Advisory Board

General Eberhart has served as President of Armed Forces Benefit Association since December 2004. Previously, General Eberhart served on active duty for more than 36 years in the U.S. Air Force, culminating his career as Commander of North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. During his career he also served as Vice Chief of Staff of the Air Force and Commander of U.S. Forces Japan, Air Combat Command, Air Force Space Command and U.S. Space Command. He is a command pilot with more than 5,000 hours, primarily in fighter and trainer aircraft, including 300 combat missions as a forward air controller in Viet Nam. General Eberhart graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy and holds bachelor and master degrees in political science.

Joe Reeder, currently the Managing Shareholder of the Mid-Atlantic Region of the Greenberg Traurig law firm, served four years as the 14th Undersecretary of the Army. He was also the Chairman of the Panama Canal Commission, a Member of the Panama Canal Advisory Board and sat on the five member DOD Base Realignment Closure (BRAC) Council. An expert on the topics of national security, legal ethics and procurement law, Mr. Reeder, a West Point graduate, (J.D. Univ. of Texas; LLM Georgetown) sits on many national security related boards.

With over 32 years experience in military-related research, development, acquisition and program management, LTC Bob Sigl (Ret.) is a Senior Vice President for the Army Operations of Camber Corporation, a program management and engineering firm focused on technology, management and decision making for major defense related government programs. Prior to that, he made his career as the Senior Military Assistant for the Secretary of the Army and later as a Product Manager for U.S. Army and is a Board certified member of the Army Acquisition Corps. He has extensive experience working with the Department of Defense, Department of Energy, Congress and the Executive Branch and has two manufacturing facilities dealing with small arms and non-lethal weapons.

General (Ret.) Klaus Naumann was born in Munich, Germany. He is the former Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.

He joined the German Army in 1958 as a gunner and was commissioned as lieutenant in 1960. He graduated in 1972 from the German Armed Forces Staff and Command College and attended in 1983 the Royal College of Defense Studies Course. He has held various staff assignments in the Ministry of Defense Bonn and command functions, among them Commander of 30th Mechanized Infantry Brigade and Commanding General of the 1st German Corps. He was appointed Chief of Defense Germany in October 1991 and held the position until February 1996. During his tenure, Germany saw a major reorganization of the Bundeswehr, the dissolution of the East German Armed Forces and the integration of some of its officers and NCOs in the Bundeswehr, the first German out of area deployments and the withdrawal of the Russian Forces from Germany.

He assumed the office of NATO's top general in February 1996 and retired from there in May 1999. He saw during this time inter alia the operations in Bosnia, the beginning of the Partnership for Peace, the 1999 enlargement of NATO, the approval of the then-new command structure and the Kosovo War.

After his retirement, he remained embedded with political-military issues and accepted quite a few non-profit commitments, among them the call by the Secretary General of the U.N. to be a member of the Panel on U.N. Peace Operations in 2000 and in 2001 by the Canadian Government to join the International Commission on State Sovereignty on Intervention. In 2004, he was asked by the "Peace- The Unaccomplished Mission." He is a member of the Conseil d'administration of THALES and the chairman of the supervisory board of Odenwaldwerke Rittersbach. Two of his many honorary commitments are to be a member of SACEUR's Mentors Group and to be the vice President of the Atlantic Treaty Association.

Frank Elbe was born in Iserlohn, Germany. He began his career in international service in 1972 as First Secretary in the German Embassy in Warsaw, Poland. From 1976 to 1979 he served in the Foreign Office, which later led to a post in Kampala, Uganda as the Deputy Head of Mission at the German Embassy, from 1979-1980.

From the 1980s to the 1990s he held several key positions in German diplomacy, including Counselor for Political Affairs in London, England, Deputy Head of the German Delegation to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, Switzerland, and Deputy Head of the Department for Nuclear Disarmament.

He was Director of the Cabinet of Foreign Minister Genscher from 1987-1992. In this role he was one the negotiators of the Two-plus-Four process solving the external aspects of German unification. In 1990, Elbe was appointed Ambassador-at-Large and he has held several Ambassadorial posts, first serving as the German Ambassador to India from 1993-1997; then to Japan from 1997-1999; to Poland from 1999-2003, and most recently to Switzerland from 2003-2005. As Ambassador to India, Japan and Poland he concentrated his activities on global economic issues.

For his service, Elbe has received several awards and decorations, including: Commander of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany; Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland; Gold Medal of Merit of the Polish Association of Victims of the Third Reich; Grand Officer of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic; Officer of the Order of the Legion of Honour, France; Commander of the Order of the Royal North Star, Sweden; a.o.

Elbe is the author of several books and publications regarding issues of Germany's unification process, among them "Ein Runder Tisch mit Scharfen Ecken" (A Round Table with Sharp Corners -The Diplomatic Path to German Unity); co-authored with Dr. Richard Kiessler, 1993 (translated into English 1994); "The External Aspects of German Unification - The Two-Plus-Four Process" 1994; "Der diplomatische Weg zur deutschen Einheit" (The Diplomatic Path to German Unity), co-authored with Dr. Richard Kiessler, 1996. Elbe has also authored several essays and articles on foreign policy, security policy and disarmament, regional cooperation, globalization and European enlargement. He is currently a partner at the law firm of KIETHE.

Field Marshal The Lord Inge joined the British Army as a national serviceman in 1953. He was selected for a national service commission at the second attempt and attended England's Eaton Hall Officer Cadet School and while there attended the Regular Commissions Board. In 1956, he was commissioned from the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst into the Green Howards, an infantry regiment originally formed in 1688.

Lord Inge was the Commanding Officer, 1st Battalion of The Green Howards from 1974-76 and later Commandant of the Junior Division of the Staff College from 1976-1980. In the 1980s he held various top positions in the Army, including Commander of the 4th Armoured Brigade from 1980-1981, Chief of Staff, 1st British Corps from 1982-1983, and General Officer, Commanding 2nd Infantry Division and North East District from 1983-1985. 1986 found Lord Inge as the Director General Logistic Policy (Army), and later from 1987-89 he served as the Commander 1st British Corps in Germany.

From 1989-1992 he was Commander in Chief British Army of the Rhine and Commander Northern Army Group, and later Chief of the General Staff from 1992-1994. In 1994, he was promoted to the rank of Field Marshal and made Chief of the Defence Staff from 1994, where he served until his retirement in April 1997. His military career has taken him around the world, serving in Hong Kong, Malaya, Libya, Northern Ireland, the United Kingdom and Germany.

Lord Inge was appointed to the Most Honourable Order of Bath (GCB) in 1987, and in 2002, he was appointed to the Most Noble Order of the Garter (KG).

He was Constable of the Tower of London from 1996-2001. He is Acting Chairman of Historic Royal Palaces, a member of the Board and the Council of St. George's House, Windsor Castle and a member of the Council of the Inter Faith Dialogue.

Dr. Andrzej Karkoszka was born in Lodz, Poland. He obtained his M.S. in Applied Enthomology from the Agricultural University in Warsaw in 1968, attended the Faculty of Journalism at Warsaw University in 1970-1971, and completed his Ph.D. in Political Science at the Polish Institute of International Affairs in 1977.

The pursuit of the study of issues relating to international affairs and defense shaped much of Dr. Karkoszka's career. He served as a research fellow from 1969-1993 at the Polish Institute of International Affairs, and at the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute from 1973-1975 and again from 1977-1981. He held a position as a Senior Research Associate and Krupp Senior Associate at the Institute for EastWest Security Studies in New York from 1986-1987, 1988-1989, and 1991-1992. Karkoszka's activities were not just limited to research. In 1980, he served as an expert at the so called Palme Comission. He was a Professor of Central European Security at the George C. Marshall European Security Studies Center, Garmisch-Partenkirchen, from 1988-2000 and head of think tank and a Senior Political Advisor at the Geneva Centre for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces /DCAF/ from October 2000 through November 2004.

In addition to his academic achievements, Karkoszka has worked for the United Nations and other prestigious international organizations in several capacities, starting with being a member of the Governmental delegations to the UN General Assembly Annual Session in 1971; followed by the Vienna Mutual and Balanced Force Reductions (MBFR) Negotiations, 1973; to the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, 1983-85; and again as an expert on the UN Secretary General Group of Governmental Experts on Non-Nuclear Zones, 1984-86. In 1986 he joined the United Nations Institute for Disarmament Research (UNIDIR) Experts Group on Outer Space and served on the UNIDIR Experts Group on Verification of Disarmament from 1989-90. With regard to NATO, he was Deputy Chairman of the Polish Team for NATO accession negotiations in1997. From 2003, he is a Senior European Fellow of the RAND Corporation.

He has held several key roles in Poland's Ministry of Defense. Beginning in 1990, he was the Advisor in the Chancellery of the Office of the President of Poland until 1991, and from there went to be the Advisor to the Deputy Minister of National Defense from 1992-1993. From 1993-1995 he was Director of the Ministry of Defense Department of International Security; then Secretary of State-First Deputy Minister of National Defense, from 1995-1997; Acting Minister of National Defense, November-December 1996; and Chairman of the Reform Commission of the Ministry of National Defense in 1996. From December 2004 through October 2005 Karkoszka served as the Acting Under-Secretary of National Defense for the Defense Policy and was the Director, Strategic Defense Review, Ministry of National Defense, from October 2004 through October 2006. At present he is a Visiting Professor at the National Defense Academy in Warsaw.

Karkoszka is a prolific author and has published several articles regarding issues of security and international affairs, most recently Combating Terrorism and Its Implications for the Polish Armed Forces, in Combating Terrorism and Its Implications for the Security Sector, Eds.: Theodor H. Winkler, et al., Swedish National Defense College, Stockholm, Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of Armed Forces 2005; Poland and the ESDP, in The Politics of European Security, Ed: Jess Pilegaard, Danish Institute for International Studies, 2004; Reforma sektora bezpieczenstwa: zalozenia i problemy implementacji /Security Sector Reform: Premises and Problems of Implementation," in Bezpieczenstwo miedzynarodowe czasu przemian /International Security in Time of Change. Ed: Roman Kuzniar and Zdzislaw Lachowski, Polski Instytut Spraw Miedzynarodowych, 2003; and The Concept of Security Sector Reform, in Security Sector Reform: Its Relevance for Conflict Prevention, Peace Building, and Development, UNOG-DCAF, Geneva 2003.

Eduardo Serra was born in Madrid. In 1974 he entered the Corps of State Lawyers as the number one of his promotion. He currently runs his own strategic consulting company named Eduardo Serra y Asociados.

Most of his professional life has been devoted to public service, being the only Spaniard to hold public office with all three governing parties within democratic Spain:

• With Unin de Centro Democra¡tico (UCD): Head of the Cabinet of the Ministry of Industry and Energy (1977-1979), General Secretary of INI (1979-1982), and Undersecretary of Defense;
• With Partido Socialista Obrero Espanol (PSOE): Undersecretary of Defense (1982-1984), and Secretary of State of Defense (1984-1987);
• With Partido Popular (PP): Minister of Defense from 1996 to May 2000.

Mr. Serra has also held different posts within the private sector; President of Telettra Española (1988-1991), Vice-president and President of Cubiertas MZOV (1989-1995), President of Peugeot-Talbot Espana (1992-1996), Chairman of Airtel - currently Vodafone Spain- (1994-1996), and Chairman of UBS Spain (2000-2006).

Eduardo Serra has been actively involved with the following non-profit organisations: FAD (Fundacian de Ayuda contra la Drogadiccian) where since 1987 he has been their General Manager, Vice-President and Chairman; Vice-president and President of INCIPE (1989-1996); President of the Royal Board of Trustees of Museo Nacional del Prado (2000-2004); and Chairman of the Real Instituto Elcano for International and Strategic Studies. Presently, he chairs Everis Foundation.

Professor Dr. h.c. Horst M. Teltschik is Chairman of Teltschik Associates in Munich/Germany. Since leaving government service, he has been closely associated with Bertelsmann AG as CEO of Bertelsmann Foundation (1991-1993). From 1993 to 2000, he was a Member of the Board of Management of the BMW Group and until 2003 he served as Representative of the Board of Management of BMW for Central and Eastern Europe, Asia and the Middle East. From 1993 to 2003, he was Chairman of the Board of the BMW-Foundation Herbert Quandt. Since 1999, he has been the Chairman of the Munich Conference on Security Policy. From 2003 to 2006, Dr. Teltschik served as Vice President International Relations / President BOEING Germany.

From 1982 to 1990, Dr. Teltschik was National Security Adviser to Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In October 1993, he became Deputy Chief of Staff of the Federal Chancellery. Earlier in his career, he was the Chief of Staff of the CDU/CSU Parliamentary Group (1977-1982), Executive Ministerial Counselor to the PrimeMinister of Rhineland-Palatinate (1972-1976) and Head of the International Policy and Intra-German Relations Group of the Christian Democratic Union-CDU (1970-1972).

Dr. Teltschik holds a degree in political science from the Free University of Berlin, where he also taught as an assistant professor, and has received honorary degrees from the University of Budapest and Sogang University in Seoul/Korea. As of November 1996, Dr. Teltschik has been lecturing at the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at Technical University Munich. He is active in various corporate supervisory and advisory boards, inter-governmental institutions and charitable organizations.

C. Paul Robinson is a President Emeritus and former Laboratories Director of Sandia National Laboratories and served as Ambassador and Chief Negotiator as head of the US Delegation to the US/USSR Nuclear Testing Talks in Geneva in the late 1980s. He is a member of the Strategic Advisory Group for the Commander, U.S. Strategic Command and serves on the NASA Advisory Council and State Department Council on International Security. Dr. Robinson earned his B.S. in Physics from Christian Brothers College and a Ph.D in Physics from Florida State University.

Professor Graham Cooks is the head of Aston Labs at Purdue University, where he and his team are engaged in studies of tandem mass spectrometry. New types of mass spectrometers have been constructed in his laboratory, including hybrid sector/quadrupole instruments and advanced ion trap instruments. He received his B.S., M.S., and Ph.D. from the University of Natal , South Africa, and his second Ph.D. from Cambridge University.

A co-founder of ICx, Peter W. Huber is a partner in the law firm of Huber, Hansen, Todd, Evans & Figel based in Washington, DC, and was a co-founding partner of Digital Power Capital. He clerked on the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for then Judge Ruth Bader Ginsburg and on the U.S. Supreme Court for Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. He earned his law degree from Harvard University and a Ph.D in Mechanical Engineering from MIT.

Professor Alan Russell is the Director of the McGowan Institute for Regenerative Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh and also serves as University Professor of Surgery and has appointments in the departments of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Rehabilitation Sciences & Technology. Additionally, he is the Executive Director of the Pittsburgh Tissue Engineering Initiative (PTEI) and Director of the National Tissue Engineering Center. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry and Applied Molecular Biology from the University of Manchester, Institute of Science and Technology, and his Ph.D in Biological Chemistry from Imperial College, the University of London.

Currently the John D. MacArthur Professor and Head of the Department of Chemistry at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Timothy M. Swager focuses his principal research on chemical sensors, molecular recognition and electronic polymers, among several other areas of study. Dr. Swager earned his B.S in Chemistry from Montana State University and his Ph.D. in Chemistry from the California Institute of Technology.

Professor Glenn F. Knoll is one of the foremost authorities on radiation detection and measurement in the world. He is professor emeritus of Nuclear Engineering and Radiological Sciences in the College of Engineering at the University of Michigan and author of the important textbook Radiation Detection and Measurement, Wiley & Sons (3rd. ed. 2000). He is a Fellow of the American Institute for Medical and Biological Engineering, the American Nuclear Society, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and a member of the National Academy of Engineering. Professor Knoll acts as a consultant for the Company in the field of radiation detection and measurement. Professor Knoll has a BS from Case Institute of Technology and an MS from Stanford University, both in Chemical Engineering, and a Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in Nuclear Engineering.