Tuesday - March 9, 2004

     Breakfast:


Sponsors:
John E. Mack III, CEO - USBX, Inc.
Carol Enman, Publisher - Security Systems News
Lessing E. Gold, Partner - Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp LLP
     Lunch:
David Willett
Vice President, Homeland Security
Honeywell Inc.

David Willett is vice president of Homeland Security for Honeywell and is responsible for strategy and business development in this space across all Honeywell business units. David reports to CEO and Chairman Dave Cote in this role.

In his prior role as vice president and general manager of Honeywell Building Control solutions business, he was responsible for Honeywell's global development of this business. His responsibilities included strategy & business development, marketing and engineering leadership.

In a prior role as global fire and security marketing director for Honeywell Enterprise Service Solutions, David spearheaded the company's acquisitions of Pittway, Westinghouse Security Electronics, Fire Protection Electronics and VVE Security.

David has held a variety of key marketing, product management, sales, engineering and security monitoring leadership positions at Honeywell in Australia and the United States.

David also spent four years designing building automation, security and communications systems at Lincolne Scott Consulting Engineers in Australia.

David graduated with an electrical engineering degree from the University of Queensland, Australia.


Wednesday - March 10, 2004
     Breakfast:
Brian Poggi
President
GE Interlogix Video Systems Group

Brian D. Poggi is President of the GE Interlogix Video Systems Group based in Corvallis, Oregon. The Video Systems Group develops and supports Video Surveillance Products for GE Interlogix's worldwide markets. In 2002 the Video Systems Group launched 40 new products to support this high growth sector and has plans for 50 more this year.

Prior to joining GE Interlogix Brian was President and Chief Executive Officer of LifeClips, Inc. LifeClips was the leading provider of digital home-video services, sold via national retailers and online. Brian built the company from the ground up, and scaled it to become the leading provider of digital video transfer (tape to DVD) services in the country.

Prior to joining LifeClips, Brian was Senior Vice President and General Manager of North America for Polaroid Corporation with bottom line P&L responsibility for Polaroid's total North American business operations, including Canada and Mexico, with revenues exceeding $1.1 billion. Prior to this position Brian ran Polaroid's European operations and has held other International and Domestic senior level positions.

Poggi joined Polaroid following his initial sales and marketing career with Procter and Gamble.

Poggi holds a BS from the University of Oregon and an MBA from Boston University.

     Lunch:
William J. Bratton
Chief of Police
Los Angeles Police Department

Appointed the 55th Chief of the Los Angeles Police Department by Mayor James Hahn in October 2002, William J. Bratton oversees the operations of one of the largest major municipal law enforcement agencies in the United States. His responsibilities include the supervision of 9,304 sworn and 3,055 civilian employees. Chief Bratton directs all patrol, investigative and administrative operations and administers an annual budget of $927 million. A strong advocate of transparent community policing that embraces partnership, problem solving and prevention, he initiated a major re-engineering of the Los Angeles Police Department, moving towards a decentralized police bureaucracy with stronger area commands that are more responsive to local community needs, and better trained and motivated police officers.

Chief Bratton's vision includes a comprehensive and assertive strategy for dramatically reducing crime, disorder, and fear in the largest metropolitan city on the West Coast. Particular emphasis has been placed on gang-related crimes and the culture that creates it.

Chief Bratton joined the Los Angeles Police Department with over thirty-two years of public and private sector law enforcement experience. His policing career began as a police sergeant during his tenure in the United States Army Military Police. He continued with a career in civilian law enforcement, joining the Boston Police Department in 1970, and rising through the ranks to Superintendent of Police, the highest sworn rank, by 1980.

In 1983, Chief Bratton was recruited by the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority Police Department to serve as Chief of Police. By the end of his tenure, violent crimes had been reduced by 37%. In 1986, Chief Bratton was appointed as the Superintendent of the Metropolitan District Commission Police, which patrols the Boston Metropolitan Area. During his tenure, Chief Bratton implemented strong affirmative action initiatives, which resulted in the doubling of minority supervisors and the recruitment of the first female Chief of Patrol.

In 1990, Chief Bratton became Chief of Police/Senior Vice President for the New York City Transit Authority Police Department. From 1990 to 1991, he won national recognition for his leadership by initiating reforms and strategies that eventually cut subway crime by nearly 50%.

In 1991, Chief Bratton returned to the Boston Police Department as Superintendent in Chief and in 1993, was appointed as that city's 34th Police Commissioner. During his tenure, he initiated and implemented that city's neighborhood policing initiative that helped pave the way for significant crime reduction and improved relations between the police and minority communities.

Chief Bratton returned to New York in 1994 when he was appointed as the 38th Police Commissioner by Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. His re-organization of that 50,000 person department with a $2.3 billion dollar budget resulted in a 39% decline in serious crimes and a 50% reduction in homicides. During the period of 1994 to 1996, he also initiated the internationally acclaimed COMPSTAT system - a computer driven management accountability process that is an integral part of his decentralized management philosophy. It emphasizes a "management from the middle down" style that prioritized empowerment, inclusion, accountability, and the use of timely and accurate crime analysis to drive the organization.

From 1996 until his appointment as Los Angeles Chief of Police, Chief Bratton worked in the private sector, where he formed his own private consulting company, The Bratton Group, L.L.C. He also served as a senior consultant with Kroll Associates. Kroll was appointed as the federal monitor to oversee the implementation of the federal consent decree with the Los Angeles Police Department. Chief Bratton served as one of their three police subject matter experts.

Chief Bratton holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Law Enforcement from Boston State College/University of Massachusetts. He is a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute and was a Senior Executive Fellow at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, where he served as a Research Fellow. During the period from 1993 to 1996, he served as the elected president of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), a national police research and policy organization whose members include some of the most progressive police leaders in North America.

A frequent guest lecturer, writer and commentator, he is the co-author of his critically acclaimed Random House autobiography "Turnaround." Among his many other honors and awards, Chief Bratton holds the Schroeder Brother's Medal, which is the Boston Police Department's highest award for valor.

Chief Bratton is married to Attorney Rikki Klieman, and has one adult son, David Bratton.



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