Advisory Board

Advisory Board

Veteran, U.S. Air Force
22nd Secretary of Defense
24th Chancellor of William & Mary

Hon. Robert Gates

Retired, JP Morgan
Former Chair, National Humanities Center
Trustee, Duke University and Johnson C Smith University

Patricia Morton

Military Spouse, U.S. Marine Corps
Senior Staff Attorney, Veterans Legal Institute
Former Chair, CE&S Foundation

Nancy Jones

Veteran, US Navy
Board Member, Swords to Plowshares
Board Member, Polco

Michael Thiel

44th Surgeon General of the U.S. Army
Board of Directors, Johnson & Johnson
Board of Trustees, Mount St. Mary's University

LTG(R) Nadja West

Veteran, U.S. Marine Corps
Co-Founder, With Honor Action
CEO and Founder, Second Front

Peter Dixon

Recipient of the Medal of Honor
Author, 8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier’s Story
Board Member, Warriors Ethos

CPT(R) Florent Groberg

EVP, Corporate Affairs, Chief Compliance Officer, Corporate Secretary, Activision Blizzard
Senior National Security Analyst, CBS
Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism

Frances Townsend

Retired Lieutenant General, U.S. Army
26th U.S. National Security Advisor
Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University

LTG(R) H.R. McMaster

Veteran, US Marine Corps
Vice President, Schmidt Futures
Author, Union: A Democrat, a Republican, and a Search for Common Ground

Jordan Blashek

Vice President and Co-Founder, Bezos Family Foundation
Trustee, Aspen Institute
Board Member, National Constitution Center

Mike Bezos

CEO and Founder, Sallyport Investments
Former Chairman, President, and CEO, El Paso Corporation
Director and Co-Founder, NextOp Vets; Director, Combined Arms

Doug Foshee

Chairman and CEO, The Brierley Group LLC
Executive in Residence, Southern Methodist University, Cox School of Business
Founding CEO, Epsilon, Inc.

Harold “Hal” Brierley

17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Board of Directors, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Professor, Princeton University

ADM(R) Michael Mullen

Retired Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force
Former Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy
Faculty Chair, Senior Executive Fellows, Harvard Kennedy School

BG(R) Dana Born

30th Governor of Idaho
49th Secretary of the Interior
Former Senator from Idaho
51st Mayor of Boise

Gov. Dirk Kempthorne

Gold Star family member
President, Travis Manion Foundation
Township Supervisor, Doylestown, PA

Ryan Manion

Veteran, U.S. Navy
Former Presidential Advisor to four U.S. Presidents
Co-Founder, With Honor

David Gergen

Partner, Vianovo
Former Deputy Assistant to the President, Media Affairs and Global Communications
Political and communications strategist

Tucker Eskew

Veteran, U.S. Air Force
EVP & COO, Arizona State University Enterprise
Former Presidential Appointee, National Security Education Board

Dr. Christopher Howard

Founder and Chairman, Three Ships
Chairman, MattressAdvisor.com
Chairman, HouseMethod.com

Zach Clayton

Veteran, U.S. Navy
CEO, Concord Energy Holdings
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense

Matt Flavin

Veteran, U.S. Air Force
Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center
Former Senate Majority Leader

Sen. Tom Daschle

19th White House Chief of Staff
Co-Chair, National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility & Reform
Board of Directors: Facebook, Morgan Stanley, and Norfolk Southern

Hon. Erskine Bowles

Honorary Advisors

Hon. Michèle Flournoy

CEO, WestExec Advisors

Hon. Henry Kissinger

56th U.S. Secretary of State

Mr. Truman Semans

Senior Advisor, Brown Advisory