Gala Dinner

The Canadian InfoSec Summit Gala Dinner
Thursday June 2, 2005
The Westin Hotel
Confederation Ballroom (4th floor)

6:30 pm - Cocktails
7:30 pm - Dinner
Followed by keynote speaker

Keynote Speaker
Rudy Giuliani
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Giuliani Partners

Giuliani Partners is a consulting firm operated by former New York City Mayor Rudolph W. Giuliani and a number of his senior executives from his eight-year tenure. Giuliani Partners assists chief executive officers in securing the future of their firms by protecting their financial and physical assets, knowledge, people and brand.

Biography
Rudolph W. Giuliani

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In 1944, Rudolph W. Giuliani was born to a working class family in Brooklyn, New York. As the grandson of Italian immigrants, Rudy Giuliani learned a strong work ethic and a deep respect for America's ideal of equal opportunity. He attended Bishop Loughlin Memorial High School (Class of '61) in Brooklyn, Manhattan College (Class of '65) in the Bronx and New York University Law School in Manhattan, graduating magna cum laude in 1968.

Upon graduation, Rudy Giuliani clerked for Judge Lloyd MacMahon, United States district judge for the southern district of New York. In 1970, Giuliani joined the office of the United States attorney. At age 29, he was named chief of the Narcotics Unit and rose to serve as executive United States attorney. In 1975, Giuliani was recruited to Washington, D.C., where he was named associate deputy attorney general and chief of staff to the deputy attorney general. From 1977 to 1981, Giuliani returned to New York to practice law at Patterson, Belknap, Webb and Tyler.

In 1981, Giuliani was named associate attorney general, the third highest position in the Department of Justice. As associate attorney general, Giuliani supervised all of the United States Attorney Offices' Federal law enforcement agencies, the Bureau of Corrections, the Drug Enforcement Agency, and the United States Marshals. In 1983, Giuliani was appointed United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, where he spearheaded efforts against drug dealers, organized crime, government corruption, and white-collar criminals. Few United States Attorneys in history can match his record of 4,152 convictions with only 25 reversals.

In 1993, he was elected the 107th mayor of the City of New York, after a campaign focusing on quality of life, crime, business and education. In 1997 he was re-elected by a wide margin, carrying four out of New York City's five boroughs.

As Mayor, Rudy Giuliani returned accountability to city government and improved the quality of life for all New Yorkers. Under his leadership, overall crime fell 65 percent, murder was reduced by 70 percent, and New York City - once infamous around the world for its dangerous streets - was recognized by the F.B.I. as the safest large city in America for the past five years. New York City's law enforcement strategies have become models for other cities around the world, particularly the CompStat program, which won the 1996 Innovations in Government Award from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.

When Mayor Giuliani took office, one of every seven New Yorkers was on welfare. Mayor Giuliani restored the work ethic, implementing the largest and most successful welfare-to-work initiative in the country cutting welfare rolls 60 percent while moving 640,000 individuals from dependency to the dignity of self-sufficiency. In addition, Giuliani enacted over $2.5 billion in tax reductions - including the commercial rent tax, personal income tax, and the hotel occupancy tax. These reforms, combined with the fiscal discipline which that enabled the mayor to turn an inherited $2.3 billion dollar budget deficit into a multi-billion dollar surplus, led New York City to an era of broad-based growth with a record 450,000 new private sector jobs created in eight years. As news word of the city's resurgence spread around the nation and the world, tourism grew to record levels. Under Rudy Giuliani's leadership, New York City became the best-known example of the resurgence of urban America.

On September 11, 2001, America suffered the worst attack in its history when terrorists crashed planes into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. Thousands of New Yorkers were killed, including hundreds of members of the city's uniformed services, who rushed to the scene to lead the heroic rescue of tens of thousands of people. Having narrowly missed being crushed when the Towers fell, Mayor Giuliani immediately began leading the recovery of the city as it faced its darkest hour. Tirelessly working to restore the city and the morale of its residents, Mayor Giuliani was widely lauded for his steady hand during frightening times. For his efforts, he was named Person of the Year by Time magazine, knighted by the Queen of England, dubbed "Rudy the Rock" by French President Jacques Chirac, and former first lady Nancy Reagan presented him with the Ronald Reagan Presidential Freedom Award.

Limited by New York City law to two terms as mayor, Rudy Giuliani founded Giuliani Partners in January, 2002, quickly establishing the professional services firm as a leader in fields including emergency preparedness, public safety, leadership during crises, corporate governance, and financial management. Drawing on his experience in turning a city described as ungovernable into a city that is now a worldwide example of good government and effective management, Giuliani was recognized in Spring 2002 as Consultant of the Year by Consulting magazine.

In May of 2003, Mr. Giuliani married Judith S. Nathan, now Mrs. Judith S. Giuliani. Mrs. Giuliani is a managing director of Changing Our World, Incorporated, a national fundraising and philanthropic services company headquartered in New York. Prior to joining Changing Our World, Mrs. Giuliani, a registered nurse with an extensive medical and scientific background, worked with United States Surgical Corporation and Bristol-Myers Squibb. Mrs. Giuliani coordinated the efforts of the newly created Family Assistance Center at Pier 94 in the aftermath of September 11th. Also in response to September 11th, Judith became a founding member of the board of trustees of the Twin Towers Fund, which raised and distributed all of the $216,000,000 to over 600 recipients. Distributions were also made to families/individuals who were partially dependent on the deceased. Contributions to the Fund also created the TTF Scholarship Fund and America's Camp. Mrs. Giuliani currently serves as the executive director of the $100,000,000 Campaign for Saint Vincent Catholic Medical Centers in New York. In response to the possibility of nuclear, biological and chemical acts of terrorism, the Campaign, chaired by her husband, focuses on emergency preparedness in the City of New York

In addition to leading Giuliani Partners, Giuliani remains active in public life. His book, Leadership, was published in October 2002. It became an immediate bestseller, spending 25 weeks on the New York Times Bestseller List, including five weeks at Number 1. In June 2003, President Bush asked Giuliani to head the United States delegation to a major international conference on combating anti-Semitism, held in Vienna.