Irving B. Yoskowitz joined Constellation Energy as Executive Vice President & General Counsel in 2005. In this role, he is responsible for the company's legal strategies and policies, including corporate governance and compliance, mergers and acquisitions, and litigation. Most recently, Mr. Yoskowitz served as Senior Partner of Global Technology Partners, LLC, an investment banking and consulting firm focusing on the aerospace, defense and technology sectors, which he founded in 1998 with Dr. William J. Perry, former Secretary of Defense and Dr. John Deutch, former Director, Central Intelligence. Mr. Yoskowitz also served as Senior Counsel at the law firm of Crowell & Moring, and Senior Consultant at Charles River Associates. Until 1998, Mr. Yoskowitz was Executive Vice President and General Counsel of United Technologies Corporation (UTC), a $37 billion global company whose best known units are Otis Elevator, Carrier Air Conditioning, Pratt & Whitney and Sikorsky. He joined UTC in 1979 as Deputy General Counsel and became its General Counsel in 1981. During his career at UTC, he was responsible for several functions in addition to legal, including corporate development, environmental, health and safety, government contracts, and compliance. Prior to joining UTC, Mr. Yoskowitz was Counsel for IBM's public sector business. He began his career as a Systems Analyst in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 1969 to 1971 while on active duty as a U.S. Army officer. A 1966 graduate of the City College of New York, Mr. Yoskowitz received his J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 1969, where he served as an editor of the Harvard Law Review. He was a Knox Fellow from Harvard University at the London School of Economics from 1971 to 1972.