Hugh E. "Ted" Price is a former

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of the

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and is currently chairman of

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India. Price graduated from

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before serving four years in the

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. While with the CIA he held the positions of Director of Personnel, Director of Counterintelligence, as well as Deputy Director for Operations. In 1994, he received a

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over his role in the

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spy case while director of counterintelligence. After leaving the Central Intelligence Agency, Price joined the private security business

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as head of its crisis management group. He joined Lehman Brothers in December 2001 as head of Global Security. In 2005 Price married Lisa Spiro, former communications head at Salomon Brothers and

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