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Mike Sheehan
Michael Sheehan is Partner at Torch Hill Investment Partners. Torch Hill is a private equity firm that invests growth capital in domestic and international companies that play vital roles in supply chain integrity, defense, intelligence and civil and corporate security.
Mike has a distinguished record in military and public service. He served as the Deputy Commissioner of Counter Terrorism at NYPD where he was instrumental in shaping the counter-terrorism strategy for New York City following September 11th.
He has previously served as Ambassador-at-Large for Counter Terrorism at the State Department, and as a Director on the National Security Council staff for President Bush (41) and President Clinton. Sheehan is a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and served on active duty as an Infantry and Special Forces officer in counter terrorism and counter insurgency assignments.
Mike serves as a regular terrorism analyst for NBC News and author of the forthcoming book "Crush the Cell, How to Defeat Terrorism without Defeating Ourselves" (Random House). He is a distinguished fellow at the Counter Terrorism Center at West Point and the New York University Center on Law and Security.
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Paul Pelosi
Mr. Pelosi serves as an advisor to a several companies including NASA Ames Research Center and Blue Earth Solutions where he advises on a variety of infrastructure projects to promote both sustainable development and security.
Prior to independent consulting, Mr. Pelosi served many years with InfoUSA Corporation, Bank of America Securities, Bank of America Countrywide and JP Morgan - Chase Manhattan where he where he worked in Corporate Finance, Institutional Sales and the Mortgage industry. In 2001, Mr. Pelosi was appointed by Mayor Willie L. Brown Jr. to the San Francisco Commission on the Environment. Many of the Commission's goals have been realized, including partnerships with utilities to implement energy efficiency programs resulting in a reduction of 28 megawatts in electricity. San Francisco has realized an increase residential and commercial recycling from 46% to 70%, and reduced carbon emissions to 6% below 1990 levels.
Mr. Pelosi is also a founding member of Cisco Connected Urban Development. Under the direction of Cisco CEO John Chambers and Cisco's $15 million commitment, Mr. Pelosi works with a variety of cities including San Francisco, Birmingham, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Lisbon, Madrid and Seoul to demonstrate how network connectivity reduces carbon emissions in urban environments. This exceptional organization partners with private sector leaders to develop an innovative program, which includes: SFsolarmap.org ("http://www.sf.solarmap.org") Eco-Map, and Business Council on Climate
Change (BC3).
Mr. Pelosi holds three degrees from Georgetown University: a Bachelor of Arts in History (Cum Laude, 1991), a Juris Doctorate with an emphasis in International Business, and a Masters in Business Administration. In 1991, Mr. Pelosi was a Gillette All Star Athlete in Track and he received the Georgetown International Human Rights Award in 1994. Mr. Pelosi has been a member of the California State Bar since 1996, and currently resides in San Francisco.
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Paul Kurtz
Paul B. Kurtz is a recognized Cyber Security and homeland security expert. He is currently leading the Obama transition team for Cyber- Security, and has previously served in senior positions on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush. He’s currently also an on-air consultant to CBS News.
Mr. Kurtz advises clients on cyber-security and homeland security issues. He joins Good Harbor after serving as the founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), an advocacy group dedicated to ensuring the privacy, reliability and integrity of information systems through public policy, technology, education and awareness. Prior to joining CSIA, Mr. Kurtz most recently was special assistant to the President and senior director for critical infrastructure protection on the White House's Homeland Security Council (HSC), where he was responsible for both physical and cyber security.
Before joining HSC in 2003, Mr. Kurtz served on the White House's National Security Council (NSC) as senior director for national security of the Office of Cyberspace Security and a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, where he developed the international component of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Previously, he was a director for counterterrorism in the NSC's Office of Transnational Threats from 1999–2001.
Prior to his White House work, Mr. Kurtz served in several bureaus in the State Department, specializing in weapons of mass destruction non-proliferation policy and strategic arms control. He also served as political advisor to Operation Provide Comfort in Incirlik, Turkey, and as science attaché in Vienna, Austria. He participated in several arms control inspection teams, traveling to Iraq and North Korea.
Mr. Kurtz received his bachelor's degree from Holy Cross College and his master's degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.
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Nicholas Miller
Nicholas Miller is an innovative career entrepreneur who has founded a number of successful private and publicly traded companies in the software, wireless, and Internet sectors. His wide ranging experience as a high technology executive includes over 25 years of direct P & L responsibility, along with extensive experience in sales, marketing and technology start-ups.
Mr. Miller was one of the first to identify the security threats posed by wireless technology and coined the phrase "WiPhishing". He founded and served as President and CEO of AirPatrol Corporation and Cirond Corporation, and prior to that, founded and served as President and CEO of DataLink Systems Corporation (now Semotus Solutions Inc.), a San Jose-based publicly traded company in the wireless information services sector. He also served as a Director of Ezenet Technologies (acquired by Cognicase) and Workfire Technologies (acquired by Packeteer Inc.). Nicholas served as Vice-Chairman and a Director of Mulgrave School, an independent school based in West Vancouver, Canada, and was instrumental in assisting Mulgrave to become one of the first schools in North America to implement a campus-wide Wi-Fi network and related laptop program, which was the subject of a case study by Microsoft. He is the holder of two US patents.
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Prem Abraham
Mr. Abraham is Chairman of Gladstone Abraham Group, a San Francisco-based private merchant banking group specializing in top management strategy and corporate finance in the hi-tech industry. Mr. Abraham has launched numerous companies in the high technology sector as either a founding board member or as Senior Advisor to the CEO. He has advised prominent companies such as Philips, Hewlett Packard, Xerox and Westinghouse Electric, as well as venture capitalists and leading investment banks in special financing situations. Mr. Abraham has an MBA from Harvard University and a MSME from UC Berkeley where he was a doctoral candidate.
He enjoys working with entrepreneurial managers and technology leaders in helping build great companies with an emphasis on corporate finance, strategy and execution in the global environment. Fields of experience include artificial intelligence, nanotechnology, information technology, telecommunications & energy (infrastructure), biotechnology and medical devices.
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Howard Kalt
Howard Kalt began his career in public and investor relations in Chicago in 1964 and, through the years, he has consulted with clients from the agency side and managed client communications programs from the corporate side. His industry experience includes multiple technology segments, insurance and financial services as well as communications issues related to disclosure, accounting restatements, mergers & acquisitions, preparing companies for initial public offerings, and internal/external communications on corporate/financial issues. Client experience ranges from Fidelity Investments to Iomega Corporation and from Beckman Coulter, Inc to NeuStar, Dolby Labs and Levi Strauss. Before moving to San Francisco in 1976, he directed communications for the Pritzker family’s Marmon Group holding company.
A 1964 graduate of the University of Wisconsin, Mr. Kalt majored in journalism and political science while writing for the Wisconsin State Journal, Madison's morning newspaper. He has taught Financial Communications and Investor Relations in Golden Gate University's Graduate School and Basic Public Relations at the Berkeley Extension of the University of California.
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Scott von Stein
Scott von Stein leads the West Coast practice of Potomac Investments, which raises capital for private equity and venture capital organizations. He began his career with Bank of America in Venture Capital and Project Finance and led large credit syndication and investment activities with international postings in Beirut, London, Frankfurt and Paris. He is credited with innovative structuring of some of the largest international syndications in London for numerous Middle East construction projects.
He later became head of International Business Development for Clorox International and was responsible for expanding the company into Asia and Latin America through joint ventures and licensing activities. He later became involved in corporate acquisitions, divestments and strategic planning for Clorox internationally.
Scott was hired by the West Coast Partner of Price Waterhouse to help revitalize and direct their marketing and business development. At PWC, he worked with audit, tax and consulting divisions in refining new product offerings and in refocusing their marketing activities. He was then hired by Kroll Associates to direct their marketing and activities to corporate clients on a national basis. At Kroll Associates, he refined product offerings in risk management, senior level due diligence, forensic accounting.
His executive search activities began at a national firm based in New York, in marketing their financial services, and later he became Principal of a major West Coast boutique. While there he became involved with introducing senior level executives to institutional and private equity sources of financing and coaching their new ventures.
Scott holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in International Affairs from the University of Colorado and an MBA degree from the American Graduate School for International Management. He is one of the founding investor/principals of Seven Hills LLC, a well known San Francisco Merchant Bank specializing in M&A and private equity engagements.
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