Steven Chabinsky serves as senior vice president of legal affairs and chief risk officer for CrowdStrike, where he advises the company on cyber, legal, privacy and reputation-related issues involving product development and execution.

Before joining the company, he served as deputy assistant director in the FBI‘s cyber division and led investigations, intelligence analysis, policy developments and outreach related to cyber attack, cyber espionage, online child exploitation and Internet fraud.

He has also served as chief of the FBI’s cyber intelligence section, where he organized and led the FBI’s analysis and reporting on terrorism, foreign intelligence and criminal matters related to cyber threats.

According to CrowdStrike, Chabinsky helped formulate the Homeland Security Act of 2002, the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace in 2003 and National Security Presidential Directive 54 in 2008, which included the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative.

Between 2007 and 2009, Mr. Chabinsky served in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence in positions such as acting assistant deputy director of national intelligence for cyber, chairman of the National Cyber Study Group, and director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force.

At ODNI, he was responsible for helping lead national intelligence efforts to coordinate, monitor and provide recommendations to the president on cyber strategy.

Chabinsky first joined the FBI in 1995 as an attorney in the Office of the General Counsel and initially focused on employment law and personnel litigation.

In 1998, he served as principal legal adviser to the National Infrastructure Protection Center and then in 2002 he assumed the senior counsel role in the FBI’s cyber division.

The FBI says he helped expand the InfraGard program from 200 unvetted members in three cities to 500,000 vetted members in more than 85 cities.

InfraGard is a critical infrastructure partnership between the private sector, academia and government agencies.

Between 2002 and 2003, Chabinsky served in the White House’s transition planning office to help create the Department of Homeland Security and oversaw legal matters associated with starting the department’s information analysis and infrastructure protection directorate.

Before joining the FBI, he served as an associate attorney in the New York City-based law firm Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, where he tried cases involving insurance and reinsurance contract disputes, class action product liability and internal investigations.

He also clerked for Judge Dennis G. Jacobs at the U.S. Second Circuit Court of Appeals and holds both undergraduate and law degrees with honors from Duke University.

Chabinsky is also a recipient of the National Security Agency’s bronze medallion for inspired leadership, the ODNI’s bronze medallion for ollection and the President’s Rank Award of Meritorious Executive award.

In August 2012, Security magazine selected Chabinsky for its list of the “Most Influential People in Security.”

Doug Rosendale is the CEO and founder of Cairn Corp., a health information technology startup aimed at advancing interoperability and increased use of mobile technology in the healthcare arena.

Before founding Cairn, he served as senior physician adviser for clinical informatics at the Veterans Health Administration‘s office of health information.

He co-chaired the intra-governmental Health IT Innovation/Interoperability Development Environments sub-group for health IT innovation test beds, started by the White House’s Office of Science and Technology and Policy and the National Coordination Office for Networking IT R&D.

He also served on a senior coordination group responsible for founding the Defense-Veterans Affairs departments’ interagency program office, co-established the clinical informatics and requirements division focused on interagency EHRs and the Virtual Lifetime Electronic Record.

Rosendale has also served as chief of surgery for the VA’s medical center in Grand Junction.

Rosendale, a board-certified general surgeon and trained in Clinical Informatics at Harvard Brigham and Women Hospital, serves as affiliate faculty at the University of California-San Diego’s medical informatics program.

He was affiliate faculty for the Harvard Decision Systems Group.

Rosendale is a member of the American Quality Alliance’s measures improvement workgroup, an editor for the American Medical Informatics Association’s clinical informatics board certification prep-program and the Medical Device Coordinating Council.

He was recently the federal executive sponsor for the American Council for Technology and Industry Advisory Committee.

Rosendale currently is a member of the Surgical Quality Alliance, the Ambulatory Quality Alliance and the health and human services secretary’s value exchanges program, and a clinical decision support panel overseeing health research and quality pilot programs at Harvard and Yale Universities.

He was on the executive board for the original VA National Surgical Quality Improvement Program.

Rosendale was the chair of the surgery discipline and served on the board of governors for the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons and is a fellow of both the American College of Osteopathic Surgeons and the American College of Surgeons.

He is a recipient of the 2006 American College of Osteopathic Surgeons’ “Presidential Recognition Award” for his contributions on the Surgical Quality Alliance.

Rick Holgate serves as assistant director for science and technology and chief information officer at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.

He is responsible for strategy, planning, managing and delivering information technology and information services, financial investigative services and laboratory services throughout the ATF.

Holgate, a public and private sector veteran, previously served as an executive assistant director at the Naval Criminal Investigative Service, a position he started in 2007.

He oversaw IT service delivery to the agency’s 2,400 employees and oversaw its transition to the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.

He also managed the agency’s application portfolio, led IT strategy and planning and also oversaw the integration of information management functions with the Defense Department, the Navy Department and other organizations at the federal, state and local level.

Prior to that position, he served as NCIS’ assistant director for IT and command information officer, starting in 2004.

Before joining NCIS, he served as a senior manager at BearingPoint, where he held an eight-year career and served in positions involving project management, team management and business development.

His clients included Defense Department components such as the Navy Department and he worked IT, Navy staff, logistics and financial management organizations.

Holgate also led a review of NCIS’ mission and activities in 2002 and worked with the agency’s modernization and leadership teams, first as a contractor and then as command information officer.

Before BearingPoint, Holgate worked at MITRE Corp. and worked with Air Force, Army and intelligence customers on base realignment and closure, environmental restoration, chemical weapons demilitarization and arms control verification.

Holgate is a Project Management Professional and is a member of the Project Management Institute, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, the National Defense Industrial Association, the Navy League, the Naval Institute, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the American Chemical Society and the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Princeton University and both a master’s and doctorate in chemical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Al Tarasiuk serves as chief information officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, where he leads technology and policy strategy and executes information technology programs.

President Barack Obama appointed Tarasiuk to this position Feb. 17, 2011.

From 2005 to 2010, Tarasiuk served as CIO at the CIA, where he led the agency’s enterprise information technology and information management functions, supported cyber defense programs and also served as the agency’s senior privacy and civil liberties officer.

Prior to that position, the 24-year federal service veteran served as director of CIA’s information services center and was responsible for executing enterprise IT services supporting the agency’s global mission.

Tarasiuk previously served in an oversees operational roles with the National Clandestine Service and has held other roles at the senior executive, technical and program management levels.

He started his federal career as a project engineer with Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty.

Tarasiuk is a recipient of the DNI’s National Intelligence Reform Medal, recognizing accomplishments in helping transform the intelligence community.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and a master’s degree from George Washington University.

Dr. Jacqueline Henningsen serves as the U.S. Air Force‘s director for studies and analyses, assessments and lessons learned, based at the branch’s headquarters in Washington.

Reporting to the secretary and chief of staff, she oversees implementation for analytic and lessons learned policy oversight.

She oversees the processes underpinning warfighting, force structure capability and sufficiency assessments; informs leadership on emerging issues; oversees resource investment decisions; and rapidly collects, disseminates, implements and tracks lessons learned.

Henningsen elevated to her current position in 2006 and previously served for five years as director of the Air Force Studies and Analyses Agency, which falls under the responsibility of the Air Force’s vice chief of staff.

In 1998, she elevated to the Senior Executive Service as associate director for modeling, simulation and analysis with the directorate for command and control in the office of the deputy chief of staff for air and space operations.

In that role, she provided corporate oversight of Air Force modeling, simulation and analysis.

Henningsen began her Air Force civilian service career in 1985 and has served as both the final assessments division chief for Strategic Air Command and the first chief of assessments for U.S. Strategic Command.

In these positions, she led strategic deterrence and conventional war-fighting capability assessments and provided wargaming oversight during the transition period at the end of the Cold War.

In 1992, she joined the office of the secretary of defense and held oversight of strategic and space launch programs in the program analysis and evaluation directorate’s cost analysis improvement group.

As an analyst in the regional assessments and modeling division, she was responsible for a defense secretary-initiated joint analytic model improvement program and country teams for the Partnership for Peace Resource Management Program.

She was also responsible for Joint Staff program reviews, evaluation of Joint Forces Command establishment initiatives and quadrennial defense review assessments.

Henningsen is a recipient of the 2005 Presidential Meritorious Executive Rank Award for analytic leadership in the Defense Department, two Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Awards in 2001 and 2009 and an Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award for her role in supporting Strategic Air Command during the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Jim Russell serves as deputy director of the Defense Contract Management Agency, where he acts as the principal adviser to Director Charlie Williams on the agency’s mission and management issues.

That responsibility encompasses more than 10,800 civilians and military personnel performing contract management work at more than 740 locations, covering $224 billion in unliquidated obligations across 17,900 contractors and 335,000 active contracts.

Prior to his current position, Russell served as the agency’s comptroller and executive director of financial business operations, where he advised the agency director on managing the DCMA’s infrastructure and oversaw an annual $1.2 billion budget.

Russell’s duties included strategic planning, resourcing, budgeting, agency review, assessment, evaluation, business development and marketing.

He started his civilian service career as an analyst at the Defense Logistics Agency’s operations research office in Richmond, Va., moving in 1987 to Defense Contract Administration Services Region-Chicago as a senior operations research analyst.

Three years later, he became DLA’s senior studies director for acquisition management, working out of the agency’s headquarters.

Russell then elevated to the senior program director on the DLA’s program objective memorandum team, leading programming efforts for Defense Logistics Support Command and Defense Contract Management Command.

In 1998, Russell became director of strategic planning, programming and analysis at DCMC, holding responsibility for strategic and business planning.

He also led performance planning, resourcing, management review and assessment.

Russell holds a bachelor’s degree in computer and information science from Ohio State University, a Master of Management in finance and organizational behavior from Northwestern University’s J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management and a Master of Science in national resources strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

Retired Army Gen. Jack Keane serves as president at executive search consulting firm GSI LLC and as chairman for both the Institute for the Study of War and chairman of the Knollwood Foundation.

He also is a director at MetLife and General Dynamics, a member of the George C. Marshall Foundation, the Center for Strategy and Budget Assessments, the Council on Foreign Relations, a trustee at Fordham University, and an adviser to the Welcome Back Veterans and American Corporate Partners foundations.

Keane also works as a national security analyst for Fox News.

The 37-year Army veteran retired from the branch in December 2003, culminating his career as the branch’s acting chief of staff and vice chief of staff.

As the Army’s chief operating officer for four-and-a-half years, he directed more than 1 million soldiers and civilians in 120 countries and a $110 billion annual operating budget.

Keane was in the Pentagon on Sept. 11, 2001 and provided oversight and support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

The career infantry paratrooper served in Vietnam and also deployed to Somalia, Haiti, Bosnia and Kosovo with operational commands.

He commanded the famed 101st Airborne Division-Air Assault and the 18th Airborne Corps.

Since 2004, Keane has conducted frequent trips to Iraq for senior defense officials and visited the country during the surge period.

He helped recommend the surge strategy in Iraq and is featured in books such as “The War Within” by Bob Woodward and “The Gamble” by Tom Ricks.

Keane continues to advise senior government officials on national security and the war in Afghanistan and completed an assessment in Afghanistan for senior military commanders.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Fordham University, a master’s degree in philosophy from Western Kentucky University and is a graduate of both the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College.

Paula Friedman serves as acting program executive officer for joint medical information systems at the TRICARE Management Activity, where she provides acquisition oversight and guidance to staff responsible for automated clinical capabilities for the Military Health System.

Before joining TMA, the 20-year information technology veteran served as program manager for the Global Combat Support System-Joint program at the Defense Information Systems Agency, where she worked with stakeholders to reduce the timeframe of deploying new software from every 18 months to between four and six months.

According to the agency, that implementation resulted in a new tool for a geospatial fuel and real-time status of fuels and munitions, meeting a primary requirement of Central Command’s logistics director.

The Government Accountability Office cited that implementation in an October 2011 report as once of seven successful IT investments in the federal government.

She was also recognized in the Military IT and Signal magazines for her efforts, as well as by the Office of the Director for Operational Test and Evaluation and the former Office of the Secretary of Defense for Networks and Integration Information.

Her other previous IT experience includes managing development of prototype and operational information systems such as a tool for architecture design, analysis and planning.

That tool aimed to link business processes with logical and physical configurations of software, hardware and networks.

She also oversaw development of an operational threads analysis tool for a joint warrior interoperability initiative, linking command and control mission threads with joint automated capabilities.

In managing a non-combatant evacuation operations tracking system, she oversaw development of mobile tools to track status of Pentagon-sponsored personnel from evacuation and staging areas to a designated safe-haven.

Friedman has served as a panel member and speaker on agile acquisition and IT capabilities at the International Test and Evaluation Association and at the National Defense Industrial Association.

In 2004, she completed level three certification for program management under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act and completed an executive program manager’s course in February 2006.

She attended the Federal Executive Institute in Charlottesville, Va. in August 2002 and holds a bachelor’s degree in management studies from the University of Maryland-University College.

Air Force Maj. Gen. Wendy Masiello serves as the branch’s deputy assistant secretary for contracting, where she is responsible for the branch’s acquisition of weapon systems, logistics, operational and contingency support.

Prior to this position, the 32-year veteran served as program executive officer for combat and mission support.

Between July 2005 and January 2006, she was deployed to Iraq and served as principal assistant for contracting forces in Iraq and Afghanistan, where she oversaw contracting and acquisition support to forces in both countries.

She also was responsible for security transition support in Afghanistan and humanitarian relief following an earthquake in Pakistan.

Masiello earned her commission in December 1980 from Texas Tech University as a distinguished graduate of the ROTC program there.

The Air Force says she has held several acquisition roles including principal contracting officer for surveillance and reconnaissance systems, weapon systems and test ranges.

She also has served as an assistant professor at the Air Force Institute of Technology and executive director for the National Reconnaissance Office’s inspector general Inspector General.

Staff tours included service as deputy director of plans and programs and director of contracting at two systems acquisition centers.

Robert Carey serves as principal deputy chief information officer at the Defense Department, where he helps lead consolidation and standardization efforts for the defense information technology enterprise, cybersecurity posture and enterprise architecture.

Carey, who has held this post since October 2010, also aligns and manages the office of the CIO to help lead the IT and cyber workforce into the 21st century.

He is also an active member of the Navy Reserve, where he serves in the Civil Engineer Corps and holds the captain rank. He served in active duty for the 1991 and 2003 wars in Iraq, including one year in the Al Anbar province with I Marine Expeditionary Force.

For four years prior to his current position, he served as CIO for the Department of the Navy and led initiatives involving transformation, enterprise services, Internet usage and information security. He joined the department’s CIO’s staff in February 2010 and served as team leader of e-business for three years

Carey joined the Senior Executive Service in June 2003 as the department’s deputy CIO, where he led the staff in achieving information management and IT enterprise integration across the Navy and Marine Corps.

He also led the department’s smart card office for seven months in 2001.

In October 1982, Carey began his federal service career as a test director for the U.S. Army, working at Aberdeen Proving Ground and evaluating small arms, automatic weapons and ammunition.

Nearly two-and-a-half years later, he joined the Naval Sea Systems Command in the anti-submarine and undersea warfare domain and held several engineering and leadership positions.

Carey is a recipient of two Department of the Navy Distinguished Civilian Service Awards, Superior and Meritorious Civilian Service Awards, three Federal 100 Awards, a Defense Executive Year Award from GCN and a Executive Leadership-Defense Award from the Association for Federal Information Resources Management.

Information Week has selected him three times to its Top 50 Government CIOs list.

Carey holds a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of South Carolina and a master’s degree in engineering management from George Washington University.