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Washington, D.C. members benefit from their proximity to Congress,
the Pentagon, other federal agencies with which BENS works, and
the BENS national policy staff. This proximity greatly increases
the opportunities for Washington, D.C. members to contribute to
BENS work and the national dialogue on security issues.
While
many of our regional members have had extensive government experience
or work closely with the federal government as a part of their
professional existence, the core of the Washington, D.C. membership
remains senior business leaders who apply their expertise to our
country's national security problems.
If
you have questions or would like additional information of any
kind, call Laura Willoughby at 202-296-2125 or email lwilloughby@bens.org.
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*
Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton
Jamie
S. Gorelick
Partner, Wilmer, Cutler & Pickering
Patrick W. Gross
Chairman, The Lovell Group
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
2009
Oct. 21 - Visit to the United States Secret Service James J. Rowley Training Center.
Oct. 20 - Former Russia ambassador James Collins of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and Steve Pifer of the Brookings Institution and former ambassador to Ukraine discussed nuclear disarmament and Russia.
Sept. 15 - Former Homeland Security Assistant Secretary Randy Beardsworth addressed BENS members about reforming Homeland Security and counterterrorism.
June 23 - BENS hosted Dr. Steve Bucci, former Deputy Assistant Defense Secretary for Homeland Defense and Americas' Security Affairs. Read the July Update for more.
June 16 - Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad Allen addressed BENS members about new maritime security challenges. Read the July Update for more.
May 13 - BENS honored Sen. Carl Levin and former Sen. John Warner at the annual Eisenhower Award Dinner in Washington, D.C. For photos, click here. Read the June Update for more.
May 13 - At the annual BENS Washington Forum, National Security Advisor Gen. Jim Jones, Deputy Defense Secretary Bill Lynn, former CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden, former Deputy Secretary of Energy Lynn Coleman, FedEx CEO Fred Smith, Gallup CEO Jim Clifton and RFC Energy Chairman Robin West discussed energy security. For photos, click here. Read the June Update for more.
May 5 - BENS hosted Rear Adm. Dr. Craig Vanderwagen, the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response at the Health and Human Services Department. Read the June Update for more.
Jan. 13 - Rear Adm. David Thomas, Commander of Joint Task Force-Guantanamo, discussed the military detention camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. Read the February Update for more.
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2008
Dec. 17-18 - BENS co-hosted Cyber Strategic Inquiry 2008 in Washington, D.C., featuring keynote speakers Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff, Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. James Cartwright, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse and SunGard CEO Cristobal Conde.
Sept. 4 - BENS hosted General Victor E. Renuart, USAF, Commander of NORAD and US NORTHCOM.
July 29 - BENS met with Mark Sullivan, Director of the US Secret Service, at his headquarters.
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 Gen. James Cartwright, USMC, Newt Gingrich, John Hamre, Gen. 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.
Feb. 26 - Ron Sanders, The Chief of Human Capital for the DNI met with members to
discuss some of the issues his organization faces.
Feb. 21 - Chris Darby, President and CEO of In-Q-Tel, spoke with BENS members about the In-Q-Tel model.
A group of members visited the
National Cryptologic Museum along with Lt. General Ken
Minihan, USAF (Ret.).
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2007
Oct. 12 - Al
Martinez-Fonts, the Assistant Secretary for the Private
Sector at DHS met with BENS members to discuss public-private
partnerships.
July 11 - BENS met with
Major General Thomas Wilkerson, USMC (Ret.), CEO of the U.S.
Naval Institute. General Wilkerson took a high-level view
of modern events and put them into historical perspective.
June 14 - BENS met with Dan
O'Shea, former Hostage Working Group Coordinator at the U.S.
Embassy in Baghdad. He discussed "Weapons of Mass Effect" and
the kidnapping situation in Iraq.
May 23 - a group of BENS
members visited the Marine Corps Combat Development Command
in Quantico, VA.
May 9 - BENS celebrated its
25th Anniversary and honored its founder Stanley Weiss at the 2007 Eisenhower Dinner and Washington Forum.
May 3 - a group of BENS
members received a private tour of the National Museum of the
Marine Corps.
Jan. 31 - Counterterrorism Blog experts Victor Comras, Olivier
Guitta, Dennis Lormel, Walid Phares, Jonathan Winer, Andy Cochran and former Rep. Sue Kelly, spoke to BENS about
counterterrorism issues in the 110th Congress.
Jan. 10 - Rod Beckstrom, co-author
of The Starfish and the Spider met with BENS to
discuss his book and its examination of organizational structure
and its implications for national security.
Jan. 4 - Lt. Gen. H. Steven
Blum,
Chief of the National Guard Bureau, spoke to BENS about the
changing role of the National Guard.
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2006
Nov. 3 - John Grimes,
Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information
Integration, spoke with BENS members.
Oct. 2 - Bruce Lemkin, Deputy Under
Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs, spoke
with BENS members.
Sept. 18 - Sen. Susan Collins, Chairman of the Senate Committee on Homeland Security
and Governmental Affairs, spoke to a group of BENS members about discuss the current issues facing her committee.
April 18 - GAO Comptroller David Walker,
spoke with BENS members.
Feb. 22 - Brig. Gen. Mark Kimmitt,
deputy director of U.S. Central Command spoke with BENS
members. Read
what Kimmitt said about the Long War.
Jan. 19 - Army Secretary Francis Harvey
will spoke with BENS members. Read what the secretary had to say.
Jan. 11 - Treasury Undersecretary Stuart
Levey spoke to BENS members about tracking terrorists financial
assets.
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2005
Nov. - 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.
Sept. 19 - For a perspective from inside
the Homeland Security Department on the effects of Hurricane Katrina, read what Al Martinez-Fonts of the DHS Private Sector
Office said to BENS members.
Sept. 12 - BENS members and guests gathered
at the Ritz Carlton across the street from the Pentagon to honor retiring Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Richard Myers.
Read what Myers said.
Thanks to BENS board member Paul Stern for making the event
possible.
June 30 - 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, read the July Update.
May 19 - The BENS Eisenhower Award
Dinner honored Fred
Smith, Chairman and CEO of FedEx. Appreciations were made by Gen. John Handy,
Sen. Bill Frist and Dan Snyder.
May 19 - The BENS Washington Forum featured presentations from Rep.
Mac Thornberry, Gen. Michael Hayden, Adm. Tom Collins, Robert
Kaplan, Adm. Ed Giambastiani, Leo Desrosiers and Cpt. Dan
Rice.
May 10 - 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 in Iraq.
March 22 - Rear Adm. Marsha 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, read the April Update.
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 U.S.' first business development trade mission to Iraq.
Feb. 10 - Ken Krieg, Director of
Program Analysis and Evaluation in the Office of the Secretary
of Defense met with BENS members to discuss
OSD's continued transformation.
Feb. 6 - Stanley A. Weiss, BENS
founder and Chairman, gave a speech at the Cato Institute
during a policy seminar entitled "Defense Spending, National
Security and the War On Terrorism." To read his speech, click here.
