Richard Armitage

State; Deputy Secretary

a former Assistant Secretary of Defense and Ambassador to the Newly Independent States after the fall of the Soviet Union, in recent years Armitage has combined a lucrative consulting business - through his firm, Armitage Associates - with seats in many prominent corporate boardrooms, including



Raytheon and



Mantech International. His company's clients have included multimillion-dollar defense contractors such as



Boeing,



Science Application International Corporation, and Halliburton subsidiary



Brown & Root, as well as financial powerhouses



Goldman Sachs and



Chase Manhattan. Armitage also owns Rubaiyat Trading, a business entity created to own a Cessna Citation private aircraft valued at somewhere between $1 million and $5 million. He also has stakes in partnerships involved in everything from publishing to commercial real estate, and has personally invested millions in companies such as



Pfizer, Chase Manhattan and



American International Group.