Oversees all aspects of legal support for $8B per year Federal contracting firm. One of 3 Business Group Managing GCs for 60,000 employee Fortune-200 company. Routinely provides advice & counsel to Chief Legal Officer and Corporate C-suite.• Provides highly actionable & responsive strategic legal advice, anticipating business needs, ensuring compliance with all internal & external regulatory requirements, identifying & mitigating risks, & maximizing business opportunities. Personally responsible for recovering over $68M in since 2020. • Manages geographically dispersed team of 17 direct report & affiliated counsel & associated paralegal/administrative support personnel, overseeing all legal aspects of the company’s day-to-day U.S. & international government support operations, including in the areas of human resources (HR), Federal Government contracts-based regulatory compliance, Export Controls/ITAR compliance, Sarbanes Oxley (SOX) compliance, intellectual property (IP), Cyber, investigations, Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA), mandatory disclosures, federal cost & pricing principals, environmental compliance, international business law, & myriad other matters.• Oversees $ multi-billion contracting effort for commercial clients & the Departments of Energy, Defense, Labor, FEMA, & the intelligence community, principally in the areas of D0E E&N/M&O/Nuclear support, heavy and medium construction, contingency operations, & base operations providing advice on requests for proposal (RFP), proposal preparation, gate reviews, risk analyses, bid protests, contractual analysis and compliance, change management, development of requests for equitable adjustment (REAs), claims development, Armed Services Board of Contracts Appeals (ASBCA) litigation, Federal Court of Claims suits, False Claims Act (FCA) matters, and various other forms of State and Federal civil litigation. • Manages multiple outside law firms with a budget in excess of $10M per year.

As Senior Director of the Aerospace and Defense Global Intelligence Operations Center (GIOC) and drawing upon 28 years as a general counsel in the United States Navy, oversees and directs thousands of highly trained, dedicated professionals in the mission of delivering highest quality results to the global client base of PwC, most particularly Generals Counsel, Compliance Officers, CEOs, and CFOs of many Fortune 500 corporations around the world. Globally arrayed, diverse, and prepared to overcome every challenge - the A&D GIOC is a force multiplier for individuals, businesses, and governments around the world. The A&D GIOC is expert in conducting forensically sound and legally defensible investigations and compliance assessments relying upon deep web collection and analysis, social media monitoring and analysis, collection of information from thousands of highly placed sources, and instantaneous aggregation of millions of pieces of open source data. The highly trained and ready global team of professionals associated with the A&D GIOC, who speak and write in more than 40 languages, have helped hundreds of U.S. and foreign Fortune 500 companies, U.S. and foreign professional sports leagues and teams, and internationally best selling music artists maintain their competitive edge and navigate a dangerous and highly competitive world. With offerings including investigations; due diligence; delivery of real-time intelligence collection and analysis; data aggregation; risk and crisis resiliency, management and response; anti-corruption analysis, investigation, and remediation; and many more, the PwC A&D GIOC is the industry leader in the cutting edge NEXTGEN use of information to stay safe and stay ahead of the competition.

Performed duties as Professor of Ethics at the premier Institution of higher learning in the entire U.S. Department of Defense. Taught graduate level students in the ethical standards applicable to armed conflict, relying on relevant treatises and historical works, personal experience from multiple combat deployments and other deployments over the past 15 years, as well as personal experience advising U.S. Government strategic leaders over the course of a highly successful career. NDU is an accredited university with the strongest possible reputation for rigor and acedemic excellence.

OVERVIEW: By name request by 4-Star Commanding General to act as Strategic Policy Advisor and General Counsel/Staff Judge Advocate for all U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, principally responsible for the flawless, timely, and cogent delivery of strategic policy and legal advice to the Four-Star General Commander and all forces assigned in theater. • Responsible for providing legal advice on, and ensuring full compliance in the following areas of law: fiscal, operational, contracting, procurement, ethics, international, cyber, personnel, EEO, intelligence and intelligence oversight, environmental, intellectual property, criminal, and administrative - answering to the most senior military and political leaders in Washington, Brussels, and Kabul. Directly Managed over 150 subordinate counsel.• Responsible for overseeing all legal matters regarding expenditure of the U.S. Government’s $4B/yr Afghan Security Forces Fund (ASFF) and $1B+ NATO Trust Fund in support of the Afghan national security forces, including the award and execution of numerous contracts, oversight of end user and li censing requirements, and issues associated with various Foreign Military Sales cases.• Lead proponent with the Government of Afghanistan on negotiation and execution of arrangements to provide U.S. and NATO forces, as well as contractors, access to, and freedom of movement within, Afghanistan.• Singularly responsible for negotiating measures implementing the recently signed BSA and SOFA, ensuring movement/operation of contractors and contractor employees to, from, and within Afghanistan, including drafting and negotiating Afghan Presidential Directive #38 and its extension to allow for a 9 month transition period for implementation of the BSA and SOFA. Crucial to U.S and NATO operations in Afghanistan.

OVERVIEW: Senior U.S. military legal advisor/legal policy maker for 350,000 members of U.S. Pacific Command. Personal legal advisor to 4-Star Commander, providing expert legal counsel on all policy & operational matters, government contracts, and compliance matters relating to operation of the HQ, subordinate commands, and staff. • Drafter/negotiator of U.S. Government International agreements in support of U.S. strategic rebalance, particularly with Australia, Philippines, & Singapore.• Designated Ethics Advisor for more than 30 Flag/General Officers and SES federal civilian employees.• Legal advisor on all government contracts and more than 50 Inspector General & administrative investigations involving contract & travel fraud, espionage, EEO, & myriad other subjects. Worked directly and routinely with FBI, NCIS, & other Federal & State law enforcement agencies. • Technical supervisor for more than 100 jr counsel of all military services, ensuring coordinated legal advice on myriad issues, including litigation oversight, personnel/human resources law, intellectual property, rules of engagement, rules for use of force, intelligence law, maritime law, aviation law, space law, cyber law, environmental law, fiscal law, government contracting law, real estate matters, R&D initiatives with applied science labs, & similar matters. Ensured compliance with all applicable laws and regulations, including those pertaining to EEO, collective bargaining agreements, FMS, FCPA, OFAC licensing matters, & ITAR regs. • Primary Pacific Command international negotiator with China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia, Singapore, Thailand, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, Malaysia, Indonesia, the Maldives, and nearly 20 other countries to open/maintain U.S. military access and maximize operating rights.

OVERVIEW: Working with Washington D.C. and international partners, responsible for developing internationally respected nation-wide governance program in Afghanistan, as well as ensuring unfailing compliance with international law, U.S. law, and DoD regulations regarding intelligence and detention operations, in a highly scrutinized combat environment. • Senior U.S. military legal advisor for all U.S. military intelligence activities in Afghanistan. • Legal counsel for $100M/yr contracting effort in broad spectrum of operational/security contracting.• Primary Rule of Law advisor, coordinating staff of more than 50 DoD lawyers and support personnel on broad Rule of Law efforts throughout Afghanistan.• Integral member of U.S. Government Anti-Corruption campaign, providing advice and assistance in the establishment of the Afghan Anti-Corruption Tribunal. • Primary official charged with ensuring compliance with broad array of U.S. and international law and Department of Defense regulations, policies, and directives. • Primary interlocutor and negotiator with international partners and senior U.S. Government officials on broad mission areas of Joint Task Force 435.

OVERVIEW: Commanded organization stretching across three continents, responsible for ensuring compliance with applicable law and regulations, prosecuting all criminal acts committed by Navy personnel throughout Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia, as well as providing highest level legal advice to maximize Navy operational flexibility overseas. • Commanding Officer of U.S. Navy’s largest overseas legal command, comprised of 65 attorneys, paralegals, and legal support personnel in offices located in the United Kingdom, Italy, Spain, Greece, Bahrain, and Djibouti. • Secured and sustained U.S. military operating rights in more than 120 nations. • Developed and implemented negotiating strategies to expand or improve U.S. military access throughout assigned area of responsibility. Leveraged in-depth knowledge of dynamic geo-political environment to consistently deliver successful results. • Transformed the means by which the Navy’s legal community serves critical interests of forward deployed Navy elements, increasing efficiencies, reducing cost, and improving overall results. • Oversaw all investigations and prosecutions of Navy personnel across Europe, Africa, and Southwest Asia, enforced compliance with U.S. and international law, as well as Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policies, regulations, and directives pertaining to, inter alia, personnel management, military justice, international obligations, claims, and similar matters.

OVERVIEW: Responsible for anticipating organizational legal requirements on a global scale on behalf of the Department of Defense, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the National Security Council Staff and leveraging available resources to maximize legal opportunities, while minimizing/mitigating legal risks. • Lead U.S. Government attorney for President’s Proliferation Security Initiative (PSI). Working with White House-level policy makers and foreign counterparts, led development of unprecedented initiative among 22 nations that is now cornerstone of international counter-proliferation effort versus North Korea and Iran.• Lead military attorney for successful negotiation of access, status of forces, over flight, basing, and similar agreements around the globe, including negotiations with the United Kingdom, Denmark, Italy, Germany, Spain, Romania, Bulgaria, Russia, Singapore, Japan, Indonesia, Djibouti, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Iraq, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Republic of the Philippines, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Columbia, Brazil, Honduras, and elsewhere. • Lead military attorney for development of maritime security strategy. Working closely with White House and other interagency partners, co-wrote NSPD 41/HSPD 13, providing critical advice and support to highly effective effort. • Lead military attorney in support of successful adoption of amendments to International Convention on Suppression of Unlawful Acts at Sea (SUA). Successfully developed and implemented strategy to leverage support for related international initiatives to conclude first of its kind international counter-terrorism convention.

OVERVIEW: Working closely with Department of State and international partners, responsible for delivering highest level, no fail results on numerous critical U.S. Government initiatives. • Principal advisor to DoD General Counsel on day -to- day developments and legal issues during opening phases of Operation Iraqi Freedom. • Key contributor to the development and implementation of the U.S. Government’s strategy for adoption of U.N. Security Council Resolutions governing U.S. and coalition operations and activities in Iraq. Personally and substantially participated in the drafting of UN Security Council Resolutions 1483, 1511, and 1546. • Senior U.S. Government attorney for initiative to protect U.S. service members from political prosecutions under the Rome Treaty. Working closely with interagency counterparts, developed novel strategy that leveraged agreements with regional powers to enhance overall success of White House-driven effort.