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Bob Carlson is a former President and CEO of IxReveal. He previously worked with IBM for 10 years, serving as Vice President and General Manager for IBM’s WebFountain™, IBM’s internally-developed platform for searching and organizing unstructured and semi-structured text. He began working for IBM as a part of IBM Public Sector, after IBM acquired The MAGIC Group - a company founded by Carlson in 1995. His career encompasses more than 20 years of management and information technology experience. He has built a reputation for creating strong partnerships, developing productive, talented teams, and creating innovative business solutions that provide competitive advantages for his customers. Mr. Carlson started his career at Andersen Consulting, where he held positions in business transformation and management consulting. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of California, Davis. 
Susan Eisenhower is President of the Eisenhower Group, Inc, which provides strategic counsel on political, business, security and public affairs projects. She has worked for major multinational corporations such as IBM, American Express, Black and Veatch, and AES. She also is a Senior Director of Stonebridge International, a Washington-based international consulting firm. She served as both President and Chairman of the Eisenhower Institute and is an Academic Fellow of the International Peace and Security program of Carnegie Corporation and a director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has served on numerous boards and government task forces, including the NASA Advisory Council, the National Academy of Sciences' standing Committee on International Security and Arms Control, the Baker-Cutler Commission for evaluating U.S. funded nuclear non-proliferation programs, the Sununu-Meserve Commission on the future of nuclear energy, the International Space Station Management and Cost Evaluation Task Force, and the Nuclear Threat Initiative, co-chaired by Senator Sam Nunn and Ted Turner. In 2000, a year before September 11, she co-edited a book, "Islam and Central Asia," which carried the prescient subtitle, "An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat?" Her most recent book, "Partners in Space: U.S.-Russian Cooperation after the Cold War" has been published in the U.S. and Russia. 
Dr. Kathleen Kiernan is a 29-year veteran of federal law enforcement and is CEO of the Kiernan Group, an international consulting firm which supports federal and civil clients (www.kiernan-group.com). She previously served as Assistant Director for the Office of Strategic Intelligence and Information for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), as well as serving as ATF’s representative to the Counterterrorism Center at CIA. Her current affiliations include serving as:
Dr. Kiernan holds a Doctorate in Education from Northern Illinois University (highest honors) and a MS degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Joint Military Intelligence College. She also is a an Intelligence Fellow and graduate of the FBI’s National Executive Institute. 
Mr. Knop co-founded Windsor Group, LLC in 1992 and has led its development into the premier investment bank for the government/defense contracting industry. Windsor Group was acquired in January 2005 by Scott & Stringfellow, Inc. With over 20 years of investment banking experience, Rick has closed a broad range of investment banking transactions. He has personally closed over 80 defense and government contractor mergers raning from $10 million to $1.2 billion in the past 15 years. In 2002, Rick was chosen as a finalist for Washington Technology's Financier of the Year award, and in 2003 he was named the Association for Corporate Growth's Dealmaker of the Year. In 2004, Rick was selected as the recipient of both the Greater Washington Technology's Financier of the Year and the Association for Corporate Growth's Dealmaker of the Year awards. In 2007, Rick was selected as the recipient of the Annual Technology "Good Scout" Award by the National Capital Area Council of the Boy Scouts of America. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors and is a former President for the National Capital Chapter of the Association for Corporate Growth. Rick also serves as member of the Board of Trustees for Service Source, the D.C. Metro Board of Directors for the BB&T, The George Washington University's Law School Board of Advisors and is a member of The George Washington Society. Rick is a monthly guest columnist for Washington Technology and is the featured speaker for many national and local organizations. Prior to his role with BB&T Capital Markets | Windsor Group, Rick specialized in international corporate transactions as a partner of a Washington, D.C. law firm, and also served as a legal advisor at the U.S. Department of State and was a legislative assistant with the U.S. Congress. He holds a JD with honors from The George Washington University Law School and is a registered securities principle. 
Peter Magowan is the President and Managing General Partner of the San Francisco Giants. In 1992, he formed a group of investors to buy the team and later won voter approval for their plan to build the first privately-financed Major League ballpark without any taxpayer assistance in over 30 years. Magowan previously spent 37 years with Safeway – one of North America’s leading food and drug retailers – where he served as Chairman and CEO from 1980-93. He also is a director of Caterpillar and DaimlerChrysler AG, and formerly a director of Safeway, Pacific Gas & Electric, and Cox Communications. Magowan has received numerous community awards, including business "Executive of the Year" awards from The San Francisco Business Times and Sports Business Journal. Magowan graduated from Stanford and received a masters degree from Oxford, with additional post-graduate work at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. 
For over 20 years, Dr. James Morris has been on the cutting edge of computing technology. He currently is the Dean of Carnegie Mellon West (Mountain View, California) and Professor of Computer Science. He was previously Dean of the School of Computer Science at the main Carnegie Mellon campus in Pittsburgh, PA. As a professor at University of California at Berkeley, Dr. Morris developed important underlying principles of programming languages: inter-module protection and lazy evaluation. He was also a co-discoverer of the Knuth-Morris-Pratt string-searching algorithm. For ten years, he worked at the Xerox Palo Alto Research Center where he was part of the team that developed the ground breaking Alto System. He also directed the Cedar programming environment project. For five years he directed the Information Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon University, a joint project with IBM, which developed Andrew - a prototype university computing system. He has been the principle investigator of two NSF projects aimed at computer-mediated communication. He was a founder of the MAYA Design Group, a consulting firm specializing in interactive product design. Dr. Morris received a BS degree from Carnegie Mellon, a MS in Management from MIT, and a PhD in Computer Science from MIT. 
Deborah Osborne is an internationally recognized expert in the development and improvement of crime and intelligence analysis in national, state, and local governments. Her recent experience includes service as Co-Chair of the Certification and Skill Set Committees of the International Association of Crime Analysts and as a Research Fellow at the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research of the Joint Military Intelligence College of the Defense Intelligence Agency. For the past decade, she has served as a crime analyst for the Buffalo Police Department where she developed and implemented the crime analyst function in the second largest city in New York State. For five years, she was a consultant and liaison for the Analysis Centre for Police Service of Northern Ireland. Ms. Osborne also is President of the Society of Police Futurists International and a member of FBI/PFI Futures Group, the Global Task Force for the Center for Responsible Nanotechnology (CRN), the International Association for Intelligence Education (IAFIE), and the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts (IALEIA). She also is on the Counterterrorism Advisory Board of the Lifeboat Foundation and an Associate of the Proteus Management Group. Her publications include books entitled Out of Bounds: Innovation and Change in Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis and Crime Analysis: Basic Resources for Criminal Justice Practice. She develops and teaches upper-level courses on crime and intelligence analysis and provides training to analysts, investigators and officers. Ms. Osborne also is certified as a Police Instructor by the State of New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services. She holds a BA in psychology and a MA in social policy from the Empire State College, State University of New York. Read Deborah's blog at www.analystscorner.blogspot.com. 
Mr. Reis has more than 30 years of senior executive level experience in the communications and information technology marketplace. As the President of Abraxas Applications, Inc. he oversees the organizational development of the company and the market introduction of TrapWire, a critical infrastructure protection software application. He is known for bringing pioneering security technologies to the marketplace while fostering profitable corporate entities to support them. During his career as a principle of multiple organizations, John has overseen the financing, product development, sales and marketing, acquisitions and divestitures of the now successful ventures. As President of i2, Inc., John increased sales by over 40% and more than doubled the value of i2 to $110M. As Chairman and CEO of NFR, an internet security software company, John was able to increase the revenue from $1M to a $12M run rate in little over two years. Also, as CEO of Halifax, an $80M IT Services company, John was able to uncover a $15M embezzlement scheme which saved the company and its profitability within one year's time. John is uniquely qualified to navigate the territory where law enforcement, intelligence, and commerce intersect, guiding companies toward enterprise solutions that are easily integrated into a larger security plan. His companies have helped clients in government and the private sector meet the growing need to secure data, facilities, critical infrastructure and personnel. He holds a BS in Mathematics with a minor in Physics from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn. 
Alan Wade is the former Chief Information Officer for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and was a key leader developing new analytical capabilities for the U.S. Intelligence Community. As CIO, he led interconnectivity and interoperability initiatives at the agency, national, and community levels. During his thirty-five year career at the CIA he also served as Associate Deputy Director of Administration for Security, which entailed rebuilding the agency’s modern information security program, reforming the personnel security program to reduce clearance cycle times, and sharpening the agency’s focus upon counter-intelligence issues. He previously was Director of Communications where he introduced new telecommunications technology around the world to sustain the global mission on a reduced resource base. As Director of the Center for Security Evaluation, he created new threat analysis techniques and integrated intelligence concepts with diplomatic business processes. Mr. Wade was awarded a BS degree in Electrical Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and a MS degree in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University. |
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