Council Leadership

The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council is fortunate to attract the highest level senior executive to take on an active role in leading the organization. Our leadership represents the leading national and global companies whose senior executives are responsible for their homeland security division. Our member companies employ thousands of individuals throughout the world who deliver innovative and effective products and services in support of the homeland security mission to ensure a safer and more secure America.

Board of Directors

The Council’s Board of Directors manages the organization’s overarching policy and programs. Its daily operational activities are directed by its president and CEO.

Jack Mayer
Chairman
Executive Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton

Mark Johnson
Vice Chairman
Senior Vice President for Public Sector, Oracle

Cos DiMaggio
Secretary
Co-Founder and Managing Partner, The Tauri Group

George Cruser
Director
Vice President, IBM Global Business Services

Mike Becraft
Director
Senior Vice President, Federal Civilian Services Group, Serco Inc.

Mike Finn
Director
Vice President, Security & Intelligence, Enterprise Services, HP

Susan Hopkins
Director
President & CEO, Dynamic Security Concepts, Inc.

Linda Keene Solomon
Director
Principal, Deloitte Consulting

Patrick R. Schambach
Director
Vice President & General Manager, Homeland Security & Law Enforcement, CSC

Marc Pearl
Ex Officio Director
President & CEO, Homeland Security & Defense Business Council

Board of Advisors

The Homeland Security & Defense Business Council has also been fortunate and honored to have senior advisors who provide substantive policy input to the Council.

Michelle Mrdeza, Chair

President, MXM Consulting

Former Appropriations Clerk for the Subcommittee on Homeland Security, U.S. House Committee on Appropriations

Brandon D. Declet
Vice President, McAllister & Quinn
Former Counsel, U.S. Senate Committee on the Judiciary and the U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security

Brian E. Finch
Partner, head of Homeland Security Practice, Dickstein Shapiro LLP

Jessica Herrera-Flanigan

Partner, The Monument Group

Former Staff Director, U.S. House Committee on Homeland Security

Frank Pugliese
COO, Facilities Solutions Group, LLC
Former Commissioner, General Services Administration (GSA) and Chairman of the Council’s Board of Directors (2009)

Greg Rothwell
President, Everymay Consulting
Former Chief Procurement Officer, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Gary Shiffman, Ph.D.

Visiting Professor at Georgetown University in the Graduate School of Foreign Service
Former Chief of Staff, Customs and Border Protection, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Scott Weber
Partner, Patton Boggs
Former Counselor to the Secretary, U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Evan Wolff
Counselor and Director of the Homeland Security Practice, Hunton and Williams
Former Senior Advisor, U.S. Department of Homeland Security