Norman R. Augustine
Director, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Michael
F. Conners
Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
Mark
Ein
Founder and CEO, Venturehouse Group
Carly Fiorina*
Former Chairman and CEO, Hewlett-Packard
Michael Galvin*
President, Harrison Street Real Estate Capital
Mark Gerencser*
Managing Director, Global Government Markets, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jamie
S. Gorelick
Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Patrick W. Gross
Chairman, The Lovell Group
Sidney Harman*
Executive Chairman, Harman International
Lani Hay
President and CEO, Lanmark Technology
Scott Hefter
Managing Director, PRTM
James
V. Kimsey *
Founding Chairman and CEO, America Online
Jack London
Chairman, CACI International
Frederick
V. Malek
Chairman, Thayer Capital Partners
Edward Mathias
Managing Director, The Carlyle Group
Daniel Mudd
President and CEO, Fannie Mae
Robert Nakamoto
Chairman, Base Technologies
Joseph
E. Robert, Jr.*
Chairman and CEO, J.E. Robert Companies
Maj.
Gen. Michael Ryan, USMC, (Ret.)
The Livingston Group
Earl
Stafford
Chairman and CEO, Unitech
Paul Stern*
Chairman, Claris Capital
Robert Vilhauer
VP, Public Policy & Analysis, The Boeing Company
William L. Walton
Chairman and CEO, Allied Capital
Stanley A. Weiss*
Founding Chairman, Business Executives for National Security
William Wolfe
President & CEO, First Washington Realty
*Also
a member of the BENS Board of Directors
2008
July 9 - Milt Bearden, author and former CIA station chief spoke to a BENS group about the current situation in Pakistan and Afghanistan.
May 15 - BENS hosted our annual Washington Forum featuring General James Cartwright, USMC, Newt Gingrich, John Hamre, General Mike Hayden, USAF, Governor Tom Vilsack, and David M. Walker. Photos from the day can be found here.
May 15 - BENS honored The Honorable Robert M. Gates, United States Secretary of Defense, at our annual Eisenhower
Award Dinner. Photos and the Secretary's speech are avilable.
April 24 - BENS hosted a
reception for Lauri Almann, Permanent Undersecretary of
Defence for the Republic of Estonia at the GovSec, U.S. Law and
Ready Conference.
February 26 - Ron Sanders, The Chief of Human Capital for the DNI met with members to
discuss some of the issues his organization faces.
February 21 - Chris Darby, President and CEO of In-Q-Tel spoke with BENS members to
discuss the In-Q-Tel model, their successes, and their
challenges.
A group of members visited the
National Cryptologic Museum along with Lt. General Ken
Minihan, USAF (Ret.)
2007
On October 12th Al
Martinez-Fonts, the Assistant Secretary for the Private
Sector at DHS met with BENS members to discuss public-private
partnerships.
On July 11th we met with
Major General Thomas Wilkerson, USMC (Ret.), CEO of the US
Naval Institute. General Wilkerson took a high level view
of modern events and put them into historical perspective.
On June 14th we met with Dan
O'Shea, former Hostage Working Group Coordinator in the US
Embassy Baghdad. He discussed "Weapons of Mass Effect" and
the kidnapping situation in Iraq.
On May 23rd a group of BENS
members visited the Marine Corps Combat Development Command
in Quantico, VA.
On May 9th BENS celebrated its
25th Anniversary and honored its founder Stanley Weiss at the
2007 Eisenhower Dinner and Washington Forum.
On May 3rd a group of BENS
members received a private tour of the National Museum of the
Marine Corps.
Counterterrorism Blog experts Victor Comras, Olivier
Guitta, Dennis Lormel, Walid Phares, Jonathan Winer Andy Cochran
and former Representative Sue Kelly, spoke to BENS about
counterterrorism issues in the 110th Congress on January 31st.
Rod Beckstrom, co-author
of The Starfish and the Spider, met with BENS on January 10th to
discuss his book and its examination on organizational structure
and its implications for national security.
Lieutenant General H. Steven
Blum,
Chief of the National Guard Bureau, spoke to BENS about the
changing role of the National Guard on January 4th.
2006
Assistant Secretary John Grimes,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information
Integration, spoke with BENS members on November 3rd.
Bruce Lemkin, Deputy Under
Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, spoke
with BENS members on October 2nd.
Senator Susan Collins
(R-ME), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, spoke to a group of BENS members on
September 18th to discuss the current issues facing her committee.
GAO Comptroller David Walker,
spoke with BENS members on April 18.
Brigadier General Mark Kimmitt,
deputy director of U.S. Central Command will speak with BENS
members on Feb. 22. Read
what Kimmitt said about the Long War.
Army Secretary Francis Harvey
will spoke with BENS members on Jan. 19. This
is what the secretary had to say.
Treasury Undersecretary Stuart
Levey kicked off our 2006 slate of speakers on Jan. 11.
Rescheduled from 2005, read
what Levey told BENS members about tracking terrorists financial
assets.
2005
Deputy Iraqi Prime Minister Ahmed
Chalabi stopped by BENS headquarters during his November
2005 visit to Washington, D.C. Read
what he had to say about conditions in his home country.
For a perspective from inside
DHS on the effects of Hurricane Katrina, read
what Al Martinez-Fonts of the DHS Private Sector
Office said to BENS members on Sept. 19.
BENS members and guests gathered
at the Ritz Carlton across the street from the Pentagon on Sept.
12 to honor retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Richard Myers. See who attended here.
Read about what was said here.
Thanks to BENS board member Paul Stern for making the event
possible.
On June 30th, Steve Emerson,
Executive Director of the Investigative Project on Terrorism
and noted terrorism expert, offered his opinions about the War
on Terrorism. For more details, click here.
The BENS Eisenhower Award
dinner honoring Fred
Smith, Chairman and CEO of FedEx, took place on the evening
of May 19th. Appreciations were made by General John Handy,
Senator Bill Frist and Dan Snyder. For more details, click
here.
The BENS Washington Forum,
took place on May 19th and featured presentations from Representative
Mac Thornberry, General Mike Hayden, Admiral Tom Collins, Robert
Kaplan, Admiral Giambastiani, Leo Desrosiers and Captain Dan
Rice. For more details, click here.
Leo Desrosiers, the former
Chief of Staff of the Iraqi Reconstruction Management Office
- Ministry of the Interior met with a group of BENS members
upon returning to the United States to give his views on his
experiences while in Iraq.
Rear Admiral Marty Evans,
USN (Ret.), President and CEO of the American Red Cross
met with BENS members to speak about emergency preparedness
and response and private public partnerships to decrease recovery
time in the event of a disaster. For more details, click
here.
Peter Alois, Senior Commercial
Officer U.S. Comercial Service at the American Embassy of Kuwait
met with BENS members to speak about his experience running
the US's first business development trade mission to Iraq.
Ken Krieg, Director of
Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense met with BENS members on February 10th to discuss
OSD's continued transformation.
Stanley A. Weiss, BENS
founder and Chairman, gave a speech on Feb. 10 at the Cato Institute
during a policy seminar entitled "Defense Spending, National
Security and the War On Terrorism." To read his speech,
click here.
BENS: 2004 Successes/2005
Goals, the BENS Policy team gave a brief overview of the
2005 agenda. For a copy of the list of issues we looked
at please click
here.
Click
here for past events
