Board Members

Harry Feuerstein

Bio

H. Lowell Brown

H. Lowell Brown is an attorney whose practice focuses on compliance. Mr. Brown advises clients on implementing programs of compliance and conducts investigations into possible violations of law or company policy. Mr. Brown has also been appointed as special compliance monitor for the Raytheon Company and the DIRECTV Group to oversee their compliance with the requirements of consent agreements entered into with the U.S. Government. In addition, Mr. Brown has been engaged by the trustees of a prominent private college to investigate possible mismanagement by the college's president and to advise the board on enhanced controls.

From 1991 through 2000, Mr. Brown was Assistant General Counsel of Northrop Grumman Corporation where he advised the company and its board of directors on matters of compliance, including compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act. While at Northrop, Mr. Brown was responsible for internal corporate investigations and for representing the company in governmental investigations.

Mr. Brown began his career as Assistant United States Attorney for the District of Columbia. Mr. Brown also served as Assistant General Counsel of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. Mr. Brown was in private law practice in Washington, D.C., where he was a partner in the law firm of Heron, Burchette, Ruckert and Rothwell. Since leaving Northrop, Mr. Brown has practiced law in Maine and from 2004 through 2006, Mr. Brown was counsel to the firm of Cadwalader, Wickersham and Taft. Mr. Brown currently serves as a director of two foreign-owned corporations that provide goods and services to the U.S. Government. In addition, Mr. Brown chairs the Board of Trustees of the Bangor Theological Seminary and serves as a member of the board of Opportunity Farm for Boys and Girls.

Mr. Brown is a member of the adjunct faculty of the University of Maine School of Law and is a frequent speaker on White Collar Crime. He has written law review and journal articles concerning compliance programs as well as the ethical and legal issues facing corporate counsel in regard to internal investigations. Mr. Brown has written numerous articles on various aspects of compliance with the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act and is the author of a treatise on the Act entitled Bribery in International Commerce, published by Thomson-West. He is also the author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors in Presidential Impeachment, published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Mr. Brown is admitted to practice law in California, the District of Columbia and in Maine.

William T. Vinson

William T. Vinson is a Director and the Chairman of Siemens Government Services, Inc., a provider of Siemens technologies and solutions to the Federal marketplace; a Director and Chairman of SAP Government Support and Services, Inc., which provides business software, technical products and maintenance to the Federal marketplace, and a Director and the Chairman of the Westminster Free Clinic (pro bono), which provides free medical services to the homeless and working poor. He also has assisted a number of major corporations in acquisition and corporate governance matters.

Vinson retired in 1998 (early retirement) as the Vice President and Chief Counsel of the Lockheed Martin Corporation. He previously served as Vice President and General Counsel of Lockheed Corporation (1992) and prior to that as Vice President-Secretary and Assistant General Counsel of Lockheed Corporation (1990).

Vinson joined Lockheed in 1975 as an attorney, serving as counsel on various major domestic and international programs, including those related to fleet ballistic missiles, strategic defense, space station, international launch joint ventures, offshore oil recovery and commercial ocean mining. In 1990 he moved to the Corporate Headquarters where he served as counsel to management in a number of diverse legal situations including proxy contests, export and import regulations (DoD Controlled Information), major litigation, issues involving the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), and mergers and acquisitions.

Prior to joining Lockheed, Vinson served as a trial attorney for Phillips Petroleum Company and prior to that was a member of the Air Force Judge Advocate General (JAG) department.

Vinson has a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Air Force Academy and received a Doctor of Juris Prudence degree from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).

Vinson is certified to practice law in California and is a member of the State Bar of California. Vinson retired from the Air Force Reserves in 1987 at the rank of Lt. Colonel. He has been a speaker on numerous occasions in the areas of U.S. Government Procurement Law, Corporate Governance, Mergers and Acquisitions and the FCPA, and has been included in "Who's Who in American Law" and "Who's Who in America". Vinson's interests include fly-fishing and coaching youth soccer.

Vinson is married with two grown children.