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General John R. Allen, USMC (Ret.) is a Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense on Middle East Security. Previously, he commanded the International Security Assistance Force – Afghanistan and United States Forces – Afghanistan from July 18, 2011...

Beginning March 2005, Richard L. Armitage became President of Armitage International. Previously, his nomination as Deputy Secretary of State was confirmed by the Senate on March 23, 2001. He was sworn in on March 26, 2001.Prior to returning to...

Denis A. Bovin is Senior Advisor to Evercore Partners, a leading global independent Investment Banking and Advisory Firm. He is Chairman of the MIT Investment Management Company, which oversees the investment of MIT’s approximately $17 billion...

Kurt M. Campbell is Co-Founder and former CEO of the Center for a New American Security and currently serves as Chairman of its Board of Directors.  Kurt M. Campbell is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of The Asia Group, LLC, a strategic...

Richard Danzig is Vice Chair of the Board of Trustees of The RAND Corporation, a member of the Defense Policy Board and The President’s Intelligence Advisory Board, a Trustee of Reed College, a Director of the Center for a New American Security and...

Nathaniel C. Fick is the CEO of Endgame, Inc., a venture-backed security intelligence software company. He was CEO of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS) from June 2009 to November 2012, Chief Operating Officer of CNAS in 2008-2009 and a...

Michèle Flournoy is Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of the Center for a New American Security (CNAS). She  served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from February 2009 to February 2012.  She was the principal adviser...

David J. Hogan is the non-executive Chairman of Mannheim LLC, a private, international investment company based in New York. Previously, he was the Senior Managing Director of the firm since 2001. Prior to joining Mannheim LLC in 2001, Mr. Hogan had...

Linda Parker Hudson is the Founder, Chairman and CEO of The Cardea Group, a consultancy specializing in C-Suite transitions, organizational transformations and adaptive strategies. She retired as president and CEO of BAE Systems, Inc. on January 31...

In 2013, Lewis Kaden retired as Vice Chairman of Citigroup, which he had joined in 2005.  At Citi, he was a member of the Executive Committee, Business Heads Committee and Business Development Committee; he was Chairman of the Business...

William E. Kennard served as the United States’ Ambassador to the European Union from December 2009 to August 2013.  As Ambassador, he worked actively to promote transatlantic trade and investment and to eliminate regulatory barriers to...

Now Senior Counsel at the law firm of Kasowitz, Benson, Torres, and Friedman in New York, Joseph I. Lieberman was for 24 years a member of the U.S. Senate from Connecticut. At the end of his service in January 2013, he was Chairman of the Homeland...

Leo Mackay is vice president, and an elected corporate officer, of Lockheed Martin Corporation.  Currently, he leads the Office of Ethics and Sustainability, reporting directly to the Chairman and CEO, and to the Ethics & Corporate...

Mitchell Reiss is President and CEO of The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. He joined the Foundation after serving as the President of Washington College. Previously, he was the diplomat-in-residence at the College of William & Mary in...

Peter Schwartz is Senior Vice President for Global Government Relations and Strategic Planning for Salesforce.com. In these roles he directs policy and politics throughout the world and manages the organization’s ongoing strategic conversation....

David Schwimmer is the global head of Metals & Mining Investment Banking in the Natural Resources Group at Goldman Sachs & Co.  His prior roles at Goldman Sachs have included:  Co-Chief Executive Officer of Goldman Sachs...

Mike Zak has a total of 23 years of experience as an entrepreneur and early stage venture capital investor.Since 1991 he has been a principal investor at Charles River Ventures, located in Boston and Menlo Park.  In that time he has...