Executive Team
Veteran, U.S. Marine Corps
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, Double Time Capital
Co-Founder, Carolina for Kibera
Rye Barcott
Co-Founder & CEO
CEO, FPPCO | Invest America
Former CEO, Americans Elect
Former President, StudentsFirst
Kahlil Byrd
Senior Advisor
Veteran, U.S. Army
Former consultant, The Boston Consulting Group
Former philanthropy director
Thomas Leonard
Chief Operating Officer
Former Deputy Political Director, DSCC
Former Campaign Manager and Hill Staffer
Former Systems Engineer, Boeing
Ellen Zeng
Executive Director
Advisory Board
Vice President and Co-Founder, Bezos Family Foundation
Board Member, Aspen Institute and New Classrooms
Board Member, National Constitution Center
Mr. Mike Bezos
Retired Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force
Former Dean of Faculty, U.S. Air Force Academy
Co-Director, Harvard Center for Public Leadership
BG(R) Dana Born
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
Founder and Chairman, Three Ships
Chairman, MattressAdvisor.com
Chairman, HouseMethod.com
Mr. Zach Clayton
Veteran, U.S. Marine Corps
Co-Founder, With Honor Action
CEO and Founder, Second Front
Mr. Peter Dixon
Partner, Vianovo
Former Deputy Assistant to the President, Media Affairs and Global Communications
Political and communications strategist
Mr. Tucker Eskew
Veteran, U.S. Navy
CEO, Concord Energy Holdings
Former Deputy Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary of Defense
Mr. Matt Flavin
CEO, WestExec Advisors
Former CEO and Co-Founder, Center for a New American Security
Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy
Hon. Michèle Flournoy
CEO and Founder, Sallyport Investments
Former Chairman, President, and CEO, El Paso Corporation
Director and Co-Founder, NextOp Vets; Director, Combined Arms
Mr. Doug Foshee
Veteran, U.S. Air Force
22nd Secretary of Defense
24th Chancellor, College of William and Mary
Hon. Robert Gates
Veteran, U.S. Navy
Former Presidential Advisor to four U.S. Presidents
Co-Founder, With Honor
Mr. David Gergen
Recipient of the Medal of Honor
Author, 8 Seconds of Courage: A Soldier’s Story
Board Member, Warriors Ethos
CPT(R) Florent Groberg
Veteran, U.S. Marine Corps
CEO and Founder, Nuru International
Presidential Leadership Scholar
Mr. Jake Harriman
Veteran, U.S. Air Force
President, Robert Morris University
Former Presidential Appointee, National Security Education Board
Dr. Christopher Howard
Professor of Military History, UNC-Chapel Hill
Co-editor, Soldiers and Civilians: The Civil-Military Gap and American National Security
Former Chief Historian, U.S. Air Force
Dr. Richard Kohn
Gold Star family member
President, Travis Manion Foundation
Township Supervisor, Doylestown, PA
Ms. Ryan Manion
17th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Board of Directors, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Professor, Princeton University
ADM(R) Michael Mullen
EVP, Worldwide Government, Legal and Business Affairs, MacAndrews & Forbes, Inc.
Senior National Security Analyst, CBS
Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counter Terrorism
Ms. Frances Townsend
Honorary Advisors
Veteran, U.S. Air Force
Co-Founder, Bipartisan Policy Center
Former Senate Majority Leader
Sen. Tom Daschle
Vice Chairman, Brown Investment Advisory and Trust Company
Trustee Emeritus, Duke University
Trustee Emeritus, The Conservation Fund
Mr. Truman Semans
Veteran, U.S. Marine Corps
60th Secretary of State
62nd Secretary of the Treasury
Hon. George Shultz
Veteran, U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps
61st Secretary of the Navy
Five-term U.S. Senator