General Jack Keane is a foreign policy and national security expert who appears on several hundred television and radio interviews annually. He serves as an advisor and member of numerous boards and foundations to include the Chairman of the Institute for the Study of War and the Knollwood Foundation. General Keane is a member of the prestigious Secretary of Defense Policy Board, a four-star general, and appointed as acting Chief of Staff and Vice Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army. He directed 1.5 million soldiers and civilians in 120 countries, with an annual operating budget of 110 billion dollars during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. A combat Vietnam War veteran decorated for valor, Keane is a graduate of the Army War College and the Army Command and General Staff College. General Keane was presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom at the White House.

Fu'ad J. Kawar is an International Businessman focusing on defense, security, aerospace, and electronics with more than 30 years successful experience in the MENA and the Caucuses. Mr. Kawar’s particular expertise is in the Arab and Muslim World. Fluent in both Arabic and English, he enjoys generations-long family ties to the business community throughout the Middle East.

Mr. Kawar provides strategic consulting services through extensive network worldwide, offering clients the following services: Wide range of market entry and project evaluation; Identifying overseas business opportunities; Providing access to key individuals; Providing market research and risk analysis; Advise on contract negotiations; Developing representation/distribution agreements.

D. Sykes Wilford is the current holder of the Frank W. Hipp Chair in Business at The Citadel. He is a consultant to financial institutions globally, including hedge funds, commercial banks, central banks and multilateral entities. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Washington Wealth Management, former Chairman of the Advisory Board of Beauchamp Financial Technology, and has been a member of the board of other institutions and funds, a partner of Hamilton Investment Partners, and remains a partner of three boutique advisory firms. He was the Chief Investment Officer and member of the Board of Directors of CDC Investment Management from until 2002. Previously, Sykes was the Chief Investment Officer of Bankers Trust's Private Bank and a Managing Director of Bankers Trust's Global Investment Management. He has held various positions with Chase Manhattan where his groups created the first ever delivered oil and portfolio swaps, Drexel Burnham and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York acting as a fixed income strategist, international economist, and director of several trading functions.

Bruce Hollywood is the Associate Chief Operations Officer of the United States Space Force at the Pentagon. A member of the Senior Executive Service, he supports the COO in overseeing Space Forces' Operations, Intelligence, Sustainment, Cyber, and Nuclear Operations. He played a pivotal role in the service’s establishment as an independent military branch in 2019.

Before joining the Space Force, Hollywood served as the Assistant Deputy Director for Joint Strategy and Planning on the Joint Staff J5, where he led efforts to develop the National Military Strategy, the Joint Strategic Campaign Plan, and Global Campaign Plans. He worked closely with interagency partners to enhance whole-of-government responses to national security challenges.

A member of the inaugural White House Leadership Development Program, Hollywood focused on improving service member and veteran mental health and suicide prevention services. This prestigious fellowship, sponsored by the Executive Office of the President, cultivates enterprise leaders to address the federal government’s most pressing challenges.

Hollywood retired as a Colonel after 21 years in the United States Air Force, where he held a variety of operational, staff, and leadership roles.

US Army, Retired, Major General Ed Dorman is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at S10 Consulting, where he ensures exceptional service delivery to U.S. Defense and Government clients. His approach centers on transforming vision into strategy, strategy into plans, and plans into success.

A recent Association of the United States Army Leadership Fellow, Dorman also serves as a Highly Qualified Expert and Senior Mentor with the Army’s Mission Command Training Program, guiding senior military leaders on sustaining Large-Scale Combat Operations. Additionally, he chairs the NDIA Contested Logistics Subcommittee and is an active NDIA Energy Committee member.

Dorman retired from the Army in 2018 as Director of Logistics & Engineering (J-4), U.S. Central Command, where he oversaw strategic logistics planning for over 300,000 US and Allied personnel across Iraq, Syria, Afghanistan, and 17 other nations. Since retiring, he has supported defense initiatives, including advising the Lebanese Armed Forces on modernization and contributing to the DOD Joint Warfighting Concept assessment as an Institute for Defense Analyses  Fellow.

Dorman holds a Master of Language Arts in German Language & Literature from Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Eisenhower School.

Ginger Cruz is known for her creative innovations in business and and government environments in the regions where she has served. With years of accomplishments that span government, media, business and academia Cruz is an expert in the Pacific and Middle East. 

Best known for her groundbreaking work creating the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction where she was Deputy IG, Cruz received multiple recognitions from the IG community, Executive and Congress for her fight against fraud, waste and abuse. Cruz was an NBC news director, a Deputy Assistant Secretary at HUD, a consultant to the UN, DOD, DOE and DOT, and was the communications / policy director for the Governor of Guam. 

Cruz is a proud graduate of Guam’s public and private schools. Everything she learned growing up in Guam has contributed to her success and is what drives her to give back and make a difference. She taught Foreign Policy at the University of Guam and worked to promote local small businesses, helping people benefit from the massive federal investment occurring in the region, and championed efforts to finally move power lines underground with federal help.

Cruz is the founder and CEO of an award-winning global consulting firm and an Adjunct Professor of U.S. Foreign Policy. She is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations with degrees from the University of Pennsylvania and SAIS.