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Ed Badolato is the President & CEO of Integrated
Infrastructure Analytics, Inc. (IIA), a leading provider of
specialized power, water, and homeland security products,
support services, and training. He has a unique background
in security, transportation, energy and risk management
dating back over 30 years. His wide range of experience and
contacts in these areas has allowed him to address a full
range of security issues with major corporations, the US
government, and foreign governments. He has been involved in
numerous high profile programs dealing with security,
protection of energy infrastructure, and counterterrorism
operations. He has operated in the US and countries such as
Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, the Philippines, Indonesia, the United
Kingdom, Colombia, Panama, Venezuela, El Salvador, South
Africa, Zimbabwe, Lebanon, and Syria. Mr. Badolato is a
retired Colonel in the US Marine Corps who has served in
nearly every country in the Middle East and Persian Gulf,
including tours as the Military Attaché in Beirut, Lebanon,
Damascus, Syria, and Nicosia, Cyprus, where he organized
various special counterterrorism operations. He has
commanded Marine units at the platoon, company, battalion,
and regimental level, and served three combat tours in Viet
Nam. He was the principal director of security, energy
contingency planning and international energy security
activities under Presidents Reagan and Bush as a Deputy
Assistant Secretary at the Department of Energy (1985-1989).
In the area of Critical Infrastructure Protection, he has
managed the security assessments of the threat,
vulnerability, and risk of the national power grids, natural
gas infrastructures, petro-chemical facilities and maritime
services. He has been Chairman of the Board of Directors of
the National Cargo Security Council (1995-1999), and he was
appointed by the White House as Chairman of the FAA’s Air
Cargo Security Working Group to study the potential for
terrorist bombing attacks on commercial aircraft. He has
been a member of the White House Interagency Group on
Terrorism. He is on the Board of Advisors for the US
Merchant Marine Academy’s Global Maritime and Security
Transportation School. He is a member of the American
Society of Industrial Security, the National Defense
Industry Association, and the Association of Former
Intelligence Officers. He was the senior energy consultant
for the President’s Commission on Critical Infrastructure
Protection, (1999), and a member of the National Research
Council’s Committee on Science and Technology for Countering
Terrorism (2002). He is a member of Towson University’s
Board of Visitors, and he also received the Patriotism Award
from President Bush for his Homeland Security Services. He
frequently appears on major TV news programs as a Homeland
Security, military, and terrorism expert, including CNN,
ABC, Fox News, Hannity & Colmes, Court TV, The Capitol
Report, America’s Most Wanted, the News Hour with Jim
Lehrer, 60-Minutes, CNBC, Australian National TV, VOA, and
Russia's TV Channel 32. His commentary frequently appears in
major newspapers and magazines. He is also an adjunct
faculty professor at Georgetown University where he teaches
Graduate Business School courses. |
