Deborah Perry Piscione is president of MarketplaceOffense, a boutique consulting firm in business to help clients with their image-inside and outside the four walls-in three focused areas: research, communications and training. She is also a bestselling author, on-air political commentator, and public speaker and trainer. Additionally, Deborah teaches at American University as a professorial lecturer at the Women and Politics Institute.

She is the co-author (with Dr. Julianne Malveaux) of a Washington Post bestseller entitled Unfinished Business: A Democrat and a Republican Take on the 10 Most Important Issues Women Face (Perigee, September 2002), and a television and radio commentator who serves as a regular guest of political programs on CNN and National Public Radio.

Early in her career, Deborah served as a congressional staffer for then-U.S. Senator Connie Mack (R-FL), U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), and a political appointee for President George Bush (41st president), and specialized her legislative and executive career in foreign policy. From these positions, Deborah gained a breadth of writing experience in op-eds, political speeches, and press releases, and later became a freelance writer for magazines such as Ladies' Home Journal and National Geographic Traveler.

Deborah received her graduate degree in international economics at Georgetown University and undergraduate degree in communications at Florida State University. She is a self-proclaimed American history buff, an international traveler-having been to nearly 40 countries-and sports enthusiast including competing in triathlons and marathon running. Deborah resides in Silicon Valley with her husband, Dino, and their twin boys, Drake and Dominick.