Dr. Michael G. Vickers is an Executive Vice President at In-Q-Tel, a Principal with the Telemus Group, a senior advisor to the Boston Consulting Group, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and on several corporate, non-profit and government boards. Vickers completed his government services as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI) where he was the principal intelligence advisor to the Secretary of Defense following his service as the Assistant Secretary of Defense (Special Operations/Low-Intensity Conflict & Interdependent Capabilities). Before joining the Defense Department, Vickers served in the Army Special Forces as both a non-commissioned officer and commissioned officer, as well as a Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary operations officer from their elite Special Activities Division. He holds a Ph.D. from Johns Hopkins University.