Category: Advisory Directors

Biography

Phil Andrew is Co-founder and Principal of PAX Group, a crisis and conflict management consultancy. He has over 30 years of professional expertise in building great teams, cultures, and strategies that navigate complex and dynamic relationships, projects, and environments.

Phil served 21 years as a Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) throughout the U.S. and overseas with expertise in violence prevention, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, crisis management, hostage negotiation, crimes against children, undercover work, behavioral analysis, and broad investigative experience. He has led complex investigations and regularly deployed on domestic and international kidnappings and hostage-takings and has received numerous FBI and U.S. Department of Justice awards. He is an Adjunct Instructor of negotiation, business intelligence, leadership, and ethics at DePaul University’s Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Department of Management & Entrepreneurship. Phil also serves as an instructor at the FBI Academy and an expert in crisis management, negotiation, behavior analysis, and undercover work.
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Biography

Michael G. Masters is the National Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Secure Community Network (SCN), the official homeland security and safety organization of The Jewish Federations of North America and the Conference of Presidents of Major American Jewish Organizations.

Prior to joining SCN, Mr. Masters served as the Senior Vice President of The Soufan Group, a strategic advisory firm that assists public and private sector organizations to address emergent threats, and as the CEO of CivicScape, an advanced analytics company.

Mr. Masters previously served as the Executive Director of the Department of Homeland Security and Emergency Management for Cook County, Illinois, as the Chief of Staff for the Chicago Police Department and as an assistant to former Mayor Richard M. Daley.
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Biography

Results-driven global professional with twenty years of combined Financial Crimes Compliance, legal, national security, investigatory, military, and crisis management experience. Strong manager adept at building and leading large global teams in high-stress domestic and international environments.

Outstanding success in prosecuting over 30 felony trials, leading domestic and international complex fraud and national security investigations. Excels at execution and reducing highly complex problems to understandable and sustainable solutions. Proven leader who thrives on building teams, coaching subordinates and promoting associates at all levels. Continue reading “John P. Dever”

Founder, GPD Charitable Trust

John P. DeBlasio is the Chairman of DT Global, Founder and Executive Director of the Global Peace and Development (GPD) Charitable Trust, CEO of Clear Automation, and Managing Director of Bootstrap Capital.

John is currently serving on the Board of Directors of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, Illinois Joining Forces Foundation, the Crown Center for Middle East Studies at Brandeis University, the Social Science Foundation (Korbel School of International Affairs at Denver University), Nuestros Pequenos Hermanos International (NPHI), and The Rafik Hariri Center for the Middle East, and MVP Vets.

Business and Corporate Leadership

John started his business career in the General Electric Co. (GE) Leadership Development Program in 1994 and subsequently worked in a variety of management positions in GE’s Medical, Plastics, and Capital Divisions. After returning from active duty in 2004, John co-founded Sallyport Global Services and built what would become the largest provider of security and facilities management services to USAID prime contractors operating in Iraq, as well as a primary contractor for the Department of Defense (DoD), Department of State (DoS), NASA, The World Bank and Foreign Ministries, the UN, and a number of private clients.
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Biography

As the regulatory section leader of Barack Ferrazzano’s Financial Institutions Group, John concentrates his practice on regulatory, governance and investigative matters involving financial institutions.

He is a frequent speaker and author in the financial institutions area on issues surrounding banking regulations, examinations and enforcement actions. He teaches banking law and regulation at Chicago-Kent College of Law’s Graduate Program in Financial Services Law and serves on the board of advisors of its Institute for Compliance. He is the co-editor of the two-volume edition, Advising Illinois Financial Institutions, in which he wrote a chapter on bank enforcement issues, and is the co-author of the chapter “Bank Examination and Enforcement” in The Keys to Banking Law: A Handbook for Lawyers (2017). John is a vice-chair of the American Bar Association’s Banking Law Committee and a past chairman of its Enforcement, Insider Liability and Troubled Banks Subcommittee and its Bank Secrecy Act/Anti-Money Laundering Subcommittee. He also is a former chairman of the Chicago Bar Association’s Financial Institutions Committee.
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Professor of Law

Jimmy Gurulé is an expert in the field of criminal law, international criminal law, terrorism and terrorist financing, and national security law. He served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in 1998-1999. He earned his B.A. from the University of Utah in 1974, and his J.D. from the University of Utah College of Law in 1980. A member of the Utah State Bar since 1980, Gurulé has worked in a variety of high-profile public law enforcement positions including as Under Secretary for Enforcement, U.S. Department of the Treasury (2001-2003), where he had oversight responsibilities for the U.S. Secret Service, U.S. Customs Service, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms, Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, Office of Foreign Assets Control, and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; Assistant Attorney General, Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice (1990-1992); and Assistant U.S. Attorney, where he served as Deputy Chief of the Major Narcotics Section of the Los Angeles U.S. Attorney’s Office (1985-1989). Among his many successes in law enforcement, Gurulé was instrumental in developing and implementing the U.S. Treasury Department’s global strategy to combat terrorist financing.
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Brigadier General (Retired), USAF

Ms. Sanborn retired from her position as Associate Executive Director and General Counsel of the American Bar Association (ABA) in September 2019.  Prior to assuming that position, she had served in the U.S. Air Force as an executive officer, commander and judge advocate and was the first woman on active duty promoted to the rank of brigadier general in the judge advocate corps of any service.

During her military legal career, she was assigned as the chief legal counsel in several military organizations, among them the U.S. Space Command, U.S. Transportation Command, and North American Aerospace Defense Command (NORAD).  She deployed to Oman and Saudi Arabia at the outset of the first Gulf War as chief counsel for the combined fighter and airlift wings she supported.  She helped build the first homeland defense command, U.S. Northern Command, established after the attacks on September 11, 2001, serving as its first chief counsel.  As a military attorney, she provided legal counsel on ethics and compliance matters, and advised on a broad range of practice areas: from labor, procurement, environmental, administrative and criminal law, to military operations, international and space law.  While in U.S Space Command, she advised on matters pertaining to U.S. activities in space, as well as offensive and defensive cyber operations.   In the U.S. Transportation Command, her legal staff supported global land, air, sealift and other logistics operations for the Afghanistan and Iraq conflicts, working closely with both government and commercial organizations to support the U.S. armed forces and overseeing the delivery of legal services to an organization of 150,000 people.
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Biography

Frank is currently an Assistant Professor at the Mississippi College School of Law, where he focuses on criminal law and international criminal law. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors for the National Institute of Military Justice (NIMJ) and is the President of the Military Justice Committee for the International Society of Military Law of War.

Before entering academia, Frank was a U.S. Army Judge Advocate General (JAG) and retired at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel after 12 years of service. During his time as an Army JAG, Frank practiced as a prosecutor, legal advisor, and a defense attorney, in four combat divisions and two special operations units. After his retirement, Frank served as a federal law clerk in Washington, D.C. and as a civil litigator at Butler Snow LLP in Mississippi.
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Biography

James Dever is a Principal at Lockhaven Solutions, LLC. He was a Professor of Cyber Warfare for the US Air Force. He taught Cyber Law, Intelligence Law, National Security Law, Privacy Law, and Space Law at the Air War College (AWC), Air Force Cyber College (AFCC), Air Force Judge Advocate General’s School (JAG School), Air Command and Staff College (ACSC), and Air Force Research Lab Information Directorate (AFRL), the nation’s premier research organization for Computers and Intelligence. In partnership with Air Force Cyber College and National Security Agency (NSA) Cryptologic School colleagues, he designed a new graduate degree in Cyber Strategy for senior military officers and Department of Defense (DoD) civilians. He has provided cyber education to multiple foreign countries including the United Kingdom, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, Brazil, Peru, Mexico, Colombia, Chile and France. Continue reading “Captain James Dever”