Kyle Olson is President of the Alexandria, Virginia-based Olson Group, Ltd., and is one of the nation’s leading authorities on high-technology terrorism and preparedness. A preeminent leader/facilitator of high-impact, high profile working groups and exercises, Mr. Olson has provided his expertise and imagination to a broad range of Federal, state and local homeland security and counterterrorism efforts. Mr. Olson’s clients have included the U.S. Departments of Homeland Security, Defense, Justice, and Labor, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Central Intelligence Agency, Federal Emergency Management Agency, and dozens of states and cities, including New York, Los Angeles, and Boston, as well as Fortune 500 corporations. He has worked with all of them in the development of procedures for preventing and, if necessary, responding to acts of terrorism; Mr. Olson has also worked to enhance security preparations at National Special Security Events, including the XIX Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City, the 2004 Democratic and Republican National Conventions, the 2004 G8 Summit, and the recent Presidential Inauguration. Mr. Olson is widely cited by the international media; he has been interviewed by major broadcast news organizations from around the world, and has been featured on such programs as 60 Minutes, Nightline, Today, and Dateline.Mr. Olson was a principal in, and led the growth of Community Research Associates, Inc., a provider of homeland security-related services, from $4 Million to $20 Million in sales. As an independent consultant, Mr. Olson worked with the United Nations and U.S. and European firms on technical strategies for the destruction of Iraqi chemical weapons following the Gulf War, and on problems surrounding former Soviet chemical weapons stockpiles.Specialties: Terrorism prevention and responseExercise design and conductFacilitationWeapons of mass destructionEmergency management