| Butler, Steven I. - Washington, DC Twenty-eight years of business experience with 15 years in banking including Operations, Credit Analysis, Consumer, Real Estate and Commercial Lending, Business |
| Schmidt, Howard A. - Washington, DC Howard currently serves as a partner in the strategic advisory firm, Ridge-Schmidt Cyber, an executive services firm that helps leaders in business and government navigate the increasing demands of cybersecurity. He serves in this position with Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. He also serves as executive director of The Software Assurance Forum for Excellence in Code (SAFECode). He brings together expertise in business, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, privacy, academia and international relations, gained from a distinguished career spanning 40 years. He most recently served as Special Assistant to the President and the Cybersecurity Coordinator for the United States. In this role Mr. Schmidt was responsible for coordinating interagency cybersecurity policy development and implementation and for coordinating engagement with federal, state, local, international, and private sector cybersecurity partners. His former White House appointments include Cyber Advisor to Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Previously, Mr. Schmidt was the President and CEO of the Information Security Forum (ISF). He previously held positions as Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer and Chief Security Strategist for eBay Inc., and formerly operated as the Chief Security Officer for Microsoft Corp. He also served as Chief Security Strategist for the US-CERT Partners Program for the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Schmidt also brings to bear over 26 years of military and law enforcement service. Beginning active duty with the Air Force, he later joined the Arizona Air National Guard. With the AF he served in a number of military and civilian roles culminating as Supervisory Special Agent with the Office of Special Investigations (AFOSI). He finished his last 12 years as an Army Reserve Special Agent with Criminal Investigation Division’s (CID) Computer Crime Unit, all while serving over a decade as police officer with the Chandler Police Department.
Mr. Schmidt holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration (BSBA) and a master’s degree in organizational management (MAOM) from the University of Phoenix. He also holds an Honorary Doctorate degree in Humane Letters. Howard was an Adjunct Professor at GA Tech, GTISC, and is Adjunct Distinguished Fellow with Carnegie Mellon’s CyLab and a Distinguished Fellow of the Ponemon Privacy Institute. He previously served as a member of the PSG for ENISA. He currently is a Professor of Research at Idaho State University. He also is a member of the World Federation of Scientist, Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security.
Howard is a Ham Radio operator (W7HAS), a private pilot, outdoorsman and an avid Harley-Davidson rider. He is married to Raemarie J. Schmidt, a retired forensic scientist, researcher and instructor in the field of computer forensics. Together, they are proud parents, and happy grandparents. |
| Pifer, III, Howard W. - Washington, DC Howard W. Pifer III, Senior Advisor, specializes in rigorous analysis of corporate strategies and public policies. Dr. Pifer concentrates his work in the areas of energy, metals, competition, and litigation. He has testified before both houses of the U.S. Congress; U.S. federal and state courts; federal and state regulatory agencies in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom; and arbitration panels. Dr. Pifer has advised senior management, boards of directors, and governments in Australia, Canada, Hong Kong, New Zealand, Norway, Singapore, Spain, and the United Kingdom, as well as throughout the United States. During the 1990s, Dr. Pifer served as chairman of the board of directors of Putnam, Hayes and Bartlett (PHB), having previously served as PHB’s president and chief executive officer for 15 years. Prior to founding PHB in 1976, Dr. Pifer was a faculty member of Harvard Business School, where he taught courses in managerial economics, management science, finance, public policy, and strategic planning. |
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