John McNabb has been an elected Water Commissioner for 13 years in a small town in Massachusetts, and has been concerned about physical and cyber security of water systems even before 9/11. He also worked for 10 years in the New England office of Clean Water Action and 6 years at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection. He has been interested in computers since a very early age, and after varying lengths of time in non-IT careers including politics, lobbying, government relations, journalism, public relations, and waterworks management, and now works as an IT pro, sometimes in IT security. John gave a talk at The Next HOPE two weeks ago on Electronic Take Back.