Mark Sauter

Personal Biography I'm the Chief Operating Officer and Senior Analyst at the Chesapeake Innovation Center (CIC). www.cic-tech.org The CIC is a public/private partnership that focuses the power of entrepreneurship on America's most pressing security requirements. By creating a bridge between major users of security technology and small companies at the forefront of innovation, the Center enhances America's technological edge and helps propel the Informatics Corridor around the Washington Beltway. The Center and its member companies specialize in informatics, knowledge discovery, IT security, visualization, information assurance, human capital development, and other security-related areas. I assist CIC member companies by providing them with focused business assistance services and homeland security and business-related educational programs. I also produce CIC market research, such as our recent report "The Business of Connecting Dots: the $1 Billion Intelligence and Security Informatics/Analytics Market." That report -- produced with New York investment bank C.E. Unterberg, Towbin -- is available at the CIC Web site. Before joining the CIC, I worked at several venture capital-backed companies focused on e-learning and new media. I graduated from Harvard University, magna cum laude, and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism. My military service was in Army infantry and Special Forces units. My professional and personal interest in homeland security and terrorism goes back many years. I also witnessed the impact of modern terrorism first hand while living near the World Trade Center on 9/11.