Featured Speaker: Chuck Brooks “How To Successfully Implement Social Media For

Business Development In Government”  

Chuck Brooks

Sutherland Global Services

Bio: Chuck Brooks, Vice President of Government Relations & Marketing,

Sutherland Global Services

Charles (Chuck) Brooks serves as the Vice President for Government

Relations & Marketing for Sutherland Global Services.  Chuck leads Federal

and State & Local Government relations activities. He is also responsible for

the Marketing  portfolio (Media, PR, Digital Outreach, Thought Leadership,

Strategic Partnering, Branding) for the Federal and State & Local markets.

Chuck has extensive service in Senior Executive Management, Marketing,

Government Relations, and Business Development and worked in those

capacities for three large public corporations. In government, he served at

the Department of Homeland Security as the first Director of Legislative

Affairs for the Science & Technology Directorate. He also spent six years on

Capitol Hill as a Senior Advisor to the late Senator Arlen Specter where he

covered foreign affairs, business, and technology issues. In academia, Chuck

was an Adjunct Faculty Member at Johns Hopkins University where he taught

graduate level students about homeland security and Congress. He has an

MA in International relations from the University of Chicago, and a BA in

Political Science from DePauw University, and a Certificate in International

Law from The Hague. Chuck is widely published on the subjects of

innovation, public/private partnerships, emerging technologies, and issues of

homeland security and cybersecurity

You can follow him on Twitter at @ChuckDBrooks