During a thirty year career in the U.S. Coast Guard, Brian served in shipboard and shore-based operational and support positions that included command at sea, joint tours, and Project Officer or Branch Chief for a wide variety of efforts in research, tactics, and strategy.

He led teams and personally drafted numerous doctrine publications on search and rescue, law enforcement, security and coastal warfare. He developed a comprehensive and flexible 30 year Capital Asset Management Plan enabling whole fleet planning for the U.S. Coast Guard.

At the time of his retirement from the Coast Guard as Chief of Cutter Forces, he was the senior billeted cutterman responsible for platform management and fleet policies governing a fleet of 280 ships and a community of 8,000 cuttermen worldwide.

Brian holds a B.S. in Marine Science from the U. S. Coast Guard Academy and an MBA with an emphasis in Finance and Operations Research from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He was awarded a Certificate of Public Leadership from The Brookings Institution.

Matt is an acquisition and operations specialist who excels at planning and execution while tracking risk and risk management and ensuring that cost, schedule, and performance goals are met. Matt was a DHS Level III Program Manager for the USCG Heavy Polar Icebreaker Program.

He is a retired Coast Guard Captain (06) with 26 years of decorated rotary aviation and 38 years of total service. He was a career pilot and the Deputy Chief of Aviation Forces managing the cost, schedule and performance of 10 major aviation programs, all in different lifecycle stages. He provided oversight to 30 subordinate aviation commands, 200 aircraft, $400M of facilities and a workforce of over 4,900 people with an annual program value of $4.5B in the employment of 114,000 flight hours in all weather.

Matt has a B.A. in Asian Studies and an M.S. in Quality Systems Management. He is an Instructor Pilot, Flight Examiner and Safety Accident Investigator.

Joseph Rousseau is an international, IT minded leader, educated both in the United States and in Europe in the field of information management. He has attained two bachelor degrees and three master degrees while living in five countries.

Joseph is both an experienced business leader and a technological innovator working across diverse industries. He excels at using technology to bring ideas to market and has proven this through projects ranging from the digitalization of processes in the healthcare sector in the Netherlands to overhauling plagiarism detection in higher education to food industry point of sales software.

He is currently helping with software development and IT consulting for rapidly growing startups with $10M in revenue and 100% year-over-year growth, and several large companies across diverse sectors. Joseph also serves in an executive capacity helping to shape the digital strategy of two nonprofits (NABU and Epic Education Foundation).

Kyle is a retired USCG 06 Captain with 32 years of service. His last position prior to retirement was the Deputy Commander of CGCYBER Command. He managed all aspects of CGCYBER planning and operations from daily tactical briefings and incident response to developing mission assurance for all CG missions; he conducted defensive cyberspace ops and managed operational risk by assessing threats and vulnerabilities, ensured appropriate defensive actions to minimize consequences to CG-wide mission execution.

He has a broad range of experience in the field of electronics, telecommunications and computer engineering, including radar and computer systems design, and multi-disciplinary IT areas (command, control, communications and computer systems supporting multi-missions).

Kyle holds a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering Technology, and a Master’s in Information Technology Management. He graduated from National Defense University with a Master of Science in Government Information Leadership with a concentration in weapons of Mass Destruction and a Certificate in Chief Information Officer. He completed Course Study for an Executive Certificate in Management and Leadership at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Sloan School of Management, and is a graduate of U.S. Cyber Command’s Joint Advanced Cyber Warfare Course.

Following a distinguished 25-year career, Paul retired from the U.S. Coast Guard as a senior officer to assist private and public organizations with navigating Federal regulatory safety and security requirements for ships, facilities, and waterways. Paul has served as the Officer in Charge of Marine Inspection with a two-state AOR, lead the federal review for America’s first operational offshore wind energy project, served as a United Nations consultant to 39 nations regarding international shipping conventions, and was lead author for an International Maritime Organization manual regarding contingency planning.

In addition to serving as a pollution response subject matter expert, Paul recently completed the creation of the Navigation Safety Risk Assessments for Ørsted’s 1.1 gigawatt Ocean Wind Farm off the coast of New Jersey and for the $3.8B Hampton Roads Bridge and Tunnel Expansion project.

Paul holds a Bachelors’ degree from The United States Coast Guard Academy, a Master’s degree from Tufts University, is a qualified NIMS Incident Command System Incident Commander, and a licensed Merchant Marine captain.

Richard works one on one with highly motivated individuals so that they can communicate clearly and with style. He is particularly astute at proposal writing and smoothing for a wide range of client proposals. In this way, Richard guides people to communications that are clear, graceful, and engaging.

He started out on a fellowship from Oberlin College teaching English at Tunghai University in Taiwan, first studying Chinese at Yale, He went on to become Director of Academia Language Center in Harvard Square—with clients that included Delta Airlines, The Boston Globe, Tokyo Gas, the U.S. Navy, Polaroid, Gillette, Harvard University, and MIT.

In 1999 Richard created Greengage—with clients such as Pepsico, Chrysler, Business Week, MetLife, Newsday, Suzuki, Better Homes and Gardens, National Semiconductor, and Texas Instruments.

In addition, Richard acted professionally in classic theater—Robert Lowell, Sophocles, William Saroyan, Tennessee Williams—in New York and San Francisco.

Kevin is a leader with Cyber and Cryptologic expertise directing geographically dispersed diverse teams conducting operations supporting national, DHS, and Coast Guard missions.  He is an experienced innovative resource sponsor and policy advisor on emerging technologies; with significant experience briefing senior service and Intelligence Community Leadership, as well as Congressional Staff.  An intelligence professional, policy advisor, resource sponsor and mariner who commanded at sea and ashore, Kevin is skilled at defining, developing, and deploying capability to improve mission effectiveness.   

Kevin retired from command of the Coast Guard Cryptologic Group based at the National Security Agency.  He enjoyed 27 years active duty service with the Coast Guard and served 10 years at sea in four cutters and one training command including experience maintaining navigational aids and icebreaking.   

Kevin earned a B.S. in Marine Science, and a M.S. in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University.  His thesis award winning thesis The Coast Guard Intelligence Program Enters the Intelligence Community; A Case Study of Congressional Influence on Intelligence Community Evolution was published in 2007.