Homeland Security Investors Conference opens tonight

Published 10 December 2007

More than 300 middle-market homeland security industry executives, investors, and prime defense contractors who are looking to exploit opportunities afforded by the growth in the homeland security and government services market will attend homeland security investors conference

The second Homeland Security Investor Conference (HSIC) will open this evening with a reception at the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C. The conference has attracted more than 300 middle-market homeland security industry executives, investors, and prime defense contractors who are looking to exploit opportunities afforded by the growth in the homeland security and government services market are expected to attend this invitation-only event. The conference is organized by CapitalSource, Civitas Group, and USBX Advisory Services. Speakers will highlight some of the most promising middle-market investment and business development opportunities in the global homeland security and government services market. The event will provide a forum for more than thirty middle-market businesses and their CEOs to showcase their companies to industry leaders, private equity investors, and prime defense contractors.

The keynote speaker will be Tom Ridge, former Pennsylvania governor and the first DHS secretary. Ridge now heads the Ridge Global, a Washington, D.C.- based strategic consulting firm.

CapitalSource, Civitas Group, and USBX Advisory Services created the conference to provide large global security companies, investors, and government services representatives a first look at new business and investment opportunities from companies developing products and services in the homeland security and government services industry. The conference also gives government agencies researching new technologies insights into emerging technological and business solutions. The Homeland Security Investor Conference will allow 30-minute presentations for CEOs of leading companies from five sectors in the homeland security market: Intelligence and data management, weapons of mass destruction /screening technologies, public safety and security, critical infrastructure protection, and identity solutions.

In coming issues of the Daily Wire we will offer profiles of some of these companies and details of the technologies and solutions they have developed.