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Harish Luthra is the President for the Secure Cloud at SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2®). He is responsible for the SAP Intelligent Enterprise Cloud, SAP Industry Cloud, and the SAP Business Technology Platform (including Digital Supply Chain) for Public Sector and Regulated Industries.  The markets SAP NS2 Cloud serves includes United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Harish joined SAP in August 1997 as a consultant and started the Federal Professional Services practice for SAP in 1999. He became the National Vice President leading the SAP Public Services Consulting business in 2008, responsible for Professional Services sales and delivery to the Federal Government (U.S. DoD and Civilian Departments/Agencies), state and local governments, aerospace and defense corporations, and higher education institutions. Harish has experience in client engagement, program management, and project implementations. As a senior consulting leader with SAP, he was responsible for leading successful program oversight, staff development in North America, and business development.

In previous roles, Harish was the liaison with SAP solution management and SAP development to ensure the success of client engagements. As the Public Services leader, he served as the executive sponsor for successful implementations at IRS IFS, USPS Human Capital Enterprise, U.S. Army Medical Material Agency SAP (TWELS), City of Portland, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and City of San Diego implementations, among others.​​​​​​​

Harish has an MBA from University of Maryland, College Park.

Ron Police serves as President of Customer Operations for SAP National Security Services (NS2) where he is responsible for leading the software and professional services lines of business, as well as, NS2’s innovation center, NS2 Labs.

Police brings more than 30 years of information technology experience to SAP NS2. His leadership and expertise are focused on corporate strategy, investments, innovation and driving profitable revenue growth.

Before joining SAP, Police provided consulting services for executive coaching, sales, marketing and channel distribution strategies to both commercial and government markets.
Police also served nearly a decade as a Vice President for Apple Inc., where he was responsible for all aspects of government business. At Apple, he implemented strategies to boost profitability, drive interest in the Mac, and launched mobility solutions for Federal, State and Local Governments.

Prior to Apple, Police worked at Oracle Corporation for seventeen years serving as Senior Vice President for various organizations within Oracle Service Industries.

Police earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Logistics at Penn State. He has executive education credentials from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business and leadership development credentials from The Center for Creative Leadership in Colorado.

Police is actively involved in numerous technology trade associations & nonprofits, and serves on the Advisory Board of Penn State’s College of Information Sciences and Technology, as well as serving on the Advisory Boards of several Information Technology companies.

Laura Carmack is the Chief Human Resources Officer (CHRO) at SAP NS2, where she is responsible for developing and executing the overall people strategy, including staffing, talent management and retention, compensation and employee relations.

Laura brings over 30 years of experience as a human resources leader in the federal technology space.  She began her career in HR at Societe Generale in New York, running  the stagiaire program, utilizing her French fluency in recruiting interns from abroad.  Following this position, Laura joined Sybase, Inc. where she began her human resources career, supporting North America sales and services divisions, across commercial and federal space.  Following SAP’s acquisition of Sybase, Inc. in 2010, she joined SAP NS2, where she has since led HR since 2010. In 2015, Laura was instrumental in the creation of NS2 Serves, a program that provides free IT training and career placement to post- 9/11 veterans. Since its inception, 330 veterans have graduated from the program, all of which were placed in a career by Laura’s tireless efforts. Prior to her HR career, Laura  she was a French high school teacher and basketball coach at Blair Academy.  

Laura holds a bachelor’s degree in French and education from Gettysburg College, and attended a master’s program in Angers, France.  She  resides with her husband and three children in Ocean City, NJ.

Kim Kasprow serves as President of NS2 Mission for SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2) where she leads the national security mission-focused software and services lines of business comprised of three acquisitions—Volume Integration, Technology Management Associates, and Apex Expert Solutions. She is a founding leader of the NS2 Women’s Initiative Network (WIN) Employee Resource Group.

Kim joined SAP NS2 in 2016 through the acquisition of Volume Integration, LLC. Under Kim, Volume Integration increased Volume Analytics software sales by triple digits and won a $235M competitive contract within the IC. Kim has over 20 years of Business, Program Management, Operations and Finance experience, with extensive experience in the Federal Government, IC sector.

Prior to joining Volume Integration, Kim spent over 11 years with The Boeing Company where she advanced through a number of leadership roles and to include running large IC software development program.

Kim holds a Master’s in Management: Information Systems and Services from University of Maryland, a B.A. in Business Administration from Saint Leo University and a Master Certificate in IS/IT Project Management from Villanova University.

As President, NS2 Enterprise Security & Support, Robert Butler is responsible for all customer support and security operations. With over 40 years of information technology experience, he leads the company’s U.S. based secure support for government and critical infrastructure organizations that use on-premise SAP or SAP Cloud solutions. As the company’s Chief Security Officer, his leadership and expertise are focused on cybersecurity, information security, facility security, FOCI mitigation and compliance.

Prior to joining the company, Butler was the President of CGI-AMS Secure, Inc., which he founded and led subsequent to the acquisition of American Management Systems (AMS) by CGI, a Canadian corporation. At AMS, prior to the acquisition, he served as Vice President responsible for various segments of AMS’ public sector business over a 25-year career. His AMS responsibilities included numerous large, complex ERP implementations for federal, state, and local government clients. He was also general manager of AMS’ national ERP practice for state and local governments, including license sales, implementation consulting services, customer support centers, and product development.

He is a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). Butler received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained his MBA degree with distinction from Carnegie-Mellon University.

David is the Chief Financial Officer for SAP NS2. He is responsible for all financial and information technology activities, including forecasting, business planning and analysis, driving finance efficiency and profitable revenue growth for SAP NS2. David reports directly to Mark Testoni, the CEO of SAP NS2. David has held various roles across SAP since 1998. David is a certified public accountant and a graduate of Georgia Southern University with a Bachelor of Science – Business Administration in accounting.

Joseph Moreno is the General Counsel of SAP National Security Services, Inc. (SAP NS2). Prior to joining NS2, he was a Global Litigation partner with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP in the firm’s New York and Washington DC offices. With over twenty years of experience advising clients in the defense, technology, cybersecurity and financial services sectors on complex litigation, regulatory and compliance matters, Joseph is an internationally recognized practitioner and has frequently appeared on BBC, CNN, Fox News, MSNBC and other networks to comment on national security and law enforcement topics.

Before private practice, Joseph served as a federal prosecutor at the United States Department of Justice in the National Security Division’s Counterterrorism Section, where he investigated and prosecuted international money laundering, terrorist financing, and other financial crimes. He was also appointed a Special Assistant United States Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia where he prosecuted a wide variety of criminal cases and successfully argued before the Fourth Circuit. In 2014, Joseph was appointed as a consultant to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where he served on the staff of the FBI’s 9/11 Review Commission. He has also testified before Congress on matters involving lone wolf terrorist financing.

A decorated combat veteran of Operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom, Joseph is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army Reserve and has served on active duty in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. In 2004 he was awarded the Bronze Star Medal for his service in Iraq. Joseph is a recognized expert in the area of international and operational law, and currently serves at Headquarters, Department of the Army, at the Pentagon.

Joseph earned his undergraduate degree from Stony Brook University, his law degree from St. John’s University School of Law, and an M.B.A. from St. John’s University Peter J. Tobin College of Business. He is a member of the bars of New York, Virginia, and Washington DC, and is admitted as a solicitor in England and Wales. Joseph is also a certified public accountant (CPA).

Admiral Joseph D. Kernan, USN, Retired, has rejoined the firm’s executive team as Vice President of Business Development to help provide powerful solutions to the national security community. Kernan brings his 40 years of active duty and government experience from service in the special operations community and the Office of the Secretary of Defense to SAP NS2. He helps SAP NS2 customers strengthen security and run efficient organizations through the use of world-class technologies.

Prior to SAP NS2, Mr. Kernan served as the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (USD(I)) from November 2017 through Nov. 10, 2020. He was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate in November 2017.

As the USD(I), Mr. Kernan was the principal intelligence, counterintelligence and security advisor to the Secretary of Defense (SecDef), and the SecDef’s principal representative to the Intelligence Community. He also was dual-hatted as the Director of Defense Intelligence in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, and reported to the DNI in that capacity. He exercised authority, direction, and control on behalf of the SecDef over the National Security Agency/Central Security Service, the Defense Intelligence Agency, the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, the National Reconnaissance Office, and the Defense Security Service. Mr. Kernan established policy and priorities; and oversaw the Defense Intelligence Enterprise, consisting of more than 110,000 component employees, and an annual budget of over $54B.

Prior to serving as the USD(I), Mr. Kernan served in a variety of positions from 2013-2017, including: Board Director and Senior Vice President of Corporate Development and Marketing for SAP National Security Services; Advisor for JLM Companies; Chairman of NS2 Serves, a Non-profit training and employment program for veterans and Board member for the National Navy SEAL Museum.

Lance Petty is a finance, operations, and supply chain professional with over twenty-seven years of leadership experience. Lance serves as the COO of NS2 Mission where he is leads the development and execution of the operational and financial strategy. Core to this responsibility is developing and leading an organization committed to stakeholder success through first time quality, timely execution, and a focus on value creation. Prior to joining NS2, Lance was with The Boeing Company where he led the Potomac supply chain organization for the autonomous systems portfolio and all purchase services under Boeing Defense, Space, and Security. Prior to joining The Boeing Company in 2011, Lance served as the CFO for Solutions Made Simple, Inc. (SMSi). As the CFO of SMSi, Lance was responsible for all financial, operational, and contractual elements of the company and ultimately the coordination and management associated with the sale of SMSi to The Boeing Company in 2011. Prior to SMSi, Lance served in several finance and operations leadership roles for such companies as Intel Corporation, Credence Systems, and Sequent Computer Systems in Portland, Oregon. Lance started his professional career as an options trader and arbitrage analyst on the Chicago Board Options Exchange. Lance possesses a BS in Finance from West Virginia University and an MBA from the College of William and Mary.

Greg is a 25 year veteran of the enterprise software industry. Prior to joining SAP NS2 is 2013, Greg led global technology and product support teams for The Vanguard Group, Primavera Systems, PeopleSoft/Oracle and SAP America. Greg is a proud “girl dad” raising three daughters with his wife Kim and their three dogs, Bentley, Sunshine and Wesley.

Pete Mattimore is the Senior Vice President of sales for the SAP NS2 Secure Cloud business. He joined SAP in 2016 to lead the Regulated Industries line of business for the company’s Human Capital Management (HCM) business. Pete then joined SAP NS2 in January of 2019. Prior to this, Pete held numerous senior management positions at PTC, including running all Public Sectors. Most recently Pete served as Vice President of North America Sales at Stratasys, the world’s largest 3D printing company.

Pete completed his bachelor of science degree from Bowling Green State University. He resides with his wife and three children in Cleveland, OH.

Rich is responsible for leading for the SAP NS2 Cloud build, delivery, and operations, as well as Professional Services for the National Security Community. Additionally, Rich is responsible for leading the Governance, Risk and Compliance team for Single Tenant Cloud solutions. Prior to his current role, Rich lead the sales, delivery, and operations for the SAP NS2 Secure HANA Cloud offering. Rich has also led the professional services practices with SAP NS2 for the Aerospace & Defense market and the Intelligence Community.

Rich joined SAP NS2 in August 2013. Prior to joining SAP NS2, Rich was a principal at Kearney & Company, P.C. the largest public accounting firm exclusively serving the US Federal Government. In this role, Rich was responsible for professional services sales and delivery for various Defense and Federal Civilian customers with a strong focus on Federal financial management and information technology. Rich has also served as an account executive with SAP Public Services and a Pre-Sales Consultant for Oracle, PeopleSoft and Ariba.

Rich is a Certified Public Accountant, licensed in Virginia and a Certified Government Financial Manager. Rich has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from George Mason University and a Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Indiana University

As National Vice President of Cloud Go To Market (GTM) and Asset Management teams for SAP NS2, Lillian Chang is responsible for the cloud portfolio and partnerships for the company. She is focused on working delivering secure solutions for our customers taking in consideration demand, pricing and distribution. She also manages the NS2 physical cloud environment, including software, hardware and services to ensure cost optimization.

Lillians’s background and expertise includes more than 20 years working at SAP with roles in presales, solution management and commercialization. Prior to joining SAP NS2, she served as a Customer Solution Director at SAP Regulated Industry, focusing on the Federal, Defense and State & Local sectors. Before joining SAP, Lillian spent five years in consulting and working on SAP and other software solutions.

Winson Cumberland is the National Vice President of Multi-Tenant Cloud Operations for SAP National Security Services (NS2). The Multi-Tenant environments include Human Capital Management and Business Technology Platform solutions. In this role, he led the creation of the cloud organization and the build of the SuccessFactors application, one of the first Software as a Service (SaaS) solutions of its size to be FedRAMP authorized. A champion of leading edge technology, Winson was the first to run multiple SuccessFactors environments in AWS GovCloud as well as being the first production SAP SaaS product to run on containers. Winson continues to embrace new technology, successfully and securely implementing new SAP products within the NS2 environments.

Prior to his role at SAP NS2, Winson spent three years at the Consumer Technology Association (CTA), operators of the world’s largest trade event, the Consumer Electronics Show (CES). At CTA, he led the Information Technology and Application Development organization and oversaw the technical requirements of CES. Over his 25-year career in technology, he has worked for such companies as 3Com, Plateau Systems, and SuccessFactors. He has also served on the customer advisory board of AWS GovCloud.

A graduate of George Mason University, Winson is an avid marathoner who also enjoys baseball and being outdoors with his family.

Arvind Gidwani has over 25 years of experience in the technology sector and over 14+ years in Cloud-based platforms. He currently leads the Cloud Technology, Engineering & Operations for Single Tenant Cloud.

Arvind joins SAPNS2 from MapR, where he was the CIO and general manager responsible for driving a pure cloud strategy across the company’s business and engineering operations. He established Managed Services line of business from ground-up supporting all hyperscalers, including closing the first few major customers. He led the development of the automation required to support the service. Before MapR, Arvind was responsible for managing the global infrastructure operations for the Oracle Managed Cloud (Private/Hybrid) as well as the delivery of the cloud infrastructure for Oracle’s public PaaS and IAAS platforms. Before Oracle, Arvind was the Head of Cloud Operations at SAPNS2, supporting SAP on HANA and HCM cloud. Before his position at SAPNS2, Arvind was responsible for managing global infrastructure operations at SuccessFactors/SAP where he re-architected the largest commercial subscription-based Software as a Service (SaaS) during a massive period of growth (from 13 million to 28 million subscribers). While at SAP, Arvind was responsible for the initial launch of HANA as a service. Arvind has held senior positions in the past at Qualcomm, Lytx, Nirvanix, Cisco, and Applied Materials. He serves on the advisory board of several startup companies and has multiple patents, personally, in the technology space.

As Vice President of Sales for SAP NS2, Kristina Goumas is responsible for a multi-million dollar line of business, supporting customers with a National Security focus.

Ms. Goumas’ background and expertise includes 20 years in the public sector.  Ms. Goumas has lead government agencies and corporations through strategic software maintenance acquisitions.   She has maintained year-over-year revenue growth, enabling her team to be recognized for surpassing revenue goals for the last 17 years.  Prior to joining SAP NS2, she served as Director for Sybase Federal, focusing on Software Maintenance Sales in the Federal and Defense sectors. Ms. Goumas’ expertise includes leading successful and strategic account management in the Department of Defense, the Intelligence Community and Civilian agencies.

Ms. Goumas is a graduate of UNH, where she majored in Business Administration at the Peter T. Paul College of Business & Economics (formally Whittemore School of Business & Economics). She has served for 17 years as a board member of National Philoptochos Society and in 2016 joined the Board of Directors at HAVEN, the largest violence prevention and support services agency in NH. Ms. Goumas is honored to be part of HAVEN. She recognizes that sexual assault, domestic violence and stalking knows no boundaries. No color, no gender, no race, no class, no age. She serves as an “ambassador” for this messaging to end violence locally and globally.

She is the recipient of the following awards: 2019 NS2 Excellence Award, 2018 NS2 Excellence Award, 2017 NS2 Excellence Award, 2015 SAP NS2 Excellence Award, 2015 SAP LEAP Graduate (Leadership Excellence Acceleration Program), 2013 SAP NS2 Key Contributor Award, 2012 SAP NS2 Team Excellence & Leadership Award, 2012 and 2011 SAP Winner’s Circle, 2011 SAP Top Performer, 2011 SAP High Potential Employee, 2010 SAP GSS Leadership Award and 5 Sybase President’s Club Awards from 2000– 2006.

Ms. Goumas resides in Portsmouth, NH and commutes to Washington, DC.

Vernon is a successful Senior level Sales and Strategic Programs Vice President, with more than 30+ years of executive leadership experience in Federal and Commercial Information and Technology businesses’. Having worked for industry leaders such as HP, EMC, Sybase and SAP NS2.

At SAP NS2, Vernon is currently responsible for the go-to-market sales strategies and tactics that will enhance the customer experience with SAP NS2 3rd Party Software and Solution offerings.

Over his many years of experience , Vernon has successfully held numerous executive leadership roles, as well as advised, implemented and provided strategic guidance to his customers / partner businesses’ through their various stages of IT evolution i.e. Cyber Security and Risk Mitigation,  Application and Mobile Security , “Big” Data Management, and transition to the Cloud.

Beyond the traditional business challenges of revenue generation, Vernon has assisted his clients to embrace and address the new paradigms, which they confront as industry challenges:
Threat Finance; Intelligence and Information Sharing; Cyber Security and Personal Identification Information (PII) data protection; Countering Violent Extremism and Counterterrorism; Counter Intelligence; and Information Governance, to name a few.

Kristen Sanchez is the VP of Communications at NS2, responsible for executive communications and media relations. Sanchez holds a master’s degree from Georgetown University in integrated marketing and a B.S. in communications from Radford University.

NS2 Chief of Staff, Business Operations & Facilities VP •NS2 Corporate Secretary •NS2 Employee since 2011 (previously with SAP, Oracle, PeopleSoft) •Lives in Atlanta metro with husband (Jeff) and daughter (Savannah Hope)

Harish Luthra is the President for the Secure Cloud at SAP National Security Services (SAP NS2®). He is responsible for the SAP Intelligent Enterprise Cloud, SAP Industry Cloud, and the SAP Business Technology Platform (including Digital Supply Chain) for Public Sector and Regulated Industries.  The markets SAP NS2 Cloud serves includes United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand.

Harish joined SAP in August 1997 as a consultant and started the Federal Professional Services practice for SAP in 1999. He became the National Vice President leading the SAP Public Services Consulting business in 2008, responsible for Professional Services sales and delivery to the Federal Government (U.S. DoD and Civilian Departments/Agencies), state and local governments, aerospace and defense corporations, and higher education institutions. Harish has experience in client engagement, program management, and project implementations. As a senior consulting leader with SAP, he was responsible for leading successful program oversight, staff development in North America, and business development.

In previous roles, Harish was the liaison with SAP solution management and SAP development to ensure the success of client engagements. As the Public Services leader, he served as the executive sponsor for successful implementations at IRS IFS, USPS Human Capital Enterprise, U.S. Army Medical Material Agency SAP (TWELS), City of Portland, Commonwealth of Kentucky, and City of San Diego implementations, among others.​​​​​​​

Harish has an MBA from University of Maryland, College Park.

As President, NS2 Enterprise Security & Support, Robert Butler is responsible for all customer support and security operations. With over 40 years of information technology experience, he leads the company’s U.S. based secure support for government and critical infrastructure organizations that use on-premise SAP or SAP Cloud solutions. As the company’s Chief Security Officer, his leadership and expertise are focused on cybersecurity, information security, facility security, FOCI mitigation and compliance.

Prior to joining the company, Butler was the President of CGI-AMS Secure, Inc., which he founded and led subsequent to the acquisition of American Management Systems (AMS) by CGI, a Canadian corporation. At AMS, prior to the acquisition, he served as Vice President responsible for various segments of AMS’ public sector business over a 25-year career. His AMS responsibilities included numerous large, complex ERP implementations for federal, state, and local government clients. He was also general manager of AMS’ national ERP practice for state and local governments, including license sales, implementation consulting services, customer support centers, and product development.

He is a member of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA). Butler received his B.A. degree summa cum laude from Johns Hopkins University, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He obtained his MBA degree with distinction from Carnegie-Mellon University.

Ellen E. McCarthy was appointed Assistant Secretary of State for the Bureau of Intelligence and Research, confirmed by the U.S. Senate, and sworn in on January 17, 2019. In this role she led a five-year strategy (INR 2025) that focused on enhanced intelligence integration with policy with a focus on increased open-source intelligence production, introduction of business analytics by deploying a state-of-the-art content management system, creation of an emerging technology office, Department leadership on implementation of the Geospatial Data Act, introduction of the Cloud, leveraging existing intelligence authorities to enhance investment in people, dollars and requirements.

Ms. McCarthy returned to government service after three years in the private sector, where she served as President of Noblis NSP, leading its mission to serve clients in the Intelligence Community (IC). Before joining Noblis, from 2015 to 2018, she capped an over 25-year career in the IC serving as Chief Operating Officer of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. From 2008 to 2012 she served as the President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), which supports government policy and programs relating to cyber security, counter intelligence, acquisition, and homeland security. From 2004 to 2008, Ms. McCarthy was the Director of the Human Capital Management Office and the Acting Director of Security and Senior Policy Advisor in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence (OUSD(I)). At DoD, she focused on policy development and strategy relating to intelligence reform, resource management, acquisitions, collection authorities, and personnel. Ms. McCarthy also served the Director of Intelligence Operations, Strategy, and Policy for the United States Coast Guard (USCG) and played a critical role in moving the USCG intelligence program into the IC, establishing Maritime Intelligence Fusion Centers, expanding USCG attaché presence worldwide, and establishing new intelligence and law enforcement collection capabilities.

Ms. McCarthy started her government career as an all source intelligence analyst at the Office of Naval Intelligence and at Atlantic Fleet. Before joining the IC, she served as a technical research analyst at the Institute for Defense Analysis supporting the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization. She currently sits on the Advisory Boards of Babel Street, Exiger, SAP NS2, and the George Mason National Security Institute and the Cyber Security Forum Initiative. Ms. McCarthy is a graduate of the University of South Carolina and holds a Master’s Degree in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.

General (Retired) John F. Campbell retired from the US Army on 1 May 2016 after 37 years of active duty service. He was most recently the Commander of all US and NATO Forces in Afghanistan from August 2014 to March of 2016. He also served as the 34th Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army; the second highest ranking officer in the 1.1 million US Army. General Campbell has commanded at all levels of the Army, from a company of paratroopers, to a Special Forces Operational Detachment Alpha, to a light infantry battalion, to a brigade of paratroopers in the 82d Airborne Division to the Commanding General of the famed 101st Airborne Division.

General Campbell has deployed multiple times to both Iraq and Afghanistan and has over 54 months in combat. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the U.S. Military Academy and master’s degrees in Public Administration from Golden Gate University and an honorary MS in National Security Strategy from the Army War College. During his military service, General Campbell earned a number of individual and campaign awards and decorations to include the Defense Distinguished Service medal, three Distinguished Service Medals, the Defense Superior Service Medal, three Legions of Merit, three Bronze Star Medals, the Combat Infantry Badge and Combat Action Badge, Master Parachutist Badge and the Ranger and Special Forces Tabs. He currently serves on several corporate boards and veteran non-profit boards and is the Chairman for Army Emergency Relief (AER) and Chairman for NS2 Serves.

Ken Rapuano is a Distinguished Research Fellow at National Defense University, and an independent consultant and senior advisor to organizations seeking expertise and advice across a diverse range of national and global security issues.

Ken’s over 36 years of experience in the national defense and security fields includes service in the Marine Corps, with deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan; and senior executive positions in the defense industry, two FFRDCs, the Department of Energy, the White House, and the Department of Defense.

Most recently, from 2017 to 2021, Ken served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Homeland Defense and Global Security. In this role, he developed policy guidance and advice for the Under Secretary for Policy and the Secretary of Defense. Specifically, Ken oversaw planning, capability development, and operational implementation to assure warfighting and national security advantage in the critical mission areas of Cyber Policy; Space Policy; Countering WMD; Defense Continuity & Mission Assurance; Homeland Defense and supervising Defense Support of Civil Authorities activities of the DoD; and as Principal Cyber Advisor to the Secretary of Defense.

In the GW Bush Administration, he served as the Deputy Homeland Security Advisor to the President, and Deputy Under Secretary of Energy for Counterterrorism.

These experiences have provided Ken an in-depth understanding of the most significant security threats facing the Nation, and very practical perspectives on the most effective approaches to prioritizing challenges, framing objective outcomes, developing clear courses of action, coalescing buy-in of key stakeholders, and aggressively executing strategic plans to achieve results.

Ken holds a bachelor’s degree from Middlebury College, and a master’s degree in National Security Studies from Georgetown University.

Betty Sapp previously served as Director of the National Reconnaissance Office, overseeing the agency that coordinates the launching, targeting, and use of U.S. spy satellites, as well as the analysis of evidence collected from them.

Betty began her government career as an officer in the United States Air Force, specializing in acquisition and financial management. She served in business management positions in the NRO, program element monitor at the Pentagon for the MILSTAR geosynchronous communications satellite system, program manager for the Navy’s FLTSATCOM radio communications satellite program at the Space and Missile Systems Center in Los Angeles, and manager of a joint-service development effort for the A-10 engine at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio.

After joining the Central Intelligence Agency, Betty was assigned to the NRO, where she held several senior management positions, leading to her appointment as deputy director for business plans and operations in 2005. In 2007, she took on the role of acquisition and resource director for the under secretary of defense for intelligence. In 2009, she was promoted to principal deputy director of NRO. And, in 2012, Betty was selected to lead the NRO.

Betty holds a B.A. in Business Administration and an MBA from the University of Missouri, Columbia.