The Honorable John Breaux
Senator Breaux joined Patton Boggs as senior counsel upon his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 2005. He provides strategic advice to the firm’s attorneys and clients on a wide range of public policy matters, with special concentration in the areas of health care and energy law. With a long and distinguished public service career, he was elected to the House of Representatives in 1972, representing the 7th District of Louisiana for 14 years before being elected to the Senate in 1986. more

Mr. Sidney E. Fuchs
Mr. Fuchs is president and CEO, and a director of OAO Technology Solutions, Inc (OAOT), a privately held global IT company that supports government and commercial customers worldwide. Previously, Mr. Fuchs served as a corporate officer of Northrop Grumman Corporation and was president of Northrop’s Civilian Agencies Group and TASC, Inc. Prior to this he held various leadership positions at Rational Software, Oracle and Digital Equipment Corporation, and served as a Central Intelligence Agency Officer from 1987 to 1995. In 2002, he was nominated by the White House and received a federal appointment to the Board of Visitors, National Defense University (NDU) and in 2003 was named an NDU Distinguished Visiting Fellow. more

Mr. Peter Marino
Mr. Marino is a nationally acclaimed expert on defense and intelligence issues. Throughout his distinguished career, Mr. Marino held various senior executive positions including the director of Technical Service at the CIA, president/COO of both Lockheed Electronics Co., Inc. and Fairfield Industries, Inc., Sr. vice president of E-Systems, Inc., and CEO and president of Fire Arms Training Systems. more

Mr. Chris Cantarella
Mr. Cantarella is a Principal at the global executive search firm of Heidrick and Struggles in their Private Equity Practice. He focuses on placing senior executives for Private Equity backed aerospace & defense, technology, and industrial companies. Previously, he was a key leader in Ernst & Young's Private Equity Practice, working closely with scores of technology and defense-related companies, as well as with the private equity and venture capital funds who backed them. Prior to becoming the CEO of a software company, he was an internal auditor at PricewaterhouseCoopers and he served as a U.S. Naval Officer. more

Mr. Tom Weston
Mr. Weston has 20 years of experience in the finance and accounting field and is the executive vice president and chief financial officer for QinetiQ North America, a company that provides world class technology and responsive solutions to its customers in the information technology and technology research and development fields. more

Dr. Richard Stieglitz
Dr. Stieglitz's career has thrived through major changes. After earning a PhD in Nuclear Engineering at Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, he served ten years in the U.S. Navy refueling nuclear submarines during the height of the Cold War. He left the Navy in 1976 to move to Washington and has worked here ever since. He was a Senior Analyst with a consulting firm, Vice President of a software company, and Consulting Director for a large aerospace company. more