Board of Directors
 Frank J. Cilluffo Chairman of the Board |
 Gregg Gittler CEO of NCAP and Board Member |
 R.P. Eddy Board Member |
 Richard Esposito Board Member |
The NCAP is governed by a four-member Board of Directors. Collectively, they bring decades of experience in law, national security and journalism to their mission of shaping the Consortium into an organization that provides outstanding training, education and technical assistance programs to state and local police and their public safety partners.
Mr. Frank J. Cilluffo is an Associate Vice President at The George Washington University, Mr. Cilluffo leads GW's homeland security efforts on policy, research, education, and training. He directs the multi-disciplinary Homeland Security Policy Institute, a unique, nonpartisan “think and do tank” that builds bridges between theory and practice to advance homeland security through a multi and interdisciplinary approach. Mr. Cilluffo co-chairs the Homeland Security Policy Institute's (HSPI) Ambassadors Roundtable Series on International Collaboration to Combat Terrorism and Insurgencies, moderates the Institute's Policy and Research Forums, which spotlight cutting-edge policy solutions and innovative research, and facilitates a variety of other programmatic events. Mr. Cilluffo joined George Washington University in April 2003 from the White House where he served as Special Assistant to the President for Homeland Security. Shortly following the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks on the United States, Mr. Cilluffo was appointed by the President to the newly created Office of Homeland Security, and served as a principal advisor to Governor Tom Ridge. Prior to his White House appointment, Mr. Cilluffo spent eight years in senior policy positions with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), a Washington-based think tank. At CSIS he chaired or directed numerous committees and task forces on homeland defense, counterterrorism, transnational crime, and information warfare and information assurance.
Mr. Gregg J. Gittler is the Managing Partner of the law firm Gittler & Bradford. Mr. Gittler earned both his undergraduate degree in political science (summa cum laude, honors, and Phi Beta Kappa) and his Juris Doctorate degree (1973) from Stanford University. He later served on the Board of Stanford Law School. Mr. Gittler successfully completed judicial clerkships with the Chief Judge of the California Court of Appeals in San Francisco and the Chief Justice of the United States District Court (Southern District of California). Professional activities have included memberships in the Los Angeles County Bar Association (Trial Lawyers, Executive Committee), Southern California Defense Counsel Association and the Beverly Hills Board of Governors. Mr. Gittler has served as a judge pro tem in the Los Angeles County Municipal Court, and currently serves as an arbitrator for various organizations.
Mr. R.P. Eddy is the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Ergo, a unique global research and advisory firm that combines internal expertise with a global network of industry professionals and in-country teams. Mr. Eddy has worked extensively with domestic and international law enforcement agencies, such as the LAPD, the NYPD, the United Nations, and various multinational corporations, on terrorism and security issues. He is a founding member of ICTAC—The International Counter-Terrorism Academic Community. Mr. Eddy has also served in various posts in the U.S. Government National Security arena and as a United Nations Diplomat. These included a position as the Senior Policy Officer to the United Nations Secretary-General. Prior to joining the UN, Mr. Eddy served in various positions as Director of Counterterrorism at the White House National Security Council; Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Richard Holbrooke; Senior Advisor for Intelligence and Counterterrorism to the Secretary of Energy; and as a U.S. representative to international negotiations, including the creation of the International Criminal Court and peace negotiations in Angola and Rwanda. Mr. Eddy, who founded the Center for Policing Terrorism after the 9/11 attacks, is now a Senior Fellow for National Security at the Manhattan Institute for Policy Research. In 2001, Mr. Eddy was honored as one of 100 World Economic Forum (Davos) Global Leaders for Tomorrow. He is the co-chair of Los Angeles City Counterterrorism Committee. Mr. Eddy is a member of the Council of Foreign Relations and was selected by the Center for American Progress and Foreign Policy Magazine as one of "100 of America's most esteemed terrorism and national security experts."
Mr. Richard Esposito is a news reporter with 25 years of newspaper and television experience. He is a winner of the 2005 George Polk Award for Television Reporting as a result of his reporting on the Central Intelligence Agency. He has earned awards for his reporting on crime and criminal justice, national security, and investigations of abuses of official authority. He has overseen investigations and run the metropolitan news operations at two of the nation’s largest newspapers. Currently he reports for ABC News. As City Editor of New York Newsday he was a member of the newspaper’s team that won the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Local Reporting. He twice before had been a member of Pulitzer Press nominated finalist teams - in 1980 at the New York Daily News and in 1991 at Newsday. He is an Emmy Award nominee for Investigative Journalism. Mr. Esposito is the co-author with Ted Gerstein of Bomb Squad: A Year Inside the Nation’s Most Exclusive Police Unit (Hyperion, 2007) and of one prior non-fiction book: Dead on Delivery (Warner Books, 1992) with Robert Stutman.