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Key Executives
Diane Smith, Director of Proposal Development
Ms. Smith directs FTI’s proposal development and market research efforts, leveraging the company’s past performance to enhance business with FTI’s existing client base and expose new markets to the company’s technical expertise.
Ms. Smith brings a rich and diverse background to her work at FTI. As a member of CACI’s Proposal Development Group, she focused on capture management and technical writing. Before joining CACI, her career was in science reporting. She helped set up and served as Managing Editor for Celera's Genome News Network and worked as acting Editor for the Journal of Investigative Medicine.
As Executive Producer for The Universe Group, an independent television news production company, she indulged her passion for the intersection between science and public policy with a weekly science news show on PBS and a variety of documentaries for all three commercial networks and The Learning Channel.
Ms. Smith received a BA from Sarah Lawrence College with work in Economics and East Asia and an MIA from Columbia University's School of International Affairs. Her specializations at SIA were East Asia and International Banking and Finance. Her Chinese language study was done at Middlebury College in Vermont.
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"In the space of one hundred and seventy six years the Lower Mississippi has shortened itself two hundred and forty-two miles. That is an average of a trifle over a mile and a third per year. Therefore, any calm person, who is not blind or idiotic, can see that in the Old Oölitic Silurian Period, just a million years ago next November, the Lower Mississippi was upwards of one million three hundred thousand miles long, and stuck out over the Gulf of Mexico like a fishing-pole. And by the same token any person can see that seven hundred and forty-two years from now the Lower Mississippi will be only a mile and three-quarters long, and Cairo [Illinois] and New Orleans will have joined their streets together and be plodding comfortably along under a single mayor and a mutual board of aldermen. There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact."
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Mark Twain in Life on the Mississippi
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