Admiral Platt capped a distinguished career in the US Navy with his appointment during the Reagan administration to serve as the country's first Competition Advocate General (the Navy's top business man in uniform). Admiral Platt was recently named to the Cold War Leadership Hall of Fame by the Submarine Force Museum Association and he is a highly decorated Vietnam veteran. He is the Chairman of Harbor Wing Technologies Inc, producers of un-manned open ocean surveillance and research vessels. Admiral Platt also serves on the corporate board of DRS Technologies Inc, and he is the chairman of the Historic Ships Foundation in San Francisco, as well as a Presidential Appointee to the Board of Governors of the United States Merchant Marine Academy. Admiral Platt holds a MS (Operations Analysis) from the Simon Graduate School of Business, as well as a BS degree from the University of Rochester, and an MBA from the University of Michigan. He is the published author of two books and numerous Op-Ed and scholarly works. He is a former Wall Street Journal Scholar and is a graduate of the Executive Program at Stanford's Graduate School of Business. In the past 5 years Duffrey Sigurdson has worked closely with Admiral Platt on several scholarly works and two books. His other interests include offshore sailing, aviation and history. Duffrey is a former member of the PPCLI "Red Devils", an elite Infantry Regiment in the Canadian military.