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Wartime Professionals is a professional social networking website, headquartered in Florida, USA. Founded in 2011 and launched in 2012 it is used for professional networking. The site is currently available although in English, although many of its members are multi-lingual.

CEO

Wartime Professional’s CEO is Michael Gibson who also heads Michael Gibson and Associates. Gibson is a former US Army Special Forces officer who served the SOUTHCOM theatre of operations.

Membership

Wartime Professionals is an eclectic group of international military, government, veterans, retirees, and civilians. Unusually, it is not an organization of combat veterans, but a growing and adaptive organization that strives to assemble not only the combat skills, but also the full range of human capital support, service support, and development skills necessary to bring about change in conflict areas in a sustainable manner.

Membership is growing by approximately 100 new members every day. Most of the members are in the United States, with growing membership in Europe and Africa. The European region is currently experiencing the fastest growth. Wartime Professionals actively recruits students and recent college graduates.

Wartime Professionals projects one million members worldwide in its first year.

Features

One purpose of the site is to allow registered users to maintain a list of contact details of people with whom they have some level of relationship, called Connections. Users can only invite someone who is a site user to become a connection. This list of connections can then be used in a number of ways: ▪	A live "White Board" as well as active chat tools with video and voice with 128-bit encryption. ▪	A contact network is built up consisting of their direct connections. ▪	Users can upload their resume and/or design their own profile in order to showcase work and community experiences. ▪	It can be used to find jobs, people, and business opportunities recommended by someone in one's contact network. ▪	Employers and sponsors can list jobs and search for potential candidates. ▪	Job seekers can review the profile of hiring managers and discover which of their existing contacts can introduce them. ▪	Users can post their own photos and view photos of others to aid in identification.

The membership requirement is intended to build trust among the organization’s users. Unusually, Wartime Professionals tasks individuals to create and manage groups on its 128 bit secure and encrypted site, Wartime Professionals.

These monitored and sanctioned groups are comprised of members with the ability and desire to carry out a series of objectives set forth in the groups that directly benefit the group and its membership.

'''Information Security ''' Wartime Professionals complies with the U.S.-EU Safe Harbor Framework and the U.S.-Swiss Safe Harbor Framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. To learn more about the Safe Harbor program, please visit http://www.export.gov/safeharbor/