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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.


  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.
 

 

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.


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.


  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.


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.
 

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.