About Tenable

Advisory Board

 

Don Fierce – Founder of Fierce & Associates

Don Fierce is the founder of Fierce & Associates, which in 1998 was renamed Fierce & Isakowitz and is today Fierce, Isakowitz & Blalock. In 1993, Mr. Fierce took a leave of absence from his previous firm to serve at the Republican National Committee. At the RNC, he held the position of Director of Strategic Planning and Congressional Affairs. As Director, he was the chief liaison to Republican members of the House and Senate as well as providing strategic planning for gubernatorial and congressional races. Don worked directly with the Republican leadership to coordinate legislative and communication strategy.

Don began his career in government and politics in 1969 while working in the office of Congressman Jim Broyhill of North Carolina. In 1970, he left to manage the successful campaign of Congressman Lamar Baker of Tennessee. Following that victory, he served on Capitol Hill as a legislative assistant for three years to Congressman Walter Powell. In 1973, Don entered the Nixon/Ford Administration in the office of Congressional Affairs at the General Services Administration. Three years later he joined the Ford for President campaign as a regional field director responsible for five states. During the Reagan Administration, Don served as a consultant to Lee Atwater for three years. During his career he has consulted on numerous congressional, senatorial and presidential campaigns. In 1994, he was instrumental in developing and implementing the Republican plan to regain majority control in both the House of Representatives and the Senate.

Dr. Julian Lange – Associate Professor at Babson College

Dr. Julian E. Lange is known internationally for his teaching and research in entrepreneurship, and for the practical application of the principles of entrepreneurship to business and government. Dr. Lange is an Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and the Benson Distinguished Entrepreneurship Fellow at Babson College, where he teaches MBA, undergraduate and executive education courses in new venture creation and venture growth strategies. He serves as faculty advisor to the Babson Seed Capital Fund and administers the business plan competitions. He previously served as faculty director of the Price-Babson REFLECT conference for entrepreneurs and entrepreneurship educators, and as faculty advisor to the Babson Entrepreneurial Exchange and the Babson Entrepreneurial Review. Dr. Lange has also previously served as assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School.

Dr. Lange is a Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude graduate of Princeton University. He also holds an MBA from Harvard Business School, and an AM and PhD in Economics from Harvard University. Dr. Lange, an accomplished entrepreneur, was CEO of Software Arts, the company that created VisiCalc – the world's first electronic spreadsheet. Dr. Lange is also founder and president of Chatham Associates, a management consulting firm to business and government. Dr. Lange has more than twenty-five years experience advising a wide variety of businesses and organizations including start-ups, mid-sized and Fortune 500 companies, and government agencies.

Dr. Lange has developed, directed, and taught in numerous executive education programs, and has also served on boards of private sector firms and public agencies. Dr. Lange's research interest focuses on venture capital and angel investing, distance learning, high growth entrepreneurial ventures, public entrepreneurship, the use of technology in entrepreneurship training and education, corporate entrepreneurship, and Internet opportunities for entrepreneurial firms. He has published articles in leading journals including the Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Venture Capital, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, and International Management. He has also co-authored a book on the construction industry and has contributed chapters on entrepreneurship to leading texts. Dr. Lange's commentary on entrepreneurship topics has appeared on National Public Radio and in TV interviews, in the American and international press, and in such publications as The Wall Street Journal, The Boston Globe, USA Today, Money Magazine, and the Boston Business Journal.

John Tritak – CEO of Tritak Consulting

John Tritak is the CEO of Tritak Consulting, Inc., a provider of consulting services to Fortune 100 firms that want to stay abreast of policy decisions as it relates to the U.S. critical infrastructure protection. Prior to forming Tritak Consulting, Mr. Tritak was the former Director of the Critical Infrastructure Assurance Office (CIAO). In that role, Mr. Tritak was a member of President Bush's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board and was responsible for coordinating the development of the Administration's National Strategy for Critical Infrastructure Protection to address threats to the Nation's communications and electronic systems, transportation, energy, banking and finance, health and medical services, water supply, and key government services. He was also responsible for assisting Federal departments and agencies in identifying their dependencies on critical infrastructure under the Project Matrix program, and coordinating national awareness and outreach efforts to private industry and State and Local governments.

Before joining the CIAO, Mr. Tritak was an attorney with the law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand, Chartered. As a member of the firm's federal practice group, Mr. Tritak provided advice and counsel on wide range of legal, legislative and policy matters, including critical infrastructure protection, to domestic and international clients in the defense, telecommunications, and transportation industries.

Mr. Tritak served as Deputy Director for Defense Relations and Security Assistance in the State Department's Bureau of Politico-Military Affairs, where he was responsible for coordinating U.S. efforts in security assistance and defense trade in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. As Deputy Director of the Bureau's Office of Policy Analysis, he advised on matters relating to postwar Persian Gulf security. He also served as a State Department adviser to the U.S. delegation negotiating the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty in Geneva, Switzerland, and was a deputy political adviser to U.S. Central Command in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, during Operation Desert Shield. Mr. Tritak previously served as a consultant on national security and military matters at Pacific Sierra Research. Mr. Tritak received a B.S. in political science from the State University of New York at Brockport, an M.A. in War Studies from the University of London, Kings College, and earned his J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center.