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Roger W. Cressey has been our Vice Chairman since August 2005. Since 2003, Mr. Cressey has served as an on-air counterterrorism analyst for NBC News. Since October 2002, Mr. Cressey has been the President 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 November 2001 to September 2002, Mr. Cressey served as Chief of Staff to the President’s Critical Infrastructure Protection Board at the White House. From 1999 to November 2001, Mr. Cressey served as Director for Transnational Threats on the National Security Council staff, where he was responsible for coordination and implementation of United States counterterrorism policy. During this period, he managed the U.S. Government’s response to the Millennium terror alert, the USS COLE attack, and the September 11th attacks. Prior to his White House service, from 1995 to 1999, Mr. Cressey served in the Department of Defense, including as Deputy Director for War Plans. From 1991 to 1995, he served in the Department of State working on Middle East security issues. Mr. Cressey also served overseas in temporary assignments with the U.S. Embassy in Israel during periods of 1992 and with United Nations peacekeeping missions in Somalia during periods of 1993 and the former Yugoslavia during periods of 1996 through 1998. From 2000 to 2005, Mr. Cressey served as an Adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, where he taught a graduate course on U.S. counter-terrorism policy. Mr. Cressey received his B.A. from the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and an M.A. in Security Policy Studies from The George Washington University. | 