Leo A. Guthart Chairman and CEO Topspin Partners (Leo Guthart is replacing Roger Fradin who was unexpectedly called to Europe on business).

Leo A. Guthart served as Chairman of the Security and Fire Solutions Group of Honeywell International. Prior to its sale to Honeywell in 2000, he served as Vice Chairman of Pittway Corporation and Chief Executive Officer of its Security Group of Companies. Among these are ADEMCO, the largest manufacturer in the world of alarm equipment; ADI, the largest distributor of security equipment in the United States; Fire Burglary Instruments, a leading supplier of security control panels; First Alert Professional Security Systems, the preeminent brand name marketing program for alarm dealers; and AlarmNet, a cellular radio service which transmits alarm and security signals in major US cities. He is also Chairman of publicly held Cylink Corporation, a leading U.S. supplier of encryption equipment that was recently sold to Safenet Corporation. He currently manages Topspin Partners, a $213 million venture capital fund based on Long Island.

He is a graduate of Harvard College where he received a BA degree in Physics and of Harvard Business School where he was a George F. Baker Scholar and received both an MBA and a Doctorate in Business Administration with a specialty in Corporate Finance. Mr. Guthart served on the faculty of Harvard Business School and was a Ford Foundation Fellow performing research on Corporate Share repurchases. His articles on share repurchases have been published in the Harvard Business Review, the Financial Analysts Journal and the Journal of Finance.

He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Hofstra University from 1993-1996 and was a Founding Director of the Long Island Research Institute. He is a Director of AptarGroup, Inc. (NYSE), an international producer of dispensing valves, pumps and closures for pharmaceuticals and perfumes; Symbol Technologies, Inc. (NYSE), the world's leader in bar code and mobile computing equipment, and is a Trustee of the Acorn Funds, a leading growth-oriented family of mutual funds. His biography is included in Who's Who in America.

JAMES Q. WILSON Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University Former Harvard University Professor, Shattuck Professor of Government Topic:  Can Nations Control Crime?

Professor Wilson has served on a number of national commissions concerned with public policy. He was chairman of the White House Task Force on Crime in 1966, chairman of the National Advisory Commission on Drug Abuse Prevention in 1972-1973, a member of the Attorney General's Task Force on Violent Crime in 1981, a member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board from 1985 to 1991 and a member of the board of directors of the Police Foundation from 1971 to 1993. He is currently chairman of the Board of Academic Advisers of the American Enterprise Institute and a member of the board of directors of State Farm Mutual Insurance Company and Protection One. He is also a trustee of the RAND Corporation.

From 1961 to 1987 James Q. Wilson taught political science at Harvard University, where he was the Shattuck Professor of Government. From 1985 until 1997 he was the James Collins Professor of Management and Public Policy at UCLA. Today he is the Ronald Reagan Professor of Public Policy at Pepperdine University.

He is the author or coauthor of fifteen books, the most recent of which is The Marriage Problem (HarperCollins, 2002). Others include Moral Judgment (Basic Books), the Moral Sense (Free Press), American Government (Houghton Mifflin) Bureaucracy (Basic Books) Thinking About Crime (Free Press), Varieties of Police Behavior (Harvard University Press), Political Organizations (Princeton University Press), and Crime and Human Nature (with Richard J. Herrnstein, Simon & Schuster). He has in addition edited or contributed to books on urban problems, government regulation of business, drugs, crime, and the prevention of delinquency among children. Many of his writings on morality and human character have been collected in On Character: Essays by James Q. Wilson.

In 1990 the American Political Science Association presented him with the James Madison Award for a career of distinguished scholarship and in 1991-1992 he served as the association's president. In 1994 he received the John Gaus Award for "exemplary scholarship in the fields of political science and public administration."

He has been elected a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of the American Philosophical Society. Educated at the University of Redlands (AB, 1952) and the University of Chicago (PhD, 1959), he has received honorary degrees from seven universities, including Harvard.

Peter Michel Chairman Security Industry Associations Homeland Security Advisory Council Topic:  Homeland Security and the Impact on the Security Industry

Peter Michel is a recognized authority on physical and information security. For over 13 years, Peter served as Chief Executive Officer of Brink's Home Security, an industry leader in residential security offering services in intrusion detection, medical emergency and fire protection for over 700,000 residences in North America.

Prior to Brink's, Peter served as President and Chief Executive Officer of the Penn Central Technical Security Company, an anti-terrorism physical security company, providing contract work for U.S. Government clients. The work involved the design and installation of electronic security systems, embassy security and consulting with the team responsible for security of the United States Capitol. Penn Central also provided operations and maintenance support to the U.S. Naval Electronics Systems Command.

Earlier in his career, Peter was responsible for strategic planning at Penn Central Corporation and corporate planning at American Standard.

Peter has served the President of the United States as a member of the White House staff, as well as cabinet members in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. During the Vietnam era, Peter served his country as a U.S. Navy Surface Officer aboard the aircraft carrier Coral Sea and the guided missile destroyer Conyngham. He attained the rank of Lieutenant.

Additionally, Peter is a member of the Board of Directors of the Security Industry Association, receiving the 2001 President's Award from the SIA. He is the Chairman of the SIA's Homeland Security Advisory Council. Peter is a past Chairman of the Board of the Greater Dallas Crime Commission, serves on the Board of the Dallas Theater Center, and on the Executive Board at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. The Lone Star Chapter of the Multiple Sclerosis Society recently honored Mr. Michel with the Hope award by for his many contributions to that organization in North Texas. Peter has been published in U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, the Dallas Business Review, the Dallas Morning News, and the Dallas Business Journal.

Mr. Michel served on the National Academy of Sciences Committee on the Protection of Federal Facilities Against Terrorism that produced "The Protection of Federal Office Buildings Against Terrorism."

Peter earned his B.S. in Political Science from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York and his Masters in Public Administration from the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. He has also completed the Stanford Business School's Executive Program in Strategy and Organization.