The Council on National Security and Immigration is a group of American national security leaders who believe immigration reforms are imperative to bolster and maintain U.S. global leadership in the 21st century.

Formerly Riverbend Capital, Okeanos is a venture capital firm that invests in early and growth stage technology and tech-enabled companies. To date, we have closed more than 100 investments across various stages, sectors, and geographies.

Tailored expertise to government and defense sector investors, companies and teams focused on strategy, mergers and acquisitions, branding, and operational improvement

Avantus Federal, a NewSpring company, is a mission-focused services and solutions platform headquartered in McLean, Virginia and acquired by QinetiQ in November 2022. Our team of approximately 1,200 highly skilled and cleared colleagues enable us to deliver a range of differentiated solutions designed, tailored, and executed based on our long history of helping our Intelligence Community, Defense, Homeland Security, and Federal Civilian customers solve their most complex problems.Executive leadership team member responsible for leading corporate development, strategy, and marketing and communications across the Avantus enterprise. Led prosecution of programmatic M&A sourcing and execution and branding and communications strategies.

Chaired by General Jack Keane and led by Dr. Kimberly Kagan, nonpartisan think tank ISW helps our war fighters, military commanders, intelligence professionals, and policymakers understand ongoing military crises, anticipate contingencies, and develop intelligent strategic options. ISW also assists our commanders and military staffs as they implement and execute their missions in the field. ISW provides this unique value to decision-makers by conducting impeccable research, integrating the latest technologies into traditional threat analysis, and hiring the best possible analysts to support the mission.

I supported ASGN (NYSE: ASGN) CEO Ted Hanson and ASGN Board with strategy development and investor relations for ASGN. I also led corporate development for ASGN's high-end, >$1B government IT solutions segment, ECS, including four acquisitions across multiple national security customer and technology solutions segments: - National Security/Law Enforcement-focused cyber and IT solutions business DHA Group; - Digital transformation business Blackstone Technology;- Geospatial intelligence, AI/ML, and open source intelligence business Skyris LLC; and - ServiceNow Elite solutions provider Integrated Solutions Management, Inc. (ISM)With ASGN CEO Ted Hanson, led COVID-19 2020-2021 strategic planning assessment for Board of Directors to assess expected near-term impacts of pandemic on all ASGN markets, stakeholders, and operations

At Childhelp®, our goal is to meet the physical, emotional, educational, and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children. Childhelp programs and services help children from any situation and let them experience the life they deserve: one filled w/ love. Since 1959, the theme across all of our programs is to provide the children we serve w/ an environment of compassion and kindness.

Practice leader for strategy and buy-side M&A Wolf Den Associates is the leading strategy and management consulting firm focused on helping federal market participants accelerate their growth. We advise investors and operating companies across the federal national security and civil marketplace, including top private equity sponsors and many of the top federal contractors. Wolf Den offers uncommon data-centric rigor through actionable corporate strategic plans, content-rich capture and proposal support, nuanced buy-side transaction execution services, and cutting edge technical solutions for mission-critical security mission needs. With 80% of engagements stemming from repeat customers, Wolf Den serves more than one third of the Washington Technology Top 100, including more than half of the top 25, and a roster of financial sponsor clients with over $450B in Assets Under Management. Across more than 1,300 engagements for over 250 clients, Wolf Den has helped execute dozens of acquisitions worth billions in transaction value, chart corporate strategy, and win billions of dollars of competitive federal contracts for clients ranging from publicly traded systems integrators to small businesses pursuing their first prime awards.

Led by The Honorable Tom Ridge, the first secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and former governor of Pennsylvania, Ridge Global is a cyber security strategy consulting firm serving corporate and government clients.

Co-Chair, Private Equity GroupChair, Dean's Distinguished Speaker SeriesHarper Fellowship - MBA award for demonstrating leadership, academic and extracurricular achievements

Holding company focused on health-care related investment, development, and management

Principal investing and investment banking advisory services for Morgan Stanley

- Top Secret/SCI National Security Clearance- Founding member of Secretary's international staff at post-9/11 Department- Foreign policy analyst and advisor to Secretary Tom Ridge and Secretary Michael Chertoff- Coordinator, United States - United Kingdom Security Joint Contact Group (Cabinet Office, Home Office)

International private equity affiliate of Sam Zell's Equity Group Investments