PHIL GARDNER, Managing Partner

Mr. Gardner entered the business world after seven years with the U.S. Navy as a Strike Fighter Pilot & Ordnance Requirements Officer. After receiving a Masters in Business Administration from the Harvard Business School, he joined Goldman, Sachs & Co. in Mergers & Acquisitions and later became an associate with McKinsey & Company in Boston, MA. In 1996, Phil left McKinsey to become one of the founders of Provant, Inc. - a publicly-traded training company serving the Fortune 1000 and Federal Government. He left Provant in 2000 to launch the Institute for Applied Network Security. Besides being a Harvard Business School Graduate, Mr. Gardner also received a degree from Harvard College and graduated at the top of his class in US Navy Flight School.