Executive Profiles

Kiley Wren, Executive Director at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Kiley Wren, Executive Director at Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station

Kiley Wren, a Potomac Officers Club member, serves as executive director of the Office of Applied Programs at the Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. He is also a co-founder of the SecureAmerica Institute, a private-public research collaborative converging industry, government and academia to enable a secure and resilient U.S. manufacturi

John Nichols, Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

John Nichols, Senior Fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies

John Nichols is a senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a nonprofit science and technology policy research institute that supports national security missions.Nichols is also a partner and owner of PRASAM, an S&T and defense-focused consulting firm doing business as The Potomac Advocates. He has been with the firm since 2003.Nich

Lizy Paul, 5G.MIL Director at Lockheed Martin

Lizy Paul, 5G.MIL Director at Lockheed Martin

Lizy Paul is the director of 5G .MIL programs at Lockheed Martin.Paul oversees 5G .MIL, a platform that integrates military communications with tactical gateway capabilities and enhanced 5G technology to enable secure and resilient connectivity and data flow. Lockheed worked with Intel to develop the military portal.Paul has been with the aerospace comp

Helaine Cooper, Federal Program Manager at Origami Risk

Helaine Cooper, Federal Program Manager at Origami Risk

Helaine Cooper is the manager for federal programs at Origami Risk, a provider of cloud-based software-as-a-service solutions for risk management in various sectors, including government, health care, integrated risk and property and casualty insurance. She joined the company in October, bringing over two decades of experience identifying, developi

Robert Bredehoft, Business Development Pathfinder for Advanced Memory Systems at Micron Technology

Robert Bredehoft, Business Development Pathfinder for Advanced Memory Systems at Micron Technology

Robert Bredehoft, a Potomac Officers Club member, is a business development pathfinding official for advanced memory systems at Micron Technology.Bredehoft is experienced in sales, business development, strategy development and execution and vertical market management. He has been working with clients in the national security, defense and global governm

Rick Harrison, President of Noblis ESI

Rick Harrison, President of Noblis ESI

Rick Harrison, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the president of the nonprofit organization Noblis ESI.Harrison oversees Noblis ESI's general management and strategic direction of the organization's technical, financial and administrative activities. He is experienced in developing solutions for national security and C4ISR missions.He also currently h

Maria Ho, Deputy Director of Government and Strategic Programs at Analog Devices

Maria Ho, Deputy Director of Government and Strategic Programs at Analog Devices

Maria Ho is the deputy director of government and strategic programs at Analog Devices, a company that offers analog and mixed-signal products and power management, radio frequency, and digital and sensor technologies. In the said role, she implements strategic programs to develop the company's road map for the aerospace and defense market.Ho, a Potomac

Janie Robinson, President of Descartes Labs Government

Janie Robinson, President of Descartes Labs Government

Janie Robinson is the president of Descartes Labs Government, the public sector subsidiary of Descartes Labs, where she is also head of the government business. She leads the development of geospatial intelligence products and services for federal agency needs.A member of the Potomac Officers Club, Robinson is a founding member of Chief, a network of wo

Brandon James, CEO and Founding Member of Sunayu

Brandon James, CEO and Founding Member of Sunayu

Brandon James, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the CEO and a founding member of Sunayu, a provider of technical consulting services focused on cybersecurity and data development solutions. He founded Sunayu in 2014 with Ryan Yu, the company's chief operating officer.James has extensive experience with Linux engineering, cybersecurity, SecDevOps, Pyth

Brian Thamm, President of Sophinea

Brian Thamm, President of Sophinea

Brian Thamm is the president of Sophinea, a data and analytics company that designs and implements integrated data solutions tailored to the IT infrastructure of customers and offers business consulting services, including designing data strategy road maps. Thamm, a Potomac Officers Club member, joined Sophinea in November 2018 after a stint as chief te

Charles Rossi, Executive Vice President of Azimuth

Charles Rossi, Executive Vice President of Azimuth

Charles Rossi, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the executive vice president of the technology company Azimuth.Rossi, one of the original founders of Azimuth, is an expert on contracts, operations, proposal development, business development, program management and small and large business operations. He establishes the company's business strategies in

Jordan Feinstein, Sales Manager at Amazon Web Services

Jordan Feinstein, Sales Manager at Amazon Web Services

Jordan Feinstein is a sales manager at Amazon Web Services, a position he assumed in May. He joined the company in 2018 as a senior customer relations manager and then became a senior account executive three years later. After a little over a year, he would take on his present role.A member of the Potomac Officers Club, Feinstein was briefly the lead te

Roya Mohadjer, Vice President of Business Development at Battelle Health

Roya Mohadjer, Vice President of Business Development at Battelle Health

Roya Mohadjer, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the vice president of business development for health at the nonprofit organization Battelle.Mohadjer oversees business development, life sciences research, medical device development and precision health work across Battelle Health's federal clients. She also fosters collaboration across government and

Diane Moore, Executive Assistant to the CEO at Altamira Technologies

Diane Moore, Executive Assistant to the CEO at Altamira Technologies

Dianne Moore serves as executive assistant to the CEO at Altamira Technologies, an open source technology company in the national security space.In the said role, she provides executive-level administrative support to the chief executive and four chief experience officers, co-chairs the company's events and community initiatives, negotiates contracts wi

Stephen Gray, US Navy Portfolio Strategy Lead Official at AT&T

Stephen Gray, US Navy Portfolio Strategy Lead Official at AT&T

Stephen Gray, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the strategy lead official for the U.S. Navy portfolio of telecommunications company AT&T.Gray has over 17 years of experience as an IT professional. He is experienced in military-centered cybersecurity management, operational optimization, company growth and expansion, technology innovation, project

Robert Frey, Government Customer Requirements Principal at Amazon

Robert Frey, Government Customer Requirements Principal at Amazon

Robert Frey, a Potomac Officers Club member, is the principal for government customer requirements at the e-commerce company Amazon.Frey has three decades of experience in strategy and business development in support of the Department of Defense and intelligence community clients. He is also experienced in strategic growth development, relationship deve