Vic Tise is a consultant with CG AMERICAS (Consulting Group of the Americas, LLC), an international business consulting firm that advises government agencies and Fortune 1000 companies in Canada, Mexico, and the United States with offices in Denver, Colorado and Mexico City, Mexico. Mr. Tise manages CG AMERICAS Southern Colorado office. Mr. Tise serves as International Security Consultant and supervises CG AMERICAS Southern Colorado Office serving Colorado Springs, Pueblo, and Trinidad. He is an expert in corporate security advising Fortune 500 corporations and mid-size enterprises on intelligence and security operations including threat assessments, physical safety for employees, and personal security for business travelers. Mr. Tise is fluent in English and Spanish and has conversational Portuguese language skills. In February 2000, Mr. Tise retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel after serving as a Military Intelligence officer and Latin America Foreign Area officer for over 22 years. In the U.S. Army, he developed expertise in Tactical, Joint, Combined and Interagency intelligence collections and operations for conventional and non-conventional warfare and counter-drug operations. In addition to working with national level intelligence agencies, Mr. Tise trained the national police, armed forces, and advised military and civilian intelligence organizations in Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Korea, Japan, and Thailand. His last operational posting was Director of Information and Intelligence for U.S. Forces and the United Nations Mission in Haiti (June 1995 - March 1996). In his last assignment, Mr. Tise served as Assistant Professor of Political Science and Senior Army Officer at the U.S. Air Force Academy. At the Academy, he taught classes on American Government, International Relations and served as principal instructor for courses on Latin American Politics, Intelligence and Politics, Managing Regional Conflict, Violence and Terrorism. Prior to joining CG Americas, Mr. Tise served as a Senior Engineer in the Americas Engineering Group of MCI-WorldCom. He project-managed the launching of cross-border Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) services between MCI-WorldCom and Bell Canada. Mr. Tise also developed operational service support procedures for MCI-WorldCom's Global Data Link network throughout South America and for a Network-to-Network Interface (NNI) connecting WorldCom's International Frame Relay network with Brazil's EMBRATEL. A native of New Mexico, Mr. Tise received a B.S. degree in General Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy (USMA) at West Point, New York in 1977. He received an M.A. degree in International Relations - Latin America Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1986. E-mail: vtise@cgamericas.com