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Hudson Fairfax's Advisory Board combines expertise from both government, industry and finance. The Board brings particular expertise in communications, intelligence, cybersecurity and homeland security
John P. Stenbit
Mr. Stenbit is the former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Control, Communications, and Intelligence and its successor organization, Networks and Information Integration, and the former Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer. His career spans over 30 years of public and private sector service in the telecommunications and the command and control fields. His public service includes four years at the DoD from 1973 to 1977, serving for two years as principal deputy director of telecommunications and command and control systems, and two years as staff specialist for Worldwide Command and Control Systems in the Office of the Secretary of Defense. Mr. Stenbit previously was an executive vice president of TRW, from which he retired in May 2001. He has chaired the Science and Technology Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence and served as a member of the Science Advisory Group to the directors of Naval Intelligence and the Defense Communications Agency. He also chaired the Research, Engineering and Development Advisory Committee for the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration. He has served on the Defense Science Advisory Board, the Navy Studies Board, and the National Research Council Manufacturing Board. Mr. Stenbit is currently a consultant and member of the Defense Science Board, the National Security Agency Advisory Board, the STRATCOM Advisory Board, and the National Reconnaissance Office Advisory Group. He is a director at Cogent Systems, Viasat, Defense Group Inc., and Loral Space & Communications.
B.J. Penn
Mr. Penn was the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Installation and Environment) in
the United States Department of the Navy from 2005 to 2009. He briefly served as acting United States Secretary of the Navy from March 13, 2009 to May 19,
2009. As Assistant Secretary, Mr. Penn was responsible for formulating policies, plans, and procedures for the effective management of Navy and Marine Corps real property, housing, and other facilities, including the U.S. – Japan agreement to realign U.S. forces in Japan and relocate 8000 Marines and their families from Okinawa to Guam. Mr. Penn began his career as a Naval Aviator. He amassed over 6500 flight hours in sixteen different types of aircraft. He was EA-6B Pilot of the Year in 1972. Significant leadership assignments include: Executive Officer/Commanding Officer VAQ 33, Battalion Officer at the U.S. Naval Academy (including Officer-in-Charge of the Plebe Detail for the class of '83), Air Officer in USS America, Special Assistant to the Chief of Naval Operations, Commanding Officer of NAS North Island, CA, and Deputy Director of the Navy Office of Technology Transfer & Security Assistance. Following his time in public service, Mr. Penn joined the Sector staff of Loral Federal Systems in 1995 as Director, International Business. Primary assignments involved airborne Electronic Warfare and Defensive Electronic Counter Measure Systems. When Lockheed Martin acquired Loral, he was assigned to the Corporate Staff to develop markets in Central and Eastern Europe. In 1998, he transferred to Naval Electronics and Surveillance Systems working Advanced Programs. In this capacity, he supported development of the Interoperability CONOPS for JSF, technology refreshment for the F-16 and development of Unmanned Aerial Vehicle and Autonomous Undersea Vehicle efforts and C4ISR initiatives. Prior to becoming the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (I&E), Mr. Penn was the Director, Industrial Base Assessments from October 2001 to March 2005. In this position, he was responsible for the overall health of the U.S. Defense industrial base.
Steve Pomerantz
Mr. Pomerantz is an expert in terrorism, counter-terrorism, and criminal justice. He has testified before Congress and is regularly called upon by the media to comment on issues involving terrorism, counter terrorism, law, general public safety issues and the FBI. Mr. Pomerantz is retired from the FBI after a twenty-seven year career during which he rose from a field investigative Special Agent to Assistant Director, the third highest position in the FBI. During his tenure as Chief of the Counter-Terrorism Section, Mr. Pomerantz was responsible for the overall supervision of FBI domestic counter-terrorism and international counter-terrorism investigations. He was also extensively involved in law enforcement as part of the worldwide effort to combat terrorism. In November of 1993, Mr. Pomerantz became Assistant Director in charge of the Criminal Justice Information Services (CJIS) Division, the largest organizational entity in the FBI which provides technical and criminal justice information services to virtually every criminal justice agency in the United States and has extensive dealings abroad. Currently, Mr. Pomerantz serves as Director of Counter Terrorism Programs at the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs (JINSA). He also serves as Vice President of the Institute for The Study of Terrorism and Political Violence, a nonprofit international organization located in Washington, D.C.
Joseph Bartlett
Mr. Bartlett, Of Counsel in the New York office of Sullivan & Worcester LLP, focuses on venture capital, from the ‘embryo to the IPO,’ and has been featured in the press and in the community as a leading practitioner, plus a number of other asset and transactional classes. Mr. Bartlett is the primary author of Leveraged Buyouts (2007), and was counsel to Bain Capital and Chemical Ventures (now JP Morgan Chase) upon organization. His experience in M&A ranges from private companies well under one hundred million ... to $3 billion reorganizations (Tandem Computer into Compaq). He has been active in corporate restructurings and distressed assets, his participation ranging from court appointed trustee (the Estate of Charles Brennick) to co-counsel to the DBL Liquidating Trust disposing post confirmation of $3 billion of Drexel’s assets. He has been involved in organizing private equity funds since the first non-family venture fund, Greylock, was organized and floated in 1965. His public company experience includes Madison Fund, a closed end registered investment company; involved in acquiring control positions in undervalued public companies. Mr. Bartlett has served in a variety of role in the United States Government, including as Undersecretary (promoted from General Counsel), United States Department of Commerce, Director, Office of Foreign Direct Investment; Chairman, Health, Education & Welfare Task Force on Universal Social Security Coverage.
Dr. Armeane M. Choksi
Dr. Choksi has advised governments in Latin America, Asia and the Middle East on a variety of issues including foreign trade, financial reform and health and education policies. He spent more than two decades with the World Bank, rising to vice president. He ran the bank's operations in Brazil, Peru and Venezuela, managing a portfolio exceeding $8 billion, and as vice president was responsible for the bank's operations policies worldwide in education, health, social security and social sectors. Dr. Choksi has negotiated investment projects and economic policy changes with governments of several emerging markets. He later went on to found and serve as Chairman of two investment companies: Rubicon Capital Investments, and Hudson Fairfax Group. Currently, he teaches at the Wharton School on Business and sits on various governing boards, including The University of Edinburgh United States Development Trust, The Washington Ballet, the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs, and the International Advisory Board of Freedom from Hunger.
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