Luke Ritter is the CEO of Trident Global Partners and a specialist in commercial and military transportation operations and logistics. Following graduation from the U.S. Naval Academy and service in the USN, Mr. Ritter managed intermodal railroad and trucking operations for a container line, and provided transportation security technology solutions to government and commercial clients while working for a systems integrator. He is a part-time instructor at the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy's Global Maritime and Transportation School, and serves as a contributing scholar at the Heritage Foundation.
J. Michael Barrett is a terrorism and homeland security expert with an extensive background in military intelligence and national security. A former Fulbright Scholar to Ankara, Turkey, Mr. Barrett is currently a Fellow in Homeland Security at the Manhattan Institute and the President of Counterpoint Assessments, a terrorism preparedness and risk mitigation firm. He previously served as Senior Analyst for the War on Terrorism Branch of the Office of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and as Lead Intelligence Officer for the Special Operation/Combating Terrorism Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense. He has published more than a dozen newspaper and journal articles and has been interviewed dozens of times on television and radio, including ABC, NBC, Fox News, FRONTLINE, New York Public Radio, Bill Reilly's The Radio Factor, and The Canadian Broadcasting Company.
Rosalyn Wilson is a Manager at Reality Based IT Services, Ltd. [RBIS], an information technology security firm and subsidiary of SYS Technologies. She is also an independent consultant with over 25 years of experience in the transportation and logistics industry focusing on identifying and analyzing key performance issues. Mrs. Wilson has extensive railroad industry experience, having served in various capacities for over 11 years at the Association of American Railroads [AAR]. She is the author of the State of Logistics Report, an annual benchmark for US logistics activity, and of Transportation in America, a compendium of transportation information.