Sdb Partners Llc And Intelligence Decision Partners Form Strategic Alliance

Aug. 3, 2011 - PRLog -- August 3, 2011
Washington DC –  

SDB Partners LLC (http://www.sdb-partners.com) and Intelligent Decision Partners(http://www.intelligentdecisionpartners.com) have formed a strategic alliance to support their defense and homeland security clients.

SDB Partners offers global access to hard markets in the fields of defense, homeland security, and revolutionary technologies. Intelligent Decision Partners provides unique market guidance for large and small companies in need of market information, access to clients, and information about competition.

SDB Partners LLC is headed by Dr. Stephen Bryen, former President of Finmeccanica North America who also served as a senior defense official and founder and first director of the Defense Technology Security Administration. SDB Partners has a US and global team of proven defense and homeland security experts who combine high level government and industry experience.

"I believe our relationship with Intelligent Decision Partners will strengthen our ability to support our clients. IDP are clearly leaders in corporate intelligence gathering," says SDB Partners CEO, Stephen Bryen.

Intelligent Decision Partners is managed by Jordan Berliner, Dr. Maria Velz de Berliner, and Michael Marks.

Jordan Berliner is an expert in helping businesses improve their operations, tactics and strategies. Using human intelligence as hard data along with inferential and pattern determination, he develops in depth analysis and practical recommendations for action toward achievable goals. With a scientific background, Jordan was a senior executive with several Fortune 500 and mid-cap companies, including Abbott Laboratories, Applied Biosystems, Cygnus Therapeutic Systems, and Fisher Scientific Company. He was a Director with Ernst & Young LLP, where he helped rebuild two of their key global practices and developed the human intelligence feedback process they now use.

Dr. Maria Velez de Berliner is a recognized subject-matter expert on the identification and analysis of regulatory, political, economic, social, and cultural risk worldwide. An area of specialization is Latin America including business practices, security, and illegal organizations. Her clients include the US Army and Air Force.  She also works with international business organizations on building their global operations.

Michael Marks is a senior Washington-based executive, with 30 years of public and private sector experience in international affairs and national security issues, technology competitiveness, innovative open source intelligence methodologies, and business development in the federal government marketplace. In government Mr. Marks was a Senior Policy Adviser to the Office of Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA); Assistant Director, Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), Executive Office of the President; Senior Policy Adviser to the Under Secretary for Security Assistance, Science and Technology, U.S. Department of State; and Legislative Assistant for Foreign Affairs and National Security for Senator Jake Garn.

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SDB Partners (http://www.sdb-partners.com) is a team of top professionals who are leaders in defense, aerospace, technology and homeland security. Our offices are global and our ability to help firms market successfully in hard markets is unparalleled. The SDB Partners team is led by Dr. Stephen Bryen (http://www.stephenbryen.org).