SLAVKO ILIC
Slavko Ilic is a Security Consultant, an internationally active Close Protection operative as well as an internationally recognized martial artist and use of force instructor. He has trained close protection teams, Special Forces personnel, police officers, airport security personnel, and a wide range of security professionals. Slavko has provided close protection services to royalty, religious figures, business executives and diplomats in low to high-risk environment in North America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia. At present he operates a private firm, where he personally provides high risk security services and training to corpo- rate and private clients and conducts Threat, Risk, Vulnerability assessments, use of force, Close Protection, and firearms training as well as and broad based security consultations. He has recently worked as a security contractor in Iraq for a US based private security com- pany.

DOUG BROOKS
Doug Brooks is President of the International Peace Operations Association - IPOA, a nonprofit association of private companies seeking to improve international peacekeeping efforts through greater privatization. He is a specialist on African security issues and is Adjunct Faculty at American University and a Research Associate with the South African Institute of International Affairs in Johan- nesburg. Mr. Brooks has written extensively on the regulation of private military services and their potential use for international stabilization, peacekeeping and humanitarian missions, especially in Africa.

He has appeared on CNN International, BBC, CBS News, NBC News, National Public Radio, Brazilian Globo Television, Voice of America, SABC in South Africa, Lehrer News Hour and Russian television.

FRANCES STONOR SAUNDERS
Frances Stonor Saunders graduated from Oxford in 1987. She has worked as an indepen- dent documentary producer for television and also writes and presents radio documentaries. Her first book, Who Paid the Piper? The CIA and the Cultural Cold War (Granta) was pub- lished in 1999, and won the Royal Historical Society’s Gladstone Prize. It has been trans- lated into ten languages.

She spent five years researching and writing a study of medieval mercenaries, published in the UK as Hawkwood: Diabolical Englishman (Faber & Faber), and in the US as The Devil’s Broker (Fourth Estate, July 2005). It tells the story of John Hawkwood (Giovanni Acuto), leader of the White Company and one of the most famous mercenaries of all time.

JOHN F. MULLINS
John Mullins joined the Army after graduating from high school and he quickly transitioned to Special Forces, becoming a medic on an “A” Team and making his first of three trips to Vietnam in 1963. Following his final tour, he worked on assignments in Europe, Central and South America, and the Middle East, engaging in training and advisory roles, often in high- risk situations for a decade.

John retired as a Major in 1982, and immediately went back to the Middle East, eventually becoming a freelance consultant, for the U.S. government, corporate and private clients, and selected friendly foreign governments. In 1994 Mullins once again retired. He now provides expert advice on aviation and other transportation security in the United States and through- out the world. In his free time writes novels and non-fiction. He also served as a consultant on the best-selling videogame, “Soldier of Fortune”, providing his name, image and expertise to the publishers.