His father was born in Bessarabia. He is the brother of Cecilia Attias (who was married to French President Nikolas Sarkozy). Mr. Ciganer was initially asked by NASA in 2001 to help develop a set of recommendations for improving the Financial Managementof theInternational Space Station program. His analysis and re- commendations on Financial Management are part of the Young Commission report. Prior to accepting his current position with NASA's Office of the Administrator in February 2002 as Special Assistant to the Administrator for Financial Management and, subsequently, Program Executive Officer for the Integrated Enterprise Management Program, Mr. Ciganer was a financial executive in the private sector where, over the past two decades, he supervised and participated in the deployment of several successful Enterprise Resource Planning and Financial Management in- formation systems and organizations. In his current capacity as Program Executive Officer for Integrated Enterprise Management, Mr. Ciganer has overall responsibility for the formulation, implementation and management of the Integrated Enterprise Management Program (IMP),whose long-term objective is to enable NASA to ope- rate and manage more efficiently and transparently its major programs and initiatives. Mr. Ciganer was the Chief Financial Officer of Mobileway Inc., (Now Mobile 365), a telecommunication company with operations in the U.S., Eu rope and Asia.