Ambassador (Rtd) Howard Gutman is the Managing Director of The Gutman Group, an international consulting and advisory practice focusing on energy, sustainability, finance, trade, infrastructure, real estate, market access, and strategic foreign policy issues www.gutmangroup.com. He is a leading advisor to the U.S. offshore wind, dredging and marine biodegradable polymers industries as well as to supply chain companies in the alternative energy space. He serves as a Member of the Board of Directors of Algernon Pharmaceuticals, https//:algernonpharmaceuticals.com and has served on the Board of Exmar, a leading independent LNG and LPG Carrier Owner and of DTH (Downtown Holding) Partners LLC, a New York real estate development company. He is.also a Senior Advisor to Pennington Partners, a DC multi-platformed wealth advisory firm, www.penningtonpartners.co, Muzinich & Co., a NY based corporate credit firm http://www.muzinich.com/. He is Chairman of Jenda, the leading e-commerce digital solution for the spirits, wine and beer industry. www.jendasolutions.com. He is the host of "As I See It", a political commentary show on the Audacy app and WRVA Richmond and the Co-host with his son Collin of the Washington Commanders Post-Game Show on 910 The Fan Richmond and the Audacy app.He is on the Board of the AJC in DC, the leading global organization fighting anti-semitism. He also advises several start-up companies and a frequent speaker at conferences represented by the London Speakers Bureau.After being nominated by President Obama, he served as the U.S. Ambassador to Belgium until 2013, becoming the third longest serving U.S. ambassador to Belgium . Ambassador (Rtd.) Gutman has been called “the most popular ambassador ever” by one Belgian newspaper and “The Ambassador Who Made Us Love America Again” by a leading Belgian magazine. Before being named Ambassador, Howard Gutman was a partner with the Washington D.C. law firm of Williams & Connolly LLP. He is also a former Special Assistant to the Director of the FBI for Counter-Intelligence and Counter-Terrorism and a former law clerk to U.S. Supreme Court Justices Potter Stewart and Sandra Day O'Connor and a former U.S. Court of Appeals law clerk on the 5th Circuit. He is a sought after speaker and political commentator appearing on Fox News, MSNBC and CNN. He has also appeared in several movies and television programs including Fame (2009), Noise (2007) and K Street.