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George Tenet Joins Qinetiq Board

Wed, October 25, 2006

Source: Qinetiq

QinetiQ Group plc, the international defence and security technology company, yesterday announced the appointment of George Tenet...

QinetiQ Group plc, the international defence and security technology company, yesterday announced the appointment of George Tenet as an independent non-executive director, with immediate effect. Tenet was one of the longest serving directors in the history of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), holding office from 1997 to 2004.

Tenet was sworn in as the 18th director of Central Intelligence in July 1997, and under presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush led efforts to rebuild and modernise the CIA’s capacity to acquire, analyse and disseminate critical intelligence information. Prior to this appointment he held the positions of CIA deputy director and acting director.

Commenting on the appointment, QinetiQ’s chairman Sir John Chisholm, said: “I am extremely pleased to welcome George Tenet to QinetiQ. His extraordinary track record and experience in the fields of intelligence and security are particularly relevant as we continue to focus on the US defence and security market.”

He added: “We now have a full complement of non-executive directors, all of whom bring outstanding expertise to the company.”

Tenet said: “I am looking forward with great enthusiasm to working with the QinetiQ team. I am especially interested in the capacity of the company’s technologies to meet a number of the challenges faced by our nations’ military and intelligence personnel.”

Other senior posts held during Tenet’s distinguished career in US federal government include staff director of the Senate Committee on Intelligence and membership of the National Security Council. He is currently a professor at Washington’s Georgetown University, a board director of Guidance Software Inc and L-1 Identity Solutions and sits on the advisory board of The Analysis Corporation.

Tenet was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States’ highest civilian honour, in December 2004. He has received numerous foreign decorations, being the first American to receive the Egyptian Order of Merit (First Class) and the first non-Canadian to be awarded the Canadian Security Intelligence Service Gold Medal.

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