Phil Houston is the CEO of QVerity, a provider of behavioral analysis and screening services for private- and public-sector clients worldwide. He is a 25-year veteran of the Central Intelligence Agency, a recipient of the Career Intelligence Medal, and is a nationally recognized authority on deception detection, critical interviewing, and elicitation. He has conducted thousands of interviews and interrogations for the CIA and other Federal agencies, and is credited with developing a detection of deception methodology currently employed throughout the U.S. intelligence and Federal law enforcement communities.