Senior Advisor

Jeanne C. Foster brings more than years of 30 years of national security experience as a senior advisor and leader in the federal government across the Intelligence Community (IC), Department of Defense (DoD), and the National Security Enterprise. Ms. Foster was the Deputy Director of the Chief Information Office (CIO) and Information Technology (IT) Services Directorate at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), where she led and directed NGA’s mission and enterprise IT development and operations, managing an annual budget exceeding a billion dollars, and a workforce of more than 5,000 people. 

Known as a transformational leader, Ms. Foster served concurrently as the Chief Operating Officer (COO) and the Director of the Office of Mission Resources (OMR) at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), where she demonstrated unparalleled management of the Directorate of Science and Technology (DS&T) workforce, budget, and support functions. Her leadership across the broad array of technically-focused offices as the CIA helped drive the restructuring and modernization of today’s current Mission Center construct. 

As Director of the Office of Technical Readiness (OTR), Ms. Foster led the DS&T's worldwide Technical Bases managing hundreds of Technical Intelligence Officers (TIOs) deployed throughout the world, to include the warzones.  

Ms. Foster served as the Director, Office of Development and Engineering (OD&E) and the Director, Special Communications Office (SCO) at the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO), concurrently. As a mission-driven leader, she worked to grow and develop the cadre of DS&T engineers and program managers who acquired, launched, and operated the next generation overhead satellite systems, and the ground and communication architectures. Ms. Foster delivered multiple special communication systems in support of special operations by establishing critical partnerships across the IC and DoD. 

Ms. Foster is currently an Advisor at Accion Systems, Enabled Intelligence, BCubed Engineering, and the Day & Zimmermann Government Services Advisory Board.

Senior Advisor
 
Mark Kelton is a retired senior Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) executive with 34 years of experience in intelligence operations. Mr. Kelton’s CIA career included more than sixteen years of overseas service, to include four assignments in key field leadership positions. He concluded his career as Chief of the CIA’s Counterintelligence Center.  Directing the CIA’s counterintelligence and counterespionage programs, Mr. Kelton led the team that protected the nation’s most closely guarded secrets. He has expertise in intelligence operations, international security issues, detection of insider threats, assessment of counterintelligence risk, and crisis management.

Mr. Kelton is a recipient of the CIA Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the CIA Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal, the Director of National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the CIA Director’s Award, the 2015 Presidential Rank Award of Meritorious Senior Intelligence Officer, the CIA Intelligence Medal of Merit, the CIA Donovan Award and many other honors.

Mr. Kelton is a founding partner of the FiveEyes Group LLC; member of the Board of Trustees of Valley Forge Military Academy and College; member of the National Security Advisory Board of the MITRE Corp.; member of the Day & Zimmermann Government Services Advisory Board; member of the Heartland Consulting Advisory Board; member of the Board of BigMediaTV; former Board Chair of, and advisor to, the Spookstock Foundation (benefitting the CIA Memorial Foundation and the Special Operations Warrior Foundation); and a contributor to The Cipher Brief, writing on intelligence and national security issues.

Senior Advisor

Stephen M. Perron, a distinguished leader with a 35-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), served as the CIA’s Director of Security, from 2018-2020, where he was responsible for developing and implementing a comprehensive security program in support of the agency’s key mission imperatives.

Mr. Perron is a trusted authority who has led key strategic initiatives across the Cyber, Personnel, and Physical Security disciplines – resulting in impactful data driven risk management decisions in an evolving and dynamic threat environment. His unmatched experience in personnel and physical security offers executive leadership and Boards mission-critical strategic counsel in any challenging environment.

With growing concerns around insider threats and malicious nation-state actors, Mr. Perron plays an integral role in advising organizations on multi-layered approaches to mitigating security risks in today’s complex environment.

In his role as Director of Security, Mr. Perron delivered trusted and authoritative security support that provided speed, reach, scale and agility for the CIA’s global operations. He was responsible for the development and deployment of the appropriate risk mitigation strategy across the full threat spectrums in hundreds of countries from fully developed and developing nations, to austere environments and active conflict areas.

Mr. Perron has held numerous roles at the CIA, including Deputy Director of Security, and Senior Security Officer for National Clandestine Service (now Directorate of Operations, DO). There he led a newly formed Group, merging distinct and disparate security services into an integrated and collaborative group, focused on enhancing current and developing new capabilities across the force-protection, physical security equipment, and signals and wireless security spectrum.

During his career, Mr. Perron effectively led and managed the day-to-day operations of a multi thousand-person workforce of staff and contractor personnel charged with the provision of best-in-class security services in support of CIA operations. He served on key United States Government (USG) panels such as the Intelligence Community Security Directors, and the Trusted Workforce 2.0 Executive Steering Group, which drove strategic evolution of the security discipline across the USG.

Senior Advisor

Phil Reilly is a 29-year veteran of the CIA, with prior service in the U.S. Army Special Forces. Mr. Reilly was a CIA Paramilitary Officer and served in various position including Chief of Ground Branch, Chief of Special Operations Group, which housed the CIA’s paramilitary ground, air and maritime assets and he was ultimately Chief, Special Activities Division with responsibility for both CIA’s paramilitary and covert influence capability.  Mr. Reilly was a multiple time Chief of Station (COS), including COS Kabul, Deputy COS Baghdad and COS in Europe and the Far East.  He was Chief of Operations of the CIA Counterterrorist Center and the Deputy Assistant Director for Military Affairs.  Phil served as deputy commander of CIA’s Jawbreaker team, the first USG team to respond to the September 11 attacks, entering Afghanistan on September 26, 2001.

Since retirement, Mr. Reilly has had a variety of positions, including head of National Security Programs at Constellis, with responsibility for contracts valued at over $250 million, and was an Intel Community consultant for Deloitte. 

Mr. Reilly is currently the Chief Strategy Officer of Orbis Operations; a Senior Advisor at Boston Consulting Group; a member of the Day & Zimmermann Government Services Advisory Board, and a board member and advisor to several U.S. and U.K. companies in the cyber, tech, and artificial intelligence space.