Read the eye-opening interview by Lynn Mattice with Ram Charan, whom Fortune magazine calls "the most influential business consultant alive", in CSO magazine (click here). The article is titled, "The Business of Security."

As Vice President and Chief Security Officer for Boston Scientific, Mr. Mattice’s main areas of global responsibility included all corporate security functions, business intelligence, business continuity planning and corporate aviation operations. Boston Scientific is one of the world’s largest medical device companies, specializing in state-of-the-art less invasive medical and surgical products. The company operates in over 100 countries around the world and is headquartered in Natick, Massachusetts.

Mr. Mattice has served as Corporate Security Director for three major U.S. based global corporations. His experience base traverses the defense & intelligence, electronics, medical, consumer products and service industries. Additionally, he headed a university affiliated educational institution dedicated to serving the law enforcement and private security sectors.

He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors for the National Intellectual Property Law Institute in Washington, D.C., where he remains Chairman Emeritus and counselor to the President of the Institute. Mr. Mattice also served as an industry advisor to the U.S. Intelligence Communities National Counterintelligence Center and as a member of the U.S. State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council.

Mr. Mattice was one of eleven industry representatives appointed to a joint government and industry task force established by Presidential Directive under the previous President Bush’s administration, focused at developing a new National Industrial Security Program (NISP) to replace the myriad of duplicative government security regulations. Mr. Mattice was recognized for his efforts as one of the principal architects of the NISP by way of a special joint commendation signed by the Secretary of Defense, Director of Central Intelligence and the Secretary of Energy. He also received a special commendation from the Department of Defense citing his visionary leadership in the advancement of security education.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation honored him with its Outstanding Community Service Award for Law Enforcement Assistance, along with a personal letter of commendation from Director Freeh. Additionally, he lead a special ad hoc group for the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS) charged with determining the best manner in which to institute total quality management and other business-based processes in the security profession. Subsequently ASIS created a Council on Business Practices and appointed Mr. Mattice as the Charter Chairman of the Council.

He currently serves on the Board of Directors for the International Security Management Association (ISMA) and represents ISMA on the Steering Committee for the Global Congresses on Combating Counterfeiting and Piracy, which is a joint effort between the World Customs Organization, Interpol and the World Intellectual Property Organization. Mr. Mattice co-chaired the committee that established the Executive Development Education Program for ISMA and lead the creation of the ISMA Resources Library of security best practices.

He is a frequent guest lecturer on a variety of business and security related topics such as: Total Quality Management for Security; Understanding Intellectual Capital and How to Protect It; Strategic Planning for Security Professionals; Developing Effective Business Enterprise Safeguards; Corporate Security - As A Value Creating Business Unit.

Mr. Mattice attended California State University - Long Beach and served on the Advisory Board for the Graduate and Undergraduate level Leadership and Management Program in Security (LaMPS) at Michigan State University in East Lansing, Michigan. He has attended executive development programs from The Center for Creative Leadership, University of Michigan’s School of Business, Harvard’s Graduate School of Business and Harvard’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. He has also been certified as an Expert Witness at both the Federal and State Court levels.

Professional affiliations include the International Security Management Association, the American Society for Industrial Security, American Society for Quality Control, Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals and the International Association of Chiefs of Police.