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Dr. Bevan joined KGS as Vice President for Research and Development from dNovus RDI in December 2008. At KGS, he develops and supervises research and development of products and services for external sponsors and internal research programs, provides technical marketing support to KGS business units and provides technical solutions to KGS and Kforce. Dr. Bevan has over 30 years experience in the conduct and management of research and development projects for DOD, the Intelligence Community and Homeland Security/Defense. He is an expert in systems engineering, human factors engineering and biopsychology. While at dNovus, Dr. Bevan developed and managed research and development projects with AFRL, SOCOM, AFOSR, MDA and USA-RDECOM. He also provided technical marketing support to dNovus Business Units. Prior to dNovus, Dr. Bevan was the Associate Laboratory Director of the Georgia Tech Research Institute (GTRI) Electro-optics, Environment and Materials Laboratory and was elected as a GTRI Fellow and Member of the Georgia Tech Faculty Senate. While at Georgia Tech, Tom conducted homeland security research and development projects for the US Marine Corps and lead the GT Homeland Security Initiative. He also taught Biopsychology in the Georgia Tech School of Psychology. Dr. Bevan served in various capacities at the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM) during his 18 year tenure, starting as a program manager and leader of a 35-person technical section and culminating with a position of the Director of Customer Relations. ERIM was a spin-off of the University of Michigan which developed many of the modern remote sensing technologies. Tom conducted research and development projects for NRO, USAF-FTD, USAF (U2-R, B-2, B-1, ATARS), DARPA (Discoverer II) and USAID. While with ERIM, he was the founder and first President of the Ukrainian Land and Resource Management Institute which is a joint US-Ukrainian remote sensing center. Before joining ERIM, Dr. Bevan was a program manager for Science Applications International Corporation where he conducted research and development for DARPA (Assault Breaker), CIA (SAFE-ADDIS), ONR and the US Coast Guard. Dr. Bevan completed US Army ROTC as a Distinguished Military Graduate and served on active duty in the US Army Medical Service Corps at Edgewood Arsenal, MD where he conducted research on the effects of chemical and pharmacological agents. Tom holds a doctorate in Experimental Psychology from Princeton University with specialty in Biopsychology and a bachelor degree in Psychology from Dartmouth College.

Cathleen Falsani , author of The God Factor and Sin Boldly, is an award-winning religion columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times. She attended Wheaton College and holds masters degrees in journalism and theology. She lives in the Chicago area with her husband and fellow journalist, Maurice Possley.

Hedy Weiss has been Theater and Dance Critic of the Chicago Sun-Times since 1984, reporting on local, national and international productions, as well as a wide range of other subjects. Since 2002, she also has served as Theater and Dance Critic for "Chicago Tonight," the nightly news magazine on WTTW-Channel 11, Chicago's PBS station, and she is a frequent contributor to programs on WBEZ, the Chicago public radio station. A Contributing Editor to Dance Magazine, Weiss' work also has appeared in the London Observer, the Boston Globe, the Lincoln Center Playbill and many other publications. She has twice served on the Pulitzer Prize panel for Drama. Born in New York, Weiss graduated from Hunter College with a degree in English literature and art history, and early on pursued a career as a dancer and choreographer, with professional training at the Metropolitan Opera and Joffrey Ballet Schools. She moved to Chicago in 1980 and worked for four years as an assistant professor at the Theatre School of DePaul University before turning to full-time journalism.

He brings his artful eye from years of creative work and his steady hand from years of photography. After receiving his Journalism degree from the University of Illinois, he went on to become a staff photographer at the Chicago Sun Times and the Suburban Chicago Newspapers. Later, Jesse moved to Sonoma to accept a founding position at The Sun and El Sol de Sonoma as the Photo Editor/Graphic Designer. Jesse now works in 30proof Media's Sonoma Valley office and serves as the Art Director for Sonoma Magazine.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the year the Beatles arrived in America, Jim DeRogatis began voicing his opinions about rock n roll shortly thereafter. He is the pop music critic at the Chicago Sun-Times, and together with Greg Kot, he co-hosts Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, originating from Chicago Public Radio and syndicated nationally via American Public Media. DeRogatis is the author of several books: Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips (Broadway Books, 2006); Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock (Hal Leonard, 2003); Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s ( Da Capo, 2003), and Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic (Broadway Books, 2000). Together with his wife, Carmel Carrillo-DeRogatis, he also edited an anthology entitled Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics (Barricade Books, 2004), and he has written for numerous magazines, including Spin, Guitar World, Modern Drummer, Penthouse, and GQ, in addition to serving as an assistant editor at Request and, briefly, Rolling Stone. DeRogatis jokes that he is not a musician, but he is a drummer, and he has nevertheless done time in numerous indie-rock bands dating to the early 80s, including Airlines, Speed the Plough (visit its Web site), the Love Pushers, the Mandrakes, the Wahinis, and the Ex-Lion Tamers, though current band, Vortis, is by far his favorite. In his spare time, he is an avid history buff, a military modeler, and a member of the Military Miniature Society of Illinois. His next book, Sheperd Paine: The Life and Work of a Master Modeler and Military Historian, is due in the Spring of 2008 from Schiffer Books. He lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, Carmel, and near his daughter.

Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, the year the Beatles arrived in America, Jim DeRogatis began voicing his opinions about rock n roll shortly thereafter. He is the pop music critic at the The Chicago Sun-Times, and his work has also appeared in magazines such as Spin, Guitar World, Modern Drummer, Penthouse, and GQ. In the past, he has worked as an assistant editor at Request magazine in Minneapolis and, briefly, as the deputy music editor at Rolling Stone. Together with Greg Kot Siskel to his Ebert for the past seven years DeRogatis co-hosts Sound Opinions, the world's only rock 'n' roll talk show, on Chicago Public Radio every Saturday at 7 p.m.. He is also the author of several books, including Turn On Your Mind: Four Decades of Great Psychedelic Rock from Hal Leonard (a completely revised and expanded edition of Kaleidoscope Eyes: Psychedelic Rock from the'60s to the '90s, first published in the summer of 1996 by the now-defunct Carol Publishing/Citadel Underground); Let It Blurt: The Life and Times of Lester Bangs, America's Greatest Rock Critic, first published in the spring of 2000 by Broadway Books, and Milk It! Collected Musings on the Alternative Music Explosion of the '90s, an anthology of his writings on the alternative era published by Da Capo in October 2003. Together with his wife, Carmel Carrillo-DeRogatis, he edited an anthology entitled Kill Your Idols: A New Generation of Rock Writers Reconsiders the Classics, published in 2004 by Barricade Books. His latest effort, Staring at Sound: The True Story of Oklahoma's Fabulous Flaming Lips, was published by Broadway Books in March 2006. DeRogatis jokes that he is a drummer, not a musician, but he has nevertheless done time in a procession of indie rock bands dating to the early 80s. These include Airlines (click here for a free download), Speed the Plough, the Love Pushers, the Mandrakes, the Wahinis, and the Ex-Lion Tamers, among others, but his current band, VORTIS, is by far the most exciting that he has ever been associated with. Its debut album, Take the System Down, was released by Thick Records on July 4, 2002. A second album, God Won't Bless America Again, dropped on July 4, 2003, and the group recently completed its third release, Warzone, due to be released soon. A pseudo-memoir about his adventures in these and other bands, tentatively titled The Best Thirty Minutes of My Life. is also in the works. In his spare time, he is an avid history buff, military modeler, and figure painter, and a member of the Military Miniature Society of Illinois. He lives on the North Side of Chicago with his wife, Carmel, near his daughter.

Maudlyne Ihejirika is an education reporter and assistant city editor with the Chicago Sun-Times. A veteran news journalist with more than 18 years experience in media, public relations and government, she holds a Master's degree in Journalism from Northwestern University's Medill School of Journalism, and a Bachelor's in Journalism and Creative Writing from the University of Iowa. Ms. Ihejirika began her career at the Chicago Sun-Times in 1986, where she spent 11 years covering issues from politics to urban affairs, and was Weekend City Editor when she left the Sun-Times in 1997. An award-winning news reporter, she is the recipient of numerous citations for her hard-hitting urban affairs coverage. Ms. Ihejirika was responsible for launching the Season of Sharing Program for the Chicago Sun-Times Charity Trust in 1996, serving as its director in the program's first year. In 1997, she was hired away from the Chicago Sun-Times by then Illinois Governor Jim Edgar to serve as press secretary for his Illinois Department of Children and Family Services. As Gov. Edgar's spokesperson for that state agency, Ms. Ihejirika reported directly to the agency's Director and to the Office of the Governor, managing a multi-city staff of 12 that oversaw crisis management and public relations for the agency from its headquarters in Springfield and Chicago. In 2003, Ms. Ihejirika left public relations to return to her journalism roots and the Chicago Sun-Times, where she now covers the Chicago Public Schools and issues in education. Ms. Ihejirika is a native of Imo-State, Nigeria, her family emigrating here as refugees of the Nigerian-Biafran War in 1969.

Steve Huntley is a commentary columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times and a member of its editorial board. He served as editor of the editorial page of the Sun-Times from 1997 to 2007. Under his leadership, the Sun-Times editorial page staff was awarded Peter Lisagor Awards for exemplary journalism in 2004 and 1997 and the Sarah Brown Boyden award for editorials from the Chicago Journalists Association in 2006. Before joining the Sun-Times Editorial Board in 1997, Huntley was Assistant Managing Editor/Metro of the Sun-Times. Under his leadership, the Metro staff won Lisagor awards in 1996 for coverage of the Fox River Grove, Ill., school bus-train crash that killed seven children, in 1993 for coverage of the Chicago Loop flood and in 1992 for the "After the Shooting Stops" series on the impact of violent death on families and communities. Huntley previously was Night City Editor of the Sun-Times. He joined the newspaper in 1986. Huntley worked for seven years (1979-86) for U.S. News & World Report, heading up its Chicago bureau before transferring in 1982 to Washington, D.C., where he was an Associate Editor until promoted to Senior Editor in 1985. Huntley worked 13 years (1965-78) for United Press International as a writer and editor in bureaus in Chicago, Greensboro, N.C., Atlanta, Ga., and Columbia, S.C. He was promoted in 1977 to Executive Editor of UPI's National Broadcast Department.

Ted Pincus, Partner, founder of The Financial Relations Board, which he sold to True North Communications in 2000. FRB was the world's oldest and largest financial public relations agency. Under his guidance through 2001 FRB was accorded more professional awards for outstanding programs than any other in the history of the field. He is an educator, newspaper columnist, consultant and lecturer. He has won numerous awards from the public relations industry as well as from such financial publications as Financial World and Equities. Over his 44-year-career Pincus has been advisor on communications strategy to political candidates, the CEO's of more than 500 publicly held corporations, government agencies as well as a legion of such public personalities as Nelson Rockefeller, W. Clement Stone and Walter E. Heller. Over the past forty years his firm has been the leading crusader for more open corporate disclosure and originator of numerous concepts of Investor Relations strategy now in wide use.

Mr. Kisor, who became profoundly deaf from meningitis as a young child, is the book editor for the Chicago Sun-Times. He's also an internationally renowned author of several books, some of them related to living with a profound hearing loss.

Montgomery joined the tabloid-sized Chicago Sun-Times in 2001 as the deputy news editor and was a principal designer in the 2003 redesign of the newspaper. He is credited with the design of several of the paper's award-wining news investigations, including 'Clout On Wheels' - the Hired Trucks scandal that uncovered vast corruption in Mayor Daley's City Hall. He won a Peter Lisagor Award for Exemplary Journalism in 2003 and was nominated again in 2004 - both awards were for high-profile series about local people and their issues. While at the Sun-Times he also designed the Red Streak edition - a commuter youth tabloid paper that launched in October 2002. His Red Streak design portfolio was honored by the Society for News design in their annual design competition. His work as a visual editor and new project designer was profiled in the fourth edition of the journalism textbook Graphic Communications Today written by Theodore E. Conover and William E. Ryan.