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David Teten
David Teten is CEO of Nitron Advisors, an independent research firm which provides
institutional investors with direct access to frontline industry experts. He
is also Chairman of Teten
Executive Recruiting, which specializes in serving the investment
banking, institutional investor, and strategy consulting industries. David is
the coauthor of The
Virtual Handshake: Opening Doors and Closing Deals Online, with Scott Allen.
David is a frequent public speaker at finance and
technology conferences and leading business schools, on independent research, raising
capital, sales, and social software. David formerly worked with
Bear Stearns' Investment Banking division as a member of their
technology/defense mergers and acquisitions team, and was a strategy
consultant with Mars & Co. He also was CEO of an investment bank
focusing on serving the internet domain name asset class, and ran a computer
consulting group while in college. David is Chairman of the Young
Jewish Leadership PAC.
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Troy Thomas
Troy S.
Thomas is an Air Force officer with experience leading airmen in
homeland defense and expeditionary operations in the Middle East.
Troy served as Chief of Intelligence for the 485th Air
Expeditionary Wing in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Intelligence
Flight Commander of the 1st Fighter Wing for Operation Noble
Eagle. He has also served as an operational planner with 7th Air
Force in South Korea, intelligence analyst with Central Command
Air Forces, chief of intelligence for the 55th Fighter Squadron,
and staff officer in the Pentagon. Academic postings include a
Fellowship with the Center for Strategic Intelligence Research and
as Assistant Professor of Political Science at the US Air Force
Academy. A distinguished graduate from the Air Force Academy, he
holds a MA in Government from the University of Texas, Austin, a
MA in Organizational Management from George Washington University,
and a MA in Operational Studies from the US Marine Corps
University School of Advanced Warfighting. Travel to over 35
countries informs his award-winning publications on leadership,
terrorism, conflict, intelligence, and Islam.
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Matthew
Thompson
Prior
to joining CIA as an analyst in the Directorate of Intelligence
in 1999, Dr. Thompson completed a Master's and Doctorate program
in military history at Rice University. His research has focused
on political-military relations in the United States since World
War II. Previous government experience included work in the US
House of Representatives and at the UK House of Commons.
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Cathryn
Thurston
Cathryn
Thurston is an Associate Political Scientist at the RAND
Corporation in
Washington,
D.C.
where she works primarily on projects for the US Army. Her most
significant work has focused on designing measures of
effectiveness for the Army’s non-combat international activities
with foreign militaries. From 1995-2000, Ms. Thurston was a West
Europe/NATO analyst for the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence
on the Army Staff. Ms. Thurston holds a Ph.D. in Conflict
Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University. Her
dissertation focused on the role of group conflict styles and
their impact on third party intervention in crisis situations. Ms.
Thurston holds a BA in International Studies from the University
of Denver, and an MA in International Relations from the
Maxwell
School at Syracuse University.
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Donald Tighe
Donald Tighe is Senior Counselor for Public Affairs and Public
Liaison Division Chief for the U.S. Agency for International
Development, or USAID, which has provided economic and
humanitarian assistance worldwide for more than 40 years. He
served before, during, and after Operation Iraqi Freedom in Kuwait
and Iraq, overseeing press and public affairs information flow for
USAID's Disaster Assistance Response Team, or DART, the largest
ever deployed by the U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster
Assistance. Mr. Tighe had previously served as Managing Editor of
the daily electronic political newswire The HOTLINE, and as
communications director for the Florida Department of State.
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Robert Tomes
Dr. Robert R. Tomes is the Chief of the Analysis and Production
Directorate’s Initiatives Group at the National
Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), a director of the Anna Sobol
Levy Foundation, a member of the senior steering group for the DoD
Rethinking the Principles of War Project, and the co-chair of the
Intelligence Community’s Structured Analytic Techniques Working
Group. At NGA, he champions and leads GEOINT innovation
activities. Dr. Tomes has worked for RAND, Booz Allen & Hamilton,
ANSER, and the World Bank on a diverse range of national security
and international affairs issues. He contributed to the CENSA
publications Sharpening the Sword and The Faces of Intelligence
Reform, serving as a section editor for the latter. His American
Defense Strategy since Vietnam is forthcoming from Routledge
Press. In addition to peer-reviews conference papers, his work
includes publications in Armed Forces & Society, Policy Review,
Defence Studies, Parameters, The Naval War College Review, and
other national security journals. His current research includes
exploring the utility of identity preservation models from social
science as a guide to the history of the modern Middle East,
re-examining American strategic culture, and developing a
socio-political approach to leadership that is informed by
cultural anthropology.
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Benjamin
Tuck
Benjamin Tuck is a Civil Affairs Major currently working on the
Army Staff in the area of Civil-Military Emergency Planning. Prior
to being mobilized, he worked for L-3 Communications Analytics
Corporation as an analyst specializing in homeland security with
an emphasis on WMD Consequence Management. He is a former active
duty Parachute Infantry & Quartermaster officer, and participated
in the IFOR mission in 1995-96. His research interests include
the American Presidency, Peacekeeping, and Homeland Security. His
article: The Challenge of Homeland Security and Bioterrorism
Preparedness was published in the October issue of the Royal
United Services Institute's journal Security Monitor. He
is currently a M.A. candidate in Georgetown University's Security
Studies Program, and holds a M.A. in History from Boston College.
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