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Founder, Advisory Board & Board of Directors
- Rand Beers, Founder
Before founding the National Security Network, Rand Beers served as the National Security Adviser to the Kerry-Edwards 2004 campaign, and was for 35 years a civil servant. After serving as a Marine officer and rifle company commander in Vietnam, he entered the Foreign Service in 1971 and the Civil Service in 1983. From 1988-98, Mr. Beers served on the White House National Security Council Staff as Director for Counter-terrorism and Counter-narcotics, Director for Peacekeeping, and Senior Director for Intelligence Programs. From 1998-2003, he was Assistant Secretary of State for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. In 2002-03, he was Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Combating Terrorism at the National Security Council. Beers earned a BA from Dartmouth College and an MA from the University of Michigan.
Advisory Board
Leslie H. Gelb, Chairman
- Stanley S. Arkin
- Samuel R. Berger
- Richard Clarke
- Gen. Wesley Clark (ret.)
- Dr. Gail Furman
- Charles A. Kupchan
- Lester Pollack
- Frank G. Wisner
- Wendy Sherman
Board of Directors
John Hall, Chairman of the Board; Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JP Morgan
- Michael A. Cohen, Senior Research Fellow, American Security Project
- Daniel Cruise, Vice-President for Public and Government Affairs, Alcoa
- Brian Katulis, Secretary; Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
- David Mercer, Treasurer; President, Mercer and Associates
Our public education activities are supported by our C3 partner the National Security Initiative whose board includes:
Daniel Cruise, Chairman of the Board; Vice-President for Public and Government Affairs, Alcoa
- Gordon Goldstein, Senior Vice President, Silver Lake
- Nina Hachigian, Senior Fellow, Center for American Progress
- John Hall, Managing Director, Technology Investment Banking, JP Morgan
- Brian Mathis, Managing Member, Pine Street Alternative Asset Management, LLC
- Leah Pisar, Senior Adviser, French American Foundation
- Lee Wolosky, Partner, Boies, Schiller & Flexner LLP