U.S. Naval Institute 2008 Board of Directors - Bios
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 Stephen M. Waters
COFOUNDER
COMPASS ADVISERS INTERNATIONAL, LLP
Steve Waters has over 30 years of experience providing international strategic and financial advice to corporations, institutional investors, sovereign governments and private families.
Mr. Waters established Compass Advisers as an independent advisory firm in August 2001. He co-founded Compass in 1997 and helped establish the Compass Partners European Equity Fund, a $917 million fund focused on Western Europe. This fund was the largest ""first-time"" fund ever raised for European investment.
Mr. Waters was with Morgan Stanley from 1988 to 1996, serving as Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions from 1990 to 1992, and Co-Chief Executive Officer of Morgan Stanley Europe from 1992 to 1996. He was a member of Morgan Stanley's worldwide 12-person Operating Committee.
Mr. Waters joined Morgan Stanley from Lehman Brothers, where he served as Co-Head of Mergers and Acquisitions from 1985 to 1988, having co-founded that department in 1977 and become a partner in 1980.
Mr. Waters is a Director of Boston Private Holdings and is Chairman of the European Equity Fund. He serves as Vice Chairman of the Harvard College Fund and Compass. He is a member of the Harvard Dean's Council and the Princeton Theological Seminary's Investment Committee. He is also Chairman of the Dean's Advisory Board for the Boston University School of Public Health.
Mr. Waters was an officer in the U.S. Navy from 1972 to 1974, serving aboard three destroyers.
Mr. Waters graduated with honors, magna cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa, from Harvard College. He was a Baker Scholar at Harvard Business School. Personal interests include the New York Yankees, international and military affairs and public school education.
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RADM Robert S. Branham, USCG
DISCTRICT COMMANDER, SEVENTH COAST GUARD DISTRICT
Rear Admiral Steve Branham serves as the Commander Seventh Coast Guard District Headquartered in Miami, Florida. The District responsibilities include all Coast Guard operations in the Southeast region of the United States, the Caribbean Sea, Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands. In his immediate prior assignment, he served as the Coast Guard Assistant Commandant for Resources and Chief Financial Officer. Rear Admiral Branham was promoted to flag rank in 2005 and received his second star in 2007.
Rear Admiral Branham has served in a variety of afloat and administrative assignments on the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts as well as the Great Lakes. His most recent shore assignments were Chief of Operations and Chief of Staff, Coast Guard Atlantic Area, and Executive Director of the U.S. Interdiction Coordinator (USIC) Staff, directly assisting the Commandant in his role as USIC.
He has served six tours afloat, including 4 tours in command of Cutter CAPE HEDGE (WPB 95311), a 95-foot patrol boat homeported in Morro Bay, California; Cutter NEAH BAY (WTGB 105), a 140-foot icebreaking tug homeported in Cleveland, Ohio; Cutter HARRIET LANE (WMEC 903), a 270-foot cutter homeported in Portsmouth, Va.; and Cutter GALLATIN (WHEC 721), a 378-foot cutter homeported in Charleston, S.C.
Throughout his 12 years of sea duty, he has been involved in a number of high-profile drug, migrant, search and rescue, and fisheries enforcement cases, including the 1980 Mariel Boatlift of Cuban migrants and the 1991 Haitian mass migration. Rear Admiral Branham also commanded the task force that successfully prototyped the use of armed helicopters to stop suspected drug-laden go-fast vessels, an initiative that continues to produce record annual drug interdiction rates.
Rear Admiral Branham is a 1977 graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Marine Engineering. He was awarded a master's degree in Business Administration by Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio in 1987 and a master's degree in National Security Strategy by the National War College, Washington, DC in 1999.
Rear Admiral Branham's awards include the Legion of Merit (4), the Meritorious Service Medal (2), the Coast Guard Commendation Medal (3), the Coast Guard Achievement Medal, the Humanitarian Service Medal (3), the Coast Guard Sea Service Ribbon (4), and the Coast Guard Cutterman's Insignia.
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.jpg) Alfred M. Cady, III
COFOUNDER
TMP WORLDWIDE, INC.
Al Cady was born and raised in Syracuse, New York. He was graduated from Syracuse University in 1965 with a BA in History and was a 3-year Varsity Lacrosse letterman.
In February of 1966, Al graduated from Officer Candidate School and was commissioned an Ensign in the U.S. Navy. From September, 1966 to August, 1967, he served as the Communications Officer, USS BENEWAH, ATB 35, a part of the Mobile Riverine Assault Flotillas, in the Mekong Delta, RVN. He served a second tour in Vietnam, as the assistant operations officer, USS PRINCETON, LPH-5, from September, 1967 to January, 1969.
Al resigned his commission in 1969 and became the Assistant Director of Advertising for Household Financial Corporation in Chicago, Illinois.
While with HFC Al received his MBA from Loyola University, Chicago, Illinois in June, 1974.
From June, 1974, to February, 1978, he served as Director of Advertising for Finance America, a subsidiary of Bank of American, in San Francisco, California. In February, 1978, he became Vice-President of Marketing for Control Data Corporation in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
In August of 1982, Al established a joint venture with Andrew J. McKelvey – TMP Worldwide. He subsequently led the Yellow Pages Division of TMP, today known as Monster International.
Al retired in 2000 and since that time has served on the Boards of numerous non-profit and for profit organizations.
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Peter A. Gudmundsson
CEO & FOUNDER OF THE PRICELESS LEGACY COMPANY
Peter A. Gudmundsson, 45, is CEO and Founder of The Priceless Legacy Company, a custom book publisher dedicated to helping people preserve their life stories and lessons for the benefit of future generations. Prior to starting PLC, Gudmundsson served as CEO & President of Beckett Media, LP, the world's leading publisher of magazines, books and websites for sports collectors and gamers.
Before Beckett, Gudmundsson founded and operated Design Guide Publishing Ltd, the publisher of the high-end interior design publications in three major Texas cities. Within the company, he also started Home Improvement – Dallas, a monthly magazine which he sold to Network Communications Inc in 2006.
Prior to founding Design Guide Publishing, Gudmundsson was President and CEO of Jobs.com, an Internet employment services company. Before joining Jobs.com, he served successively as Chief Financial Officer, Chief Operating Officer and later President of Primedia Workplace Learning, a pioneer in the field of distance learning content and services delivered via satellite television and the Internet. Earlier, Gudmundsson served as Vice President of Corporate Development for Primedia Inc. in New York.
Before joining Primedia, Gudmundsson worked as the Assistant to the President and Manager of Corporate Development of Tosco Corporation, a leading independent oil refining company headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut. He has also worked as an investment banker in corporate finance, debt capital markets and mergers & acquisitions at Morgan Stanley & Co. in New York.
A former U.S. Marine artillery and intelligence officer, Gudmundsson is a graduate of Harvard Business School (MBA) and Brown University (BA). He serves on the boards of the Hockaday School and the U.S. Naval Institute. Gudmundsson is also an active Boy Scout leader and youth sports coach. He is married to the former Kathleen Vouté of Bronxville, New York. They reside in Dallas with their four children.
 RADM Victor G. Guillory, USN
DIRECTOR, SURFACE WARFARE (CNO N86)
Rear Admiral Victor G. Guillory is a native of New Orleans and graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1978, earning a Bachelor of Science degree in Management and Technology.
Rear Adm. Guillory served his early sea assignments aboard the guided missile destroyer USS Towers (DDG 9) in engineering and operations departments, the guided missile frigate USS Lewis B. Puller (FFG 23) as a ship control officer, the cruiser USS Vincennes (CG 49) as operations officer. He was the commissioning executive officer in the cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64). He commanded the guided missile frigate USS Underwood (FFG 36) and the cruiser USS Lake Champlain (CG 57).
Ashore, Rear Adm. Guillory's assignments include a recruiting tour in New Orleans and several Washington-area assignments in the Bureau of Naval Personnel, the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as the Surface Warfare Division Branch Head for Combat Systems and most recently as the assistant Deputy Director Surface Ships. He also served in the Joint Staff as the J-3, Current Readiness Branch Chief, and is a graduate of the National Defense University (Industrial College of the Armed Forces).
Rear Adm. Guillory assumed command of Amphibious Force, U.S. 7th Fleet and Amphibious Group 1 in October 2004. Among the numerous professional accomplishments during his first flag officer assignment, Rear Adm. Guillory served as the Deputy Commander of U.S. Naval Forces for Combined Support Force 535 (Southeast Asia Tsunami Relief Operations) in early 2005. In December 2006 he assumed his current responsibilities in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations as the Deputy Director of Surface Warfare (OPNAV N86B).
Rear Adm. Guillory's personal awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, two Meritorious Medals and the Navy Commendation Medal with Gold Star and Combat "V".
 BGEN Timothy C. Hanifen, USMCDEPUTY CG, MARINE CORPS COMBAT DEVELOPMENT COMMAND
Brigadier General Hanifen graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1978 with a B.S. in Naval Engineering (Major: History). He attended The Basic School followed by attendance at the Infantry Officers Course (1979) and flight school in NAS Milton (1979). He was designated a Naval Aviator in November 1980. He is a graduate of the Naval Command and Staff College, Newport R.I. (Masters) and the National War College (Masters), Washington D.C.
The command assignments of Brigadier General Hanifen include: Commanding Officer, HMM 261 Rein/ACE, 22 MEU (1996 to 1998); Commanding Officer, MAG 42, 4th MAW (2002 to 2004); Commanding General, 2DMAW (Forward)/Commanding General, Al Asad Air Base (2007) and Commanding General, 2D Marine Aircraft Wing (2008).
Staff assignments include: S-2A, Weapons Tactics Instructor, S-3A, S-3 and FMFPAC Aircrew Training and Counter-Terrorism Officer (1982-1986); Selected Marine Corps Reservist (1986-88); Operations and Aircraft Maintenance Officers (1988-1990); Tactical Plans & Standardization Officer (1990-1991); MV-22 Osprey Requirements Officer at HQMC Aviation (1992-1995); Strategic Planner within Joint Vision 2010, J-7, Joint Staff (2000); Chief, Joint Vision Transformation Division, J-7, Joint Staff (2000-2002); The Director of Concepts Division, The Director of Doctrine Division And Amphibious Requirements (2004); The Director of Materiel Capabilities Division and Amphibious Requirements (2004); HQMC QDR Team (2004 to 2005); Deputy Director of the Capabilities Development Directorate (2005 to 2006); Assistant Wing Commander, 2D Marine Aircraft Wing (2006) and currently, Deputy Commanding General, Marine Corps Combat Development Command.
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.jpg) Mark W. Johnson
Chairman and CO-FOUNDER
INNOSIGHT, LLC
Mark Johnson is chairman of Innosight, an innovation-based consulting and executive training firm focused on helping companies and institutions innovate for new growth and transformation. He co-founded the firm with Harvard Business School professor and best selling author on innovation, Clayton M. Christensen. Mark has led numerous consulting engagements within Fortune 500 companies in a broad range of industries, including U.S. defense contractors and government labs, commercial enterprise IT companies, and consumer packaged goods companies, and led a large-scale innovation management project for the government of Singapore. Mark's most recent work has focused on business model innovation, helping companies create distinct business models, strategies and skills to manage new market growth.
Mark is a much requested authority and speaker on innovation and business model change and has been a featured speaker at innovation specific conferences such as Fortune's Innovation Forum and several other conferences in the defense, automotive, healthcare, financial services, and venture capital industries.
Prior to co-founding Innosight, Mark was Vice President at the GilderGroup, a high technology consulting and publishing firm. Before joining the GilderGroup, Mark was a consultant at Booz | Allen | Hamilton where he worked on a variety of assignments for clients involved in managing innovation and comprehensive change programs. Additionally, Mark worked with Harvard Business School professor David Garvin in developing an approach and tools to help clients improve their organizational learning capabilities. Prior to joining Booz | Allen | Hamilton, Mark was a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy. He is a veteran of Operation Desert Storm, where he served on the nuclear guided missile cruiser USS Mississippi as part of the USS Kennedy Carrier Battle Group.
Mark received his MBA with second year honors from the Harvard Business School. He received a Master's degree in Civil Engineering and Engineering Mechanics from Columbia University and a Bachelor's degree in Aerospace Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.
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 Dr. J.P. London
Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board
CACI International, Inc.
Dr. J.P. London is Executive Chairman and Chairman of the Board of CACI International Inc. Dr. London oversees strategic initiatives, including CACI's legacy mergers and acquisitions (M&A) program, which he began in 1992. He has an established strong public role representing CACI to customers and the federal information technology (IT) industry. Dr. London is also focused on the evolution & transformation of defense, intelligence, information technology and network communications.
Under Dr. London's leadership, CACI has grown from a small professional services consulting firm to become a pacesetter in IT and communications solutions across markets throughout North America and Western Europe. Since 1993 CACI has made 36 acquisitions that have strengthened its position in managed networks, information assurance and the security and intelligence services markets. After 911, CACI moved operations even further into the intelligence and homeland security arenas. Today, CACI is one of the largest focused IT providers serving the defense and Intelligence communities worldwide.
Dr. London first joined CACI as a program manager in 1972. He advanced to VP in 1976, and by 1982 was a division president, managing CACI's extensive work in systems engineering, logistic sciences and advanced information systems. He was elected to CACI's Board of Directors in 1981, and appointed President and CEO in 1984. In 1990, Dr. London became Chairman of the Board.
Dr. London is a 1959 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy (B.S. Naval Engineering) and a 1967 graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School (M.S. in Operations Research). He holds a doctorate in business administration "with distinction" from George Washington University (1971).
Dr. London was a Navy carrier aviator for 12 years (1959-1971) flying with anti-submarine "hunter-killer" task forces. He saw service in the Cuban Missile Crisis and in at-sea deployments to the North Atlantic, the Mediterranean and the Caribbean. He was part of the USS Randolph (CVS-15) airborne recovery team for Col. John Glenn's Mercury Program space flight in Freedom 7 on February 20, 1962. During 1969/70, he served as Aide and Administrative Assistant to the Vice Chief of the Naval Material Command. Dr. London left active duty in 1971, joined the U.S. Navy Reserve, and retired as a Captain in 1983, having commanded aeronautical engineering units with the Naval Air Systems Command.
During his career, Dr. London has received numerous personal awards including the CEO of the Year Award, presented by the George Washington University Executive MBA Program; Ernst & Young's 2003 Entrepreneur of the Year for Government IT Services; and the John W. Dixon award from the Association of the United States Army for his outstanding contributions to America's defense.
In 2004 Dr. London received the Albert Einstein Award for Technology Achievement in the Defense Fields, and the Federal Computer Week's highest recognition, the Eagle Award, for superior contributions to the federal IT community. He was named Executive of the Year in October 2005 at the Third Annual Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards. In April 2007 he was awarded the U.S. Navy League's Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Award for his exemplary contributions to the enhancement of U.S. maritime strength and national security.
Dr. London has served on the Senior Advisory Board as well as the Board of Directors for the Northern Virginia Technology Council, and is now a member of the Executive Committee and the Board of Directors of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association. He has served on numerous other boards and foundations. Dr. London is also a member of the National Military Intelligence Association, the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, the Navy League, the Naval Order of the U.S.A., the American Legion, the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) and the Veterans of Foreign Wars.
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 The Honorable Robert C. McCormack
FOUNDER AND ADVISORY PARTNER
TRIDENT CAPITAL
Bob McCormack is a cofounder and Advisory Director of Trident Capital. From 1990 to 1993, Bob served as the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management) and Comptroller of the Navy. From 1987 to 1990, he held several senior positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in Washington, D.C. From 1981 to 1987, Bob was a Managing Director of Morgan Stanley & Co. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Vice President with Dillon Read & Co.
Current directorships: CCBN.com, Inc., Derivatech, DeVry, Inc. (DV), Illinois Tool Works, Inc. (ITW), Meadwestvaco (MWV), Northern Trust Corporation (NTRS), The Revere Group, Ltd.
Past directorships: CommSite International, Inc., The Compucare Company, Imaging Portals, Inc., Internet Securities, Inc., OnLine Interactive, Inc., PGI, Inc.
Education: B.A., University of North Carolina. M.B.A., University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business.
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 Edward S. Miller
Edward S. Miller is a historian and author on American naval and strategic history. His War Plan Orange: The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945, published by the U.S. Naval Institute Press, received wide acclaim from senior cabinet and military leaders and the press. He was named author of the year by the Institute in 1992. The work earned five history prizes, including the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History, and was translated into Japanese. With continuing demand, including from U.S. war colleges, it was recently republished in paperback.
In 2007, the U.S. Naval Institute Press will publish Miller's Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege Before Pearl Harbor. Like his previous book, it draws on newly declassified sources of a crucial historical era. It brings together Mr. Miller's interests in national strategy and finance, the latter stemming from a thirty-year career that culminated as Chief Financial Office of AMAX Inc., a Fortune 100 mining conglomerate since acquired by Alcoa and Phelps Dodge. His knowledge of resource economics was furthered by his appointment in 1982 by President Ronald Reagan as Vice President-Finance of the U.S. Synthetic Fuels Corporation in Washington, D.C., where he was responsible for assessing the financial viability of multi-billion-dollar synthetic oil and gas projects.
Since retirement Mr. Miller also devotes energies to philanthropy including financial and editorial support of outstanding Naval Institute history books. Other activities include the Miller American History Fund at the Library of Congress, and private foundations that assist students of environmental science, Native Americans, and needy people.
Miller received his BA from Syracuse University, Phi Beta Kappa, and did graduate studies at N.Y.U and the Harvard Business School. He served two years in the Army Finance Corps in the 1950s. He resides with his wife, Joyce, at the Watergate in Washington D.C. Mr. Miller has two children and two grandchildren.
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Dr. Vince Patton, III
MASTER CHIEF PETTY OFFICER, USCG (RET.)
Director of Community Outreach, Military Advantage, Inc
Dr. Patton is Director of Community Outreach for Military Advantage, a division of Monster Worldwide and the nation's largest military membership organization, Military.com. In this role he is responsible for executing the company's grassroots outreach marketing program, senior program manager for DoD projects, oversight of the installation ambassadors program and maintaining a close liaison with contacts at all levels in the military community. He joined the organization in September 2002, first serving on the company's advisory board, then in full time capacity in November 2004.
Vince served as the 8th Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard from May 1998 until his retirement from more than 30 years of active service in November 2002. In this position he was the Coast Guard's senior most enlisted member representing over 45,000 personnel as the principal advisor to the Commandant of the Coast Guard. His illustrious career included staff and operational assignments throughout the country, both afloat and ashore. Among his numerous military awards includes the Distinguished Service Medal, two Meritorious Service Medals, three Coast Guard Commendation Medals and three Coast Guard Achievement Medals. He also earned the 'Cutterman's Insignia' for sea duty recognition, and also is one of the few Coast Guardsmen to have earned the Paratrooper's 'Jump Wings' while serving in a joint service assignment with the U. S. Army's 82nd Airborne.
He received his doctorate of education degree from American University, a master's degree in counseling psychology at Loyola University at Chicago, a B.S. in social work from Shaw College and a B.A. in communication from Pacific College. Since retirement from the U. S. Coast Guard he later earned a Master of Theology in Applied Religious Studies from the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley, CA. His extensive military education includes the Department of Defense Equal Opportunity Management Institute, U. S. Army Sergeants Major Academy, and the Coast Guard Chief Petty Officers Academy. He is a member of the National Defense Intelligence College Board of Visitors, and serves on the editorial advisory board of the U. S. Naval Institute as well as a board positions on number of nonprofit organizations. He is also an ordained Unitarian minister.
Vince is married to Joyce Aivalotis, who is an active duty Coast Guard officer, and has two children, daughter Amberleigh, a junior at California State University East Bay (Hayward), and son, Nick, a U.S. Army 82nd Airborne veteran who is a claims examiner for FEMA.
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VADM Norman W. Ray, USN (Ret.)
The SPECTRUM Group, International Consultant
Vice Admiral Norman W. Ray, is an International Consultant with The SPECTRUM Group based in Alexandria, Virginia, which he joined in 2007.
Prior to that he was President of Raytheon International, Europe, headquartered in Brussels, Belgium. He was responsible for all Raytheon business planning and development in Europe, and held this position for eight years. Before joining Raytheon, Vice Admiral Ray was NATO Assistant Secretary General for Defense Support, responsible for NATO armaments cooperation, air defense, C3, standardization and interoperability. He reported directly to the NATO Secretary General.
As the Assistant Secretary General, Vice Admiral Ray was Chairman of the NATO's Conference of National Armaments Directors (CNAD), the alliance's senior body for armaments cooperation and defense programs. During his tenure as head of the CNAD, several major programs were advanced, including Air Ground Surveillance (AGS), Alliance Command and Control System (ACCS), NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense, and defense cooperation with Russia, Ukraine, and other members of the Partnership for Peace. Prior to assuming the post of Assistant Secretary General, Vice Admiral Ray served as Deputy Chairman of the NATO Military Committee.
Vice Admiral Ray's military service included a broad range of operational, command, and technical assignments throughout the United States, Europe and Asia. He was a naval test pilot and a leader in anti-submarine warfare.
He is a director of the Atlantic Council of the United States, and a former director of the Marshal Center in Garmisch, Germany.
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