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Matthew Freedman with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. -
CEO
Matthew Freedman
Partner
Peter Henderson
Senior Advisors
James Brewington
Wayne E. Long
Robert Ingles Macpherson
Coulter D. (Buddy) Tillett
W. Bruce Weinrod
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Matthew Freedman with UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon.
Matthew C. Freedman
Mr. Freedman serves as CEO of Indigo Telecom USA, a global Service Provider, developing technology solutions and providing IT/satellite communication products on behalf of Thuraya, Inmarsat and Iridium to the private sector, multilateral organizations, ngos, and the public sector to remote places around the world. Clients range from numerous United Nations agencies to private sector subscribers in over 30 countries around the world.
An economic development and foreign policy expert, Mr. Freedman advised the Department of State leadership as a "Special Government Employee" having worked in the development and international security arenas related to political/military affairs, nonproliferation, humanitarian demining, international development, verification of arms control agreements, and in matters related to the United Nations. In 2007, he also provided foreign policy advice to the Department of the Navy senior leadership. In 2001 he served as Secretary of State Powell's Transition Director for various agencies reporting to the Secretary such as AID, TDA and OPIC, and later served on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's Africa Advisory Board.
Matthew Freedman, who also serves as President of a leading consulting company that provide strategic counseling to corporate executives, has over thirty years of global experience developing and implementing government affairs programs, corporate business and public sales strategies. Mr. Freedman has worked with numerous US and multinational corporations around the world in key sectors including capital markets/finance, consumer products, defense/national security/homeland security, energy, information technology, international health, telecommunication, and trade. He also has expertise in cross-cutting sectors including advocacy, branding, corporate image development, public-private partnerships, and survey research. These companies range from Fortune 500 companies to small start up technology firms.
In the past, he served as Chief of Party on numerous national and global efforts on behalf of the World Bank, AID, and the private sector where he developed market entry strategies and managed in-country staffs spanning from Russia to the Philippines. He has also managed numerous international electoral efforts to promote the rule of law from South Africa to South Korea. A recognized international health expert, he advised the USG/Gates Foundation's Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunization (GAVI), the World Health Organization's Rollback Malaria Program, and the US Government's flagship international child health program, BASICS II.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Freedman served in the US Government in numerous capacities in the Office of the Secretary of State, the Agency for International Development, Office of Management and Budget, and the National Security Council.
A native of New York, Mr. Freedman holds a Master's Degree with Honors in International Affairs from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree from Kenyon College. He has also studied at the University of York, England, and at The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Business Council for International Understanding as well as on the Homeland Security Advisory Committee of The Reform Institute. He currently holds a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
Peter Henderson
An entrepreneur and technology expert, Pete Henderson is a partner in Indigo Telecom USA and also serves as Group Chairman of Indigo Telecom Ltd. Indigo has offices in Nairobi, Kenya, London, England, and Singapore, in addition to the Washington DC office. In addition to being a Trustee of Save the Elephants and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Pete has a long and distinguished career providing new technologies across Africa.
In founding Indigo Telecom, Pete runs a global organization that is a Service Provider for Thuraya, Inmarsat and Iridium products. Indigo is also the national service provider for Thuraya services in Kenya with a mandate to provide Thuraya services throughout the world. Indigo specializes in both fix satellite and mobile services in very remote and difficult places around the world, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Angola, and Sudan, In the past, Pete provided virtually all television transmission via satellite from within Rwanda during the genocide and has over 25 years of specialized experience in providing satellite communication solutions. He was also responsible for pioneering the implementation of a GSM communication network in Southern Sudan, a first of its kind in that region. Indigo was awarded the "Best Service Provider for Innovation" by Thuraya in 2007.
Prior to founding Indigo, Pete founded "NewsForce" in Cyprus in the 1990s and provided television services to international broadcasters as well as crews, equipment and satellite links to all major broadcasters covering news in the Middle East and Africa. With over 50 clients such as BBC, ABC, CBS, Pete covered the hostage releases in Lebanon, both Gulf Wars, the breakup of the former Soviet Union, famine in Africa, Somalia and many other historical events. NewsForce was sold to France Telecom and Pete served as a member of the Executive Council before divesting the balance of his ownership and moving to Kenya.
A British citizen, Pete received an Executive MBA from Harvard's Business School.
James Brewington
James Brewington served as President of Developing Markets at Lucent Technology until 2007 and was responsible for leading the globalization of all of Lucent's products and services worldwide. Prior to heading Lucent's Developing Markets group, Jim served as President of the company's Wireless and Mobility Systems Group, where he was responsible for all wireless infrastructure for the mobility segment, including global wireless development and product architecture, project management, and business and product management. He also served as President of Product Realization overseeing 26 factories worldwide, 50 vice presidents and 50,000 employees.
In this capacity he personally oversaw the $6 billion telecom project in Saudi Arabia. He also served as AT&T's President of Cellular Systems. Jim began his career at AT&T in 1968, and over the ensuing 38 years he has held various executive management positions in the telecommunications industry, including overseeing Bell Telephone Wireless Laboratories.
Jim was a member of the United States/Egyptian Presidents' Council, a business advisory panel established by President Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to improve bilateral commercial and economic relationships. He also serves on the board of directors of the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council and INROADS/North Jersey, Inc., a non-profit organization that trains minority youth for careers in business and industry. He is a member of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) and the CTIA Wireless Foundation. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Kopin Corporation.
Mr. Brewington holds an MBA from the University of Seattle, a master's degree from Stanford University's Sloan Fellows Program and a bachelor's degree from the College of Idaho.
Wayne E. Long
Mr. Wayne Long served 27 years in the US Army as an Infantry, Special Forces and Military Intelligence Officer, retiring as a Colonel. Assignments included command and staff assignments in Vietnam, Korea, Europe and the US. He saw combat service in Vietnam, the Iran Hostage Rescue Attempt, Operation Just Cause in Panama, Operation Earnest Will in the Gulf of Arabia and the First Gulf War. Mr. Long also served as a paramilitary case officer in combat with the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos.
Following retirement from the military, Mr. Long joined the UN in 1993 as the Chief UN Security Advisor in Somalia, working initially for Admiral Jon Howe, the Secretary General's Special Representative for Somalia. He served in that capacity from 1993 to 1995. Following the 1995 withdrawal of the UN Peacekeeping Mission (UNOSOM), Mr. Long was asked by the UN humanitarian agencies to stay on as the Chief Security Advisor to the UN Country Team - Somalia. The Country Team was stationed in Nairobi Kenya, but was and is heavily engaged with cross border aid and humanitarian operations into Somalia. Mr. Long served in that capacity until his retirement from the UN in 2003.
From 1999 until 2003, he served coincidently as the Regional Security Advisor to the UN-appointed Regional Emergency Assistance Director from the World Food Programme. Mr. Long spent much of his time in these capacities inside Somalia, as well as in Ethiopia and Djibouti. A trained hostage incident manager, he successfully negotiated hostage release without ransom in 14 separate kidnap cases in Somalia - some for the UN and some at the request of member state embassies in Nairobi.
Following retirement from the UN, he served for a year on special assignment in New York at UN headquarters as senior consultant to the first Under Secretary General for Security, Sir David Veness. Mr. Long has since served as Vice President for African Operations for RCT International, a US venture capital firm, and as CEO of TRACKMARK Aviation of Nairobi, Kenya, one of RCT's African acquisitions.
Mr. Long returned to the US from Africa in 2007, and has worked for several US companies as a senior consultant. This work has sent him to both West and Central Africa for periods of up to three months each. He recently joined Indigo Telecom USA as our as our Senior Advisor for Business Development.
Robert Ingles Macpherson
Bob Macpherson is an internationally recognized humanitarian expert and risk management and mitigation advisor to the US government, corporations, NGOs, and International Organizations. In this capacity, he serves as the President and CEO of the Cosàntoir Security International. His expertise spans more than thirty years of developing and implementing operational security programs, policies, crisis response, hostage and kidnap negotiations and implementing and advising humanitarian assistance initiatives.
His experience has required him to engage with traditional power centers to include the United Nations, NATO, European Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), international and national non governmental organizations (NGO) and national governmental military structures. He has also negotiated and coordinated with evolving non-traditional powers such as armed local groups and militias. His experience includes negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Maoists in Nepal, ZANU PF in Zimbabwe, diverse elements in Somalia and Iraq and local militias throughout central and east Africa such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, the Darfur region, borders areas of Chad, Central African Republic and Uganda.
In his past, he served as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He retired as a Colonel with service in the Vietnam, Lebanon, Iraq and Somalia. On leaving active duty, he joined the humanitarian and development organization CARE. With CARE, he lead emergency response deployments for prolonged periods in Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo, Albania and Haiti providing coordination throughout the humanitarian community, the United Nations, the ICRC and various civilian and military governmental representatives.
In 1995, he formed the humanitarian organization, Enable. This NGO was dedicated to assisting the victims and survivors of landmines and war and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Throughout this period, he designed and managed humanitarian mine action and advocacy programs in Angola, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Eritrea and Bosnia. This included humanitarian de-mining, community mine risk education, victim assistance and advocacy efforts.
Mr. Macpherson has written extensively in the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune and other publications on security, human rights and advocacy issues. He has lectured at leading academic institutions such as Harvard and served as an adjunct faculty member at Tulane University and with the International Committee of the Red Cross. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Global Rights (GR), an international human rights and advocacy organization that partners with local activists to challenge social and political injustice. Mr. Macpherson is the recipient of the 2008 Inter Action Distinguished Achievement Award for Humanitarian Safety and Security.
Coulter D. (Buddy) Tillett
Mr. Tillett retired from the U.S. Marine Corp in 1993, following 24 years of service as an Infantry Officer. Immediately following retirement, he joined the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) and began service with UNISOM I/II as the (civilian) Director of the Humanitarian Operations Center in Mogadishu, Somalia, in August 1993. He was transferred to logistics, operations and security duties with DHA in UNREO/UNAMIR in Kigili, Rwanda in May 1994 and returned to New York in August 1995 to undertake establishment of the UNICEF Headquarters Emergency Operations Center (OPSCEN). Mr. Tillett joined DPKO as a logistics officer in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES) in 1996 in Vukovar, until 1998.
From 1998-2006, Buddy served almost continuously with DPKO as a regional logistics and administrative officer with peacekeeping missions in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, including tours in East Timor (UNTAET), Afghanistan (UNAMA), Burundi, Ethiopia (Advisor to AU), and twice in Iraq, where he was the logistics officer for the United Nations Monitoring, Observation and Verification Mission (UNMOVIC), on loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and for SRSG Sergio DeMello's team during the period May-Sep 2003. Buddy's final UN missions were in Sudan (UNAMIS and UNMIS), in the roles of logistics and administration in Darfur (2004-2005) and Eastern Sudan (2005-2006).
Mr. Tillett left the UN in April 2006 in order to return to the U.S. to be near his 2 children, 5 grandchildren, and extended family members. Following a short return to the UN as a mentoring and advisory consultant to the African Union in Ethiopia, he is currently a logistics and business development consultant for AECOM in Virginia.
W. Bruce Weinrod
Mr. Weinrod is a recognized defense and foreign policy expert who has worked in the Executive Branch and on Capitol Hill. Most recently, he was appointed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as the Secretary of Defense Representative Europe and Defense Advisor to the U S Mission NATO. As the senior US Department of Defense official based in Europe, Mr. Weinrod was responsible for US defense and /national security matters relating to NATO, Europe and the European Union.
In previous US government service, Mr. Weinrod was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy from 1989 until 1993. As the senior DOD official responsible directly for Europe and NATO, Mr. Weinrod helped formulate and implement U.S. political-military policies and relations with respect to European nations as well as with NATO and the European Union. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Weinrod was Legislative Director and Counsel for Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania where he directed all legislative strategy, initiatives and coalitions, managed a large legislative staff and was responsible for foreign policy, defense and banking issues.
In the private sector, Mr. Weinrod served as Managing Director and General Counsel at International Technology and Trade Associates Inc. and served as Manager for International Corporate Affairs at the headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank.
A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Weinrod has a J.D. from the Georgetown University School of Law and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the District of Colombia Bar, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Nominated by President Reagan and twice confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mr. Weinrod was for six years a Board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace and served as Chairman of the Board's Research and Studies Committee. Mr. Weinrod also served as a member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) at the US State Department and he served as a member of the Congressionally-established Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls for US National Security. He has also been a consultant to both the Department of Defense and the Department of State.
Prior to resigning for government service, Mr. Weinrod was also previously a member of the International Board of Advisors for the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF) and the New Atlantic Initiative. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Fund for American Studies, He was also a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Congress-Russian Duma Study Group. Mr. Weinrod has published numerous journal articles and has also spoken at various US and international conferences and seminars on public policy and industry-related issues, and has also testified before several Congressional Committees on international policy issues.
Mr. Freedman serves as CEO of Indigo Telecom USA, a global Service Provider, developing technology solutions and providing IT/satellite communication products on behalf of Thuraya, Inmarsat and Iridium to the private sector, multilateral organizations, ngos, and the public sector to remote places around the world. Clients range from numerous United Nations agencies to private sector subscribers in over 30 countries around the world.
An economic development and foreign policy expert, Mr. Freedman advised the Department of State leadership as a "Special Government Employee" having worked in the development and international security arenas related to political/military affairs, nonproliferation, humanitarian demining, international development, verification of arms control agreements, and in matters related to the United Nations. In 2007, he also provided foreign policy advice to the Department of the Navy senior leadership. In 2001 he served as Secretary of State Powell's Transition Director for various agencies reporting to the Secretary such as AID, TDA and OPIC, and later served on the Overseas Private Investment Corporation's Africa Advisory Board.
Matthew Freedman, who also serves as President of a leading consulting company that provide strategic counseling to corporate executives, has over thirty years of global experience developing and implementing government affairs programs, corporate business and public sales strategies. Mr. Freedman has worked with numerous US and multinational corporations around the world in key sectors including capital markets/finance, consumer products, defense/national security/homeland security, energy, information technology, international health, telecommunication, and trade. He also has expertise in cross-cutting sectors including advocacy, branding, corporate image development, public-private partnerships, and survey research. These companies range from Fortune 500 companies to small start up technology firms.
In the past, he served as Chief of Party on numerous national and global efforts on behalf of the World Bank, AID, and the private sector where he developed market entry strategies and managed in-country staffs spanning from Russia to the Philippines. He has also managed numerous international electoral efforts to promote the rule of law from South Africa to South Korea. A recognized international health expert, he advised the USG/Gates Foundation's Global Alliance for Vaccinations and Immunization (GAVI), the World Health Organization's Rollback Malaria Program, and the US Government's flagship international child health program, BASICS II.
Earlier in his career, Mr. Freedman served in the US Government in numerous capacities in the Office of the Secretary of State, the Agency for International Development, Office of Management and Budget, and the National Security Council.
A native of New York, Mr. Freedman holds a Master's Degree with Honors in International Affairs from Georgetown University and an undergraduate degree from Kenyon College. He has also studied at the University of York, England, and at The Hague Academy of International Law in the Netherlands. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Business Council for International Understanding as well as on the Homeland Security Advisory Committee of The Reform Institute. He currently holds a Top Secret/SCI security clearance.
Peter Henderson
An entrepreneur and technology expert, Pete Henderson is a partner in Indigo Telecom USA and also serves as Group Chairman of Indigo Telecom Ltd. Indigo has offices in Nairobi, Kenya, London, England, and Singapore, in addition to the Washington DC office. In addition to being a Trustee of Save the Elephants and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, Pete has a long and distinguished career providing new technologies across Africa.
In founding Indigo Telecom, Pete runs a global organization that is a Service Provider for Thuraya, Inmarsat and Iridium products. Indigo is also the national service provider for Thuraya services in Kenya with a mandate to provide Thuraya services throughout the world. Indigo specializes in both fix satellite and mobile services in very remote and difficult places around the world, such as Afghanistan, Iraq, Congo, Angola, and Sudan, In the past, Pete provided virtually all television transmission via satellite from within Rwanda during the genocide and has over 25 years of specialized experience in providing satellite communication solutions. He was also responsible for pioneering the implementation of a GSM communication network in Southern Sudan, a first of its kind in that region. Indigo was awarded the "Best Service Provider for Innovation" by Thuraya in 2007.
Prior to founding Indigo, Pete founded "NewsForce" in Cyprus in the 1990s and provided television services to international broadcasters as well as crews, equipment and satellite links to all major broadcasters covering news in the Middle East and Africa. With over 50 clients such as BBC, ABC, CBS, Pete covered the hostage releases in Lebanon, both Gulf Wars, the breakup of the former Soviet Union, famine in Africa, Somalia and many other historical events. NewsForce was sold to France Telecom and Pete served as a member of the Executive Council before divesting the balance of his ownership and moving to Kenya.
A British citizen, Pete received an Executive MBA from Harvard's Business School.
James Brewington
James Brewington served as President of Developing Markets at Lucent Technology until 2007 and was responsible for leading the globalization of all of Lucent's products and services worldwide. Prior to heading Lucent's Developing Markets group, Jim served as President of the company's Wireless and Mobility Systems Group, where he was responsible for all wireless infrastructure for the mobility segment, including global wireless development and product architecture, project management, and business and product management. He also served as President of Product Realization overseeing 26 factories worldwide, 50 vice presidents and 50,000 employees.
In this capacity he personally oversaw the $6 billion telecom project in Saudi Arabia. He also served as AT&T's President of Cellular Systems. Jim began his career at AT&T in 1968, and over the ensuing 38 years he has held various executive management positions in the telecommunications industry, including overseeing Bell Telephone Wireless Laboratories.
Jim was a member of the United States/Egyptian Presidents' Council, a business advisory panel established by President Clinton and Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak to improve bilateral commercial and economic relationships. He also serves on the board of directors of the U.S.-Saudi Arabian Business Council and INROADS/North Jersey, Inc., a non-profit organization that trains minority youth for careers in business and industry. He is a member of the Cellular Telecommunications Industry Association (CTIA) and the CTIA Wireless Foundation. He also sits on the Board of Directors of Kopin Corporation.
Mr. Brewington holds an MBA from the University of Seattle, a master's degree from Stanford University's Sloan Fellows Program and a bachelor's degree from the College of Idaho.
Wayne E. Long
Mr. Wayne Long served 27 years in the US Army as an Infantry, Special Forces and Military Intelligence Officer, retiring as a Colonel. Assignments included command and staff assignments in Vietnam, Korea, Europe and the US. He saw combat service in Vietnam, the Iran Hostage Rescue Attempt, Operation Just Cause in Panama, Operation Earnest Will in the Gulf of Arabia and the First Gulf War. Mr. Long also served as a paramilitary case officer in combat with the Central Intelligence Agency in Laos.
Following retirement from the military, Mr. Long joined the UN in 1993 as the Chief UN Security Advisor in Somalia, working initially for Admiral Jon Howe, the Secretary General's Special Representative for Somalia. He served in that capacity from 1993 to 1995. Following the 1995 withdrawal of the UN Peacekeeping Mission (UNOSOM), Mr. Long was asked by the UN humanitarian agencies to stay on as the Chief Security Advisor to the UN Country Team - Somalia. The Country Team was stationed in Nairobi Kenya, but was and is heavily engaged with cross border aid and humanitarian operations into Somalia. Mr. Long served in that capacity until his retirement from the UN in 2003.
From 1999 until 2003, he served coincidently as the Regional Security Advisor to the UN-appointed Regional Emergency Assistance Director from the World Food Programme. Mr. Long spent much of his time in these capacities inside Somalia, as well as in Ethiopia and Djibouti. A trained hostage incident manager, he successfully negotiated hostage release without ransom in 14 separate kidnap cases in Somalia - some for the UN and some at the request of member state embassies in Nairobi.
Following retirement from the UN, he served for a year on special assignment in New York at UN headquarters as senior consultant to the first Under Secretary General for Security, Sir David Veness. Mr. Long has since served as Vice President for African Operations for RCT International, a US venture capital firm, and as CEO of TRACKMARK Aviation of Nairobi, Kenya, one of RCT's African acquisitions.
Mr. Long returned to the US from Africa in 2007, and has worked for several US companies as a senior consultant. This work has sent him to both West and Central Africa for periods of up to three months each. He recently joined Indigo Telecom USA as our as our Senior Advisor for Business Development.
Robert Ingles Macpherson
Bob Macpherson is an internationally recognized humanitarian expert and risk management and mitigation advisor to the US government, corporations, NGOs, and International Organizations. In this capacity, he serves as the President and CEO of the Cosàntoir Security International. His expertise spans more than thirty years of developing and implementing operational security programs, policies, crisis response, hostage and kidnap negotiations and implementing and advising humanitarian assistance initiatives.
His experience has required him to engage with traditional power centers to include the United Nations, NATO, European Union, the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC), international and national non governmental organizations (NGO) and national governmental military structures. He has also negotiated and coordinated with evolving non-traditional powers such as armed local groups and militias. His experience includes negotiations with the Taliban in Afghanistan, the Maoists in Nepal, ZANU PF in Zimbabwe, diverse elements in Somalia and Iraq and local militias throughout central and east Africa such as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, the Darfur region, borders areas of Chad, Central African Republic and Uganda.
In his past, he served as an Infantry Officer in the United States Marine Corps. He retired as a Colonel with service in the Vietnam, Lebanon, Iraq and Somalia. On leaving active duty, he joined the humanitarian and development organization CARE. With CARE, he lead emergency response deployments for prolonged periods in Bosnia, Rwanda, Burundi, Afghanistan, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Somalia, South Sudan, East Timor, Kosovo, Albania and Haiti providing coordination throughout the humanitarian community, the United Nations, the ICRC and various civilian and military governmental representatives.
In 1995, he formed the humanitarian organization, Enable. This NGO was dedicated to assisting the victims and survivors of landmines and war and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1997. Throughout this period, he designed and managed humanitarian mine action and advocacy programs in Angola, Afghanistan, Cambodia, Mozambique, Eritrea and Bosnia. This included humanitarian de-mining, community mine risk education, victim assistance and advocacy efforts.
Mr. Macpherson has written extensively in the Washington Post, International Herald Tribune and other publications on security, human rights and advocacy issues. He has lectured at leading academic institutions such as Harvard and served as an adjunct faculty member at Tulane University and with the International Committee of the Red Cross. He currently serves on the Board of Directors of Global Rights (GR), an international human rights and advocacy organization that partners with local activists to challenge social and political injustice. Mr. Macpherson is the recipient of the 2008 Inter Action Distinguished Achievement Award for Humanitarian Safety and Security.
Coulter D. (Buddy) Tillett
Mr. Tillett retired from the U.S. Marine Corp in 1993, following 24 years of service as an Infantry Officer. Immediately following retirement, he joined the United Nations Department of Humanitarian Affairs (DHA) and began service with UNISOM I/II as the (civilian) Director of the Humanitarian Operations Center in Mogadishu, Somalia, in August 1993. He was transferred to logistics, operations and security duties with DHA in UNREO/UNAMIR in Kigili, Rwanda in May 1994 and returned to New York in August 1995 to undertake establishment of the UNICEF Headquarters Emergency Operations Center (OPSCEN). Mr. Tillett joined DPKO as a logistics officer in Eastern Slavonia (UNTAES) in 1996 in Vukovar, until 1998.
From 1998-2006, Buddy served almost continuously with DPKO as a regional logistics and administrative officer with peacekeeping missions in the Middle East, South Asia and Africa, including tours in East Timor (UNTAET), Afghanistan (UNAMA), Burundi, Ethiopia (Advisor to AU), and twice in Iraq, where he was the logistics officer for the United Nations Monitoring, Observation and Verification Mission (UNMOVIC), on loan to the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and for SRSG Sergio DeMello's team during the period May-Sep 2003. Buddy's final UN missions were in Sudan (UNAMIS and UNMIS), in the roles of logistics and administration in Darfur (2004-2005) and Eastern Sudan (2005-2006).
Mr. Tillett left the UN in April 2006 in order to return to the U.S. to be near his 2 children, 5 grandchildren, and extended family members. Following a short return to the UN as a mentoring and advisory consultant to the African Union in Ethiopia, he is currently a logistics and business development consultant for AECOM in Virginia.
W. Bruce Weinrod
Mr. Weinrod is a recognized defense and foreign policy expert who has worked in the Executive Branch and on Capitol Hill. Most recently, he was appointed by Secretary of Defense Robert Gates as the Secretary of Defense Representative Europe and Defense Advisor to the U S Mission NATO. As the senior US Department of Defense official based in Europe, Mr. Weinrod was responsible for US defense and /national security matters relating to NATO, Europe and the European Union.
In previous US government service, Mr. Weinrod was Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy from 1989 until 1993. As the senior DOD official responsible directly for Europe and NATO, Mr. Weinrod helped formulate and implement U.S. political-military policies and relations with respect to European nations as well as with NATO and the European Union. Prior to assuming this position, Mr. Weinrod was Legislative Director and Counsel for Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania where he directed all legislative strategy, initiatives and coalitions, managed a large legislative staff and was responsible for foreign policy, defense and banking issues.
In the private sector, Mr. Weinrod served as Managing Director and General Counsel at International Technology and Trade Associates Inc. and served as Manager for International Corporate Affairs at the headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank.
A U.S. Army veteran, Mr. Weinrod has a J.D. from the Georgetown University School of Law and an M.A. in International Relations from the University of Pennsylvania. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the District of Colombia Bar, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies. Nominated by President Reagan and twice confirmed by the U.S. Senate, Mr. Weinrod was for six years a Board member of the U.S. Institute of Peace and served as Chairman of the Board's Research and Studies Committee. Mr. Weinrod also served as a member of the Defense Trade Advisory Group (DTAG) at the US State Department and he served as a member of the Congressionally-established Study Group on Enhancing Multilateral Export Controls for US National Security. He has also been a consultant to both the Department of Defense and the Department of State.
Prior to resigning for government service, Mr. Weinrod was also previously a member of the International Board of Advisors for the Geneva Center for the Democratic Control of the Armed Forces (DCAF) and the New Atlantic Initiative. He served on the Board of Trustees of the Fund for American Studies, He was also a Senior Advisor to the U.S. Congress-Russian Duma Study Group. Mr. Weinrod has published numerous journal articles and has also spoken at various US and international conferences and seminars on public policy and industry-related issues, and has also testified before several Congressional Committees on international policy issues.