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Kathy Roth-Douquet

CEO and Board President

Noeleen Tillman

Chief Operating Officer

Lieutenant General Gwendolyn Bingham, USA (Ret.)

Chair, Blue Star Families Board of Directors

Lieutenant General Chris Bogdan, USAF (Ret.)

Vice Chair | Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Whit Cobb

Director | Senior Vice President & General Counsel, Pacific Architects & Engineers (PAE) 

The Honorable Carlos Del Toro

Director | Former Secretary of the Navy

Ellyn Dunford

Director | Spouse of General Joseph Dunford Jr., USMC (Ret.), Former Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Recipient of the Blue Star Families Lifetime Achievement Award

Staff Sergeant Charles Eggleston, USA (Ret.)

Director | President and CEO, Three Seven Consulting

Todd Finger

Director | Partner, McDermott Will & Emery

AJ Jones II

Director | Executive Vice President, Chief Strategic and Corporate Communications Officer

Brianna Keilar

Director | CNN Anchor

Val Nicholas

Director | Senior Vice President Creative Director, Summit MediaCorp

Jennifer O’Connor

Director | Vice President and General Counsel, Harvard University

Nada Stirratt

Director | CEO, CRO, Global Tech Exec

Wilson Wang

Director | Senior Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer, MITRE

Emeritus Members

Sheila Casey

Executive Director Joining Forces,Military Family Advocate, Spouse of General George Casey, USA (Ret.), Former Chief of Staff of the Army

Steve Hilton

Global Government and Public Affairs Executive, Attorney, Government Policy and Stakeholder Engagement Strategist, Board Member Emeritus

Constance J. Milstein

Founding Blue Star Families Board Member Emeritus

Craig Newmark

Founder, craigslist and craig newmark philanthropies

Advisory Board Members

Juan Ayala

Director, Office of Military and Veteran Affairs, City of San Antonio

Katerina Simonetti Bakh

Private Wealth Advisor, Morgan Stanley

Cathy Bentivegna

Spouse of Chief Master Sergeant John F. Bentivegna, the Chief Master Sergeant of the United States Space Force

Stacie Black

1st Sergeant USMC (Ret.) and spouse of the 5th Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Peter Bloom

Chairman of the Board, DonorsChoose.Org

Ivan G. Bolden

Former Chief of Army Partnerships (Ret.)

Dana Born

Faculty Chair, Senior Executive Fellows; Faculty Advisor, Black Family Fellows; Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Center for Public Leadership

Thomas Bostick

53rd Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Robin Bronk

CEO, The Creative Coalition

Ward Carroll

Director of Outreach and Marketing, U.S. Naval Institute

Kenneth Cohen

Chair of the Division of Military & Society and Curator of Early American History at the Smithsonian Museum of American History

Major General Andrew Davis, USMC (Ret.)

CEO, World War II Foundation

Gadi Dechter

Vice President for Communications and Government Affairs at Princeton University

Greg Douquet

Founder and CEO of Red Duke Strategies, LLC

Edward Felsenthal

Executive Chairman and former Editor-in-Chief and CEO of TIME and Senior Advisor, Office of the CEO at Salesforce

William Goodwin

Head of Corporate Affairs, The New York Stock Exchange

Robert Gordon

Chief Growth Officer and Vice President, Health Solutions, SBG Technology Solutions

Fred Hannett

Founder and Managing Principal, The Capital Alliance

Major Ernesto P. Hernandez, III (USAF, Ret.)

Founder and Chairman of Wounded Paw Project

Donna Hoffmeier

Senior Vice President, Strategic Communications and Advocacy, TriWest Healthcare Alliance

Evelyn Honea

Command, Leadership Spouse

Katrina Isom

Spouse of the 6th Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Kathleen Jabs

Special Assistant to the President for Military and Veteran Affairs at William & Mary

The Honorable Ronald Keohane

The Honorable Ronald Keohane, Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs

Josh King

Citadel Managing Director & Head of Corporate Affairs

Spencer Kympton

Managing Director, Portfolio Strategy and Management at Blue Meridian Partners

Koby Langley

Chief Operating Officer, U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee

Charlie Lewis

Partner at McKinsey & Company; North American and European Leader for McKinsey's Cyber Service Line

The Hon. Reta Jo Lewis

Former Chairman, President, & CEO; Export Import Bank of the United States (2022-2025)

Peter Long

Former Executive Vice President of Strategy and Health Solutions at Blue Shield of California

Mary Mahoney

Spouse of General Christopher Mahoney, USMC, 13th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff

Greg Mauro

Founder and Managing Partner, Learn Capital

Bill McBride

Former (2019-2025) Executive Director of the National Governors Association (NGA)

Kelley McCormick

Founder, Original Strategies

Katie McMaster

Spouse of Lieutenant General H.R. McMaster, USA (Ret.), Former National Security Advisor

Edward Meagher

Executive Vice President and Executive Advisor, Information Innovators Inc.

Sam Meek

CEO and Co-Founder, Sandboxx

Michael Meese, Ph.D.

President, AAFMAA (American Armed Forces Mutual Aid Association)

Paul Meyer

Co-Founder and CEO, The Commons Project

Jamie Jones Miller

Senior Advisor, The Roosevelt Group

Patricia Montes-Barron

President, PMB Consulting, LLC; Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Military Community and Family Policy

Alexander Niejelow

CEO, Hilco Global Cyber Advisors

Carmen O’Shea

Operating Advisor, Goldman Sachs

Elizabeth O’Brien

Vice President of Hiring Our Heroes, U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation

Christopher Oprison

Partner at DLA Piper

Holly Page

Principal, The Page Agency

Lee Quintas

Lieutenant General Lee Quintas, USA (Ret.)

Dana Richardson

Spouse of Admiral John M. Richardson, USN (Ret.), Former Chief of Naval Operations

Katie Roberts

Founder and CEO of RPR Strategies

Nishant Roy

Chief Impact Officer, Chobani

Rebekah Sanderlin

Public and Media Relations, Strategic Marketing and Digital Communications, Military Family Advisory Network

Jonathan Soros

Co-Founder, Athletes Unlimited; CEO, JS Capital Management LLC; Founding Partner, One Madison Group

Dave Stritzinger

Head of Global Distribution, Brightstar Corporation

Kiersten Todt

Senior Vice President for Cybersecurity Partnership and Engagement at Mastercard

The Honorable Alex Wagner

Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force (Manpower and Reserve Affairs)

Kevin Wensing

Managing Director, Wensing Enterprises LLC

Brian Whiting

Sr. Executive Leader | Military & Veteran Advocate | Conservationist

Robert Wilkins

Military Evangelist/Community Outreach, MilitaryTimes

Karla Ballard Williams

CEO and Co-Founder, YING, Inc.

The Honorable Douglas Wilson

Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs

Tony Woods

Former Secretary for the Maryland Department of Veterans and Military Families

Digital Advisory Board Members

Aidan Berger

Strategy Analyst, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Yolanda Botti-Lodovico

Storytelling & Advocacy Lead, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

Vilas Dhar

President, Patrick J. McGovern Foundation

David Gowel

CEO, RallyPoint

Will Grannis

VP and CTO, Google Cloud

George Jagodzinski

CEO, Intevity

Tom X Lee

CEO, Galileo

Dr. Amanda Muller

Director, AI Governance and Strategy, Northrop Grumman

Alexander Niejelow

CEO, Hilco Global Cyber Advisors

George Selim

Executive Vice President, ADL