Event Speakers

2011 speakers will be announced at a later date.

2010 Featured Speaker

The Honorable Tom Ridge
Former Secretary of the US Department of Homeland
Former Governor of Pennsylvania
President and CEO, Ridge Global, LLC. Washington, DC, United States

2010 Speakers

Dermot Ahern T.D.
Minister for Justice & Law Reform

Sean Alyward
Secretary General, Department of Justice & Law Reform

James Breckenridge
Dean, Walker School of Business; Chair, Department of Intelligence Studies, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pa., United States

Anthony Campbell
Coordinator of the Global Futures Forum Community of Interest on the Practice and Organization of Intelligence
Former Head of Intelligence Assessment Secretariat, Privy Council Office, Canada

John Deasy
Teachta Dála, Waterford Constituency, Ireland

Dennis Dirkmaat
Diplomat, American Board Forensic Anthropology
Director, Department of Applied Forensic Sciences, Mercyhurst College, Erie, PA, United States

Liam Fahey
Adjunct Professor of Strategic Management, Babson College Wellesley , Massachusetts, United States
Executive Director, Leadership Forum Inc.

Robert Heibel
Executive Director, Mercyhurst College Institute for Intelligence Studies

Georgia Holmer
Pherson Associates, LLC

Erik Kleinsmith
Program Director, Intelligence Analysis Training, Lockheed Martin; Former US Army Armour and Intelligence Officer - South Riding, Virginia, United States

Justyna Krajewska
Project Manager, Amsterdam in Business, Amsterdam, Holland

Catherine Lotrionte
Associate Director of the Institute for Law, Science and Global Security, Georgetown University
Former Counsel to the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, White House, Washington, DC, United States

Mark M. Lowenthal
President and CEO of the Intelligence and Security Academy, LLC., Reston, Virginia, United States

Stephen Marrin
Lecturer, Brunel University, West London, United Kingdom

Don McDowell
Director, The Intelligence Study Centre, New South Wales, Australia

Maxie McFarland
Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command, Fort Monroe, Virginia, United States

William McGill
Assistant Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at The Pennsylvania State University
Former intelligence officer with the Defense Intelligence Agency in Washington, DC, United States

Commissioner Fachtna Murphy
Commissioner of An Garda Síochána (Ireland’s National Police Service)

Michael Murphy
Enterprise Ireland

Ray O’Dwyer
County Manager, Waterford County Council

Chris Pallaris
Head of OSINT, International Relations and Security Network (ISN), Zurich, Switzerland

Joseph Pesce
CEO, Omnis, Inc., McLean, Virginia, United States

Randy Pherson
President, Pherson Associates, LLC., Reston, Virginia, United States

Jim Poole
Head of Analytical Capability and Outreach, Professional Head of Intelligence Analysis, UK Cabinet Office, London, United Kingdom

Jim Power
Chief Economist, Friends First Group; Professor, Finance and Economics on the Local Government MBA, Dublin City University; Professor of Economics on the Executive MBA, Michael Smurfit Graduate School of Business - Dublin, Ireland

Justine Marut Schober
Visiting Professor, Rockefeller University
Director of Academic Research, Hamot Medical Center
Pediatric Urologist, Hamot Medical Center, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Kristan Wheaton
Associate Professor, Mercyhurst College, Erie, Pennsylvania, United States

Mark Williams
Chief Technology Officer of Eastport Analytics, Arlington, Virginia, United States