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Paul Byron Pattak, Fellow

Paul Byron Pattak is a Strategist, Entrepreneur, Consultant, Educator, Speaker and Author with broad experience in political and policy matters relating to major national issues. He specializes in creating long-term benefits for organizations and their people by bridging the gaps between, and within, policy and technology, using a fusion of communication, diplomacy, strategy, vision, innovation and creativity. Paul Byron is the CEO of Pi2 Strategies, LLC , a firm in Alexandria, Virginia that provides high-quality strategic advisory services to a variety of clients. His government experience includes the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). He has also been part of three high-level, bi-partisan government commissions dealing with critical infrastructure protection, homeland security and the national security uses of space. In 1999, he co-founded a software company in Las Vegas. The resulting entity was purchased by IBM in January 2005. In 2007, he was appointed as a Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies in Arlington, Virginia. He has published several articles on national security, homeland security, technology and policy issues, and has been a frequent guest lecturer for the U.S. Army War College, the National Defense University, and the Intelligence Community. He is also actively involved in organizing conferences, seminars and workshops on many issues.