The Afterburner Seminars, founded by ace fighter pilot Jim Murphy, provide a one-of-a-kind, interactive, high-energy experience that is custom-tailored to inspire leadership, integrated teamwork and the quick, flexible thinking essential to fighter pilots and business managers alike.

Author of NYT best-seller, Battle Ready, a book on his military career and foreign affairs, Anthony Zinni is a retired four-star General in the United States Marine Corps and a former Commander in Chief of U.S. Central Command. Additionally he is an instructor at the Sanford School of Public Policy at Duke University.

Former President of Columbia and Secretary General of the Organization of American States, Cesar Gaviria was instrumental in advancing the concept of integral solidarity and reforming its technical cooperation programs. Gaviria is known in Latin America as a conflict mediator, an advocate of democracy and a staunch supporter of regional integration and defender of human rights.

Attorney and the Founder of the Foreseeable Risk Analysis Center, Charles Slepian provides cutting edge analysis on issues of vulnerability to violence ranging from the acts of ordinary street criminals and the critical issues for corporate America, to the fear and mayhem from global terrorism. Charles has worked in many areas of security and terrorism including Aviation, Homeland, Corporate, Education, and Family security.

Leading expert and author on national security, hostage-taking, negotiating tactics, terrorism threats and counter-terrorism measures, Danny Coulson is the former Commander of the Hostage Rescue Team, the FBI's elite counter-terrorism unit. Upon his retirement from the FBI in 1997, Danny established his own private security firm which assists a number of corporations such as the PGA Tour.

Senior fellow at the New American Foundation and professor at Pennsylvania State University School of International Affairs, Flynt Leverett is an expert on the Middle East and international energy issues. Dr. Leverett is the author of Inheriting Syria: Bashar's Trial By Fire, a study of Syrian politics and policymaking under Bashar al-Assad.

Gal Luft specializes in strategy, geopolitics, terrorism, Middle East and energy security. He is executive director of the Institute for the Analysis of Global Security (IAGS) a Washington based think tank focused on energy security and co-founder of the Set America Free Coalition, an alliance of national security, environmental, labor and religious groups promoting ways to reduce America's dependence on foreign oil.

A specialist in American foreign policy, European security, and national security affairs, Ivo H. Daalder is a special adviser on national security at the Center for American Progress and is also senior fellow in Foreign Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution. He has authored over 10 books with his most recent being the American Homeland (2002).

A pioneer presenter on Homeland Security, Jack Wiles is in frequent contact with members of many state and local law enforcement agencies as well as Special Agents with the U.S. Secret Service, FBI, U.S. Customs, Department of Justice, and the Department of Defense. Jack is a security professional with over 30 years of experience in computer security, cyber-crime prevention, disaster recovery and physical security. Jack is a veteran who served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam.