Erik Winborn is the President of Winborn Solutions, LLC. His experience with the Department of Defense, the American Red Cross, and Wal-Mart Stores, Inc. makes him uniquely qualified to represent clients before Congress and the Executive Branch. From 2000-2005 he was Wal-Mart’s Director and then Vice-President for National Government Relations. He helped Wal-Mart establish its Washington, D.C. government relations office and represented Wal-Mart before Congress and the Executive Branch. He was the Director of Legislative Affairs for the American Red Cross in 1999. In 1998 Mr. Winborn retired from the U.S. Air Force after a twenty-six year career as an Air Force officer (twenty-two years as a judge advocate). Prior to his retirement, from 1996-1998, he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Legislative Affairs where he was responsible for the Department’s legislative operations within the Executive Branch and before Congress. Earlier, he was the military assistant to the Under Secretary of the Air Force and had Air Force assignments throughout the world. Mr. Winborn received an L.L.M. from George Washington University in Government Procurement Law, a J.D. from the University of Iowa, and a B.S from the U.S. Air Force Academy. THE TEAM To insure we can provide an integrated approach to problem solving, we have agreements with several firms to provide legal, public relations, and grassroots support where necessary. In addition, Norm Lezy, Mr. Winborn’s long-time associate in the Air Force and Wal-Mart, is affiliated with Winborn Solutions as an outside advisor. Mr. Lezy is also uniquely qualified to represent you before Congress and the Executive Branch. Mr. Lezy retired from the Air Force in 1999 in the grade of Lieutenant General after a distinguished 36 year career in the Air Force. Before he retired he was the principal advisor to Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) on all personnel policies affecting 1.4 million active duty and retired military personnel, veterans and dependents. Previously, he was the Director of Air Force Legislative Liaison, advising the Secretary and Under Secretary of the Air Force and the Air Force Chief of Staff on legislative matters and principal contact with Congress on all Air Force matters, including weapons systems, personnel, logistics, base operations, base closures, commissaries and exchanges, serving on Defense Commissary Agency (DECA) and Army Air Force Exchange Service boards. He was, also, the Director of Air Force Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) where he built the MWR model the Air Force uses today. In 1999, he opened Wal-Mart’s first National Government Relations Office in Washington, D.C. and then assumed the position of Vice-President of Corporate Affairs, retiring from Wal-Mart in 2005. Norm Lezy received his BA degree in Government and AFROTC Commission from St. Michaels College in Winooski, Vermont, and his MA degree in Management from Webster University. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees for the Air Force Aid Society and the Board of Directors for the Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA).