Richard “Rich” Cooper is a partner with Catalyst Partners, LLC (formerly known as Olive, Edwards & Cooper, LLC), a government and public affairs practice in Washington, DC that focuses on homeland and national security matters. He also serves as the vice chairman of the Homeland Security Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); as a member of the American National Standards Institute’s Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP); and as an advisor to the Reform Institute and New York University’s International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP). He previously served as business liaison director for science and technology and preparedness at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Private Sector Office. He can be reached at rcooper@catalystdc.com.