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Dave McCurdy, Chair Dave McCurdy is the President of the Alliance of Automobile Manufacturers. From 1998 to 2006 he served as the President of the Electronic Industries Alliance. Prior to that, Mr. McCurdy served 14 years in the US Congress, representing the fourth district of Oklahoma. During his tenure on Capitol Hill he held numerous leadership positions including Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee; Chairman of the Military Installations and Facilities Subcommittee of the House Armed Services Committee; and Chairman of the Transportation Aviation and Materials Subcommittee of the Science and Space Committee. He played a major role in enacting numerous legislative initiatives including the 1985 Goldwater-Nichols Act, which reorganized the Department of Defense, and the Nunn-McCurdy Amendment of 1982 requiring congressional notification of defense cost overruns of 15 percent or more. Mr. McCurdy held a commission in the United States Air Force Reserve attaining the rank of major and serving as a Judge Advocate General. He graduated from the University of Oklahoma and holds a JD from Oklahoma's Law School. He also studied international economics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland.
Denis Bovin is Vice Chairman, Investment Banking and Senior Managing Director of Bear Stearns & Company. His professional experience includes more than 30 years of involvement with the strategic and financial concerns of domestic and international companies and government agencies. In addition to serving on numerous civic and professional boards, Mr. Bovin is a consultant to the Defense Science Board, which advises the Secretary of Defense and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Member of the Defense Business Board, which advises senior defense executives on strategies to adopt best business practices; and Member of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. He is a contributor to Keeping the Edge: Managing Defense for the Future publication. He is a graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Senator Dan Coats is a senior counsel in King & Spalding's Public Policy and Government Advocacy Practice Group. Senator Coats joined King & Spalding after serving as U.S. Ambassador to the Federal Republic of Germany from August 2001 to February 2005. A former member of Congress, Senator Coats represented Indiana in the United States Senate from 1989 to 1999, and in the United States House of Representatives from 1981 to 1988. Upon his retirement from the U.S. Senate in 1999, Senator Coats joined former Senate Majority Leaders Bob Dole and George Mitchell as Special Counsel with the Washington law firm of Verner, Liipfert, Bernhard, McPherson and Hand. In 1995, Senator Coats received national recognition as the author and champion of the Project for American Renewal, a comprehensive initiative aimed at shifting power and funding from Washington directly to local and non-profit groups that are successfully working to resolve many of the nation's social problems. He also is the author of Mending Fences: Renewing Justice Between Government and Civil Society.
Devon Cross is currently Executive Director of The Donors Forum. She has extensive experience in public policy program development, having held positions with the Gilder Foundation, Donner Canadian Foundation and The Smith Richardson Foundation. Ms. Cross was senior associate editor of The Washington Quarterly and has worked at Foreign Policy Magazine and the International Security Studies Program, Woodrow Wilson Center. She holds an MA from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and BA from Bryn Mawr College. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on advisory boards of other civic organizations.
General Jack Keane is Senior Managing Director and co-founder of Keane Advisors, LLC, a private equity and consulting firm. He serves as a national security analyst for ABC News and speaks throughout the nation on national security and leadership. He has been elected to the Board of Directors of Metlife, General Dynamics and Allied Barton Security. He is a senior advisor to Kholberg, Kravis and Roberts, one of the nation’s largest private equity firms and is an advisor to the Chairman & CEO of URS Corporation. He is also a member of the Secretary of Defense’s Policy Board, a commissioner on the Congressional Commission on the National Guard and Reserves, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, director of the George C. Marshall Foundation, director of the Knollwood Foundation, a member of the Executive Committee, Pentagon Memorial Fund, chairman of the Terry Maude Foundation and chairman of Senior Executive Committee, Army Aviation Association of America. General Keane, a four-star general, completed 37 years in public service in December 2003, culminating as acting Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the US Army. As the chief operating officer of the Army for 4½ years, he directed one million, five hundred thousand soldiers and civilians in 120 countries, with an annual operating budget of 110 billion dollars. General Keane was in the Pentagon on 9/11 and provided oversight and support for the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. General Keane graduated from Fordham University with a Bachelor of Science degree in Accounting and a Master of Arts degree in Philosophy from Western Kentucky University. He is a graduate of the Army War College and the Command and General Staff College. General Keane and his wife Theresa, who have been married for over 40 years, have two adult sons Matthew and Daniel.
Stephen Preston, Director Mr. Preston returned to the firm in 2001 after more than four years at the Pentagon and three years at the Justice Department. He was the Principal Deputy General Counsel of the Department of Defense from 1993 to 1995, during which time he served for an extended period as Acting General Counsel. From 1995 to 1998, Mr. Preston served as the Deputy Assistant Attorney General at the US Department of Justice responsible for civil litigation in the courts of appeals on behalf of the United States. In addition to overseeing work in a wide variety of substantive areas and assisting the Solicitor General in cases before the Supreme Court, he argued several significant appeals involving constitutional law, statutory interpretation, federal court jurisdiction and testimonial privileges. From 1998 to 2000, he was General Counsel of the Department of the Navy, a Presidential appointment requiring Senate confirmation. Mr. Preston’s responsibilities covered the full range of legal matters confronting the Defense Department and the national security establishment, including those relating to industry consolidation, systems acquisition and technology security. He was actively involved in criminal, inspector general and congressional investigations, civil fraud and contract claims litigation and alternative dispute resolution.
Elihu Rose is the author of several articles on military history and serves as Chairman of the Board of American Historical Publications, publishers of MHQ: The Quarterly Journal of Military History and TIME MACHINE: The American History Magazine for kids. Dr. Rose teaches military history at New York University and has been a visiting lecturer at Yale University and the University of Maryland. He serves on boards of several civic organizations and is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Dr. Rose is a partner of Rose Associates, Inc, a New York real estate investment and management firm. He holds a Ph.D. and MA from New York University and BS from Yale University. He served in the US Air Force (active and reserve) from 1954-1965 and received the Superior Public Service Medal from the Navy in 1993.
R. James Woolsey is currently Vice President at Booz Allen Hamilton. He served two years as director of the Central Intelligence Agency and served as a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner. He has served in the US government as Ambassador to the Negotiation on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, Undersecretary of the Navy, and general counsel to the US Senate Committee on Armed Services. He was a delegate to the US-Soviet Strategic Arms Reduction Talks and the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks. While in the US Army, Mr. Woolsey served as a member of the National Commission on Terrorism, the Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the US, the President’s Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management, and the President’s Commission on Strategic Forces, among many others. He graduated from Stanford University, holds an M.A. from Oxford University, and an LL.B from Yale Law School.
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