involving multi-int sensors, information gateways, information operations, cultural intelligence, data collection, geospatial, ISR, and Space-as-a-Service.

 

In addition, and in close collaboration with our global partners, the company has leveraged Selina’s international experience to provide robust operational solutions that are always mission-focused. She has been at the forefront of the introduction of disruptive technologies to deliver comprehensive solutions to unique problem sets.

 

She has extensive experience leading defense and international business development strategies for emerging and disruptive ISR, PED, and geospatial technologies. Selina has successfully combined the innovation of Silicon Valley with Washington, having successfully launched three new technologies in the DoD ecosystem to expand the capabilities of our country.

 

As CEO, Selina has introduced her connections in Africa and the Pacific with this unique access to exquisite data sources and nonconventional methodologies. Hayes Group, under her leadership, has benefited and is able to understand, identify, and analyze potential influences that affect our clients’ ability to complete their mission.

Shane Rainey • Chief operating Officer

Shane Rainey has two decades of demonstrated experience leading spaced based/derived geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) technology companies and GEOINT technology service in the Department of Defense, Intelligence, and international verticals. He has been involved in the geospatial profession across numerous verticals including the United States Air Force, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, and Maxar Technologies, where he managed and executed the Global Enhanced GEOINT Delivery (G-EGD) Program - a program providing rapid commercial satellite imagery to warfighters and intelligence professionals across the US government. During his tenure as a federal intelligence officer within the US public sector, Shane was at the forefront of integrating commercial remote sensing capabilities into counter-terrorism operations focused on solving complex defense and intelligence problems around the world using activity-based intelligence disciplines. Shane has completed eight overseas deployments and holds numerous public sector awards and accolades that include meritorious unit awards and achievement medals. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from American University and resides in Denver Colorado.

Jazzmine Hayes • Chief of Staff

Jazzmine Hayes is an operations and organizational management professional with over a decade of experience supporting business operations in cross-functional management initiatives. Prior to joining HGI, Jazzmine worked for Native Instruments, a German music Technology company, as the Global Head of Workplace. She managed and led a global team that supported the real estate, facilities, and operational success of offices in Los Angeles, Tokyo, Shenzhen, London and Berlin. More recently, Jazzmine worked as an Area Manager leading a national workplace brand to achieve integration with a parent brand and grow business operations and sales. Throughout the course of her career Jazzmine has been a thought-leader providing innovative and streamlined solutions to unique business challenges that include effective analysis of short and long-term impact to teams. She is a proven leader that values continuous improvement and always places people first.

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