Mission Essential Personnel Sponsors 2009 International Peace Operations Association Annual Summit

Leading professional services firm with more than 5,000 employees in Afghanistan sponsors DC summit on Afghanistan stabilization operations

We are honored to sponsor this year's IPOA summit As the leading provider of interpreter and analyst services in Afghanistan, this event could not be timelier for us. With speakers such as Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, General Tony Zinni, and counterinsurgency expert Dr. David Kilcullen, we are assured of intelligent, impartial, and certainly diverse discourse on the future stability of Afghanistan.

Chantilly, VA (PRWEB) October 26, 2009 -- Mission Essential Personnel (MEP) is the Headline Sponsor of the 2009 International Peace Operations Association Annual Summit (www.ipoaonline.org/summit) held Oct. 25-27 at the Gaylord National Resort and Convention Center in National Harbor, MD just outside Washington, DC.

This year's theme, Afghanistan - Supporting Regional Stability Operations, is particularly timely given the ongoing elections and the pending political decisions by the U.S. Government.

"We are honored to sponsor this year's IPOA summit," said MEP CEO Chris Taylor. "As the leading provider of interpreter and analyst services in Afghanistan, this event could not be timelier for us. With speakers such as Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad, General Tony Zinni, and counterinsurgency expert Dr. David Kilcullen, we are assured of intelligent, impartial, and certainly diverse discourse on the future stability of Afghanistan."

MEP is a global professional services firm with more than 5,000 personnel. Headquartered in Columbus, OH, the company has major offices in Chantilly, VA, Lorton, VA, Augusta, GA, Columbus, GA, Fayetteville, NC, Linthicum Heights, MD, and Mainz, Germany. It is best known for providing language and cultural awareness services to the U.S. Government across the globe, including in Europe, the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.

In 2006, Ernst & Young named founders Chad A. Monnin and Gregory K. Miller finalists for the E&Y Entrepreneurs of the Year award. In 2008, the company dropped "Aegis" from its name to become Mission Essential Personnel, LLC. In 2009, it opened a major office in Chantilly, VA, focused on new business strategy in the national capital region. The American Small Business Coalition presented MEP with its 2009 Founders Award for rapid growth and success serving U.S. Government personnel overseas. The same year, Inc. Magazine included MEP on its "Inc. 500" roll of the fastest growing companies, at #8 in the Government Services category. Washington Technology listed the company among its Top 100 Government Contractors for 2009 based on prime contracting revenue.

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