Paul Campagna grew up in California and graduated from West Point. He was an Army helicopter pilot, then transferred to the Navy, spending his operational tours flying F/A-18 jets from aircraft carriers and accumulating over 3,000 flight hours. He has been published in tactical and professional journals, is a graduate of the Top Gun adversary course, the Navy Nuclear Propulsion engineering program, and a Harvard Kennedy School National Security Fellow with staff tours in the Pentagon and Special Operations Command, where he deployed as a fires officer. Paul was an executive officer (Chief Operating Officer) of a Squadron leading 235 Sailors, and an Aircraft Carrier leading 2,628 Sailors. He commanded a Fighter Squadron and an Afloat Staging Base leading 50 civilian mariners and 100 Sailors. His service culminated as the first West Point graduate to Command an Aircraft Carrier, fittingly the USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) where he led over 5,200 deployed Sailors, received the Navy efficiency award for the best carrier on the east coast and was recognized for the best aviation and ship team in the Navy ⚓He recently entered the Aerospace and Defense sector, managing a Quality Assurance Division for Northrop Grumman at the Huntsville Manufacturing Center, leading teams in Supplier Quality, Internal Auditing, Receiving, In Process Inspections and Quality Control. Clifton Strenghts:Restorative: adept at dealing with problems, good at figuring it out what is wrong and resolving it by deciding what is to be done.Achiever: takes great satisfaction from being productive, determined to satisfy need for knowledge and desire to make measurale progress.Responsibility: instinctively and willingly assumes moral, legal and mental accountability for people, processes and assignments.Learner: desire to learn and wants to continuously improve, with the process of learning, rather than the outcome is what excites me.Self-Assurance: possesses an inner compass that gives confidence that decisions are right, reduces elaborate processes to basic elements. Bold. Risk-taker.