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Mark S. Borkowski Assistant Commissioner Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Department of Homeland Security Mark Borkowski became the Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Technology Innovation and Acquisition (OTIA) with U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in July 2010. He is responsible for ensuring technology efforts are properly focused on mission and well integrated across CBP and for strengthening effectiveness in acquisition and program management. In addition …

Pierre A. Chao Pierre Chao is a Managing Partner and co-founder of Renaissance Strategic Advisers, a strategy and financial advisory firm. Pierre brings over 20 years of management consulting, investment banking and policy expertise in the aerospace/defense industry. He is also a Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington D.C.-based, non-partisan defense and foreign policy think tank. He was a Senior Fellow and Director of Defense-Industrial Initiatives at CSIS from 2003-2007. At CSIS he directed …

Martin J. Bollinger Marty Bollinger is a Senior Partner with Booz & Company, a $1.3 billion global management consultancy with 3,300 employees. He serves senior executives of global aerospace and defense companies on issues of business, technology and operations strategy. He also serves on the Booz & Company’s global Board of Directors. He has worked from Booz offices in New York, London, Sydney and DC. During Marty’s 26-year career with Booz & Company (and its predecessor, Booz Allen Hamilton) he …

Byron Callan joined Capital Alpha Partners, a Washington, DC-based policy research firm in December 2010 as a Director to cover the defense sector. He also is responsible for related NASA and other aerospace issues. Capital Alpha’s primary goal is to provide superior research to institutional investors. Prior to joining Capital Alpha, Byron was a Portfolio Manager at Lion’s Path Capital where he focuses on industrials, aerospace and defense equities. He joined Lion’s Path in 2010. Previously he was an analyst …

The Honorable Thomas M. Davis Tom Davis was first elected to office in 1979, winning a hard-fought campaign to represent Mason District on the Fairfax County Board of Supervisors. This would be the first of 14 straight victories, a winning streak spanning three decades. In 1993, after spending 12 years as the Mason District supervisor, Tom defeated the incumbent chairman of the county board, taking the top elected office in Fairfax County, Virginia. Despite a severe economic downturn and a …

Mr. Darren B. Ash is the Deputy Executive Director for Corporate Management who provides policy direction, leadership and oversight for information technology (IT), information management, information systems security, space planning and facilities management, rulemaking, acquisition management, centralized administrative service activities, and human capital planning and human resources planning, policy, and program development at the NRC. He also serves as the Agency’s Chief Information Officer, Chief Freedom of Information Act Officer, and Senior Accountable Official for Data Quality. Prior to joining …

Overview The TechAmerica Foundation will be hosting a one day conference November 10, 2011 in the San Diego area based on the findings of our two day Vision Conference, which is held annually in the Washington, DC area. Many companies use the information to develop their annual operating and long range strategic plans. Several Wall Street analysts also use the Vision Conference information in their market forecasting efforts and consider this a “Gold” standard for accurate and insightful information. We …