Prior to launching The Brock Offices in 1988, a firm specializing in international trade, investment and human development, Senator Brock spent over two decades in public service championing open markets; promoting global democracy and freedom; and leading transformational efforts to improve America’s competitiveness in education and labor.

Following fourteen years of service representing his home state of Tennessee in the United States Congress as a Congressman and Senator, Senator Brock was elected Chairman of the Republican National Committee in 1977 leading up to the election of President Ronald Reagan. In 1981, President Reagan appointed Senator Brock to the United States Trade Representative where he initiated the first free trade agreements ever negotiated by the United States and began the expansion of the world's international trade rules to encompass, for the first time, intellectual property, services, and investment issues. As Secretary of Labor in Reagan second term, he was widely praised for his leadership in restoring the Department from a virtual state of collapse. Among his other initiatives, he sponsored the landmark study of the human development demands inherent in the new global economy entitled Workforce 2000. Senator Brock subsequently led five major national initiatives promoting the cause of transformational systemic changes in American education.

As one of four founders of the National Endowment for Democracy (NED), Senator Brock led and focused the NED funding on the nascent democratic movements that became significant catalysts in the collapse of the Socialist world.

Senator Brock is also a Senior Counselor and Member of the Board of Trustees of the Center for Strategic and International Studies where he chairs the International Policy Roundtable.

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Mary K. Bush, President of Bush International, LLC, serves an advisor to U.S. corporations and foreign governments on international capital markets, strategic business and economic matters. She has held several Presidential appointments including the U.S. Government's representative on the IMF Board and Director of Sallie Mae. She also was head of the Federal Home Loan Bank System during the aftermath of the Savings and Loan crisis and was advisor to the Deputy Secretary of the U.S. Treasury Department. Earlier in her career, she managed global banking and corporate finance relationships at New York money center banks including Citibank, Banker's Trust, and Chase.

In 2006, President Bush appointed her Chairman of the congressionally chartered HELP Commission on reforming foreign aid. In 2007, she was appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury to the U.S. Treasury Advisory Committee on the Auditing Profession. She is a member of the board of directors of Discover Financial Services, ManTech International Corporation, United Airlines, and the Pioneer Family of Mutual Funds. Ms. Bush also was a director of Briggs & Stratton, Inc. from 2004 to April 2009. She serves on the Kennedy Center's Community Advisory Board and on the U.S. Advisory Board of the Global Leadership Foundation.

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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.

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John English is currently Chief Executive Officer of Heartland Energy Partners (HEP), which he founded in 2009. HEP is an energy services company whose capabilities relate to the utility industry in the areas of smart grid, energy efficiency and asset management. Under Mr. English's leadership, HEP offers a comprehensive approach to the management of load capacity and assets to more efficiently distribute power to residential and commercial customers.

Prior to founding Heartland Energy Partners, Mr. English worked for the Office of the Secretary at the Department of Veterans Affairs for four years. He was a key player in the implementation of department-wide security controls and processes after the largest data breach in U.S. history, which exposed 26.5 million Veterans personal identifiable information. He has been involved in the development of a single electronic record in which President Obama charged the VA and DoD to develop for all service men and women. He has worked with the development of a comprehensive plan to address PTSD, TBI, homelessness and job creation. Mr. English has also been involved in other quality of care issues and the implementation of the new Chapter 33 G.I. Bill.

Prior to joining the VA, Mr. English was a candidate for state office in his home state of Oklahoma in 2004. His service to Oklahoma began by joining the administration of Governor Frank Keating in 1998 where he worked alongside the governor in promoting a pro-growth economic agenda for the state.

John English has spent the past 15 years working hand-in-hand with our nation's top leaders in areas such as energy, healthcare and technology and innovation. After moving from successful careers as a Senior Advisor to both former Oklahoma Governor Frank Keating and current Department of Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki, Mr. English also has a strategic partnership with former HHS Secretary and Wisconsin Governor Tommy Thompson.

Mr. English received his undergraduate degree from The University of Oklahoma and his MBA from The George Washington University.

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Mr. Magowan formerly served as 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. Mr. Magowan previously spent 37 years with Safeway Stores – 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.

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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.

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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.

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Before entering the private sector in 2005, Governor Thompson enjoyed a long and distinguished career in public service. In 1966 he won a seat in Wisconsin's state Assembly. He became assistant Assembly minority leader in 1973 and Assembly minority leader in 1981. Elected Governor of Wisconsin in 1986, he was reelected in 1990, and in 1994 became the first Governor in the state's history to be elected to a third four-year term. In 1998 he was elected to a fourth term, and served in that position until his appointment as secretary of Health & Human Services in 2001.

As Secretary of the Department of Health & Human Services, Thompson served as the nation's leading advocate for the health and welfare of all Americans. He worked to modernize and add prescription drug coverage to Medicare for the first time in the program's history. A leading advocate of welfare reform, he also focused on expanding services to seniors, the disabled and low-income Americans.

As Governor of Wisconsin, Thompson was perhaps best known for his efforts to revitalize the Wisconsin economy, for his national leadership on welfare reform and for his work in expanding health care access across all segments of society.

Governor Thompson has received numerous awards for his public service, including the Anti-Defamation League's Distinguished Public Service Award, Governing Magazine's Public Official of the Year Award and the Horatio Alger Award, which is awarded annually to "dedicated community leaders who demonstrate individual initiative and a commitment to excellence-as exemplified by remarkable achievements accomplished through honesty, hard work, self-reliance, and perseverance." He is a former chairman of the National Governors' Association, the Education Commission of the States and the Midwestern Governors' Conference.

Governor Thompson received both his B.S. in 1963 and his J.D. in 1966 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is a member of the District of Columbia and Wisconsin bars.

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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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