Clients

• International Cargo Security Council
  
  

  The International Cargo Security Council is an association representing approximately 1,200 professionals active in intermodal transportation and supply chain security. ICSC members have a wide range of responsibilities and interests, including but not limited to shipping, loss prevention, risk management and counterterrorism. Many ICSC members hold senior positions in the private or public sector, from multinational manufacturing companies and trade logistics providers to security technology firms and law enforcement entities. For more information, visit www.cargosecurity.com.

• Xelocity™
  
  Xelocity, based in Overland Park, Kansas, has deep expertise in supply-chain consulting work across several vertical markets—dairy, forestry and building products, CPG, telecommunications, manufacturing and distribution. Clients using Xelocity’s ProcessWizard™ application include DHL, McCormick, Kohler and Boeing, among others, and the software is used in Supply-Chain Council’s SCOR Implementation coursework. Globally, Xelocity has a team of 200 consultants and specializes in the following areas:
  
  • Supply Chain Optimisation (strategic, tactical and operational)
  • Production Scheduling
  • Demand Forecasting
  • Logistics Planning
  • Distribution and Transport Scheduling
  • Inventory Optimisation
  • Financial Modelling
  • Risk Management
  
  Xelocity is also teamed up with “futures designer” Mike McAllum and his Global Foresight Network, to provide sustainable design for its clients. McAllum is a globally recognized expert on global warming and how to combat it – smarter design and smarter technology.  If you cover any aspect of the “green world,” I highly recommend you talk with him.  For more information, please visit www.xelocity.com or call Vicki directly.

• BIRD – The Israel-U.S. Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation
  
   The BIRD Foundation’s mission is to stimulate, promote and support industrial R&D of mutual benefit to the U.S. and Israel. BIRD takes no equity in the joint projects, and all its services are free of charge.
  
  The BIRD Foundation was established by the U.S. and Israeli governments in 1977 to generate mutually beneficial cooperation between the private sectors of the U.S. and Israeli high-tech industries, including start-ups and established organizations. BIRD provides both matchmaking services between U.S. and Israeli companies, as well as funding, covering up to 50% of project development and product commercialization costs. BIRD supports approximately 20 projects annually with a total investment of some $11 million per year. To date, BIRD has invested more than $225 million in 690 projects, which have produced sales of more than $8 billion.
  
  
• Development Gateway Foundation
  
  The Development Gateway Foundation (DGF) is an international nonprofit organization with the mission to reduce poverty and enable change in developing nations through information technology. The DGF concept and several of its programs originated within the World Bank. The programs were then merged into an independent foundation, supported by government donors as well as private sector pioneers who recognized the high potential of ICT to increase the impact of scarce development resources. 
  
  To meet its mission, DGF provides Web-based platforms that make aid and development efforts more effective around the world. DG focuses its resources in three areas where even small investments in information and communications technology (ICT) can make a major difference:
  
• Effective government – enabling better aid management and coordination, and more efficient and transparent government procurement.
• Knowledge sharing and collaboration – leveraging the Internet for online communications among development practitioners worldwide. 
• Local partner programs in nearly 50 countries – connecting developing country organizations into the DG mission and helping empower them to use ICT to scale up local development efforts.
  
  
• National Association of Security Companies
  
  The National Association of Security Companies (NASCO) is the nation's largest contract security trade association, representing private security companies that employ more than 400,000 of the nation's most highly trained security officers servicing every business sector. NASCO is leading efforts to set meaningful standards for the private security industry and for security officers by monitoring state and federal legislation and regulations that affect the quality and effectiveness of private security services. For more information, visit www.nasco.org.
  

• The Supply Chain Council

  The Supply-Chain Council is a global, not-for-profit trade association open to all types of organizations. It sponsors and supports educational programs including conferences, retreats, benchmarking studies, and development of the SCOR-model. The Council is dedicated to improving the supply chain efficiency of its practitioner members, which include Fortune 500 companies and small to medium enterprises from industries worldwide, consulting firms, computer systems and solutions providers, and educational institutions. For more information, visit www.supply-chain.org.

• The Disaster Recovery Institute International

  DRI International (DRII) is a nonprofit organization and the world's leading authority on business continuity. The organization was founded in 1988 by industry professionals to develop and standardize the business continuity planning profession. The core service of DRI International is a comprehensive education and professional certification program in business continuity. DRII was part of the group defining the "ten professional practices," which are known as Professional Practices for the Business Continuity Planner, and which have become a standard for the industry. For more information, visit www.drii.org.

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  J. Michael Barrett
  
  Mike Barrett is a homeland security expert with an extensive background in U.S. domestic counterterrorism and military intelligence. A former Fulbright Scholar to Ankara, Turkey, Mr. Barrett is currently the Manhattan Institute's Harbinger/ICx Fellow in Homeland Security and the founder of Counterpoint Assessments, a terrorism preparedness consulting firm in Annapolis, MD.
  
  He previously served as a Counterterrorism HUMINT targeting officer identifying domestic terrorism threats for the Defense Intelligence Agency and as Lead Intelligence Officer for the Special Operation/Combating Terrorism Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense's Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict (OASD/SOLIC). Mr. Barrett also previously served as Senior Analyst for the War on Terrorism Branch of the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff where he was responsible for operational trends analysis and strategic policy development for a multitude of classified counter-terrorism projects.

   

• Mark P. Mills, Co-founder, Chief Technology Officer, and Chairman of the Board of ICx Technologies.  

Mr. Mills is also a co-founding partner in the venture fund Digital Power Capital, and founding member of the Digital Power Group, a research firm. He has been published in various publications, including Forbes, the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times Magazine, and has a book, The Bottomless Well: The Twilight of Fuel, the Virtue of Waste, and Why We Will Never Run Out of Energy, which was published by Basic Books in January 2005, and co-written with Peter Huber. He has testified before, and briefed, many state public service commissions, legislative groups, state legislators, and the U.S. Congress.

Before founding Digital Power Capital, Mark founded and ran a technology consulting business for 17 years. He served as a staff consultant to The White House Science Office (under President Reagan), a number of the Federal Research Laboratories, the (former) Congressional Office of Technology Assessment, and the U.S. Department of Energy. Mark was an experimental physicist and development engineer in the fields of integrated circuits during the early 1970s, the "Jurassic era" of microprocessors. He also worked in fiber optics, defense and solid-state devices, fields in which he holds several patents. Mark holds a degree in physics from Queen's University, Canada, and is a member of numerous professional societies including the American Physical Society and Institute of Electric and Electronic Engineers.

• Marshall Young, Chief Executive Officer, Paratus Worldwide Protection

  Marshall Young, a decorated U.S. Navy veteran, is the founder and CEO of Paratus Worldwide Protection. Mr. Young has 15 years of security experience, including military experience in both the Gulf War and Operation Iraqi Freedom. He has operated in Iraq for nearly four continuous years, beginning with the Joint Task Force-7 Anti-Terrorism Cell, located in Baghdad. Mr. Young has completed hundreds of security missions on behalf of the United States government and private sector clients. His knowledge of military security issues and fluency in Arabic make him an expert in Islamic militant movements by allowing him to conduct investigations of suspected and known militants directly. Read his Blog from the Interior of Iraq.

  In Iraq, Mr. Young's private-client experience includes:

  • Site surveys
  • Secure compound planning and construction
  • VIP close protection
  • Convoy security, usually combined with improvised explosive device (IED) detection
  • Explosive ordinance disposal coordination and the emergency evacuation of clients when necessary.

  Young was responsible for a comprehensive overhaul of the security infrastructure of the Khanzad Hotel (Erbil, Iraq), which allowed it to then be upgraded to an officially approved remote and secure location for members of the U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Department of Justice and other U.S. government agencies.

  In support of military clients, Mr. Young has captured several suspected insurgents, provided rescue and assistance missions for U.S. military patrols in volatile cities and he has personally protected the U.S. Secretary of the Air Force, the Secretary of Defense, contractors for the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), oil industry executives and various Iraqi dignitaries, including both the President and Prime Minister of Iraqi Kurdistan. He has also been specifically selected to secure insurgent-targeted buildings in Mosul, Baghdad and at the U.S. Marine Corps' forward-operating locations in Fallujah and surrounding areas.