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John S. Tritak has been a member of our Board of Directors since August 2005. Since April 2003, he has been Chief Executive Officer of Good Harbor Consulting, LLC, which provides strategic advice and counsel in the areas of homeland security, cyber security, critical infrastructure protection and counterterrorism. From 1999 to February 2003, Mr. Tritak was the Director of the U.S. Government’s Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO), a federal interagency organization created by presidential directive in 1998 to coordinate the development and implementation of U.S. policy on securing the nation’s critical infrastructures. From 1999 to February 2003, Mr. Tritak was a member of the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. Before joining the CIAO, from 1996 to 1999, Mr. Tritak was an attorney with the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered. From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Tritak served in numerous positions in the State Department’s Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, including: Deputy Director for Defense Relations and Security Assistance, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. efforts in security assistance and defense trade in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East; Deputy Director of the Bureau’s Office of Policy Analysis, where he advised on matters relating to postwar Persian Gulf security; Deputy Political Advisor to the commander-in-chief of U.S. Central Command in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield; and State Department adviser to the U.S. delegation negotiating the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland. Mr. Tritak received a B.S. from the State University of New York at Brockport and an M.A. in War Studies from the University of London, King’s College. He earned his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center. | 