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PAUL KURTZ - EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR

Paul Kurtz is the Executive Director of SAFECode and a partner at Good Harbor Consulting LLC. Mr. Kurtz is a recognized expert on cyber security and served in senior positions on the White House's National Security and Homeland Security Councils under Presidents Clinton and Bush. Mr. Kurtz served as the founding Executive Director of the Cyber Security Industry Alliance (CSIA), an advocacy group dedicated to ensuring the privacy, reliability and integrity of information systems through public policy, technology, education and awareness. Prior to joining CSIA, Mr. Kurtz most recently was special assistant to the President and senior director for critical infrastructure protection on the White House's Homeland Security Council (HSC), where he was responsible for both physical and cyber security.

Before joining HSC in 2003, Mr. Kurtz served on the White House's National Security Council (NSC) as senior director for national security of the Office of Cyberspace Security and a member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board, where he developed the international component of the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace. Previously, he was a director for counterterrorism in the NSC's Office of Transnational Threats from 1999-2001.

Mr. Kurtz received his Bachelor's degree from Holy Cross College and his Master's degree in International Public Policy from Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies.

KATHERINE SCHAFFER - POLICY DIRECTOR

Katherine Schaffer is the Policy Director at SAFECode and a Senior Associate at Good Harbor Consulting with a focus on cyber-related security. Ms. Schaffer also works on critical infrastructure protection and emergency planning and disaster management.

Prior to joining Good Harbor, Ms. Schaffer was a lead analyst for the National Cyber Forensics and Training Alliance (NCFTA), a consortium of state and federal law enforcement agencies, industry partners and academia, where she specialized in developing risk mitigation and management strategies and conducted vulnerability analysis and attribution for a vast spectrum of clients. While at NCFTA her projects included cyber-swarming attack scenarios, analyzing the evolution of the Chinese hacking community, Eastern European phishing Initiatives, and federal government and military agency computer and server intrusions and critical information infrastructure analysis.

Ms. Schaffer has three articles pending publication related to SCADA system risk mitigation and attribution, state-sponsored warfare as asymmetric threats and cyber swarming attack scenarios.

Ms. Schaffer holds a Masters of Public and International Affairs in Security and Intelligence Studies with an additional focus on Civil Security and Disaster Management from the University of Pittsburgh and a BA in International Relations, Law, Politics & Society with a concentration in Islamic Studies from Drake University. Ms. Schaffer has studied in Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia where she was also composing policy related to economic revitalization and social reintegration through the several international non=profits and governmental organizations. She is proficient in Italian, Spanish, Serbo-Croatian, and Russian and at the beginning level in Mandarin Chinese.