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2011/SOM3/CTTF/STAR/002

Speaker and Panelist Biographies

Submitted by: United States

|[pic] |Secure Trade in the APEC Region Conference |

| |San Francisco, United States |

| |15–16 September 2011 |

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|Hassan Baage – Section Chief, United Nations Counter Terrorism Executive Directorate |

|Mr. Hassan Baage currently serves as Chief of Section within the Counter-Terrorism Committee Executive Directorate (CTED) of the |

|United Nations, having previously served as Senior Legal Officer, responsible for border control and management (including customs |

|and immigration controls) and for aviation and maritime security. Mr. Baage is also the representative of CTED to the Working Group |

|on Border Management Related to Counter-Terrorism of the United Nations Counter-Terrorism Implementation Task Force (CTITF). Prior |

|to joining the United Nations, Mr. Baage served, from 1998 to 2005, as Senior Technical Officer with the World Customs Organization |

|(WCO), working notably on the development of the international standards on cargo security (SAFE Framework of Standards to Secure and|

|Facilitate Global Trade); development of bilateral and multilateral agreements to enable mutual administrative assistance in customs |

|matters; and working with WCO member States to achieve harmonization and increased effectiveness in their compliance programmes. |

|Before joining the WCO, Mr. Baage held a variety of posts with the Canada Border Services Agency, in Ottawa, working notably on the |

|evaluation of national revenue programmes, management and coordination of national compliance and anti-smuggling programmes, and |

|development of policy and strategic approaches for border compliance. |

|Craig Bradbrook – Director, Security and Facilitation, Airports Council International |

|Craig Bradbrook joined Airports Council International as Director, Security & Facilitation in September 2006, after more than 26 |

|years in law enforcement and airport management. Before joining ACI he held a general manager position with the Airport Authority |

|Hong Kong and was in charge of airport security, safety, contingency planning, environmental services and service delivery |

|performance monitoring at Hong Kong International Airport (HKIA). At ACI, he is responsible for the Security, Facilitation and |

|Airport IT portfolios. He is also responsible for leading the implementation of the ACI service quality improvement strategy for its |

|member airports, through the Airport Service Quality (ASQ) Programme. |

|Doug Brittin – General Manager of Air Cargo Security, U.S. Transportation Security Administration |

|Doug Brittin joined the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Air Cargo Office in June 2007 as Air Cargo Manager, where he was|

|responsible for the development of the Certified Cargo Screening Program, as well as policy, forwarder programs and technology |

|development. He has held executive level sales, marketing and operational positions within the transportation and logistics industry|

|at companies such as BAX Global, Panalpina, Emery and Menlo Worldwide. Doug has over 30 years’ experience in the industry, including|

|the rail and trucking sectors. He was promoted to General Manager of Air Cargo Programs at TSA headquarters in Arlington, VA in May |

|2010. His area of responsibility now also includes international air cargo policy, all-cargo programs, vulnerability assessments and |

|stakeholder relations. In his capacity as General Manager, Doug manages a budget of $122 million and a staff of over 90 headquarter |

|security experts, program managers and contractors. Doug is a graduate of the University of Denver. |

|Allen Bruford – World Customs Organization |

|Allen Bruford is Deputy Director Facilitation & Compliance of the World Customs Organization. Prior to taking up his current position|

|he worked for the New Zealand Customs Service in a variety of executive level roles. Most recently, he was located in the New Zealand|

|Embassy in Washington DC working on customs, security and trade related issues. In the Customs area he has experience with trade |

|negotiations, trade risk assessment, cargo examination, revenue collection, audit and oversight of customs controlled areas. From |

|2000 to 2005 he lead the introduction of trade facilitation and security programmes in New Zealand including container security |

|arrangements with the United States. New Zealand is acknowledged as an innovative administration with its recent work in the area of |

|export supply chain management and mutual recognition being at the forefront of international best practice. During his career Mr |

|Bruford has also been responsible for managing New Zealand’s largest ports and airports. |

|Shari Currie – Director for Air Cargo Security, Aviation Security Directorate, Transport Canada |

|Shari Currie is the Director of Air Cargo Security at Transport Canada leading the design of an enhanced Canadian Air Cargo Security |

|Program. With more than 15 years experience in the not-for-profit sector and the public service, Ms. Currie has focused her career |

|on program development and evaluation. Working primarily in South East Asia, Africa and Central Europe, Ms Currie designed and |

|evaluated democratic development programs and training activities for elected officials and parliamentary staff followed by three |

|years as the Executive Director of the Centre for Legislative Exchange developing educational events, activities and opportunities |

|for consultations amongst elected and senior government officials. Ms. Currie has worked at National Defence, Public Safety Canada |

|and the Treasury Board Secretariat in the areas of communications and public relations, emergency management and regional operations.|

|Ms. Currie specialized in strategic studies and international relations at the University of Manitoba. |

|Paul Fujimura – Deputy Director, Transportation Security Administration |

|Paul Fujimura became a Transportation Security Administration employee in February 2010, and joined the Office of Global Strategies |

|(OGS) in March 2011 where he serves as Senior Advisor in the International Operations directorate. Prior to joining OGS, Paul served|

|as the Director for Policy, Communications and Compliance in TSA’s Office of Transportation Threat Assessment and Credentialing |

|(TTAC) where he ensured the TTAC Infrastructure Modernization program aligned with TSA and DHS policy priorities and counterterrorism|

|mission. Fujimura came to TSA after five years at DHS Headquarters in the Office of International Affairs where he was the Director |

|for Asia/Pacific and later the Chief of Staff. Prior to the events of September 11, 2001, he was a Foreign Service Officer assigned |

|to the State Department’s Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism (S/CT) where he provided policy oversight of efforts to |

|rescue two Americans held hostage by the Abu Sayyaf terrorist group. As part of his portfolio in S/CT, he became involved in |

|managing several State Department counterterrorism capacity building initiatives. Fujimura began his career in public service with |

|the U.S. Navy; he served with Attack Squadron 115 based in Atsugi, Japan, and completed 38 combat missions during Operations Desert |

|Shield and Desert Storm. After graduate school, Fujimura taught political science at the U.S. Naval Academy. Fujimura is a graduate|

|of the University of California (Berkeley) and the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California. |

|Todd Gick – Toyota Motor North America |

|Todd Gick is general manager of parts business management and logistics control at Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North |

|America, Inc. (TEMA), located in Erlanger, Kentucky. TEMA supports Toyota's engineering and manufacturing operations in North |

|America. In this role, he is responsible for service parts determination and quality assurance, exports parts planning/operations as|

|well as customs operations and logistics compliance. Mr. Gick joined Toyota in 1996 as a project planning and management specialist.|

|In 2000, he was promoted to assistant manager at TEMA’s corporate strategy division where he established regional manufacture vs. |

|purchase investigations and supported new plant location studies. Four years later, he returned to production control where he |

|progressed through a series of promotions from 2004-09. During this time he focused on project planning and management. Prior to |

|joining Toyota, Mr. Gick held positions in industrial engineering, manufacturing and operations at Cummins Engine Co. He has a B.S. |

|in Industrial Engineering from the University of Cincinnati and an MBA from Ball State University in Indiana. Mr. Gick is on the |

|Board of Directors for the non-profit group, Cincinnati Center City Development Corporation (3CDC) and a member of the Women’s |

|Leadership Group at Toyota. Mr. Gick also enjoys coaching youth baseball and basketball and is a native Cincinnatian. He resides in |

|Cincinnati, Ohio with his wife Cindy and three children Gabrielle, Ethan and Ryan. |

|Allen Gina - Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade, U.S. Customs and Border Protection |

|On March 15, 2011, Mr. Allen Gina was appointed Assistant Commissioner, Office of International Trade (OT), U.S. Customs and Border |

|Protection, Department of Homeland Security (CBP, DHS). Prior to that, he served as Assistant Commissioner, Office of International |

|Affairs (INA) – a position he assumed on November 9, 2008. From October 2007 to November 2008, Mr. Gina was the Deputy Assistant |

|Commissioner for the Office of Intelligence and Operations Coordination (OIOC). From June 2004 to October 2007, Mr. Gina was the |

|Executive Director overseeing the Container Security Initiative and Secure Freight Initiative offices. From February 2003 to May |

|2004, Mr. Gina was detailed to the Directorate of Border and Transportation Security to help setup the new Department of Homeland |

|Security (DHS). While at DHS he served as Director of Agency Coordination. Mr. Gina is currently a career member of the Senior |

|Executive Service. Mr. Gina began his career in 1983 as a Customs Inspector for the U.S. Customs Service. Throughout his career, Mr.|

|Gina has held numerous managerial positions including Supervisor and Chief Inspector, Program Manager of the Anti-Smuggling Division,|

|Director of the Industry Partnership Programs, Director of the Outbound Programs and Director of the Office of Border Security. Mr. |

|Gina holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Communication Arts and Sciences from Queens College, New York, New York. Mr. Gina is also a |

|graduate of the Office of Personnel Management Executive Potential Program and the Harvard - Kennedy School of Government Senior |

|Executive Fellows Program. In 2008 the President of the United States conferred the rank of Meritorious Executive on Mr. Gina for |

|relentless commitment to excellence in public service. |

|Janette Haughton – Convenor, Business Mobility Group (BMG) |

|Janette Haughton is the Regional Director for the Americas, based in the Australian Embassy in Washington. She is responsible for |

|Australia’s visa operations in North and South America as well as liaison work with various government agencies. Prior to her |

|current position, Janette was the Assistant Secretary of the Offshore Biometrics Branch in the Australian Department of Immigration |

|and Citizenship (DIAC). The branch has responsibility for expanding the Department’s biometrics program to include selected visa |

|applicants offshore. As the Global Manager, she also managed a program to increase the use of commercial partners to provide visa |

|application lodgement services for the Department. Janette managed DIAC’s Identity Branch from 2004 to 2010. She had responsibility |

|for identity management and for identity fraud policy, the implementation of biometrics in DIAC, document fraud analysis and document|

|examination training. She also managed the Department's involvement in the whole-of-government National Identity Security Strategy |

|and in a number of international identity initiatives. She chaired both the Inter-Governmental Consultations on Migration, Asylum |

|and Refugees (IGC) Technology Working Group from 2005 to 2008 and the Five Country Conference Biometrics and Technology Sub-Group |

|(2005 – 2010). In other Senior Executive positions, Janette has managed the Department's investigations and compliance functions. |

|She has worked in a wide variety of immigration-related areas over the last 20 years, including migration planning and economic |

|policy, skilled migration and overseas operations. She has undertaken a number of short-term overseas missions and another long-term|

|posting to Russia. Janette holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Queensland and a Post Graduate Diploma in |

|Information Management. |

|David Heyman - Assistant Secretary for Policy at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security |

|Previously, David Heyman served as a Senior Fellow and Director of the CSIS Homeland Security Program where he led the CSIS' research|

|and program activities in homeland security, focusing on developing the strategies and policies to help build and transform U.S. |

|federal, state, local, and private-sector homeland security institutions. Heyman is an expert on terrorism, critical infrastructure |

|protection, bioterrorism, and risk-based security. He has led or contributed to a number of studies on aviation security, nuclear |

|security, bioterrorism preparedness, and pandemic flu planning. He also was the principal architect of, and helped run, "Steadfast |

|Resolve," a cabinet-level tabletop exercise that examined critical decision making at the National Security Council and Homeland |

|Security Council during the next potential terrorist attack. Heyman also is an adjunct professor in security studies at Georgetown |

|University. Heyman has served in a number of government positions, including as a senior adviser to the U.S. Secretary of Energy and|

|at the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy on national security and international affairs. Prior to that, he was the |

|head of international operations for a private-sector software/systems engineering firm developing supply-chain management systems |

|for Fortune 100 firms. He has worked in Europe, Russia, and the Middle East. Heyman has authored numerous publications, including |

|"America's Domestic Security" in Five Years After 9/11 (CSIS, 2006); Model Operational Guidelines for Disease Exposure Control (CSIS,|

|2005)—which has been utilized by cities and states across the country and was the basis for some of the government's pandemic flu |

|planning guidance; DHS 2.0: Rethinking the Department of Homeland Security (CSIS/Heritage Foundation, 2004); and Lessons from the |

|Anthrax Attacks (CSIS, 2002). Heyman has testified before a number of committees in Congress and has appeared in various media |

|outlets including NPR, CNN, BBC, FOX News, and the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. |

|To Tu Hung – Deputy Director, Department of Aviation Security, Civil Aviation Authority of Viet Nam (CAAV) |

|Mr. To Tu hung has worked for the Civil aviation Authority of Viet Nam (CAAV) in various capacities since 1997. In 2008, Mr. Hung |

|became Deputy Director of the Department of Aviation Security, CAAV, in charge of international cooperation and collaboration; |

|development, maintenance and implementation of the National Civil Aviation Security Programmes (NCASP, NASTP, NQCP); assessment the |

|ASP of aircraft operators, and air traffic services providers. He is also National Coordinator in the ICAO USAP Cycle II Audit. |

|Prior to joining CAAV, he worked as for the Ministry of home Affairs as a Technical Assistant to the English Language for Government |

|Officials (ELGO 96) funded by AusAID. Mr. Hung holds a Bachelor of International Law degree from Ha Noi Law University and a Diploma|

|in English for Academics from Melbourne Adult Multicultural Education Services (AMES). |

|Kevin Kiefer – Chief, Office of Ports and Facility Activities, U.S. Coast Guard |

|Captain Kevin C. Kiefer is presently serving as Chief, Office of Port and Facility Activities (CG-544) at U.S. Coast Guard |

|Headquarters in Washington, DC. Responsible for the safety and security of domestic ports, specific focus areas of his office |

|include enforcement of the Maritime Transportation Security Act; implementation of the Transportation Worker Identification |

|Credential; recovery of port capability; and strategy for the protection of dangerous cargoes, critical infrastructure, and high |

|value assets. Captain Kiefer also recently served as Staff Director/Current Plans in the National Incident Command for the Deepwater|

|Horizon oil spill response. Captain Kiefer graduated from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine |

|Engineering in 1989. He also holds a Master of Science degree in Engineering (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering) and a |

|Master of Engineering degree (Manufacturing) from the University of Michigan. After an initial tour aboard the Coast Guard Cutter |

|VALIANT, a 210-foot medium endurance cutter homeported in Galveston, Texas, Captain Kiefer served in the Acquisitions Office at Coast|

|Guard Headquarters as the configuration manager for three buoy tender replacement projects. He then transferred to Marine Safety |

|Office Tampa, Florida where he worked as a marine inspector and was Chief of the Port State Control Section. He later returned to |

|Coast Guard Headquarters for a tour in the Marine Safety, Security and Environmental Protection Office where he worked in the |

|Lifesaving and Fire Safety Standards Division and served as a delegate on the International Maritime Organization’s Subcommittee on |

|Fire Protection. Captain Kiefer next moved to Marine Safety Office Corpus Christi, Texas where he first served as Chief of the Port |

|Management Department and later as Executive Officer, during which time he served as the lead planner for the nation’s largest |

|military outload operation in support of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom. He later transitioned to Chief of the |

|Prevention Department when the unit joined the nearby Group/Air Station and formed Sector Corpus Christi. He was next assigned as |

|Commanding Officer of Marine Safety Unit Huntington, West Virginia where his area of responsibility included the Port of Huntington |

|Tri-State, the largest inland and seventh largest port in the nation per annual tonnage. |

|C.H. Lee Klaus - Directorate General of Customs, Chinese Taipei |

|Mr. Klaus has over 14 years experience working in the customs sector, including his recent role working on international customs |

|affairs. Previously, he has worked as AEO Supply Chain security Specialist, bonded factory supervision, express cargo examination |

|and valuation, and planning and assessing. He has also worked on passenger luggage screening as well as on receiving and reviewing |

|export declarations. Mr. Klaus has a Master’s degree and is fluent in both English and Mandarin. |

|Sean Moon – Chair, TPTWG Maritime Security Experts Group (MEG-SEC) |

|Sean Moon is a Senior Policy Advisor in the U. S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Transportation and Cargo Policy in |

|Washington, D.C. Among other projects in his portfolio, he Chairs the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) Transportation |

|Working Group Sub-Group for Maritime Security, heads recurring delegations to APEC and other multilateral organizations on trade |

|recovery issues, and is the Policy lead for the DHS Small Vessel Security Strategy. A 1985 graduate of Willamette University in |

|Salem, Oregon, he spent four years in the private sector before joining the U.S. Coast Guard in 1989. Over the course of a 20-year |

|career, he specialized in port operations and emergency management, conducting and supervising commercial and passenger vessel and |

|facility safety and security programs, waterways management programs, and oil/hazardous materials and natural disaster response |

|operations. His final Coast Guard tour was on detached duty as the Senior Policy Advisor for maritime issues to DHS Policy, a |

|position that the Department has made permanent. Mr. Moon is the author and co-author of numerous papers and presentations, |

|including: Effective Exchange of Information for Effective Risk Management in Trade Recovery/Continuity (Asia-Pacific Economic |

|Cooperation Capacity Building Workshop on Trade Recovery Program, Singapore, Singapore, 2008); “The Lost Chemical Spill: Lessons |

|Learned for Specialists” (Chemical Health & Safety, Jan./Feb. 2001); Emergency Response Plans: What does the U.S. Coast Guard |

|Expect? (In: Technical Papers of the Seventh Annual Environmental Management and Technology Conference/Central: HazMat Central, |

|Chicago, IL, 1994); and The M/V Santa Clara I Arsenic Trioxide Response – A Technical Review. (In: Proceedings of the Tenth |

|Technical Seminar on Chemical Spills, St. John, New Brunswick, CA, 1993). |

|Marta Moss - Manager, Customs Compliance-Post Entry, Levi Strauss & Co., |

|A native of the state of Montana, Marta received her economics degree from the Wharton School of Business. Marta is in her sixth |

|year with Levi Strauss & Co. There, she began by managing the company’s CBP focused assessment and setting up compliance measurement |

|and reporting activities to compliment LS&Co.’s import processes and controls. Currently, the Levi Customs Compliance team is |

|exploring the needs, capabilities and risks of global affiliates and setting up global reporting and ways of working. Prior to |

|joining Levis Strauss, Marta had a 20 year career in customs brokerage and international freight forwarding for major global |

|forwarders, for niche service providers and operated her own customs brokerage company. Along the way, her duties ranged from |

|Station General Manager, inbound freight and customs operations manager, compliance consultant and to global account manager. Her |

|career began in Seattle when an employee failed to show up for work for a week. Marta was hired to sit at his desk and bring his |

|customs entry work current—though the closest she had previously come to Customs was to know where the Customhouse was located. |

|Through walking down to the Customhouse to ask her questions and by waiting for the company president ‘s attention, Marta developed |

|her lasting interest in “the last mile” of international transportation. |

|John Neily – Director of National Security and Public Safety, Conference Board of Canada |

|John is the Director of National Security and Public Safety of the Public Policy Division of The Conference Board of Canada, a |

|position that he has held since October 2009. John retired as an Assistant Commissioner of the RCMP in late 2008 after a successful |

|career in public safety and security spanning close to 35 years. John had a successful consulting practice prior to joining the |

|Board. John has extensive experience in strategic policy development as it relates to national security and public safety at the |

|local, provincial, federal and international levels. While in the RCMP he held diverse operational leadership positions that have |

|provided him an opportunity to work with other senior public safety officials and private sector executives in this specialized area |

|of Canadian public safety. John’s team at the Conference Board has been extensively involved in cross border critical infrastructure |

|resilience planning and strategic action planning for public and private agencies and organizations in three cross border regions of |

|Canada and the United States. His position at the Conference Board sees him responsible for the leadership of seven executive |

|networks in the area of public safety, innovation, health and safety and knowledge management. John is a member of the Board of |

|Directors of the Canadian Centre for Emergency Preparedness as well as the Founding Chair of the Canadian Association of Chiefs of |

|Police Emergency Management Committee. He also holds a membership in the CACP’s Private Sector Liaison Committee. |

|Brendan O’Hearn – Chair, Subcommittee on Customs Procedures (SCCP) |

|Mr. O’Hearn currently serves as the Director of Strategic Operation within the Office of International Affairs. In this position he |

|is responsible for U.S. Customs and Border Protection’s (CBP) international policy development. Mr. O’Hearn directs CBP’s engagement|

|in multilateral organizations (such as the World Customs Organization, APEC, the Caribbean Customs Law Enforcement Council and the |

|G-8) and the negotiation of CBP’s international cooperation and information sharing instruments. He also oversees CBP’s |

|International Visitors Program, which provides unique learning opportunities about CBP to almost 2,000 foreign government officials |

|from over 100 countries each year. In 2004 and 2005, Mr. O’Hearn led the CBP team that wrote and negotiated the WCO Framework of |

|Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade. Currently, he is the Chair of the APEC Sub Committee on Customs Procedures, which |

|is actively pursuing the establishment of Authorized Economic Operator Programs, Trade Resumption Protocols, Import Safety Operations|

|and Single Window Development in the APEC region. Mr. O’Hearn also serves as the WCO’s Finance Committee Vice Chair. Mr. O’Hearn |

|started his career with the U.S. Customs Service as an Import Specialist at John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. |

|Patchara Pornyuthapong – Vice President, Aviation Security Standard and Quality Control Department, Airports of Thailand Public |

|Company Limited (AOT) |

|Mrs. Pornyuthapong held a Bachelor Degree of Arts from Kasetsart University, Bangkok, Thailand and joined AOT since 1979. For her |

|long period of working in security field, she had gained great experience in airport security and in 2007, she was appointed as Vice |

|President of Airport Security Department, Don Mueang International Airport, AOT. |

|In October 2009, AOT established a new office, Aviation Security Standard and Quality Control Department and she was assigned as the |

|first Vice President of this office. She takes into account the great effort to develop, improve and promote aviation security |

|standard and quality control at 6 AOT international airports to international standards. |

|During 2004-2007, Mrs. Pornyuthapong also worked for ICAO as the ICAO Certified Auditor in the ICAO Universal Security Audit |

|Programme (USAP). She served ICAO as an ICAO team member for 2 audits at Incheon International Airport in 2004 and Kaula Lumpur |

|International Airport in 2006. |

|Peter Robertson – Chair, TPTWG Aviation Security Experts Group (AEG-SEC) |

|General Manager, Aviation Security Branch, Australian Department of Infrastructure and Transport. Peter joined the Commonwealth |

|Public Service in 1979 after training initially in the RAAF as a pilot. He has qualifications in public policy, legal studies, |

|economics and accounting. He has worked primarily in policy and regulatory areas affecting the aviation, maritime, communications |

|and land transport industries. Most recently his work has been focussed on the technical regulation of the vehicle industry, |

|overseeing maritime regulation, road safety policy and establishing a national heavy vehicle regulatory authority. He took up his |

|current position as head of the department’s Aviation Security Branch in September 2009. His responsibilities in this position |

|include policy support to the transport minister on aviation security matters, as well as being the Australian member of the Aviation|

|Security Panel of ICAO. Peter also leads the Australian participation in the APEC Transportation Working Group. |

|Adam Salerno – Senior Manager, National Security and Emergency Preparedness, U.S. Chamber of Commerce |

|Adam W. Salerno is director for the National Security and Emergency Preparedness Department at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. He is |

|responsible for the Chamber’s initiatives regarding security, customs, transportation and trade issues related to the global supply |

|chain. Salerno also oversees the Chamber’s Global Supply Chain Security Working Group. The group works with the administration, |

|Congress, and the international community to strengthen businesses by eliminating barriers that hurt global commerce and slow the |

|movement of goods in the domestic and global supply chain. Prior to joining the Chamber, Salerno was a business liaison in the |

|Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS’s) Private Sector Office. There, he focused on policy related to travel and tourism, |

|immigration, Customs and Border Protection, and the Transportation Security Administration. He was both an advisor to DHS leadership |

|and an advocate for the private sector inside of DHS. Salerno also oversaw the department’s activities pertaining to the Secure |

|Border Open Doors Advisory Council, as well as many other pro-business initiatives. Previously, Salerno spent four years working for|

|Babson Capital Management LLC, a subsidiary of MassMutual Financial Group, where he was an analyst to the trading desk and portfolio |

|managers in the fixed income and equity markets. A native of Massachusetts, Salerno graduated from Western New England College in |

|Springfield, Massachusetts, with a double major in political science and economics. He earned his Masters of Business Administration |

|from the University of Massachusetts, Isenberg School of Management in Amherst, Massachusetts. Salerno lives in Alexandria, |

|Virginia, with his wife, Andrea. |

|Ken Sava – U.S. Customs and Border Protection |

|As the Director, Trusted Traveler Programs, Kenneth Sava is responsible for policy, development, and management of CBP’s Trusted |

|Traveler Programs- Global Entry, SENTRI, and NEXUS. He is also responsible for the Model Ports and e-Badge Programs. Kenneth Sava |

|was previously the Director, Passenger Programs. In that capacity his responsibilities included the development and management of |

|passenger processing policy and procedures in the air and sea environments, as well as the following CBP passenger initiatives: the |

|Advance Passenger Information System, the Immigration Advisory Program, the Carrier Liaison Program, the ENFORCE/IDENT system, and |

|Federal Inspection Facilities. Kenneth Sava started his career 24 years ago as an Inspector with the Immigration and Naturalization |

|Service (INS). During his INS career, he served in a variety of positions at the headquarters and field level including INS Liaison |

|to the U.S. Customs Service, Field Operations Officer, and Supervisory Immigration Inspector. |

|Norman Schenk – Vice President, Customs and Trade Compliance, United Parcel Service (UPS) |

|Norm Schenk, UPS vice president – customs & trade compliance, is responsible for directing global compliance, customs affairs, and |

|training for UPS brokerage operations, which includes small package, ocean, air and road freight. With more than 25 years of UPS |

|experience, Schenk has been involved with expansion planning, brokerage acquisitions, and systems development to ensure ongoing |

|training for the ever-changing requirements to balance global trade with security for goods crossing borders. He was the first U.S. |

|employee for the UPS small package brokerage services in Louisville, Ky. which now has grown to more than 3,000 employees. UPS |

|brokerage operations operate through 188 ports and air gateways in more than 34 countries. More than five million entries are |

|processed annually with U.S. Customs and Border Protection alone. Schenk has testified before the U.S. Congress on both postal |

|issues and drug enforcement issues. He is actively involved with the Express Association of America (EAA) and currently chairs the |

|customs committee of the Global Express Association GEA). Norm is also involved with the American Association of Exporters & |

|Importers (AAEI) and National Customs Brokers & Forwarders Association of America (NCBFFA). He was appointed to the Commercial |

|Operations Advisory Committee (COAC) in October 2002 and has served two terms on this advisory group to U.S. Customs & Border |

|Protection. Norm spends a great deal of time working directly with government agencies on reducing trade barriers, simplifying |

|processes, and most recently supply chain security issues. He was a key contributor in the development of Air Cargo Advanced |

|Screening (ACAS), now being used by CBP for global express air shipments. Schenk graduated from Widener University in 1979 with a |

|Bachelor of Science degree in business administration and is a licensed customs broker (1985). He resides in Louisville, Ky. |

|Mariko Silver – Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of Homeland Security |

|Mariko Silver is the Deputy Assistant Secretary for International Policy/Acting Assistant Secretary for International Affairs at the |

|United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this capacity Ms. Silver manages a department-wide approach to DHS’ |

|international engagement. During her tenure at DHS, Ms. Silver has helped advance a global initiative to enhance aviation security |

|and focuses on enhancing cooperation on Homeland Security partners in the Western Hemisphere and Asia. Ms. Silver also created the |

|first department-wide international strategy. Prior to joining DHS, Ms. Silver served as Policy Advisor in the office of Arizona |

|Governor Janet Napolitano. Ms. Silver is the former Director of Strategic Projects for the Office of the President at Arizona State |

|University (the largest public university in the United States), where she was the first principal for the International Institute |

|for University Design, a collaboration with the People’s Republic of China which includes universities throughout China, Japan, |

|Singapore, Australia, Europe, and the United States. Ms. Silver has also served in the Office of the Executive Vice-Provost of |

|Columbia University, where she co-developed a multi-institution research response to 9/11, bringing members of the U.S. intelligence |

|community together with academic experts in information analysis and management technologies. At Columbia she also helped establish |

|the International Innovation Initiative (I-3). Ms. Silver has worked in the Office of the Focal Point for Women in the Office of |

|Human Resources Management of the United Nations Secretariat and for Quest Publications in Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a BA in |

|history, with distinction, from Yale and an MSc, with distinction, in Science and Technology Policy from the University of Sussex |

|Science Policy Research Unit (UK). |

|Erroll Southers – Associate Director, National Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE), University of |

|Southern California |

|Erroll G. Southers is a former Presidential nominee for Assistant Secretary of the TSA, Governor Schwarzenegger's Deputy Director in |

|the California Office of Homeland Security and FBI Special Agent. He is the Associate Director of the National Homeland Security |

|Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events (CREATE) at the University of Southern California (USC) where he developed |

|the Executive Program in Counter-Terrorism and serves as an Adjunct Professor of Homeland Security and Public Policy. Southers is |

|also the Managing Director of the Counter-Terrorism and Infrastructure Protection Division of the international security consulting |

|firm TAL Global. He is the former Chief of Homeland Security and Intelligence for the Los Angeles World Airports Police Department, |

|the nation's largest. Southers began his law enforcement career with the Santa Monica Police Department, was appointed to the faculty|

|and tactical staff of the Rio Hondo Police Academy. In the FBI he investigated foreign counterintelligence and terrorism matters and |

|served as a member of SWAT. He has testified as a subject matter expert before the full Congressional Committee on Homeland Security |

|and lectures at the Joint Chiefs of Staff Antiterrorism Seminars. Southers earned his BA degree at Brown University and MPA at USC, |

|where he is recognized as a counter-terrorism expert. He is a Senior Fellow of the UCLA School of Public Affairs and has lectured |

|widely in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Israel, Hong Kong and China, where he was invited to assess the security for the |

|2008 Beijing Olympics. |

|Arlene Turner – Lead Shepherd, Transportation Working Group (TPTWG) |

|Ms. Arlene Turner became Director General, International Relations and Gateway Initiatives, Transport Canada, in July 2011. She is |

|also the Lead Shepherd of the APEC Transportation Working Group. Ms. Turner has varied experience in areas such as international |

|relations, negotiations and issues management; economic policy issues in domestic and international contexts; federal-provincial and |

|federal-private sector relations and negotiations; Aboriginal issues, including policing, justice and self-government; and directing |

|national strategic policy and research initiatives. Over her career, she has worked at the Department of National Revenue, Customs |

|and Excise (now the Canada Border Services Agency), the Customs Co-operation Council (now the World Customs Organization), the |

|Department of Finance, and Solicitor General Canada (now Public Safety Canada). |

|Henry Ward - Global Supply Chain Director, The Dow Chemical Company |

|Henry Ward leads The Dow Chemical Company’s global programs for supply chain sustainability, security and public policy advocacy. As|

|Global Supply Chain Director, Henry is responsible for driving and overseeing the strategies and programs that ensure Dow’s supply |

|chain operations reflect the proper balance between economic, environmental and social considerations. He led the development and |

|implementation of Dow’s Global Supply Chain Security Plan – with an emphasis on chemical transportation security threat and |

|vulnerability assessments and risk mitigation. In the public policy arena, Henry is focused on driving improvements in freight |

|transportation infrastructure and the safe and secure transportation of hazardous materials, worldwide. Henry’s 36 years of |

|experience in the chemical industry has included leadership roles in manufacturing, global supply chain operations and a wide range |

|of environmental, health, safety and chemical security risk management disciplines. He joined Dow in Midland, Michigan in February |

|2001, following 16 years with Union Carbide Corporation and 10 years with Stauffer Chemical Company. Henry earned his Bachelors |

|degree from the Johns Hopkins University and Masters degree from the University of Pittsburgh. |

|Ryo Watanabe – Director for Transport Safety and Security Policy, Minister's Secretariat Bureau, |

|Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Japan |

|He was born in 1961. After graduating from the Department of Law at the University of Tokyo, he joined the Ministry of Transport in |

|1984. He has taken posts in wide range of transportation related fields such as civil aviation, railway, ports and harbours, etc. He |

|served as First Secretary of Japanese Embassy in Australia in the mid-90s. Within Civil Aviation Bureau, he formerly worked for |

|Aviation Industries Division, and served as Director for Supervision of Kansai International Airport and Chubu International Airport |

|from 2005 to 2007. He also experienced the Director for Aviation Safety and Security Promotion Division in Civil Aviation Bureau as |

|the representative in charge of the policy for Aviation Safety and Security as well as Crisis Management between July 2009 and Jun |

|2011 in his previous position. In this period, he organized “the Asia-Pacific Ministerial Conference on Aviation Security” on 13th of|

|March in 2010 and also took the responsibility to respond to the Great East Japan Earthquake as a risk and contingency manager of |

|Civil Aviation Bureau. In the present position, he is in charge of the policy of safety and security of all modes of transport in |

|MLIT. |

|Anne Witkowsky - Deputy Coordinator for Homeland Security and Multilateral Affairs, Office of the Coordinator for Counterterrorism at|

|the U.S. Department of State |

|Ms. Witkowsky was a Senior Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) from 2000-2007 and a CSIS Senior |

|Associate (non-resident) from 2007-2009. At CSIS, she led and contributed to major projects, on governance broadly, as well as on |

|homeland security specifically. Under the guidance of a high level commission, she directed the CSIS Embassy of the Future study, |

|which examined ways to enhance the effectiveness of the U.S. overseas diplomatic presence; served on two of the CSIS Beyond |

|Goldwater-Nichols studies, including a study on enhancing government unity of effort for homeland security; and directed the CSIS |

|“Steadfast Resolve” simulation of decision making at the cabinet level in the event of the next domestic terrorist attack. She also |

|co-directed aviation management and security research. She was the executive director of the CSIS Commission on Science and Security |

|(established by the Secretary of Energy), which examined how to maintain excellence in science and ensure sound security at the |

|Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. From 1993-2000, Ms. Witkowsky served as a Director for Defense Policy and Arms Control|

|on the National Security Council (NSC) staff. As a member of the NSC staff, her primary areas of responsibility were European |

|security and conventional arms control treaty negotiations and implementation. Prior to taking her position on the NSC staff, Ms. |

|Witkowsky served from 1988-2002 in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, U.S. Department of Defense, in the Office of Russian, |

|Ukraine, and Eurasian Affairs and in the Office of European Security Negotiations. She began her career in the federal government as |

|a Presidential Management Intern (PMI). She received the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service in 2000. Her|

|publications include: The Embassy of the Future (project director), Beyond Goldwater Nichols- Managing the Next Domestic Catastrophe:|

|Ready (or Not)? (contributor); Beyond Goldwater Nichols Phase II Report- U.S. Government and Defense Reform for a New Strategic Era |

|(contributor); and Science and Security in the 21st Century (project director). Ms. Witkowsky is a member of the Council on Foreign |

|Relations. She holds a B.A. in Russian and East European studies from Yale University. She received her M.P.A., with a concentration |

|in international security, from Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. |

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