Michael S. Williams has been a member of the Board of Directors since 2004 and assumed the duties of Chief Executive Officer and a Vice Chairman of the Board of IAP effective January 18, 2008.

With more than 38 years of experience, Williams has served in a variety of senior leadership positions in international commercial markets as well as classified and civil government markets. From 1993 to 2001, he worked for Lockheed Martin, most recently as President and General Manager of Lockheed's Systems and Technology group. In that role, he managed an IT and communications business providing both services and full systems, including the former ComSat Laboratories in Clarksburg, Md., following Lockheed's acquisition of ComSat.

From 1979 to 1993, he worked for General Electric. During that period, he grew from managing engineering and program management functions to general P&L management. He also served as Chief Engineer in the 1980s for several large, high technology classified businesses. He began his career at the Naval Air Development Center, actively engaged in large-scale simulation, lab test, and flight test of aeronautical, avionics, and weapon control systems from 1968 to 1978.

Williams began his affiliation with Cerberus Capital, the majority owner of IAP, in early 2002 as CEO of an IT services company serving both government and commercial customers. Since then, he has also been an active participant in addressing operational issues in portfolio companies, leading operational due diligence for potentially acquired companies, and as director of four Cerberus companies, including Chairman of Multimax, an IT Services firm acquired by Harris Corporation in mid-2007.

A 1970 graduate of St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, PA, with a B.S. in Physics, Williams also holds an MSE in Electrical Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania and an MBA from Temple University. He also authored a chapter in a graduate text book entitled Space Mission Analysis & Design through three editions from 1990-2000 and has given numerous technical and market papers in international forums in Europe, Asia, Africa (Egypt), and the United States.