William Crowell

William P. Crowell is a Partner. He is also an Independent Consultant specializing in Information Technology, Security and Intelligence Systems. He is a director at SafeNet, Inc., encryption, data protection and authentication solutions, Air Patrol, wireless network security, NetAuthority, device authentication; SAP NS2 a subsidiary of SAP, and Six3 Systems Holdings, LLC, a defense contractor in Washington, DC. He is Chairman of the Board of Centripetal, a startup in the rule-based packet gateway and filter area and Chairman of Fixmo, mobile device risk management and security for smartphones and tablets;. Until its acquisition by Cisco in June 2007, he was Chairman of Broadware Technologies, a video surveillance software company. He was also a director at ArcSight, Inc. (ARST), which was acquired by HP in October 2010 and Narus, Inc. which was acquired by Boeing in July 2010. Crowell served as President and Chief Executive Officer of Santa Clara, California-based Cylink Corporation, a public company and leading provider of e-business security solutions from November 1998 to February 2003, when Cylink was acquired by SafeNet, Inc. Crowell came to Cylink from the National Security Agency, where he held a series of senior positions in operations, analysis, strategic planning, research and development, and finance until he left NSA in 1989 to be vice president at Atlantic Aerospace Electronics Corporation, leading business development in space technology, signal processing and intelligence systems. He returned to NSA in mid-1990 as Executive Director and then served as Deputy Director of Operations from 1991 to 1994 running its core signals intelligence mission. In February 1994 he was appointed Deputy Director of NSA and served in that post until his retirement in September 1997. In April 1999, Crowell was appointed to the President’s Export Council (PEC), which advised the administration on trade and export policy and chaired its subcommittee on Encryption Export Policy. After 9/11 he served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age, which published three landmark studies on Homeland Security and information sharing. He has also served on numerous panels to investigate and improve military command and control, intelligence and security systems. In August 2007 he was named Chairman of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) Senior Advisory Group.