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General John Kelly, USMC (Ret) has served our nation as White House Chief of Staff, the 5^th Secretary of Homeland Security, Commander, United States Southern Command and as a General in the United States Marine Corps. Born and raised in Boston, he retired from active-duty military service after 45+ years in the Marines, in 2016.

General Kelly enlisted in the Marines in 1970, was assigned to infantry and was discharged as a sergeant to pursue an undergraduate degree at the University of Massachusetts (Boston). Following graduation in 1975, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of Marines, again in infantry. During active duty he earned his MA degree in National Security Affairs from Georgetown University, and MS degree in National Security from the National Defense University. His formal military training includes The Basic School (1976), the U.S. Army’s Advanced Infantry Officer’s Course (1981), the Marine Corps Command & Staff College (1991), the Marine Corps School for Advance Warfighting (1992), the National War College (1995), Capstone (2004), Joint Force Land Component Commander Course (2006), and Joint Flag Officer Warfighting Course (2007).

As an officer, General Kelly served in numbers of command and staff positions to include sea duty, instructor duty at The Basic School, command of the 1^st Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion and duty on Capitol Hill as the Commandant’s liaison to the U.S. Congress. He also served as the Special Assistant to the Supreme Allied Commander, Europe (SACEUR), in Mons, Belgium.

After his SACEUR tour, he returned to the United States in 2001 and was assigned duty as the Assistant Chief of Staff, G-3, with the 2nd Marine Division. In 2002, selected to the rank of Brigadier General, General Kelly was assigned to the 1st Marine Division as the Assistant Division Commander. Much of the next two years was spent deployed fighting in Iraq. He then returned to Headquarters Marine Corps as the Legislative Assistant to the Commandant from 2004 to 2007.

Promoted to Major General, he returned to Camp Pendleton as the Commanding General, I Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward). The command deployed to Iraq in early 2008 for a year-long mission as Multinational Force-West in Al Anbar and western Ninewa provinces.

After returning home and being confirmed as a Lieutenant General he commanded Marine Forces Reserve and Marine Forces North from October 2009 to March 2011. He then served as the Senior Military Assistant to two secretaries of defense, secretaries Robert Gates and Leon Panetta, from March 2011 to October 2012, before being nominated for a fourth star and command of the United States Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), a position he held until January 2016.

On 20 January 2017, having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate, he assumed duties as the Secretary of Homeland Security.  On 31 July 2017 General Kelly was asked by President Donald Trump to assume the duties of the White House Chief of Staff, a position he held until January 2019.

Born in Vichy, France, on June 21, 1940, GWP immigrated to the United States with his parents and two brothers in March 1946, becoming a naturalized citizen in 1953. He received a BA in History from the University of Rochester in June 1962 and an MBA in Finance from New York University in June 1971. From June 1962 through June 1966 he served on active duty as a commissioned officer in the US Marine Corps, attaining the rank of Captain.

His firm, Wyser-Pratte & Co., has its origins in Paris, France, which his father, Eugene, opened in 1929, specializing in international arbitrage. The firm was re-opened on Wall Street in 1948, and after a 25 year career with Prudential-Bache he resurrected the family firm Wyser-Pratte & Co. in February 1991.

He has authored two monographs for the New York University Salomon Brothers Center: Risk Arbitrage and Risk Arbitrage II, which are considered to be the standard textbooks in the industry. Risk Arbitrage was updated and republished by John Wiley & Sons in 2009. He is the recipient of The Alternative Investment News 2007 Lifetime Achievement Award.

Mr. Wyser-Pratte became a driving force in the shareholder activist movement beginning in 1974. He has maintained, throughout his 50 year career as both a risk arbitrageur and shareholder activist, a singular dedication to the basic tenets of shareholder rights and the need for investment managers to play a more active role in their investments. During that time, Mr. Wyser-Pratte has initiated over 90 activist projects in 10 jurisdictions globally. He has served on corporate Boards of Directors in both the United States and Europe.

Mr. Wyser-Pratte is former President and now Vice Chairman of the U.S. Marine Corps University Foundation, a former trustee (and now Trustee Emeritus) of the Congressional Medal of Honor Foundation and served on the “Kitchen Cabinet” of the former Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the former Chairman of MCUF, General James T. Conway, USMC (Ret). He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Mr. Oprison serves as the General Counsel and member of the Audit Committee for the Marine Corps University Foundation. He served on active duty in the Marine Corps from 1998 through February 2002, attaining the rank of Captain. During his service, Mr. Oprison was stationed at Camp Lejeune and served as a legal advisor to the Base Commanding General and as a prosecutor. Carrying one of the largest caseloads in the Marine Corps, he prosecuted hundreds of courts-martial, including twenty-eight contested jury and bench trails involving some of the most serious crimes under the UCMJ.

Mr. Oprison is a Litigation Partner in Akerman LLP and splits time between the firm’s Miami, Fl and Washington, DC offices. He handles domestic and international disputes, represents and advises corporations and their officers, directors and employees in connection with government enforcement actions regarding allegations of financial reporting and disclosure issues as well as investigations by federal and state enforcement agencies, including healthcare fraud investigations. He has also represented public company boards and audit committees in internal investigations on a variety of issues. Mr. Oprison also counsel’s corporations and individuals on compliance matters, particularly on the False Claims Act and Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.

Prior to joining Akerman LLP in January 2014, Mr. Oprison litigated high profile and bet-the-business cases at Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP in Washington DC. He also served from November 2006 through May 2008 in the White House Counsel’s Office as a Special Assistant and Associate Counsel to the President of the United States, where he handled a variety of legal, legislative and policy issues, including Congressional oversight investigations and litigation implicating privileges and equities of the President. Mr. Oprison also previously served as a judicial clerk for then-Chief Judge Terrence W. Boyle of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of North Carolina and for the late-Judge Fred I. Parker on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit.

Born in Powhatan County, Virginia, Mr. Oprison graduated with honors from UCLA in 1994 and received his law degree with honors from George Washington University Law School in 1997. He was also an honor graduate of both the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School and the Naval Justice School.

In addition to serving on the Marine Corps University Foundation’s Board of Trustees, Mr. Oprison is active in other civic and community service activities. In 2013, he was appointed by former VA Governor Bob McDonnell to a five-year term on the Library of Virginia’s Board of Directors. He also was appointed in 2014 by the incoming President of the Virginia State Bar to the Special Committee on Lawyer Malpractice Insurance.

Mr. Oprison, his wife Jennifer and their five children, Charlie, JP, Emma Grace, Sophia Marie, and George recently relocated to South Florida but also maintain a home in their native Virginia.

The Honorable Kim T. Adamson is a Senior Justice Court Judge in Salt Lake City, Utah. Prior to her appointment to the bench in 1997, she served as a law enforcement officer for over twenty years, specializing in mountain and swiftwater rescue operations, wilderness medicine and hazardous materials operations. She received her Bachelor of Science degree from Westminster College of Salt Lake City in 1979 and is completing her requirements for her Masters of Professional Communication.

Judge Adamson, a CWO5 in the USMCR, was mobilized in October 2001 and while stationed at MCB Quantico served as a G-3 Action Officer, Staff Secretary for MCB Quantico and as the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Officer for the 2004 Marine Corps Marathon. In February 2005, CWO5 Adamson joined the 4th Civil Affairs Group, where she deployed to Iraq as a Civil Affairs Officer and the Anti-Terrorism Force Protection Officer for OIF II-2. Upon her return from this deployment, she joined Personnel Retrieval and Processing (PRP) Company (-) in Washington, D.C. as a Platoon Commander. CWO5 Adamson has since deployed as the Officer-in-Charge for OIF 09.2, OEF 10.1 and is currently deployed for OEF 12.1.

Judge Adamson is very active within her community. She serves on the Westminster College Board of Trustees, and is an active member of the Alta Club, Women Marines Association, International Association of Chiefs of Police, International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, International Police Association, International Association of Women Police, Marine Corps Reserve Officers Association and the Warrant Officers Professional Association.

Living a very active lifestyle, Judge Adamson enjoys big game hunting, scuba diving, skydiving, off-road 4-wheeling, camping, cycling, travel and reading. She has homes in Salt Lake City, Utah, Coronado, California and Tucson, Arizona. She has one daughter, Anne.

Mr. Harry Lee Crisp III, or Lee as he is commonly referred to, is an owner of Pepsi MidAmerica and Co-Founder of TAKL. In addition to running one of the largest Pepsi franchises in the nation for the last 20 years, Crisp has served in a number of leadership and philanthropic roles, including principle benefactor of the Mayo Clinic, founding member of the Smithsonian Council for American History, a Patron of the Arts at the Vatican Museum, Board member of the Museum of the Bible, and chairman of the board for the Independent Bottlers Association.

Lee also recently served as a Founder, Director and Treasurer of the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation, where he oversaw the National Museum of Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia.

Lee, who has been awarded 44 patents, including the technology behind, GE Appliances’ SmartDispense technology which was Popular Science Magazine’s “Best of What’s New” award as one of the 100 best inventions in 2005 and Coca-Cola’s FreeStyle and PepsiCo’s Spire units. This technology was awarded the Gold Award at the 2011 Edison Awards’ Best New Product Awards.
Lee resides in Franklin, Tennessee with his wife Stacie, daughter Hallie, and sons Harry and Isaiah.

After graduating from Franklin and Marshall College in the spring of 1987, Mr. Scott attended the Marine Corps Officer Candidate School in Quantico, Virginia and received his commission in December of 1987. Following completion of The Basic School and Field Artillery School, he reported to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, where he was assigned to the 3rd Battalion, 10th Marines. Mr. Scott deployed to the Mediterranean with the 24th MEU on board the USS Portland. In December of 1990, he deployed to the Persian Gulf with the 2d Marine Division during the 1st Gulf War.

In 1992, Mr. Scott left the U.S. Marine Corps as a Captain and returned to Washington, DC where he started his career in the financial services industry. Today he is a Senior Vice President with Merrill Lynch Private Bank and Investment Group in Washington, DC.

Mr. Scott is a Trustee of the Marine Corps University Foundation where he serves as the Chairman of the Development Committee. He has served on the MCUF Board since March of 2006.

He was born and raised in the Washington, D.C. area. He attended high school at Landon School in Bethesda, Maryland and received his undergraduate degree from Franklin and Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, where he majored in history and played on the football team.

Mr. Scott resides in Chevy Chase, Maryland, with his wife, Marcie and their three daughters, Maggie, Greta and Tory. He spends his free time working on his golf game, biking and fitness and watching his daughters participate in various activities. He is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Yellow Ribbon Fund. The Yellow Ribbon Fund supports wounded, ill and injured troops and their families as they recuperate at Walter Reed and provides assistance as they transition back into society.

Derrick T. Dortch is President of The Diversa Group, a global management consulting firm providing strategic advice and solutions to organizations and individuals to assist them in capitalizing on opportunities, effectively deal with critical challenges, and achieve success. In 2005 Mr. Dortch assumed the leadership of The Diversa Group after serving as Vice President. Since then he has taken the lead in expanding services and successfully growing the company.

In addition to his work at The Diversa Group Mr. Dortch is a columnist for The Washington Post. His column focuses on the Federal Government and helping both Federal Workers and Federal Job Seekers achieve success in their careers. Each week Mr. Dortch hosts a radio show on Federal News Radio 1500 AM called “Fed Access with Derrick T. Dortch”. Every Friday at 12 noon he talks to various guests in the Federal Sector about everything from how to win government jobs and contracts, to learning about interesting federal agencies and government contractors and their work, to providing listeners insight on how to best utilize government services.

Before assuming the leadership of The Diversa Group, Mr. Dortch worked as Assistant Director for Georgetown University’s Career Education Center. At Georgetown he served as a career counselor, special programs manager, employment advisor and was in charge of the Center’s educational technology and marketing. Mr. Dortch previously held the position of Manager of Internships, Government and Non-Profit Opportunities where he worked to find Georgetown students jobs in the federal government, nonprofit, and public service sectors by building relationships with government agencies and non-profit employers and advising students on how to succeed. He served as the first Director of the Georgetown Public Interest Program (GPIP) before being promoted to Assistant Director.

Mr. Dortch served in the United States Marine Corps (USMC) in various capacities from combat operations in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm to training, operational planning, career counseling, and administration. His military personal and unit service awards include the: Combat Action Ribbon, Kuwait Liberation Medal, Southwest Asia Service Medal, Navy Unit Commendation, and Meritorious Unit Commendation.

He continues his service to his country by serving as Captain (O-3) in the Maryland Defense Force, Maryland Military Department. There he commands a unit focused on providing support to the Maryland National Guard and Maryland Emergency Management Agency (MEMA). He also serves as a Flotilla Staff Officer (FSO) with the United States Coast Guard Auxiliary, a branch of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

Mr. Dortch is deeply committed to service and responding in times of need and crisis. As a member of the Red Cross Disaster Action Team in Washington, D.C. Area, Mr. Dortch was one of the first Red Cross Disaster workers on the scene providing support to the rescue and recovery efforts at the Pentagon during the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. He continues to answer the call during various emergencies.

He has years of experience working in the business, education, non-profit, and government sectors. Before taking his posts at Georgetown University, Mr. Dortch worked with the City of Detroit Youth Department as a program coordinator for the Resident Youth Council, an academic, career and leadership development program for high school students. He also worked as a counselor with the YMCA and as a Youth Minister at Ebenezer African Methodist Episcopal (A.M.E.) Church. While pursuing his degrees at Tuskegee University Mr. Dortch worked as Assistant to the Vice President, Judicial Officer, Director of Orientation Programs, and Editor-In-Chief of the Campus Digest (Tuskegee University’s Student Newspaper).

Mr. Dortch holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration and a Masters of Education in Counseling and Student Development from Tuskegee University. He has also taken graduate level and professional development courses in technology and national security at Georgetown University.

Mr. Raymond V. Gilmartin is the former Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer of Merck & Co., Inc., a global research driven pharmaceutical company that discovers, develops, manufactures and markets innovative vaccines and medicines. Mr. Gilmartin joined Merck as President and Chief Executive Officer in June 1994 and was named to the additional position of Chairman of the Board in November 1994. Shortly after retiring from Merck in 2006, he joined the faculty at Harvard Business School where he taught in the MBA and executive education programs through 2012. Prior to joining Merck, Mr. Gilmartin served as Chairman, President and CEO of Becton Dickinson, a global company that develops, manufactures and markets medical devices and diagnostic products. He joined that company in 1976 as vice president, strategic planning, and took on positions of increasing responsibility over the next eighteen years.

He is the past Chairman of the Board of The United Negro College Fund and has served as Chairman of the Board of Dean’s Advisors for the Harvard Business School.

Mr. Gilmartin has been an active participant in health industry affairs worldwide. Mr. Gilmartin was co-chair of the Presidential Advisory Council on HIV/AIDS, is a past chair of the Healthcare Leadership Council and was a board member of the Alliance for Healthcare Reform. In addition, he is the past chair of the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America and a past president of the International Federation of the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations. Mr. Gilmartin also has been involved in global economic and trade issues that concern the pharmaceutical industry. He was a member of the President’s Export Council and is a past chair of the Council on Competitiveness.

Mr. Gilmartin received a BS in electrical engineering from Union College in 1963 and an MBA from Harvard Business School in 1968.

Art is a Financial Advisor at Stifel, Nicolaus & Company in New York City. His last assignment on active duty was Assistant Secretary of the General Staff at Headquarters Marine Corps.

He received his Commission upon college graduation in 1976. A career logistics Officer, in his 21 years of active duty, he held various assignments within the First Marine Division, First Force Service Support Group, First Marine Air Wing and Third Marine Expeditionary Force. Other non FMF assignments included Marine Barracks 8th & I, White House Social Aide, Principal Advisor to the Secretary of Defense for POW / MIA Affairs and assignment within the office of the Director Marine Corps Staff.

In 1997, upon retirement, Art began his financial services career at Merrill Lynch via the MBA Training Program. He has been a NASDAQ Trader, an Institutional Sales Trader, Manager of Merrill’s Broker Dealer Trading Desk and Chief Operating Officer for Public Finance / Municipal Markets. In late 2011, he embarked on a 15 month sabbatical as a new Dad to an adopted daughter from China and adopted son from Taiwan. He rejoined Merrill Lynch in 2013, in a new role, Financial Advisor. In 2021, he moved his practice to Stifel, Nicolaus in their NYC office.

He holds a bachelor’s degree from Saint Francis College, a master’s degree from Georgetown University’s Graduate School of Business, is a graduate of the Marine Corps Command and Staff College and attended Executive Education at Harvard Business School.

His personal military decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal with Gold Star, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, Joint Service Achievement Medal, Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal, and Combat Action Ribbon. He is also a recipient of the Navy League of the United States Admiral Ben Moreell Logistics Award.

In his spare time Art is an avid lifelong swimmer. He is also active with the Gladney Center of Adoption (Fort Worth, TX) and assisting veterans finding post military service jobs in financial services.

Art and his family reside in New York City.

Mr. Donald Knauss served in the U.S. Marine Corps from August 1976 to January 1981. He was an artillery officer with First Battalion 12th Marines in Kaneohe, Hawaii. When he left active duty in 1981, he had attained the rank of Captain. Mr. Knauss currently serves on the Kellogg Company Board as well as the Dean’s Advisory Board for the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University and the Board of Trustees for Morehouse College.

Mr. Knauss began his business career as a brand manager in the paper products division at Procter & Gamble. He spent twelve years with The Coca-Cola Company. He joined the company in 1994 as Senior Vice President of Marketing for The Minute Maid Company and, in 1996, was promoted to Senior Vice President and General Manager for Minute Maid’s U.S. retail operations. Beginning in 1998, Mr. Knauss served nearly two years managing Coca-Cola’s business in ten countries of Southern Africa. In 2000, he was named President and Chief Executive Officer of The Minute Maid Company. He became President and Chief Operating Officer of Coca-Cola North America in 2004. Mr. Knauss previously held a variety of positions in marketing and sales with the Frito-Lay and Tropicana divisions of PespiCo, Inc.

Mr. Knauss retired as Executive Chairman of The Clorox Company in July 2015. As CEO, he had overall responsibility for directing the company’s worldwide business, which generated revenues of $5.7 billion in FY2015.

On September 18, 2014, The Clorox Company issued a press release announcing that it had named Donald Knauss to the newly-created position of Executive Chairman to be effective on November 20, 2014.

In addition to being a trustee for the Marine Corps University Foundation, Mr. Knauss serves on the Board of Directors of The Kellogg Company, as well as The McKesson Corporation and the Target Corporation. Additionally, Mr. Knauss is the Chairman of the Board of Trustees of The University of San Diego.

After completing Boot Camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, Mr. Robert Lutz was selected for the NAVCAD program in April 1955. He received his naval aviator wings the following year and was commissioned a Marine Second Lieutenant. Mr. Lutz was released from active duty in April 1959 with the rank of First Lieutenant. He served as a reserve aviator until 1965, accumulating 1,300 hours predominantly in single-seat, single-engine jet aircraft such as the F9F series, the McDonnell “Banshee,” and the Douglas “Skyhawk,” and attained the rank of Captain.

Mr. Lutz retired as Vice Chairman of Global Product Development of General Motors in 2010. He previously served as the Chairman, GM North America of General Motors Corporation. He is the former Vice Chairman of Product Development and Chairman of GM North America, as well as the former Chairman, President and CEO of Exide Corporation.

Born in Zurich, Switzerland, Mr. Lutz became a U.S. citizen in 1943. He received his Bachelor of Science from the University of California-Berkeley in 1961 and was elected Phi Beta Kappa. He received his Master of Business Administration the following year from UC-Berkeley. Mr. Lutz currently maintains flight proficiency in a privately owned ex-Soviet Air Force L-39 “Albatross” jet aircraft.

Mr. Lutz and his wife, Terri, reside in Ann Arbor, Michigan

Mrs. Charlene Marshall is the former Executive Director of the Garden Club of America and was Associate Director of the Maine Community Foundation. She is a Lay Eucharistic Minister and for many years taught Stephen Ministry (a pastoral care ministry at St. James’ Episcopal Church in New York), formerly Chairman of the Juilliard School Council and member of the Councils of the American Museum of Natural History and Roundabout Theatre, a member of the Objects Conservation Committee at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Patron Committee of WNET/Channel 13, and a Trustee of the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor, Maine. Until his death in 2014, she was married to Hon. Anthony D. Marshall, Founding Chairman of the Marine Corps University Foundation, former United States Ambassador to Kenya, Madagascar and the Seychelles, and Trinidad and Tobago, and daughter-in-law of the philanthropist Brooke Astor. Both Mr. and Mrs. Marshall received Tony Awards for their Broadway productions of Long Day’s Journey Into Night (Best Revival of a Play) and I Am My Own Wife (Best Play). At that time, Mrs. Marshall was Vice President of Delphi Productions, LLC.

Douglas McGowan served in the US Government as a Marine Officer, a Government Civilian and Government Contractor. During his time in service between 2000 and 2011, Doug served in numerous operational, analytical and liaison positions and deployed multiple times in support of Afghanistan and Iraq operations, as well as more broadly in support of the Global War On Terrorism and other efforts. As a Marine Officer, he served with Second Battalion, Seventh Marines and as a Government Civilian and Government Contractor, he served with a Department of Defense combat support agency and with associated contracting companies. For his US Government service, Doug earned Personal Decorations, to include the Joint Service Commendation Medal, the Joint Civilian Service Commendation Medal, and the Joint Civilian Service Achievement Medal, a Joint Meritorious Unit Award, as well as several Campaign and Service Awards.

After leaving US Government service, Doug has spent his post-service years working in Market/Business Development and Sales, Risk & Control, Strategy, and Portfolio/Program/Project Management positions in the Energy and Financial Services industries. In his current role in the Energy Industry, Doug manages Market Development  and Sales for National Accounts and Emergency Management Services. In prior roles in the Financial Services Industry Doug oversaw aspects of a Risk & Control portfolio for an Equities and Credit Investment Bank desk, provided Quality Assurance across an Investment Bank Change Management Portfolio, managed an Operations Team across a Consumer & Community Bank, and Program/Project Managed the overhauling of a key Collections Litigation segment and two major Legal & Compliance regulatory initiatives.

Doug currently serves on a number of veteran focused non-profit Boards of Directors and military/veteran themed Committees. Doug holds a Master of International Affairs from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs focused on International Security Policy and a Master of Business Administration focused on Management and Strategy from Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Sociology and Peace & Justice Studies from Tufts University and is an elementary and high school alum of the Ethical Culture Fieldston Schools. Doug has also attended numerous US Government leadership and management courses.

Doug lives with his wife, Paula, and their children, in Middle Tennessee.

Steve was born in Altoona, Pennsylvania on December 20, 1951. After graduating from Slippery Rock State College in 1974, he received his commission and was ordered to the The Basic School.

Upon graduation from TBS in December 1974, he was ordered to the Third Marine Division where he served as a rifle platoon commander and company executive officer in the 3rd Battalion, 9th Marines. Upon his return to CONUS in February 1976, he was assigned to the Armed Forces Examination and Entrance Station in Newark, New Jersey.

In April 1979 he was ordered to the Second Marine Division where he commanded Company D, 1st Battalion, 6th Marines and served as the assistant operations officer for the 34th Marine Amphibious Unit for two Landing Fleet Sixth Fleet deployments to the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf. In June 1981, he assumed the duties of Inspector-Instructor Company F, 2d Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division, in New Rochelle, New York.

Following his promotion to Major in July 1984, he was ordered to Headquarters Battalion, Headquarters United States Marine Corps where he served as Commanding Officer Company B and Company A. In July 1987, he was assigned as a Military Observer, Observer Group Lebanon, United Nations Truce Supervision Organization and remained there until July 1988. Upon his return to CONUS he attended the Marine Corps Command and Staff College. Upon graduation he was ordered to the First Marine Division where he served as the S-3 of the 1st Battalion, 4th Marines. During this period the battalion served as the Ground Combat Element of the 13th Marine Expeditionary Unit (Special Operations Capable) and participated in operations in support of both Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Following his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel in July 1991, he was assigned to the Marine Corps Systems Command and served as the Head, Manpower and Training Section and remained there until his selection and attendance at the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, Ft. McNair, Washington D.C., in August 1993. Upon his graduation from ICAF, he assumed the duties of S-3 of the Basic School, Marine Corps University until his retirement in March 1997. His personal awards include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal and the Combat Action Ribbon.

Since his retirement, he has worked as the USMC, USN, USCG Marketing Director for Firearms Training Systems (FATS), which is now Meggitt Defense and operates as Meggitt Training Systems located in Suwanee, Georgia. He currently resides in Fredericksburg, Virginia.

Paul M. (“Mickey”) Pohl is Of Counsel to the global law firm Jones Day, one of the world’s largest law firms.  He retired from The Jones Day partnership in 2019, having been with The Firm for more than 43 years.  He remains resident in The Firm’s Pittsburgh Office.

Mickey was the Head of the Firm’s Business & Tort Litigation Practice, the largest practice area in the Firm.  Prior to holding that position he was the Head of the Firm’s Product Liability practice and he also served as the Partner-in-Charge of Jones Day’s Pittsburgh Office, which he opened in 1989.

Mr. Pohl has extensive trial and appellate experience, having handled such cases throughout the country for more than 45 years.  He has tried a wide variety of jury and non-jury cases across the United States and has argued numerous appeals in state and federal courts.  Mickey has counseled clients on U.S. litigation issues in Europe, South America, Asia, the Caribbean, and the Middle East.  His practice has included product liability, toxic tort, antitrust, corporate governance, telecommunications, natural resources, and health care matters.  He is one a few lawyers who has tried massive public nuisance cases.

Mickey has tried cases and handled multicase, multijurisdictional litigation projects for such clients as Firestone, General Motors, Sherwin-Williams, U.S. Steel, The Williams Companies, Yamaha, and UPMC.  He also has represented numerous dioceses, colleges, and religious orders.

Mickey is a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers and a Life Member of The American Law Institute.  He has chaired the Lawyer’s Advisory Committee of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit and has served as Chairman of the Board of the Rand Corporation’s Institute for Civil Justice.  Mickey is listed in the The Best Lawyers in America in four categories, and Pennsylvania Super Lawyers has listed him as the “Best Lawyer” in “Bet-The-Company” litigation.  In 2017, the Legal 500 publication named Mickey to its inaugural “Hall of Fame” for his litigation successes.

He has lectured and taught in Trial Advocacy programs across the United States and in programs sponsored by the Pacific Judicial Council and The American College of Trial Lawyers.  He has regularly lectured at Marine Corps University.  He has served on the Board of Directors of multiple public and private corporations, non-profit entities and universities.  He presently serves on the Board of The Marine Corps University Foundation, the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation,  The Foundation Maria Thron in Austria and he is Chairman of the Board of the Vatican Observatory Foundation.  He was the Chairman of the 2007 U.S. Open Golf Championship which was held at Oakmont Country Club near Pittsburgh, PA.

Mickey graduated cum laude from Princeton University in 1970 where he was nominated by Princeton for a Rhodes Scholarship, won The Lyman H. Atwater Prize in Politics and received a National Science Foundation grant for post-graduate research.

He served in the U.S. Marine Corps (1971-1972) and received the Navy Achievement Medal in 1972 for his service at Headquarters Marine Corps.

Following his military service, he graduated cum laude in 1975 from the University of Pittsburgh School of Law where he was the Editor-in-Chief of the Law Review, elected to Order of the Coif and won the Gourley Cup Trial Competition sponsored by the Allegheny County Bar Association.  While in Law School he was an intern to Judge Joseph Weis of the U.S. Court of Appeals for The Third Circuit.  He was the Law Clerk to Justice Samuel J. Roberts of the Pennsylvania Supreme Court (1975-1976 Term).  He then joined Jones Day in Cleveland in 1976.

Frank Quinlan has broad experience in leadership of large organizations stemming from his duty as a U.S. Marine Corps commander, as current chairman of several corporation board audit committees and member of an investment committee with sizeable assets under management, and as former general counsel of a national not-for-profit foundation. His board responsibilities include oversight of internal audits and the preparation of financial statements by international accounting firms; and development of business continuity plans. He co-founded the AV rated Newport Beach firm of Kester & Quinlan, LLP, and for over 20 years represented banks, venture capital firms, mortgage, title and general liability insurers, public and private corporations, receivers and individuals in business.

General Quinlan began his law career as a legal officer in a Marine helicopter gunship squadron, followed by a tour as an FBI Special Agent. He returned to the Marine Reserve after the FBI and served in command positions at the Squadron, Air Group, Air Wing, Marine Expeditionary Force and Joint Force levels. His most recent command assignment was Vice-Commander, U.S. Marine Corps Forces Pacific and Central Commands during Operation Enduring Freedom. During 2008-09, he was recalled to active duty as Special Investigator and Director of a national security assessment and investigative team during Operation Iraqi Freedom. His professional education includes coursework at numerous senior officer schools including Information Security and Operations at the Air War College and the National Security Program for US and Russian General Officers at the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Devoting a substantial part of his practice to critical internal investigations, institutional crisis management and corporate governance, Mr. Quinlan regularly advises clients faced with complex financial fraud, securities fraud, due diligence and other transactional challenges involving investment, real estate, labor, lending and bank operations (including money laundering, embezzlement and Patriot Act issues), and personal business, tax and estate planning issues. He periodically consults in the defense of white-collar crime and unfair business practices claims and serves as an expert witness in corporation litigation.

In the rising arena of Cybercrime and IT Security, Mr. Quinlan conducts risk identification, management and business continuity analyses, advises on information technology security assessments and IT project cost containment, and counsels during governmental agency inquiries at state and federal levels.

As an FBI Agent, Mr. Quinlan was involved in substantial federal criminal investigations into white-collar crime, public corruption, bank and insurance fraud, organized crime, labor, tax, and extortion of business. He also served as an FBI pilot and completed the FBI Special Agents’ Course in Investigative (forensic) Accounting.

Jordan Saunders has been actively involved in a broad range of civic and philanthropic pursuits with a particular focus on national defense, historic preservation, higher education, health care and the arts. She was recognized for her contributions to the humanities in 2008 when she and her husband Thomas A. Saunders III were named the first joint recipients of the National Humanities Medal, presented by President George W. Bush.

Mrs. Saunders has served on the Board of Trustees for the Marine Corps University Foundation for more than 20 years. She was appointed by the U.S. Secretary of Interior to the Jamestown 400th Commemoration Commission which commemorated the 400th anniversary of the first permanent settlement at Jamestown. Mrs. Saunders was also appointed, by the Governor of Virginia, to serve on the Board of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts. She served as a Trustee and Chairman of the Development and External Affairs Committee of the North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System. Mrs. Saunders has been actively involved with a number of other organizations including: the School of American Ballet, the Museum of the City of New York, Robert E. Lee Foundation, Bermuda Biological Station for Research, Old Westbury Gardens, the Churchill School and Grosvenor Neighborhood House in NYC.

In 1995, Mrs. Saunders chaired the committee that planned and organized the University of Virginia’s $1.5 billion Capital Campaign Kick-Off Dinner for 1500 guests. She served as Chairman of the Virginia Military Institute’s Parade Ground Dinner in 2000 and has the unique honor of receiving two dress parades: one at the United States Marine Corps Headquarters at “8th and I” in Washington D.C., the other at the Virginia Military Institute with a “fly over” of U.S. Airforce-F16.

Mrs. Saunders is the daughter of the late Major General Matthew C. Horner, USMC and Mrs. Rebecca J. Horner. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders are the parents of a son, Taz and a daughter Calvert. Mrs. Saunders has four grandchildren: Carter, George and Schuyler Moore and Fin Saunders. Mr. and Mrs. Saunders reside in Palm Beach, Florida.

Investment manager, author, photographer, theatrical producer, former intelligence officer and diplomat Anthony Marshall also served as an American Ambassador over an eight-year period (1969-1977) to the Malagasy Republic, Trinidad and Tobago, Kenya, and as non-resident ambassador to the Seychelles, as well as Permanent Representative to the United Nations Environmental Agency in Nairobi, Kenya and as Special Ambassador (head of the U. S. delegation) to the Kingdom of Lesotho’s Tenth Anniversary of Independence (1976).  Mr. Marshall’s prior service with the Department of State included an assignment as a Vice Consul in the Consulate General in Istanbul, Turkey (1958-59).

Mr. Marshall had extensive business experience in Africa, which included the ownership and management of two Nigerian companies: NIDOCO and African Research and Development Company, a manufacturers’ representative of American, British, Belgian and French companies (1959-69).

Marshall is the author of seven books: Africa’s Living Arts (1970), Malagasy Republic (1972), and Trinidad and Tobago, all published by Franklin Watts, New York City.  Subsequent books are: Basti (1987) and George’s Story (1988), published by Windswept House, Mt. Desert, Maine.  Zoo (1994) was published by Random House, New York and Dash (2001) by Vantage Press.  From 1977 to 1981 he wrote monthly articles for the Nairobi Times, and was a contributing editor to Conde Nast Traveler (1984-2004).

Anthony Marshall served on the board of the Vincent Astor Foundation as Vice President and Treasurer until 2002 until it officially closed to grant requests in 1997. He was a Trustee Emeritus of Brown University (from which he graduated in 1950), Honorary Trustee of the Wildlife Conservation Society (formerly the New York Zoological Society), WNET/Channel 13, and Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts. He was on the Council of Rockefeller University and the Advisory Council of the American Museum of Natural History. Anthony Marshall was a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the Explorers Club and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society as well as a life member of: the National Geographic Society (since 1948), Society of California Pioneers, Naval Historical Society, Royal African Society and Navy League.

He is a former member of the board of the Asia Society, Museum Trustee Association, African Medical and Research Foundation, the Foundation into the Research of Man (FROM), Operations Crossroads Africa (1966-1982), Business Council for International Understanding, Astor Home for Children (Rhinebeck, New York), L.S.B. Leakey Foundation, Caribbeana Council, Center for the Book (Library of Congress) and the American University of Paris and Council of Roundabout Theater. He served on the Advisory Council of the Juilliard School, the Primate Research Center of Duke University and the Board of Visitors of the Economic Department, Boston University.  He was President for ten years of the Seamen’s Church Institute and is Founding Chairman of the United States Marine Corps University Foundation in Quantico, Virginia.

Inspired by his grandfather, Major General John H. Russell, 16^th Commandant of the Marine Corps, Mr. Marshall enlisted in the Marine Corps at the age of 18 and served four years of active duty during World War II, with a year and a half on Guam.  He landed his infantry platoon on Blue Beach, Iwo Jima.

General Leonard Fielding Chapman, Jr., USMC (Ret) was the founding President for Marine Corps University Foundation and the 24th Commandant of the Marine Corps.  He was born 3 November 1913, in Key West, Florida, and graduated from high school in DeLand, Florida. In 1931, he entered the University of Florida where he became a member of the Reserve Officers’ Training Corps unit for four years. Upon graduation in June 1935, he was commissioned as a Marine second lieutenant, 8 July 1935.

After completing The Basic School at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, 2dLt Chapman served with the 1st Battalion, 10th Marines at Quantico, Virginia, from April 1936 until August 1937. In June 1938, after completing Field Artillery School at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he was assigned to the 10th Marines at Marine Corps Base, San Diego, California. He was promoted to first lieutenant in September 1938.

In June 1940, 1stLt Chapman departed San Diego for Honolulu. There he completed Gunnery School on board the USS New Orleans prior to reporting to the USS Astoria in July 1940 for a two-year assignment as Commanding Officer of the Marine Detachment. He was promoted to captain in April 1941.

On board the USS Astoria following the outbreak of World War II, Capt Chapman took part in the early Pacific raids culminating in the battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, and earned the Navy Commendation Ribbon with Combat “V.” He was promoted to major in May 1942 and returned to the United States late that June.

Major Chapman was assigned to Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, in August 1942 as an instructor in the Artillery Course. He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in May 1943, and that October was named Executive Officer of the Artillery Section at Marine Corps Schools.

In June 1944, LtCol Chapman again departed for combat duty, joining the 1st Marine Division in the Pacific area. He earned the Legion of Merit with Combat “V” for meritorious service as Operations Officer, 11th Marines, and Commanding Officer, 4th Battalion, 11th Marines, during combat at Peleliu in September and October 1944; and the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” as 4th Battalion Commander at Okinawa, April to July 1945.

Following the war when he returned to the continental United States, LtCol Chapman served as Secretary of the General Staff, Fleet Marine Force (FMF), Pacific from September 1945 to July 1946. From August 1946 until May 1949, he was stationed at Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC), Washington, D.C., serving as Executive Officer, G-3 Section, Division of Plans and Policies.

Ordered to Marine Corps Schools, Quantico, LtCol Chapman served as Coordinator, Reserve Artillery Training Unit; completed the Amphibious Warfare School, Senior Course, in June 1950; then served as Chief of the Supporting Arms Group, Marine Corps Development Center. While at Quantico, he was promoted to colonel in July 1950.

In July 1952, Col Chapman departed Quantico for Camp Pendleton, California, where he joined the 3d Marine Division as Commanding Officer, 12th Marines. He sailed with the division in August 1953 for Japan, where he continued to command the 12th Marines. In August 1954, he was named Commanding Officer, Marine Barracks, U.S. Fleet Activities, Yokosuka, Japan, serving in this capacity until May 1956.

In July 1956, Col Chapman assumed duties in Washington, D.C., as Commanding Officer, Marine Barracks, and Director of the Marine Corps Institute. Two years later, he was promoted to brigadier general on 1 July 1958.

Following his promotion, BGen Chapman was assigned to Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, serving as Commanding General, Force Troops, FMF, Atlantic, until August 1961. He reported to HQMC in September 1961 for duty as Assistant Chief of Staff, G-4 and was promoted to major general on 1 November 1961. For exceptionally meritorious service in this capacity from September 1961 through December 1963, he was awarded his second Legion of Merit.

On 1 January 1964, MajGen Chapman was designated as Chief of Staff, with the rank of lieutenant general. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Medal by the Secretary of the Navy. On 1 July 1967, LtGen Chapman became Assistant Commandant of the Marine Corps. While serving as Assistant Commandant, he was awarded the Armed Forces Management Association Merit Award for 1967.

On 4 December 1967, LtGen Chapman was nominated by President Lyndon B. Johnson to be the 24th Commandant of the Marine Corps and was confirmed by the Senate on 13 December 1967. On 1 January 1968, he was promoted to general on assuming the office of Commandant.

During his first year in office, Gen Chapman traveled widely, covering nearly 100,000 miles while visiting Marines stationed around the world. The heavy commitment to Vietnam took him to that country twice in 1968. In January 1969, President Pak Chong-Hui of the Republic of Korea presented Gen Chapman the Order of National Security Merit, First Class. Later that month, Gen Chapman earned a Gold Star in lieu of a second award of the Distinguished Service Medal.

By the end of his tenure, Gen Chapman witnessed the III Marine Amphibious Force withdrawal from Vietnam and the strength of the Corps drop from a peak of 289,000 to 198,000. Anticipating an austere budget and fewer Marines, he had earlier made his move for a “hard, lean, fully combat-ready Corps,” reduced in size, but not in professionalism. Prior to his retirement, President Nixon presented Gen Chapman a third award of the Distinguished Service Medal, 10 December 1971.

General Chapman retired 1 January 1972 and became U.S. Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization.  He died 6 January 2000 at age 86 from complications resulting from cancer. He was buried at Arlington National Cemetery with full military honors on 14 January 2000.

A complete list of General Chapman’s medals and decorations include: three awards of the Distinguished Service Medal; two awards of the Legion of Merit, one with Combat “V;” the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V;” the Navy Commendation Ribbon with Combat “V”; two Presidential Unit Citations; the American Defense Service Medal with Fleet Clasp; the Asiatic-Pacific Campaign Meal with one silver star in lieu of five bronze stars; the American Campaign Medal; the National Defense Service Medal with one bronze star; the Korean Service Medal; the Korean Order of National Security Merit, First Class; the Vietnam National Order, 2nd Class; and the United Nations Service Medal.

Lieutenant General Bernard E. Trainor, USMC (Ret) was the founding Executive Vice President for Marine Corps University Foundation.  He retired from the Marine Corps on 1 July 1985. He was born on 2 September 1928 in New York City. In 1946, he enlisted in the Marine Corps after high school and served until his selection as a midshipman in the Naval Reserve Officer Training Corps (NROTC) in 1947. He then attended Holy Cross College, where he earned his baccalaureate degree in History and was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant upon graduation in June 1951. General Trainor then went to Officers Basic School in Quantico, Virginia. After completing The Basic School in December 1951, he was assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Marines, 1st Marine Division in Korea where he served as an infantry platoon commander. Returning to the United States in September 1952, he served with the 8th Marines, 2d Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina.

In June, 1953, he was assigned duties aboard the heavy cruiser USS Columbus where he served consecutively as executive officer and commanding officer of the ship’s Marine Detachment. During this two-year tour of duty he was promoted to captain.

Following sea duty, General Trainor was assigned to the Personnel Department at Headquarters Marine Corps until 1958. He was then assigned as an exchange officer to the British Royal Marine Commandos. After a period of training in the United Kingdom, he commanded a company in 45 Commando, 3d Commando Brigade on Malta.

Upon completion of the exchange tour in 1959, he reported for duties with the 1st Marine Division, Camp Pendleton, California, where he served consecutively as a company commander in reconnaissance, anti-tank and infantry battalions.

In 1961 he was ordered to duties as a Marine Officer Instructor with the NROTC Unit at the University of Colorado. He was promoted to major in November, 1961. His next assignment returned him to Quantico, where he was a student at the Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

Ordered to the Republic of Vietnam in July, 1965, General Trainor was assigned as an advisor to a Vietnamese special operations group. After a year in Vietnam, he was promoted to lieutenant colonel and returned to Quantico where he served for three years as an instructor at the Command and Staff College.

In 1969, General Trainor attended the Air War College, Maxwell Air Force Base, Alabama. During his War College course he was awarded the Anderson Memorial Award for the “best paper dealing with politico-military thought” and designated “Distinguished Graduate” upon completion of the course in June 1970. He then served another tour in the Republic of Vietnam, where he commanded the 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, and later the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion of the 1st Marine Division.

Following his return to the United States in 1971, General Trainor was assigned at Headquarters Marine Corps where he served as a plans officer. During this tour he was promoted to colonel on 3 January 1972.

From July 1974 through June 1975, he served as Deputy Director of the 1st Marine Corps District, headquartered in New York. On 1 July 1975, he assumed duties as Director and held this post until his advancement to brigadier general, in April 1976. At this time, he assumed duties as Assistant Depot Commander, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina.

On 14 April 1978, he assumed the duties of Deputy for Education/Director, Education Center, Marine Corps Development and Education Command, Quantico. During this tour of duty, he was promoted to major general. He was subsequently transferred to Headquarters Marine Corps in April 1981 and assigned duty as Director, Plans Division, Plans, Policies and Operations Department. Upon promotion to lieutenant general on 15 June 1983, he was assigned duty as the Deputy Chief of Staff for Plans, Policies and Operations, Headquarters Marine Corps. He served in this capacity until his retirement on 1 July 1985.

General Trainor has twice been awarded the Legion of Merit with Combat “V”, the Bronze Star Medal with Combat “V” and two Navy Commendation Medals with Combat “V”. He has also been awarded three Vietnamese Crosses of Gallantry and the Vietnamese Honor Medal 1st Class. General Trainor is entitled to wear the Combat Action Ribbon and the Marine Corps parachutist insignia.

Lieutenant General Trainor has published A History of the Marine Corps (Rand McNally 1968). He received his master’s degree and completed his resident requirements for a doctorate from the University of Colorado.