Our leadership team works alongside our Operating and Advisory Board Member & with our Operating Partners, who themselves are top public and private sector thought leaders, and government, private industry and military experts and leaders, who are focused on developing business for the Company and on developing relationships to deliver rapid growth and expansion.
Operating & Advisory Members
Michael Anthony Nutter
Former Mayor of Philadelphia and Former President of the United States Conference of Mayors
Michael Nutter served two terms as the Mayor of Philadelphia (the sixth most populous US city), guided the city well, through the Great Recession and achieved a 37% reduction in homicides. Michael has also served as the President of the US Conference of Mayors and as the President of the Pennsylvania Municipal League and is a member of the Homeland Security Advisory Council. After graduation from Wharton and a number of years in the field of investment banking, Michael has served for almost 15 years on the Philadelphia City Council, as the Chairman of the Pennsylvania Convention Center Authority Board and was tough on crime, focused on sustainability, safer communities, public safety and was well liked by members of the law enforcement community and citizenry alike. Michael is a part of the Institute of Politics at the Harvard Kennedy School and is a Professor of Professional Practice in Urban and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Michael is also a political commentator for CNN and is a Senior Fellow and national spokesperson for the What Works Cities program through Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Marvin R. Sambur
Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) and former President and CEO of ITT Defense
Marvin Sambur is a well accomplished American engineer and businessman who served as Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition) and served on the Scientific Advisory Board for the USAF. Sambur worked at Bell Labs and later for ITT Defense Communications (a 2.5 billion dollar in annual revenues company with 10,000 employees) as president and general manager of the ITT's Electron Technology division. He held that position until 1991, when he became president and general manager of ITT's Aerospace/Communications division. Finally, in 1998, he became president and CEO of ITT Defense. In 2001, President of the United States George W. Bush nominated Sambur to be Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Acquisition). After leaving government service, Sambur has joined the faculty of the A. James Clark School of Engineering and is a Professor of the Practice at the University of Maryland and participates in a number of other business and research related activities..
Helen Currie
Chief Economist at ConocoPhillips
Helen Currie was recently honored as one of Oil and Gas Investor’s 25 Influential Women in Energy. With over 25 years of experience in business, government and academia, Dr. Helen Currie brings unique perspectives to corporate strategy, planning and portfolio risk management. In her current role as ConocoPhillips' Chief Economist, Currie manages strategic planning initiatives, oversees long range plan development, and advises on investment analyses & political risk. At BG Group, she built and led the Americas Market Analysis research team, advised on M&A opportunities with Strategy & BD and developed Gas and Power Trading strategies. Dr. Currie is a frequent speaker at industry venues and guest lecturer for training programs and universities. She has published research in finance, economics and management journals in addition to industry journals. She is a member of the Mississippi State University Foundation Board of Directors and College of Business Executive Advisory Board as well as the University of Texas Energy Institute Executive Advisory Board.
Jim Belfiore
Former Managing Director of Client Innovation Services & Global Center of Excellence at IHS Markit
As a former Managing Director of Client Innovation Services at IHS Markit, a $26B dollar (market-cap) information and expert industry company with 5,000 analysts, data scientists, financial experts and industry specialists that provides services to 50,000 customers across over 140 countries with an 80% penetration of the Fortune Global 500 and 94 of the 100 largest US corporations, Jim worked with and led industry-leading teams of analysts, data scientists, subject matter experts and executives spanning many industries including aerospace & defense, finance, energy, transportation, medical, chemical and consumer products. Jim led hundreds of innovation and strategy projects and delivered AI-enabled innovation management solutions at over 700 client accounts around the world, many in the Fortune 500. Jim built and mentored successful innovation consulting businesses in both established and emerging markets throughout the Americas and Asia-Pacific regions, with significant experience growing new business in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore, Korea and Japan. Jim Belfiore is a published thought-leader, a speaker and a certified innovation master with extensive experience helping global technology and manufacturing firms create and manage teams, innovation strategies and breakthrough solutions that establish and extend market dominance.
Major General (Ret) N. Lee S. Price
Former Program Executive Officer, Command Control Communications-Tactical (C3T)
Price is as a certified member of the Army Acquisition Corps. As the U.S. Army's first female Program Executive Officer (PEO), Price guided the Program Executive Office, Command Control Communications-Tactical (C3T) workforce of more than 1,800 personnel who execute an annual budget of $4 billion. The dedicated PEO C3T team works by the Warfighter's side in training and theater locations throughout the world. They acquire, sustain and support the networked mission command solutions that bring technological dominance to present and future Warfighters. Within one year of Price's tenure, which began in November 2009, PEO C3T was awarded the David Packard award, the Department of Defense acquisition community's highest award. In 2004, Price received the Army Acquisition Excellence Project Manager (PM) of the Year Award as PM Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems (DCATS). As PM DCATS, she managed programs valued at more than $2 billion. As Deputy Acquisition Executive, Price was responsible for providing more than $3 billion per year of specialized equipment for service-wide National and Theater Special Operators.
Stephanie Dawson
Former COO of Port Authority of New York & New Jersey
Stephanie Dawson, the former Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the Port Authority of New York & New Jersey, ($8.5 billion dollar budget) which oversees much of the regional transportation infrastructure, including bridges, tunnels, airports, and seaports, including the third-largest volume of shipping among all ports in the United States and the largest on the Eastern Seaboard, six bi-state bridge and tunnel crossings, the Port Authority Bus Terminal, the PATH rail system, 5 Airports (LaGuardia, John F. Kennedy Airport, Newark Liberty Airport, Teterboro and Stewart) and its own 1,700-member Port Authority Police Department. Stephanie Dawson directed all of the agency’s transportation business. She is also a Retired US Army Colonel, who had a groundbreaking military career, becoming the first female to serve as a brigade commander in the New York Army National Guard. As Brigade Commander, she provided command and control of assigned battalions, including the 369th Special Troops Batallion, the 101 Expeditionary Signal Battalion, the 56th Personnel Services Batallion and the 104th Military Police Batallion.
Charlie Breeding
Federal Market Executive at Verint, a NASDAQ publicly traded technology company with 4000+ worldwide associates producing over $1.3B/year)
Charlie has over 20+ years of sales management, individual contributor sales/business development success with teams from 4-40+ of enterprise software, cloud solutions, consulting, & IT services primarily to the Public Sector (Federal Government, and also to SLED) & Commercial F1000 market. He's been called an expert in creating, directing and leading high-performing sales teams, serving as a sales rainmaker, ensuring customer success, conducting capture management and as business development team leader with high client retention serving employers as diverse as 4 tech startups (as VP of Sales) to Microsoft and Accenture joint venture, & HP Software as a Director ~ in three past employers, led the doubling the revenues in less than 28 months. Over the last 17 years, he's achieved or exceeded quota in 13 of the last 17 years. Founded in '94, Verint, Inc. (VRNT) is a NASDAQ publicly traded technology solutions company with 4000+ worldwide associates producing over $1.3B/year.
Verint solutions help organizations address two areas of the Actionable Intelligence market— Customer Engagement and Cyber Intelligence.
And they do this by capturing large amounts of information from numerous data types and sources, using analytics (AI, NLP, ML) to glean insights from the information, and leveraging the resulting intelligence to help clients optimize customer & citizen engagement. Verint works with over 25+ Federal government agencies.
Maj. Gen. Linda Singh
Former Managing Director, Accenture Federal Services and Adjutant General of Maryland
Major General Linda L. Singh served as a Adjutant General of Maryland and was responsible for the daily operations of the Maryland Military Department, which includes the Maryland Army National Guard, Maryland Air National Guard, Maryland Emergency Management Agency, and Maryland Defense Force. She was a senior advisor to the governor and was responsible for the readiness, administration, and training of more than 6,700 members of the Military Department with an annual budget of more than $314 million. As The Adjutant General, she served as the official channel of communication between the governor and the National Guard Bureau and served as a member of the governor’s cabinet. She previously held a position of Managing Director in Accenture's Health and Public Service North America and Accenture Federal Services where her responsibilities included managing all operational activities including the financials, strategic business plans, quality programs, program delivery programs, human resource management, business approvals, internal controls and sales activities for a budget that exceeded $3 billion dollars. She managed a global team in order to leverage capabilities from Accenture's global public service business as well as external partnering relationships. She previously served as the Commercial Director for the Public Safety Portfolio, the account lead for the Veterans Affairs and the account lead for the Army.
Brigadier General (Ret) Anthony J. Tata
Former Secretary of Transportation of North Carolina & COO of District of Columbia Public Schools
Brigadier General (Retired) Anthony J. Tata has served as Secretary of Transportation of North Carolina from 2013 to 2015 under Governor Pat McCrory. Tata served as a National Security Fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. In January 2013, North Carolina governor Pat McCrory appointed Tata as Secretary of the North Carolina Department of Transportation. As Secretary of Transportation, he was also a member of the North Carolina Cabinet. Previously, he served as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) of the District of Columbia Public Schools (2009–2010) and Superintendent of the Wake County Public School System ( the 16th largest school district in the nation). He is a former brigadier general in the United States Army, having served for 28 years in the military. General Tata served two tours of duty at Fort Bragg in the 82nd Airborne Division. He also was brigade commander in the 101st Airborne Division and Deputy Commanding General of the 10th Mountain Division. He is also an acclaimed novelist whose subject matter focuses on military life. Tata is most known for the fictional Threat series. Currently, he serves as a Member of Advisory Board for FinestGov and for Venture Fund Consortium.
Lieutenant General (Ret) Joseph P. DiSalvo
Former Military Deputy Commander of U.S. Southern Command
Lieutenant General Joseph P. DiSalvo has overseen and managed organizations of 65,000+ personnel and has years of experience interacting with U.S. federal government agencies and congress, and international governments across 32 countries from Central and South America and the Caribbean and Europe (14 years working abroad) on security issues. Coordinated with 30 U.S. ambassadors to ensure security efforts complemented U.S. economic and political interests in this region. Successfully managed $1B budgets and served the DOD as the Military Deputy Commander of U.S. Southern Command. A United States Military Academy, Science degree graduate, LTG DiSalvo holds a Master of Science in Operations Research from the Air Force Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in National Security and Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College. He was the Commander of U.S. Army South and has served in armored and mechanized units throughout his career. He has served in the Army Sta and the Joint Sta where duties included analyzing the U.S. Army drawdown and as Iraq Division Chief in the Joint Sta focusing on integrating interagency assets during the surge; Deputy Director for U.S. Homeland Defense and Western Hemisphere in the Joint Sta Plans and Policy Directorate focusing on building partnership capacity.
Gary Almeida
Former Director and Deputy Chief of Staff, Combined Joint Interagency Task Force - Nexus (CJIATF-N) , Afghanistan
Gary Almeida led the Combined Joint Inter-Agency Task Force (CJIATF-N) in Kandahar, Afghanistan as Director and served as the Deputy Chief of Staff, Intelligence (CJ2) in Kabul, Afghanistan. Previous to that he served as Deputy Commander for Navy Region Southwest and served in numerous other roles including Commanding Officer / Maritime Operations Center Director, Third Fleet HQ Unit, Task Group Commander and Commodore, Naval Coastal Warfare Squadron, Middle East. He also held positions as Director and Manager involving Strategic Planning; Capital Equipment Acquisitions, Maintenance and Overhaul; Logistics; Manpower Utilization; Financial Management; Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Information and Surveillance (C4IS). He also holds Top Secret Clearance (TS/SCI).
P. Brennan Hart III
Former Associate Administrator for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs, GSA
Brennan Hart served as an Associate Administrator for the Office of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs for The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA). Hart, served as GSA’s principal liaison to Congress, federal agencies and state and local governments. GSA employs about 12,000 federal workers, has an annual operating budget of roughly $20.9 billion and oversees $66 billion of procurement annually. It contributes to the management of about $500 billion in U.S. federal property, divided chiefly among 8,700 owned and leased buildings and a 215,000 vehicle motor pool. Most recently, Hart served as a lead advance representative for Donald J. Trump for President, directing an advance team to produce nationwide public and private events for presidential and vice-presidential candidates. He also served in the administration of President George W. Bush as a White House advance representative and senior advisor at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development.
Lieutenant General Jack W. Klimp, (Ret), US Marine Corps
Former Deputy Commandant for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, Headquarters, U.S. Marine Corps
Lieutenant General Jack W. Klimp served as the Deputy Commandant for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, U.S. Marine Corps. General Klimp has served as an instructor at the Naval Academy and The Basic School. His staff assignments include tours as Chief, Field Training Exercise Branch; Chief, Exercise Division; Operations Directorate J-3; and Director of the Joint Operations Center, U.S. Central Command during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
While serving as Commander, Task Force Mogadishu, during Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, he was selected for promotion to brigadier general. General Klimp assumed his last assignment as the Commanding General, Marine Corps Recruiting Command, Headquarters,
Washington, D.C. He was promoted to lieutenant general and was assigned as Deputy Commandant for Manpower and Reserve Affairs.
Tom Sheehy
CA Budget Expert, Former Acting Secretary of the California Government Operations Agency, Deputy Director, California Department of Finance; Policy Director, California State Senate
Tom Sheehy is recognized as one of Sacramento’s most experienced and influential lobbyists, as well as a fiscal expert. Known for his strength in developing lobbying strategy, planning and executing lobbying campaigns, Tom’s ability to shape and deliver messaging in a clear and convincing manner achieves superior results for legislative and regulatory clients on difficult issues. He leads teams in complex, competitive and high-pressure environments to secure the client’s desired outcome. He has also helped clients develop state department customers and contract with state agencies, thereby securing $100s of millions of dollars in business over the years. His skill in navigating California’s political landscape comes from over two decades of experience working at the most senior levels in both the state legislature as well as the Governor’s office.
Vice Admiral Duncan Laurence Potts
Former Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability), Controller of the Navy (UK) and Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom
Vice Admiral Duncan Laurence Potts, CB, served as Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy(UK) from 2013 to 2014, and as Director General of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom. From commanding officer of the destroyer HMS Southampton and a member of the policy and programmes cell at the Permanent Joint Headquarters to becoming Commander Sea Training to the Flag Officer Sea Training and being appointed commanding officer of the frigate HMS Marlborough, as well as captain of the 4th Frigate Squadron and being deployed to the Middle East, Potts went on to be Captain Navy Plans and then military assistant to the Vice-Chief of the Defence Staff at the Ministry of Defence(UK). He was appointed commander of the UK Task Group in 2007 (in which role he was deployed to the Gulf) and Assistant Chief of Staff (Crisis and Deliberate Planning) at Permanent Joint Headquarters in 2009. He became Commander United Kingdom Maritime Forces in January 2011 (deployed as commander of EU maritime operations off Somalia from August 2011) and Assistant Chief of Naval Staff (Capability) and Controller of the Navy in April 2013. Potts was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 2014 Birthday Honours, and made director general of Joint Force Development and director general of the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom, with the rank of vice admiral that same year.
Major General Robert Mixon, Jr.
Corporate Executive, Leadership Development, and Strategic Planning
Robert W. Mixon, Jr. is a retired U.S. Army Major General, former President of a manufacturing company, EVP of a diverse, innovative not for profit company, and Leadership Consultant. He serves as a faculty member at the Thayer Leader Development Group at West Point and various premier business schools including The Simon School of Business at the University of Rochester, The Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis, and the Cox Business School at Southern Methodist University. He co-authored the best-selling book, “Cows in the Living Room: Developing an Effective Strategic Plan and Sustaining It”, and founded Level Five Associates, a change management consulting company which helps organizations develop strong leaders and unique cultures. Robert’s final assignment in the military was commanding general of the 7th Infantry Division and Fort Carson where he led the training and deployment operations for over 20,000 soldiers to both Iraq and Afghanistan, including training National Guard brigades for combat deployments.
David McMillan
Former Chairman of the Hotel Association of Canada & Director for Hotel & Tourism Development for WSP
Elected as Chairman of the Hotel Association of Canada for three terms, David served as CEO of the Paris-based International Hotel & Restaurant Association, the voice of the worldwide industry and led the team reinventing hospitality as Vice President with the world renowned Cirque du Soleil. David served as the Director for Hotel & Tourism Development for WSP, one of the largest professional services firms in the world, with approximately 43,600 employees in 500 offices serving in 40 countries. He has been associated with major international chains, including Hilton, Hyatt, Four Seasons and IHG as well as several renowned independent properties like Maxims and Le Meurice in Paris and the Waldorf Astoria in New York.
