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February 19, 2005 People: Consulting Game Brendan Melley, a former National Security Council staffer who's just signed on at the Cohen Group, is pretty modest about his career. This isn't surprising, considering he spent more than 11 years working in intelligence, where failures are often made public and successes are usually kept secret. "There's an adage in the military that when something happens, it is either an operational success or an intelligence failure. Rarely does intelligence get credit for its success," Melley says. In his new position as associate vice president, Melley will consult for companies seeking assistance in a variety of regulatory and marketing issues. The Cohen Group, which was founded by former Defense Secretary William Cohen, is an international strategic consulting firm that does work in telecommunications, biotechnology, aerospace defense, and financial services. Melley, 41, grew up in Windsor, Conn., and went to Providence College on an ROTC scholarship. He served in the Army from 1985 to 1992, and later worked as a senior consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton, a global strategy and consulting firm, where he remained until 1995. Melley subsequently spent time at the Defense Intelligence Agency, where he was detailed to work with the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. During that time, he helped out on the Sharm El-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee, headed by former Sens. George Mitchell, D-Maine, and Warren Rudman, R-N.H., which devised the so-called Mitchell Plan that offered prescriptions for ending the Israeli- Palestinian conflict. Melley was most recently on the staff of the National Security Council, first serving in the intelligence programs office and later working on proliferation issues. He focused on the Proliferation Security Initiative, the U.S.-led effort to interdict shipments of weapons of mass destruction and related materials to terrorist groups and states of concern. The Bush administration has heavily touted PSI as an innovative approach to nonproliferation. Melley says, "It relies upon the efforts of countries working together, as opposed to saying we need to set up a secretariat and a bureaucracy, and build a building, and start a new regime. The idea is, we don't need that. We just need to work together to stop these things." --Gregg Sangillo  Top
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