Leadership

His professional background includes four years in military intelligence; seven years as a senior staff member in the U.S. Senate, including two years as a senior manager on the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence; ten years in business development and operations at GE Aerospace (now Lockheed Martin); and seven years in business development and program management at Technology Management Company, where he served as Deputy General Manager and ultimately as Vice President and Director, Corporate Development.
Over the course of his career, he has worked with the intelligence community, the military services, five combatant commands, the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, the Defense Logistics Agency, the Department of State, the Department of Energy, the Centers for Disease Control, NASA, the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, and various other federal and state agencies.
He holds a Ph.D. in international relations and national security policy from the University of Minnesota. His continuing education includes work at the Konrad Adenuer Stiftung (Bonn), the Van Leer Institute (Tel Aviv), the U.S. Army War College, the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association, GE’s Management Development Institute, and Georgetown and Villanova Universities as well as multiple training programs on capture, proposal, and project management.