Dubai, United Arab Emirates - July 8, 2009, Dubai, United Arab Emirates - Global Strategies Group named John Hassoun as CEO of the Integrated Security Line of Business; George Diab as Managing Director of Middle East & Africa; Mark Skinner as President of Integrated Security in the United States and Ted Timberlake as Vice President, General Counsel and Director of Contracts of Integrated Security in the United States.
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Mr. Hassoun brings tremendous depth of experience, having previously served as a Chief Executive Officer in the security industry and prior to that he held numerous leadership positions with Veridian Corporation and was the Vice President/General Manager for Engineering Development and Integration Services with General Dynamics. John began his career working in the US Air Force.
Mr. Diab joins Global as Managing Director of the Middle East & Africa Strategic Business Unit, headquartered in Dubai, UAE. Mr. Diab brings significant technical and international expertise to GLOBAL with over 30 years of experience managing large systems integration projects across the defence, energy, aviation and telecommunications sectors, holding senior roles in companies such as Honeywell, Eaton Corporation, General Electric and General Dynamics and working around the world to implement projects in places such as North America, Russia, Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan, Uzbekistan, the Middle East and beyond.
Mr. Skinner, President of Integrated Security in the United States, provides operational leadership and oversight for all commercial, corporate and financial activities carried out within the US Strategic Business Unit. Mr. Skinner joins Global from the National Security Division of USIS where he was Vice President, Business Development. Prior to USIS, he served as Senior Vice President of Marketing and Business Development for EAI Corporation and directed all system integrator alliances for the government sector on a worldwide basis for Adobe Systems Incorporated. He is based at the GLOBAL office in McLean, Virginia.
Mr. Timberlake joins GLOBAL as Vice President, General Counsel and Director of Contracts - Integrated Security, in the United States Strategic Business Unit, based in McLean, Virginia. Mr. Timberlake has more than 26 years of experience in federal government engineering and technical services, systems engineering and integration, integrated security and information technology contracting and has worked as an in-house legal counsel for billion-dollar defence and intelligence companies. ■