Security Profiling for Survival 2008 Keynote Speaker

Don L. Rondeau
Senior Vice President, Critical Infrastructure, Macfadden

As Senior Vice President, Critical Infrastructure, Don L. Rondeau oversees the development of new business opportunities in the homeland security arena, focusing on transportation safety, asset protection, contingency planning and conflict mitigation. Mr. Rondeau's duties as SVP also include serving as President and CEO of Total Security Services International, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Macfadden. Mr. Rondeau's expertise spans a broad and distinguished career in the area of critical infrastructure protection. Prior to joining Macfadden, Mr. Rondeau served as Vice President of Homeland Security at Alion Science and Technology. Previously, he served as the director of a federal anti-terrorism Information Sharing Analysis Center. Earlier in his career, Rondeau served as the Director of Claims and Security for the American Trucking Association, representing the security interest of the trucking industry.

Bringing a wide breadth of international experience to Macfadden, Mr. Rondeau previously served as a contract investigator for the U.S. Department of the Interior and as Chief Security Consultant for the embassies of the States of Kuwait and Qatar. He has cultivated numerous relations in the Middle East while teaming with security groups on various projects. Mr. Rondeau continues to play an active advisory role, currently serving as the Transportation Security Advisor to the International Association of Counterterrorism for Security Professionals, where he was named the Homeland Security Executive of the Year in 2004-05. Additionally, Mr. Rondeau serves as the National Chief Security Advisor for the Heart of America Quilt Project.

Mr. Rondeau has served as a member of a number several of advisory boards including the United States Association of Private Investigators, the Counterterrorism Security Research & Education Foundation and the American College of Certified Fraud Examiners International, an international team assembled to establish homeland security standards. Through this association's security certification program, Mr. Rondeau was awarded the Certified Homeland Security expert designation.