Frank Pagano is a retired New Jersey K9 Police Sergeant with over 20 years’ experience as both a handler and a trainer. Working with K9 Explosive Detection units in New York City and New Jersey, as well as for the Department of State working in Iraq, has provided Frank with insight into not only the practices but also the needs within the field.

"As a trainer, I saw the need to create a training device for any scent trained K9 to replicate a large amount of odor from a small amount of material. K9’s will learn quickly to follow the scent cone to the source. This device can be placed inside boxes, luggage and vehicles; the positive pressure created by the training device will cause K9 to search productive areas, such as door seams, zippers and corners of boxes with no set time."

- Frank Pagano, inventor of the K9 Power Wake

In 2016, Frank began working with Inert Products LLC to refine the concept and introduce the K9 Power Wake to the marketplace.

Inert Products LLC provides Law Enforcement, Homeland Security and the United States Department of Defense with extremely durable, highly realistic inert training aids used in training against terrorist threats. Located in Scranton, PA, Inert Products, LLC produces and supplies support materials used by security forces in training to recognize, respond to, and mitigate the threat of explosives & terrorism.