– USA, VA – DEFCON AI, a cutting-edge software company building next-generation tools for the modern military mobility environment, today announced its Board of Directors composed of
- General (Ret.) Paul Selva;
- Honorable Dr. Mark Esper;
- Dr. Roger Ferguson;
- Honorable Christine Fox;
- Grant Verstandig;
- Dr. Yisroel Brumer.
About Dr. Mark T. Esper
Dr. Mark Esper was the 27th Secretary of Defense, serving from 2019 to 2020. Currently, he is a Director and the Chairman of the National Security Practice at Red Cell Partners, the parent company of DEFCON. Dr. Esper has held many roles inside and outside of government. He served as Secretary of the Army from 2017 to 2019 and was a senior corporate executive at the Raytheon Company from 2010 to 2017. Prior, he served as an EVP at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and as COO and EVP of Defense and International Affairs at the Aerospace Industries Association. Dr. Esper served as a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon during the President George W. Bush administration from 2002-04. He was also a senior Congressional staffer on the Senate Foreign Relations, Senate Government Affairs, and the House Armed Services committees. He served as national security advisor for former Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist.
About Dr. Roger W. Ferguson Jr.
Dr. Roger Ferguson was the 17th Vice-Chair of the U.S. Federal Reserve, from 1999 to 2006, during which time he notably led the central bank’s economic response to the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001. Currently, Dr. Ferguson is CIO and a Director at Red Cell Partners and a board member of Alphabet, Inc. (NASDAQ: GOOGL); Corning (NYSE: GLW); Blend Labs Inc. (NYSE: BLND), and International Flavors & Fragrances, Inc. (NYSE: IFF) as well as the Steven A. Tananbaum Distinguished Fellow for International Economics at the Council on Foreign Relations. Previously, he was the President and CEO of TIAA, the leading provider of retirement services in the academic, research, medical, and cultural fields, and a Fortune 100 financial services organization from 2008 to 2021.
About Honorable Christine H. Fox
Christine Fox is a Senior Fellow at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory. Previously, she was the Assistant Director for Policy and Analysis at JHU/APL, a position she has held since 2014. Previously, she served as Acting Deputy Secretary of Defense from 2013 to 2014. Additionally, she served as Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation in the Department of Defense from 2009 to 2013; and as president of the Center for Naval Analyses from 2005 to 2009, after working there as a research analyst and manager since 1981.
About Grant Verstandig
Grant Verstandig is the Co-Founder, Chairman, and CEO at Red Cell Partners. He is also the co-founder of Epirus, Inc., Zephyr AI, and DEFCON. Previously, he was Chief Digital Officer of UnitedHealth Group (NYSE: UNH) from 2017 to 2021 and the founder and CEO of Rally Health, which was acquired by UNH. He currently serves as a senior advisor to the National Security Agency on advanced analytics, technology, and artificial intelligence and holds several patents in these fields. He is the founder and chairman of the Verstandig Family Foundation, a member of the National Council for American Enterprise, and serves on the boards of the Third Option Foundation, the International Spy Museum, and the Greater Washington Partnership, where he is a founding member.
About Dr. Yisroel Brumer
Dr. Yisroel Brumer is a Co-Founder and the CEO of DEFCON, the President of Red Cell Partners, and the Co-Founder, Executive Vice-Chairman, and former CEO of Zephyr AI, a Red Cell portfolio company. He was previously the Acting Director of Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation within the Department of Defense, where he worked for 14 years. He has been a member of the DoD’s most senior decision-making bodies, including the Nuclear Weapons Council, the Missile Defense Executive Board, and the Deputy Secretary’s Management Action Group, among many others.
About General (Ret.) Paul Selva
Gen (Ret.) Paul Selva is a Co-Founder and CSO at DEFCON and an operating partner in Red Cell’s National Security Practice. Gen. Selva retired from the United States Air Force in July 2019 as the 10th Vice-Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second highest-ranking military officer in the nation, a position he held from July 2015. Gen. Selva was previously appointed commander of the United States Transportation Command, overseeing all global air, land, and sea transportation systems for the entire Department of Defense. Before this role, he was the commander of Air Mobility Command and spent 39 years holding numerous staff positions, leadership, and command in nearly every operational tier of the Air Force.
About Defcon AI
DEFCON AI is a modeling, simulation, and analysis company that provides cutting-edge technology solutions for the next generation of logistics and mobility decision-making.
For more information: https://www.defconai.com/
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