Center for Advanced Defense Studies - Advisory Board

Lester S. Hyman, J.D.

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 16:10:16 -0400

Member of the Board
Chair, Legal Advisory Board

Lester S. Hyman has acted as an advisor to eight U.S. presidential candidates, and has vetted candidates for Vice-President, U.S. Attorney General, Secretary of the Treasury, Director of the CIA, and the U.S. Supreme Court.

Now a sole practitioner, Mr. Hyman was a founding partner and Senior Counsel at the prominent Washington law firm Swidler Berlin LLP (now part of Bingham McCutcheon LLP). He draws on over 40 years of experience in law, government and politics to create and implement legislative strategies, as well as resolve disputes, for clients that include Fortune 500 corporations, major international companies and foreign nations.

Edward H. Ghafari

Mon, 23 Jul 2007 01:39:24 -0400

Member, Technology Transfer Advisory Board

Edward H. Ghafari is currently the Director of Enterprise Enabling Solutions at SRA International. He heads a unit that supports the U.S. Department of Defense and U.S. Department of Justice, as well as civil service agencies such as the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA).

Mr. Ghafari has more than 20 years of experience in engineering, marketing and management. He directed the architecture and first deployment of DSL technology at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon), where he secured several patents. Mr. Ghafari subsequently led DSL product development and marketing at Efficient Networks, where quarterly revenue grew from $1 million to $100 million during his tenure. The company then staged a successful IPO that climaxed with its acquisition by Siemens AG for more than $1 billion.

Edward A. Pennington, J.D.

Sat, 14 Oct 2006 12:22:31 -0400

Member, CADS Legal Advisory Board

Since his receiving his J.D. degree from George Mason University, Edward Pennington has practiced exclusively in the field of intellectual property. He serves as head of the Intellectual Property practice group at the Swidler Berlin law firm. Previous to his work with Swidler Berlin, he was the managing partner of Morgan & Finnegan’s Washington, D.C. office. Mr. Pennington has served as a member of the Board of Directors of the Virginia State Bar, Intellectual Property Section (1997-2000), and is a member of the Bar of the Supreme Court of the United States and bars of the District of Columbia, Virginia, the Eastern and Western Districts of Virginia, the Courts of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, the D.C. Circuit and the Federal Circuit. He is a member of the American Bar Association, the American Intellectual Property Law Association, the Licensing Executives Society, and the Virginia State Bar, Intellectual Property Law Section.

Chadwick A. Jackson, J.D.

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:37:23 -0400

Member, CADS Legal Advisory Board

Chadwick A. Jackson is a member of the District of Columbia and New York bars, and of the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Mr. Jackson has represented clients in a variety of Intellectual Property areas including: preparing and prosecuting patent applications; rendering opinions on the issues of patent infringement and validity; performing due diligence including conducting patentability, product clearance, validity and prior art searches; drafting license agreements including software license agreements and distribution agreements; developing and enforcing patent portfolios; and advising clients in various trademark and copyright matters.

Dominic Vorv, J.D.

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:34:17 -0400

Member, CADS Legal Advisory Board

A Washington, DC-based attorney and lobbyist, Dominic Vorv has been hailed by many in Washington legal and political circles for his fierce advocacy of individual and corporate matters in the, international, national, and local arenas. In addition to serving as Secretary of the Hispanic Bar Association of the District of Columbia (HBA-DC) for five consecutive years, Mr. Vorv sits on the Greater Washington Ibero-American Chamber of Commerce and the Maryland Hispanic Bar Association boards of directors.

Founder of The Vorv Firm, P.L.L.C., Mr. Vorv has been called upon as a trial lawyer to handle complicated litigation, medical malpractice, personal injury, immigration, corporate, and lobbing and counseling matters for major national and international clients. Mr. Vorv has also dedicated a great percentage of his time to working with many local and national political candidates and organizations in the Washington D.C. Metropolitan area.

Mark F. Foley, J.D.

Sat, 16 Jul 2005 04:34:36 -0400

Member, CADS Legal Advisory Board

A senior partner of Foley & Lardner's e-Business & Information Technology, General Commercial Litigation, Product Liability Practice Groups, and Entertainment & Media Team in the firm's Milwaukee office, Mark F. Foley has successfully litigated a variety of information technology cases including Web-based copyright and trademark claims; domain name disputes; software and hardware purchase, license and warranty disputes; software development and source code ownership disputes; and micro-chip patent infringement claims.

A graduate of Yale University (B.A., East Asian History and economics, magna cum laude, 1975) and the University of Michigan Law School (J.D., cum laude, 1981), Mr. Foley is a member of the American Bar Association (Intellectual Property Section), the Computer Law Association, CAUCUS, and the Wisconsin, Seventh Circuit, and Milwaukee Bar Associations. He co-founded the Information Technology and E-Commerce Committee of the Business Law Section of the Wisconsin Bar Association (2000); served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Wisconsin Governor's Commission on Year 2000 Preparedness and co-chaired its Health Care Sub-Committee from August 1998 to January 2000.

Pat Bonanno, Esq.

Wed, 18 Oct 2006 20:08:00 -0400

General Counsel, New York region

Mr. Bonanno comes to the practice of law after having completed two years of service as a New York State Correction Officer followed by a distinguished career in the New York City Police Department as a plainclothes police officer assigned to the 44th Precinct and the Elite City Wide Street Crime Unit. Following his retirement from the NYPD, Mr. Bonanno served as the Court Security Officer-in-Charge of the Office of the United States Attorney. In this capacity Mr. Bonanno diligently attended to the complex requirements of his office while completing his undergraduate course of studies at the City University of New York. Mr. Bonanno earned his Bachelor of Science Degree in Legal Studies Magna Cum Laude and went on to graduate from St. John’s University School of Law with honors. Mr. Bonanno is admitted to practice law before all the courts in the State of New York and the State of Connecticut and also in the United States District Courts for the Southern and Eastern Districts of New York.

Dale A. Cooter, J.D.

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:54:58 -0400

Member, CADS Legal Advisory Board

James E. Tompert, J.D.

Wed, 25 Jul 2007 17:55:34 -0400

Member, CADS Legal Advisory Board