Altegrity CEO Mike Cherkasky Honored at 102nd Annual Heroism Event

The annual Heroism Awards event honors leaders for "protecting liberty and freedom at home and abroad." Other honorees this year include the Most Reverend Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York, and two posthumous honorees, Officer Deon Taylor, killed in Afghanistan while on active duty with the New York National Guard, and Detective Omar Edwards, killed in New York taking police action while off duty.

The SBA is an advocate for New York's police sergeants and manages a variety of projects, including health and welfare programs, political outreach efforts, and community service initiatives for the benefit of its members and their families. The SBA also acts as the collective bargaining unit for officers during contract negotiations with the City of New York.

Mr. Cherkasky has supported the law enforcement community in numerous oversight and policy development roles for the past 30 years, including 16 years of service as a prosecutor. As the CEO for Altegrity, the Falls Church, Virginia-based company with 8,000 worldwide employees, Mr. Cherkasky provides the leadership, vision, and strategic direction for Altegrity to continue its progressive expansion of security, screening, and information solutions and services for government and commercial clients.

Early in his career, Mr. Cherkasky served as a law clerk in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio and later became an Assistant District Attorney in New York County. While in the District Attorney's office, Mr. Cherkasky served as a trial attorney, Trial Bureau Chief, Chief of the Rackets Bureau, and Chief of the Investigations Division. In this capacity, he led the division's investigations on fraud, corruption, money laundering, organized crime figures, such as John Gotti, and the state investigation of the 1993 bombing of the World Trade Center.

A frequent speaker and media commentator on national and corporate security issues, Mr. Cherkasky is the author of Forewarned: Why the Government is Failing to Protect Us and What We Must do to Protect Ourselves.

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Altegrity, a global screening and security solutions company headquartered in Falls Church, Va., has nearly 8,000 employees in locations around the world. Altegrity, which is the holding company for USIS, HireRight, Explore Information Services, and Altegrity Security Consulting, partners with its clients to help them Make Decisions Smarter by providing superior investigative services, specialized training, contextualized data mining, and cutting-edge software solutions. Altegrity is the largest commercial provider of background investigations for the government; a trusted supplier of specialized criminal justice and law enforcement training solutions; a global commercial employment background and drug screening supplier to more than 25 percent of the Fortune 500; and one of the principal providers of data services to the insurance industry.

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