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Warren E. Buffett, who has been concerned about the threats from weapons of mass destruction for four decades, serves as an Advisor to NTI's Board of Directors. Mr. Buffett is Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., a holding company owning subsidiaries engaged in a number of diverse business activities and controlled by him since 1965. Berkshire Hathaway Inc.'s business activities include the underwriting of property and casualty insurance and a wide variety of manufacturing, retailing and service companies. Mr. Buffett started out as an investment salesman and securities analyst, and early in his career he created his own investment partnership. Mr. Buffett also serves as a Director of The Washington Post Company and is a life trustee of Grinnell College and The Urban Institute. Mr. Buffett attended the Woodrow Wilson High School in Washington, DC, the Wharton School of Business at University of Pennsylvania and in 1950 received his B.S. from the University of Nebraska. He earned his M.S. in Economics from Columbia University in 1951.

Ronald L. Olson is a partner in the Los Angeles office of Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP. Mr. Olson has practiced law with the firm since 1968. Mr. Olson also is a director of Berkshire Hathaway, Edison International, City National Corporation, The Washington Post Company, and Western Asset Trusts. He serves as a director of several non-profits, including the RAND Corporation (formerly chair), the Mayo Clinic, the Council of Foreign Relations, Southern California Public Radio (formerly chair), and the California Institute of Technology. He was Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Claremont University Center and Graduate School from 1984-94. Mr. Olson’s practice involves a combination of litigation and corporate counseling. He counsels individual executives and boards of directors in a range of matters, including transaction and corporate governance issues. Throughout his career, Mr. Olson has been the lead partner in numerous high-profile matters where clients have looked to the firm for advice and representation. Mr. Olson also has represented AOL Time Warner in securities actions arising from the merger of AOL and Time Warner; Gemstar-TV Guide International, Inc. in shareholder class actions and derivative cases arising from financial restatements; and Mattel in a lawsuit over “Barbie Doll” rights. Mr. Olson received his B.S. degree from Drake University in 1963, his J.D. degree from the University of Michigan in 1966, and a Diploma in Law from Oxford University, England, in 1967, at which time he was the recipient of a Ford Foundation fellowship. In 1967, Mr. Olson was an attorney for the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice and in 1968 clerked for Chief Judge David L. Bazelon, United States Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Mr. Olson was formerly Chairman of the Standing Committee on Federal Judiciary (1991-92), Chairman of the Litigation Section (1981-82), and Chairman of the Alternative Dispute Resolution Committee (1976-86) of the American Bar Association, and was Vice President of the Board of Governors of the State Bar of California (1986-87). He is a fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers. Mr. Olson has received a number of awards for public service and pro bono activities.

Barry Diller is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of IAC. He also serves as the Chairman of Expedia, Inc. and Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. IAC is a leading internet company with more than 35 fast-growing, highly-related brands serving loyal consumer audiences… its mission is to harness the power of interactivity to make daily life easier and more productive for all people all over the world. Some of IAC’s businesses include Ask.com, Match.com, Citysearch, Evite, ServiceMagic, RushmoreDrive.com and Gifts.com. Expedia, Inc. is one of the world's leading travel services companies. With its portfolio of leading travel brands, Expedia, Inc. empowers business and leisure travelers with the tools and information they need to easily research, plan, book and experience travel. The company also provides wholesale travel to offline retail travel agents. Expedia, Inc.'s main websites include: Expedia.com®, Hotels.com™, Hotwire®, Expedia® Corporate Travel, Trip Advisor™ and Classic Custom Vacations®. Expedia, Inc. also operates international sites in Canada, United Kingdom, Germany, France, Italy, Netherlands and China through its investment in eLong™. Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc. consists of Ticketmaster and Front Line Management Group. As the world’s leading live entertainment ticketing and marketing company, Ticketmaster operates in 19 global markets providing ticket sales, ticket resale services, marketing and distribution through www.ticketmaster.com, one of the largest e-commerce sites on the internet; approximately 6,700 retail outlets and 19 worldwide call centers. Some of Ticketmaster Entertainment, Inc.’s websites include Ticketmaster, TicketsNow, liveDaily, iLike and Emma Entertainment. Since December 1992, beginning with QVC, Mr. Diller has served as chief executive for a number of predecessor companies engaged in media and interactivity prior to the formation of IAC. From October 1984 to April 1992, Mr. Diller served as Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Fox, Inc. and was responsible for the creation of Fox Broadcasting Company in addition to Fox's motion picture operations. Before joining Fox, Mr. Diller served for ten years as the Chairman and Chief Executive of Paramount Pictures Corporation. In March 1983, in addition to Paramount, Mr. Diller became President of the conglomerate's newly formed Entertainment and Communications Group, which included Simon & Schuster, Inc., Madison Square Garden Corporation and SEGA Enterprises, Inc. Prior to joining Paramount, Mr. Diller served as Vice President of Prime Time Television for ABC Entertainment. Mr. Diller was born in San Francisco and raised in Beverly Hills. He serves on the boards of The Washington Post Company and the Coca-Cola Company. He is also a trustee of New York University and serves on the Executive Board for the Medical Sciences at UCLA, in addition to the boards of Conservation International and the Board of Councilors for the School of Cinema-Television at the University of Southern California. Mr. Diller is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mark Johnson is the President and CEO of PRISM. He has been in the staffing industry for 24 years and was one of the founders of PRISM in 1994. He has extensive experience in cultivating client relationships, building internal sales/recruiting teams and leading PRISM for 12 years. Mark is extremely passionate and proud of the accomplishments of PRISM and the recognition by INC magazine, The Washington Business Journal, The Washington Post and numerous Fortune 500 clients as a leader in the technology staffing area.

Clifford M. Sloan is Vice President, Business Development and General Counsel of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive, The Washington Post Company's Internet and new media subsidiary. Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive publishes washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.com. Mr. Sloan oversees all legal matters and business development for the company. He has served in various government positions, including Associate Counsel to the President of the United States (1993-95), Assistant to the Solicitor General at the U.S. Department of Justice (1989-91), Associate Counsel in the Office of Independent Counsel (Iran-Contra) (1987-88) and Law Clerk to Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens and U.S. Court of Appeals Judge J. Skelly Wright. Mr. Sloan also has taught the law of cyberspace as an adjunct professor at Georgetown University Law Center, George Washington University Law School and American University's Washington College of Law.

Bernadette Budde is regarded by many as the dean of Congressional campaign watchers. She is that rarest of political entities: an astute observer, possessed of unblemished integrity, who has maintained a finger on the pulse of the Congressional continuum for a remarkable 15 consecutive election cycles. Thousands of Congressional candidates have passed through Bernadette's office seeking entree to the American business community. For many, it is the first stop on the campaign trail. Why? Business and industry provide an average of $50-80 for every campaign dollar BIPAC contributes - and Bernadette Budde's incisive political analysis drives that first business dollar and virtually all that follow. In more than 30 years at BIPAC, Bernadette's sometimes unpopular, but historically accurate, advice has earned her the apt reputation among candidates as "steel covered in pearls and silk." Among business leaders, media heavyweights and her political peers, her legendary command of campaign and candidate numbers and nuance have earned her the role of trusted "source" and frequent counsel. Bernadette guides the development of all BIPAC's respected political analysis programs, and she initiated "Forward Thinking" and "Thinking Anew," among many firsts on business' road to contemporary political effectiveness. Her voice often leads the organization's conferences and briefings. It is heard frequently in the popular press as well -- whether on ABC News NIGHTLINE challenging the trial bar's political aspirations and the separation of powers, in The New York Times, The Washington Post, or "Business Week" magazine on the sum and substance of candidates and campaigns, or as a power panelist on national radio and television, providing keen commentary on the political contour de jour. Bernadette joined BIPAC as a research analyst in 1970, and was promoted to Director of Political Education in 1974. Ten years later, she became Vice President of Political Education, and was elevated to Senior Vice President in 1993. She is a native of Wisconsin, and holds degrees from Marquette University (from which she graduated Magna Cum Laude) and the University of Maryland. Bernadette can be reached at 202-833-1880 or via e-mail at budde@bipac.org budde@bipac.org .

Mr. John Witschey, Vice President, oversees PMa s internal and freelance copywriting teams.A Mr. Witschey has 22 years experience in direct mail, including copywriting, program design and management for nonprofit and for-profit organizations including the AARP, the National Geographic Society, the Washington Post, Aspen Publishing, Prudential-Bache Securities, Lincoln National Life Insurance, and more than two dozen other organizations.

Patrick Butler is senior vice president of The Washington Post Company, with responsibility for public policy, new business development, and special corporate projects. He is also president of Washington Post Company Productions, supervising the production of non-fiction television programming for PBS (including the Best Documentary Emmy-winning Watergate Plus 30: Shadow of History) and cable networks. In the early 1990s, he chaired PCS Action, a consortium of companies (including the Post Company) that helped launch the digital wireless telecommunications industry. Before joining the Post Company, Butler was Washington vice president of Times Mirror, where he was a founder of the Times Mirror Center for The People & The Press. From 1982 to 1985, he was president of Patrick Butler and Company, a communications consulting firm whose clients included leaders of government, business and media. Previously, he had served as staff vice president of RCA Corporation and as director of corporate public relations for Bristol-Myers Company). In government service, Butler was a speechwriter for President Gerald R. Ford and special assistant to US Senate Majority Leader Howard H. Baker, Jr. of Tennessee. Butler was legislative director and chairman of the Impeachment Task Force for Congressman Lawrence J. Hogan of Maryland during the Nixon impeachment proceedings in 1974. He was a member of the National Council on the Humanities (1988-1994) and chairman of its Public Programs Committee. Butler is chairman of the Dean's Advisory Council of the American University School of Communication, chairman of the Maryland Public Television Foundation, and (as of September 2008) chairman of the corporate advisory board of SOME (So Others Might Eat). He is also a member of the boards of trustees of American University, the Foundation for the National Archives, the Pew Research Center, The Media Institute, the University of Tennessee College of Communication and Information, the National Endowment for Democracy's Center for International Media Assistance, the International Research and Exchange Program, and the Children's Charities Foundation. He was named a DC-CAPtain for his work in securing enactment of the DC College Access Act, under which the federal government pays the difference between in-state and out-of-state tuition for District of Columbia students attending colleges nationwide. Butler began his career in 1966 as a reporter for the Chattanooga News - Free Press and then as City Hall reporter for The Chattanooga Post. He later served as assistant director of public information for the Appalachian Regional Commission and as press secretary and environmental policy advisor to Congressman Wilmer "Vinegar Bend" Mizell of North Carolina. Butler majored in political science at the University of Tennessee. He earned a Master of Arts degree (with distinction) in journalism and public affairs at American University, where he has taught graduate courses on The Press and Politics and on 21st Century Journalism. He studied finance and accounting at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he has been accepted as a Fellow in the Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government.

Daniel J. Lynch is vice president and treasurer of The Washington Post Company. He joined the company in October 1996; he was elected treasurer in 1997 and to his current position in September 2008. Before joining The Washington Post Company, Lynch worked for 18 years in numerous financial, planning, and analysis positions for Mobil Corporation. In addition to his responsibilities at The Washington Post Company, Lynch serves as assistant treasurer of the Philip L. Graham Fund, a private foundation that was established in 1963 for the benefit of charitable, scientific, literary, and educational purposes in the Washington, DC region. He serves as a member of the board of directors of Northern Virginia Family Service. Lynch is a member of the Association for Financial Professionals (AFP) and a member of the Committee on Investment of Employee Benefit Assets (CIEBA). Lynch received a BS (magna cum laude) with majors in math and French from the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester, MA. He holds an MBA from the Columbia University School of Business with a concentration in Finance and Accounting.

Bill Walsh has been a newspaper journalist for more than two decades and is now the chief copy editor for national news at The Washington Post. He is the author of two books on usage and style, Lapsing Into a Comma (2000) and The Elephants of Style (2004), and has run The Slot: A Spot for Copy Editors (www.theslot.com) on the World Wide Web since 1995. A 1984 graduate of the University of Arizona journalism program, Walsh began his career as a reporter at The Phoenix Gazette and has held a variety of copyediting and design positions at the Gazette, The Washington Times, and the Post. He is a regular speaker at American Copy Editors Society conferences and recently joined Copyediting's editorial advisory board.

Tom Shales, chief television critic for the Washington Post since 1977, has written a column for TelevisionWeek (and its predecessor, Electronic Media) since 2000.

John Hurley is the Senior Executive of the Venture Pipeline group, a DLA Piper business unit specifically focused on enhancing the funding prospects of early stage ventures. Led by business professionals with experience in technology, start-ups, and capital markets, the Venture Pipeline actively advises on strategic business issues that are critical to funding. Mr. Hurley works directly with the firm's Corporate and Securities practice group and with the global investment community, leveraging DLA Piper's experience in the emerging growth and venture capital sectors while screening and scrubbing deal flow to match investors' specific needs with appropriately targeted funding sources. Mr. Hurley has advised numerous emerging growth technology companies on various aspects of their business plans, including management and recruiting issues, market development, strategic partnerships and financing strategies. He has helped more than 25 firms raise capital through DLA Piper's collective global network of angel, venture, institutional, and strategic investors. Before joining DLA Piper, Mr. Hurley was the founder and president of The LMR Company, a management consulting firm focused on creating and implementing business development, fundraising, and branding solutions for venture capital, technology, and service sector clients. His more than 15 years of operating, business development, and marketing experience also includes founding and publishing TECHcapital magazine and senior vice president for Post-Newsweek Business Information, Inc., a subsidiary of The Washington Post Company. He also served as PNBI's vice president of entrepreneurial ventures (1994-1997) and its CFO/director of operations (1991-1994). He regularly speaks on issues related to raising venture capital and has appeared before seminar audiences at Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland, and VA CIT Breakfast with Experts. He has been featured in the Washington Business Journal, Regardie's Power magazine, Potomac Tech Journal, and Mass High Tech, the journal of New England technology.

Benjamin Crowninshield Bradlee (born August 26, 1921) is the vice president of the Washington Post. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts. He attended Harvard University, graduating in 1942. He started working for the Washington Post in 1948 as a reporter. As a reporter in the 1950s, he became close friends with Senator John F. Kennedy, who lived nearby. He became vice president and executive editor of the Post in 1968. As managing editor of the Post from 1965 to 1991, he challenged the federal government over the right to publish the Pentagon papers. He became famous for overseeing the publication of Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein's stories documenting the Watergate Scandal. For decades, Bradlee was one of only four publicly known people who knew the true identity of Deep Throat, the other three being Woodward, Bernstein, and Deep Throat himself. Bradlee retired as executive editor in September 1991 but continues to serve as vice president of the paper. Bradlee published an autobiography in 1995, A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures. He had an acting role in the 1993 remake of the 1950 romantic comedy Born Yesterday. He also appears as a character in the 1976 film All the President's Men, where he is portrayed by Jason Robards.

John Alderman is general manager of the Slate Group and publisher of Slate . In addition to his leadership role at Slate , Alderman is vice president of business development at Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. He was previously vice president of ...

Keith T. Tomatore is vice president of sales development and operations for Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive. He is responsible for ad operations, sales development, strategic planning, pricing and positioning for advertisements sold in conjunction with WPNI properties on interactive platforms. Keith oversees a department of professionals whose role is to develop, implement and steward innovative and integrated media plans and relationship programs for advertisers. In addition, Keith manages product development for two of WPNIa s properties, Newsweek.com and BudgetTravelOnline. He works directly with their print counterparts to ensure consistent content positioning and innovation across all platforms. Keith also works with advertisers on those sites to create unique and creative advertising solutions that take advantage of their interactive medium. Keith is a member of the Customer Experience Councils, private forums for senior executives who share best practices on customer experience, and he regularly represents Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive through presentations and speaking engagements at industry conferences. Prior to joining WPNI in 1996, Tomatore developed extensive experience in company operations management. He worked with G. Brodrick and Associates, a meeting planning firm in Atlanta, where he had responsibility for all day-to-day operations. He was in charge of operations at Camelio L.L.C., an Atlanta-based design firm. Tomatore managed the consumer products division at Swiss Army Brands, where he also implemented company-wide prioritization and training mechanisms. At Connecticut National Bank, he managed the workflow division of the operations facility. Tomatore graduated from The American University with a Master's in Public Administration, focusing on organizational development.

Lionel Neptune is The Washington Post's vice president of affiliates. After working as an intern for the newspaper in the summer of 1985, Neptune joined The Washington Post full-time the following year. He spent his first year working in each of the major operating departments before becoming a permanent outside sales representative for the Advertising department in 1987. Neptune was promoted to the assistant to the publisher position in 1990, where he co-authored speeches and worked on ad hoc projects for the publisher, Don Graham. Neptune joined the newspaper's Budget Unit as its manager in 1991 and was promoted to director of the unit in 1993. In 1998, Neptune became the director of affiliates, and assumed responsibility for newsprint acquisition and production of the newspaper's outer-county, weekly, community tabloids. In September 2000, Neptune was promoted to vice president/affiliates, assuming responsibility for several of the newspaper's subsidiaries. These include the Robinson Terminal Warehouse, the Capital Fiber paper recycling facility, the National Weekly paper, and the Los Angeles Times/Washington Post News Service. Neptune has served on the board of directors for Prevent Child Abuse of Metropolitan Washington, the Metropolitan YMCA, the Anthony Bowen YMCA, and the African Continuum Theater Company. Neptune also served on the board of the Calvary Women's Shelter, an organization for which he has volunteered for the last 14 years. He has mentored area high school students for more than a decade and served as co-chairperson of The Post's annual United Way campaign since 1995. An avid runner who completed the Marine Corps Marathon in 1998 and 2000, and the New York Marathon in 2005, Neptune was born in New York City and raised in Plymouth, N.C. He is a 1982 graduate of Duke, earning a BS degree in Mechanical Engineering, and a 1986 graduate of Harvard Business School, where he received a Masters in Business Administration. He lives in Bowie, Md., with his wife, Kelli, and sons Devin and Jalen.

As vice president of advertising sales, Steve Stup is responsible for advertising product planning, strategic account management, sales force management and advertising fulfillment for all of Washingtonpost.Newsweek Interactive's Web properties, including washingtonpost.com and Newsweek.MSNBC.com. Stup has been with WPNI since October 1997. He has been involved with online since 1991, first selling for Lexis Nexis and then moving to packaging newswires, Web sites and online for Comtex News from 1994 to 1997. He began his career in sales in 1986 selling office equipment. Steve has an MBA from George Washington University and is a graduate of Virginia Tech.

Herman Maldonado is a visual communicator with 20 years experience in design, art direction and electronic media production. He taught electronic media design at the Corcoran College of Art in Washington DC, and as a trainer for AT&T, MCI and PBS. As consulting art director for the Washington Post, Herman played a leading role in shaping their online presence. Fluent in Spanish and English, Herman is a graduate of the New York High School of Art and Design and a veteran of two tours in the US Marine Corps. Today, he uses his rare combination of technical aptitude and artistic talent to great effect on our most challenging assignments.

George Wilson is chairman of the board of Newspapers of New England, Inc., a publisher of family-owned newspapers in New Hampshire, The Concord Monitor, The Valley News and The Monadnock Ledger, and, in Massachusetts, The Greenfield Recorder. He has resided in Concord, New Hampshire, with his wife, Marily, and been associated with the Concord Monitor, since 1962.