Board of Directors

Mark Lowenthal, President of the Intelligence & Security Academy, has served as Assistant DCI for Analysis & Production; Vice Chairman for Evaluation, National Intelligence Council; Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Staff Director, House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI).  Dr. Lowenthal is the author of the standard college/graduate school textbook on intelligence, Intelligence: From Secrets to Policy, now in its 4th edition (CQ Press).  He also serves as an adjunct professor at the Johns Hopkins University.  In 1988, Dr. Lowenthal was the Grand Champion on the television quiz show Jeopardy!

Marge Munson has served as Director of the Defense Investigative Service and as Deputy Director for Administration, Defense Intelligence Agency. She has also served as the Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counterintelligence and Security and as Study Director for Defense studies on the use of Chemical Weapons during Desert Shield/Storm and the recently released study in support of the Secretary of Defense on detention operations at Guantanamo, Afghanistan and Iraq.

Mike Munson has served as the Deputy Director, Defense Intelligence Agency; and Deputy Director for National Support, National Reconnaissance Office. He also served as Director of Intelligence Program Review for DOD and as study director for the National Defense Panel and the recently released report from the President’s Commission on Weapons of Mass Destruction.

Aris Pappas, Senior Director of the Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments. Prior to joining Microsoft, Mr. Pappas was co-founder and vice-president of IntelligenceEnterprises, LLC, a consulting firm supporting a broad range of customers ranging from the space-based imagery industry to the Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Pappas was a career CIA analyst, holding positions in both the Intelligence (analytic) and Operations Directorates. He was an Assistant National Intelligence Officer during the first Gulf War, and later Executive Secretary of the Director of Central Intelligence’s (DCI) Intelligence Science Board. After a year-long tour at the FBI, Mr. Pappas established the DCI’s Homeland Security Staff.

Harold Rosenbaum, President of Centra Technology

James Simon is Director of The Microsoft Institute for Advanced Technology in Governments. Before joining Microsoft, he was President and CEO of IntelligenceEnterprises, LLC. A career CIA officer, he was appointed by President Clinton and confirmed by the Senate as the first, and last, Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Administration. After September 11th, he was designated as the senior intelligence official for homeland security.