Peter C. Cook was born on May 9, 1914, in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He is married to Pat and the father of two sons, Thomas M. and Stephen J. Mr. Cook has three grandchildren Laura, Ryan, and Kristen.

Mr. Cook was educated at South High School and Davenport Business College in Grand Rapids, Michigan. He has been associated with Import Motors Limited, Inc., from 1949 to 1980 and was named president of the company in 1954. Import Motors distributed Volkswagen and Porsche Audi automobile products in Michigan and Indiana. Mr. Cook sold this business in 1980. In 1977, he formed a new company called Transnational Motors, Inc., and began distributing Mazda automobile products in the states of Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, and Wisconsin under the name Mazda Great Lakes. He was chairman of the board and majority owner until he sold this business in 2000. Mr. Cook is currently the Chairman of Cook Holdings.

Peter Cook is a Greater Consistory Member of the Grace Reformed Church and has served on the Finance Committee of the Reformed Church in America. Mr. Cook is member of DOCA (Defense Orientation Conference Association).

He serves on the boards of: Blodgett-Butterworth Foundation, Davenport College (Honorary), Hope College (Honorary), Porter Hills Foundation, Gospel Communications, Woodland International, Mackinac Center, Jamestown Foundation, Alzheimer's Association, West Michigan Chapter (Honorary), Peter C. and Pat Cook Health Sciences Research & Education Institute (Honorary), Van Andel Institute, Broadway Theatre Guild. He also is a member of the Rotary Club, University Club, Kent Country Club, Cascade Country Club, and the Peninsular Club. He is past chairman of the South Y.M.C.A., past board member of the Central Y.M.C.A., past chairman of the Kent County Republican Finance Committee, and also has served on the boards of Butterworth Hospital, Pine Rest Foundation, Mel Trotter Mission, Junior Achievement, Zondervan Corporation, Rotary Club, A. J. Sparks, Northwood Institute of Michigan, Northwood Institute of Florida, EMS Foundation, TV-17, America II, Michigan National Bank, Comerica Bank, Northern Air and Travel Consultants.

Honors include: Honorary Doctor of Letters, Hope College, 1981; Distinguished Philanthropist, West Michigan Chapter of National Society of Fund Raising Executives, 1987; Honorary Doctor of Laws, Davenport College of Business, 1987; Honorary Doctor of Laws, Northwood Institute, 1988; Grand Valley State Hall of Fame, 1988; Donald J. Porter Humanitarian Award, Grand Rapids YMCA, 1989; Greater Grand Rapids Business Hall of Fame, 1991; Economic Club of Grand Rapids Business Person of the Year, 1991; Honorary Doctor of Humanities, Grand Valley State University, 1991; Outstanding Business Leader Award, Northwood University, 1993; Honorary Doctor of Health Science, Research, and Education, Cook Institute 1995; Peter C. Cook Excellence in Business Award, Davenport College, 1998; Inducted to Grand Rapids Magazine Medical Hall of Fame, 2000; Distinguished Citizen Award, Boy Scouts of America, 2001; Hospice of Michigan Crystal Rose Award, 2001; The C. John Miller Business Leadership Award, Cornerstone University, 2002; Aquinas College Reflection Award, 2002.

Leisure-time activities include hunting, fishing, golf, Dixieland music, and collecting Western art and artifacts.

Diana Denman of San Antonio, Texas is a past member of the Board of Overseers of the Hoover Institute, serves on the Board of Advisors of the Center for Security Policy, is a Hillsdale College Associate, and member of the Philadelphia Society. As a Presidential Appointee, she has served as Co-Chairman of the United States Peace Corps Advisory Council, and also member of the Institute for Museum Services Board. Denman has been honored as the Distinguished Alumna of the Year at Mount Vernon College, and is a graduate of George Washington University.

Edward O. (Ted) Gaylord worked for more than 25 years in the petroleum and chemical trucking and storage terminal business serving as Chief Executive Officer and Owner of Distribution Systems Inc. (DSI). The operations consisted of 600 tanker truck trailer units and large petroleum/ chemical storage facilities. In 1984, Gaylord sold the company to British conglomerate BET.

In 1985, Gaylord, along with Morgan Guaranty Trust Company of New York, purchased Presto Products, Inc. from the Coca-Cola Company. Presto, a $200 million plastic bag manufacturer, was sold to Reynolds Metals Company in 1988.

In 1989, Gaylord purchased a 50 % interest in Houston Fuel Oil Terminal Company, a four million-barrell storage facility on the Houston Ship Channel, in a joint venture with Shell Oil Company. Today the terminal has eight million barrels of storage.

In 1993, Gaylord formed Firebird Transport, a Russian distribution company. The company transported containers from Latvia, Lithuania, and Finland to its terminal in Moscow. Firebird was sold in 1998.

Directorships:

• Kinder Morgan GP, Inc. (oil and gas pipelines and terminals).

Community Involvement:

• YMCA of Greater Houston (Past Chairman).
• Baylor College of Medicine (Board of Directors).
• National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution (Director).

Marshall I. Goldman is the Kathryn W. Davis Professor of Soviet Economics at Wellesley College and the Associate Director of the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies at Harvard University. He is also a Senior Fellow of the Gorbachev Foundation of North America at Northeastern University. He earned a B.S. in economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1952), and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University, as well as an honorary Doctor of Laws degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1985. He has also been elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. Dr. Goldman’s publications include Lost Opportunity: What Has Made Economic Reform in Russia So Difficult? (Norton, 1996), Lost Opportunity: Why Economic Reforms in Russia Have Not Worked (W.W. Norton, 1994), What Went Wrong with Perestroika: The Rise and Fall of Mikhail Gorbachev (W.W. Norton, 1991), Gorbachev’s Challenge: Economic Reform in the Age of High Technology (1987), The USSR in Crisis: The Failure of an Economic Model (1983), The Enigma of Soviet Petroleum: Half Empty or Half Full? ((1980), Détente and Dollars: Doing Business with the Soviets (1975), The Spoils of Progress: Environmental Pollution in the Soviet Union (1972), and Ecology and Economics: Controlling Pollution in the 70’s (1972). Dr. Goldman publishes widely in Foreign Affairs, Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Washington Post, and Los Angeles Times. He is a frequent guest on CNN and “Good Morning America” and has appeared on “NewsHour,” “Crossfire,” “Face the Nation,” “The Today Show,” “Nightline,” and NPR. Dr. Goldman’s latest book, The Piratization of the Russia: Russian Reform Goes Awry, was published by Routledge in April 2003.

Pat Gross is chairman of The Lovell Group, a business and technology advisory and investment firm he formed after stepping down as chairman of the executive committee of American Management Systems, Inc. (AMS) in 2002. AMS is a billion dollar revenue consulting and IT services firm which he founded with four colleagues in 1970. He currently serves as Senior Advisor to the firm assisting with major client engagements and relationships. He is non-executive chairman of the board of two companies whose principal owners are private equity firms: Baker & Taylor, Inc, owned by the Carlyle Group, and Aegis Communications owned by Thayer Capital and Questor Partners. Mr. Gross serves on a number of other public and private Boards of Directors including: Capital One Financial Corporation, a FORTUNE 500 and S&P 500 firm, and Computer Network Technology Corporation and Mobius Management Systems, NASDAQ companies. Mr. Gross also holds a number of other leadership positions: chairman of the research and policy committee of the Committee for Economic Development, vice chairman of the Council for Excellence in Government, and Chairman of the Intergovernmental Technology Leadership Consortium. He is also a Board member of the Aspen Institute, the All Kinds of Minds Institute, the Jamestown Foundation, the Foreign Policy Association, and the Georgetown University Hospital. He is a cofounder and former Chairman of the World Affairs Council of Washington, DC. He has been elected to membership in the Council on Foreign Relations. Mr. Gross received a bachelors degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute where he was elected to Tau Beta Pi and Sigma Xi. He received a masters degree from the University of Michigan, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Mr. Hauenstein has been the President of Hauenstein Enterprises since 1980. Between 1933 and 1937, he was a member of the editorial staff of Grand Rapids Press- United Press International. In 1937, Mr. Hauenstein became City Editor of the Grand Rapids Herald. During World War II, Mr. Hauenstein was called upon to become Colonel Chief of the Intelligence Branch (G-2) at the headquarters of the European Theater of Operations; U.S. Army (1940-1946). Following the War, he became the President of Lehara Corporation in New York City. In 1968, Mr. Hauenstein was named Chairman of Werner Lehara Corporation of Grand Rapids, Michigan; a position he held until 1980. Mr. Hauenstein was appointed to the President's Advisory Committee (PSAC) in 1960, and he is currently a Trustee of the Van Andel Institute; an Honorary Trustee of the President Gerald R. Ford Foundation; the Founder of the Hauenstein Parkinson Center; and the Founder of the Hauenstein Center for Presidential Studies at Grand Valley State University.

Mr. Hauslein is currently Managing Director of Hauslein & Company, Inc., a private equity firm and was previously, until May 2001, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut International, Inc. From 1987 to 2001 Mr. Hauslein was a principal shareholder and from 1991-2001 served as Chairman of the Board of Sunglass Hut International, Inc., the world's largest specialty retailer of non-prescription sunglasses and significant retailer of popular price point fashion watches, with almost 2,000 company-owned Sunglass Hut, Watch Station, Watch World and combination stores in the United States, Canada, the Caribbean, Europe, Asia, Australia, Singapore and New Zealand. In addition to being a significant shareholder from 1987 to 2001, and Chairman of the Board from 1991 to 2001, Mr. Hauslein also served as Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut International in 1997-1998 and again in 2001. As part of his private equity investment activities through Hauslein & Company, Inc., Mr. Hauslein served on the Board of Directors of Crunch Fitness (a chain of 18 fitness clubs in 5 states and was acquired by Bally’s Total Fitness (NYSE) in December 2001), and will occasionally serve on the Board of Advisors of early stage businesses. From early 1995 through early 1997, and again in 1999 through 2000, while Mr. Hauslein was not Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut, he pursued private equity investment activities through Hauslein & Company, Inc. In February 1997, Mr. Hauslein rejoined Sunglass Hut International with full operating authority and became acting Chief Executive Officer in May 1997. Mr. Hauslein relinquished his duties as Chief Executive Officer of Sunglass Hut in 1998, then again reassumed the duties of Chief Executive Officer in early 2001 Mr. Hauslein received his MBA in 1984, with Distinction, from Cornell University's Johnson Graduate School of Management, and he received a Bachelor of Science Degree, in Chemical Engineering, from Cornell University in May 1981. He is a member of the Executive Committee and Advisory Council of the University wide Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise program, a member of The Johnson Graduate School of Management Advisory Council, the Engineering College Advisory Council, the Athletics Alumni Advisory Council, and is a member of the Cornell University Council. Mr. Hauslein is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the Boys Club of New York, a member of The Board of Directors of the Jamestown Foundation (Washington, D.C.), is a member of the Business Council for the United Nations (BCUN) located in New York. Mr. Hauslein has guest lectured in undergraduate and graduate level programs at Cornell University, and at executive management programs at the J.J. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Mr. Hauslein has appeared on a variety of business news programs on CNBC, CNN and Fox News. Mr. Hauslein supports a variety of philanthropic causes spanning the arts, wildlife, the environment, and education.

Professor Bruce Hoffman has been studying terrorism and insurgency for more than thirty years. He is currently a tenured professor in the Security Studies Program at Georgetown University’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service, Washington, DC. Professor Hoffman previously held the Corporate Chair in Counterterrorism and Counterinsurgency at the RAND Corporation and was also Director of RAND’s Washington, D.C. Office. From 2001 to 2004, he served as RAND’s Vice President for External Affairs and in 2004 he also was Acting Director of RAND’s Center for Middle East Public Policy.

Professor Hoffman was Scholar-in-Residence for Counterterrorism at the Central Intelligence Agency between 2004 and 2006. He was also adviser on counterterrorism to the Office of National Security Affairs, Coalition Provisional Authority, Baghdad, Iraq during the spring of 2004 and from 2004-2005 was an adviser on counterinsurgency to the Strategy, Plans, and Analysis Office at Multi- National Forces-Iraq Headquarters, Baghdad. Professor Hoffman was also an adviser to the Iraq Study Group. Professor Hoffman has visited Afghanistan, where he traveled to Khowst, Paktia, Kunar, and Nuristan Provinces to observe the operations of the 82nd Airborne and Provincial Reconstruction Teams under its command.

Professor Hoffman is a member of the Advisory Committee of the Terrorism and Counterterrorism Program, Human Rights Watch, New York, NY; a member of the Singapore Ministry of Home Affairs Home Team Academy Advisory Panel; and serves on the advisory boards to the Arms Sales Monitoring Project at the Federation of American Scientists and of Our Voices Together: September 11 Friends and Families to Help Build a Safer, More Compassionate World. He is also a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington, D.C.; a Senior Fellow at the Combating Terrorism Center, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, NY; a Distinguished Fellow and Senior Advisor on International Security Programs at the Institute of Public and International Affairs, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT; a Visiting Professor at the Institute for Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya, Israel; and, a Visiting Professor at the S. Rajaratnum School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.

Professor Hoffman was the founding Director of the Centre for the Study of Terrorism and Political Violence at the University of St Andrews in Scotland, where he was also Reader in International Relations and Chairman of the Department of International Relations. Professor Hoffman is Editor-in-Chief of Studies in Conflict and Terrorism, the leading scholarly journal in the field; and a member of the advisory boards of Terrorism and Political Violence and the Review of International Studie

Artemis A. W. Joukowsky served as Chancellor of Brown University from 1997 to 1998 and Vice Chancellor from 1988 to 1997, and continues to serve the University as Chancellor Emeritus, Trustee and Fellow. Mr. Joukowsky served as a senior executive of the American International Group for a period of thirty years in New York, Milan, Beirut, and Hong Kong. In the course of his career with AIG, he was deputy director for Europe, regional director for the Middle East and Southeast Asia, and president of the Special World Markets Division until 1987. Mr. Joukowsky’s special commitment to philanthropy and community service is demonstrated by his membership in a range of civic, education, and service organizations. At present, he is Chairman of the Board of the American Center of Oriental Research in Amman, Jordan and President Emeritus of the Board of Trustees at the Lawrenceville School. He is a trustee of the Archaeological Institute of America, former trustee of the Providence Preservation Society and the King Hussein Foundation. He continues to serve Brown as Chancellor Emeritus and Fellow at Brown. The Association of Governing Boards of Universities and Colleges recognized Mr. Joukowsky’s contributions to volunteer leadership in education with the National Distinguished Service Award in Trusteeship for the Year 2000.

Governor Frank Keating took over as president and CEO of the American Council of Life Insurers in January 2003 after serving two terms as Oklahoma's 25th governor.

As president and CEO of ACLI, Governor Keating is the chief representative and spokesman for the life insurance industry in Washington, D.C., and all 50 state capitals. He and his staff work as advocates for nearly 400 life insurance companies that account for 93 percent of total industry assets, 91 percent of the life insurance premiums, and 95 percent of annuity considerations in the United States.

Governor Keating has played a leading role in promoting public policies to boost Americans' retirement security and long-term savings. He regularly advocates on Capitol Hill and to the Bush administration on the need to make Americans' retirement security a national priority. Born in St. Louis in 1944, Keating grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He received his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University and a law degree from the University of Oklahoma. His 30-year career in law enforcement and public service included stints as an FBI agent; U.S. Attorney and state prosecutor; and Oklahoma House and Senate member. He served Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush in the Treasury, Justice, and Housing departments. His service in Treasury and Justice gave him responsibility for all federal criminal prosecutions in the nation and oversight over such agencies as the Secret Service, U.S. Customs, the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms, U.S. Marshals, the Bureau of Prisons, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service.

In 1993 he returned to Oklahoma to run for governor. He won a three-way race by a landslide and was easily reelected in 1998, becoming only the second governor in Oklahoma history to serve two consecutive terms.

Governor Keating won national acclaim in 1995 for his compassionate and professional handling of the bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal building in Oklahoma City. In the aftermath of the tragedy, he raised more than six million dollars to fund scholarships for the nearly 200 children left with only one or no parents. His accomplishments as governor include winning a public vote on right- to-work, tort reform, tax cuts, major road building, and education reform.

Governor Keating serves on the boards of the National Archives Foundation and Mt. Vernon and is President of the Federal City Council, a non-profit, non- partisan organization dedicated to improvement of the nation's capital. He is seen frequently on the Fox News Channel as a commentator on a wide variety of topics. Governor Keating also is the author of two award-winning children's books, biographies of Will Rogers and Theodore Roosevelt. He is the recipient of five honorary degrees.

Frank and his wife Cathy live in McLean, Virginia. They have three children and five grandchildren.

Kathleen Troia “KT” McFarland is a national security commentator and former top Pentagon official in the Reagan administration. She is a contributing editor with a weekly column on FamilySecurityMatters.org and is a monthly columnist for The NY Capitol newspaper. Her frequent guest appearances include: Fox News (The Live Desk, Fox & Friends, Studio B, Hannity & Colmes, The O’Reilly Factor, Your World); MSNBC (Hardball with Chris Matthews); NY1, ABC, CBS, CNN. She is also a frequent commentator on Fox News Radio, WVOX, NPR, Radio America, ABC Radio, and CBS Radio.

Ms. McFarland has a BA from George Washington University in Chinese Studies and a BA and MA from Oxford University in Politics, Philosophy and Economics. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology she was a PhD candidate in Political Science, completing all but dissertation before leaving to join the Senate Armed Services Committee. Prior to this she had also been Research Assistant to Henry Kissinger and member of his immediate White House staff in her capacity with the National Security Council.

During the Reagan administration she served as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. She was also a speechwriter and Assistant to Secretary of Defense Caspar Weinberger. She was personally charged by President Reagan to build and maintain public support for the Defense program. Ms. McFarland was responsible for DOD public affairs strategy and wrote and/or coordinated all DOD speeches, congressional testimony and the DOD Annual Report. She also drafted Secretary Weinberger’s “Principles of War” speech. While at the Pentagon she was awarded the Defense Department’s highest civilian honor, The Distinguished Service Award.

Woody Peterson is a partner at Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP and is a member of the Firm’s Litigation & Dispute Resolution Group. Mr. Peterson’s practice focuses on litigation (civil and appellate) and on employment law counseling for corporations, trade associations, and non-profit organizations. Litigation Mr. Peterson has litigated complex cases at all levels of the state and federal courts, in areas as diverse as antitrust, securities, employment law, and intellectual property law. These matters included the defense of a sex and race discrimination class action brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and a class of female and black employees under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, the enforcement and collection of a $12 million arbitration award, and the defense of several major civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO) cases. Mr. Peterson served as a senior member of the Dickstein Shapiro team retained as special counsel to investigate a multimillion dollar loss in a client’s real estate investment portfolio. That investigation led to the presentation of a 300-page report to the client’s executive board, and the recommendation that legal action be taken against those responsible for the losses. He was deeply involved in the ensuing litigation, which encompassed dozens of lawsuits in six states, based on fraud, negligence, and malpractice. Regulatory Practice Mr. Peterson’s regulatory practice experience includes the representation of a professional association in the course of a federal agency’s first substantive rulemaking proceeding in its 50-year history. This proceeding required the preparation of dozens of witnesses and the submission of a 200-page brief. The agency cited the brief extensively in adopting the client’s position in the final rule. After the rule was issued, the client intervened on behalf of the agency in the subsequent litigation seeking to overturn the rule. This case, which eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court, ended with a landmark decision on the scope of the agency’s rule-making powers. Employment Law Counseling In addition to his regulatory and litigation qualifications, Mr. Peterson has broad experience in counseling and representing corporations, trade associations, and non-profit organizations in a wide variety of employment matters. He has worked with clients in preparing and reviewing employee handbooks, and keeps clients abreast of legal changes in the increasingly volatile field of employee relations. Clients contemplating adverse personnel actions are counseled so as to minimize the risk of legal action by the affected employees. Finally, Mr. Peterson has assisted clients in creating non-profit foundations designed to advance the clients’ interests in their industry. Prior to joining Dickstein Shapiro, Mr. Peterson briefed and argued cases in the U.S. Court of Appeals on behalf of the National Labor Relations Board, and served as Assistant General Counsel of a labor organization, where he handled litigation ranging from sex and race discrimination suits to a constitutional and statutory challenge to the President’s wage and price control program.

President Bush appointed Michelle Van Cleave to the position of National Counterintelligence Executive (NCIX) on July 28, 2003, where she served until March, 2006. As the head of U.S. counterintelligence, the NCIX is charged with providing strategic direction to and ensuring the integration of counterintelligence activities across the government. Ms. Van Cleave currently serves as a Senior Research Fellow at the National Defense University and as a consultant to Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Ms. Van Cleave’s prior Executive Branch positions include Special Assistant to the Under Secretary for Policy, Department of Defense, where she had lead responsibility for homeland defense policy and organizational planning for the Office of the Secretary of Defense in the immediate aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attack. She also served under Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush as General Counsel and Assistant Director for National Security Affairs of the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Ms. Van Cleave has also held staff positions in both Houses of Congress, which included staff director of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information; Chief Minority Counsel of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology; and defense and foreign policy assistant to Congressman Jack Kemp and the House Republican Conference. In private life, Ms. Van Cleave was Of Counsel to the law firm of Feith & Zell, PC, and co-founder and President of National Security Concepts, Inc., of Washington, D.C. She was also an associate with the Los Angeles law firm of Horvitz and Levy. She is a member of the bar associations of the State of California and the District of Columbia. Ms. Van Cleave holds M.A. and B.A. degrees in International Relations from the University of Southern California (USC), and a J.D. degree from the USC School of Law.

Arthur Waldron is one of America's leading scholars of China and East Asia. Dr. Waldron is Lauder Professor of International Relations at the University of Pennsylvania (1997-present) and Visiting Scholar and Director of Asian Studies at the American Enterprise Institute. He is also an associate in research at the Olin Institute for Strategic Studies, Harvard University (1994-present), and at the Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University (1994-present). From 1991-1997 Dr. Waldron was a professor of strategy and policy at the U.S. Naval War College. In 1992, he served as an adjunct professor at Brown University.

His publications include: From War to Nationalism: China's Turning Point, 1924-1925, 1995; The Great Wall of China: From History to Myth, 1992; How the Peace Was Lost: The 1935 Memorandum "Developments Affecting American Policy in the Far East," 1992; and The Modernization of Inner Asia, editor, 1991.