Paul Michaels is the CEO and Founder of Monoc Securities LLC. Monoc is a veteran-owned small business providing multidisciplinary security consulting services to companies operating within the U.S. National Industrial Security Program (NISP). Paul has developed a mastery of the National Industrial Security Program in his 20 years working with the Intelligence Community, Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. In every engagement, Paul balances U.S. Government regulatory requirements with corporate mission statements, strategic business goals, company culture, and financial objectives.

Prior to starting Monoc, Paul served as the Senior Vice President for Security, Chief Security Officer, and Corporate Facility Security Officer (FSO) for Cobham Advanced Electronic Solutions in Arlington, Virginia. Over the last 12 years, Paul has specialized in working with complex industrial security programs going through major program challenges or organization changes. Paul is a National Association of Corporate Directors (NACD) Governance Fellow, holder of NACD’s prestigious Directorship certification, and has completed the NACD sponsored CERT Cyber Risk Oversight Certificate program. He is a graduate of American Military University (AMU) with a master’s degree in Security Management and has taught security management courses at AMU. Paul is a U.S. Army veteran and his family are enrolled members of the Sisseton Wahpeton Oyate of the Lake Traverse Reservation which is located in the Northeastern part of South Dakota and a small portion of southeastern corner of North Dakota.

Andrew Boardman joined QTS in 2009, and serves as the EVP of Sales for the Eastern region. He is responsible for helping define and execute QTS’ go-to-market strategy, and leads a sales team who supports many of the world’s largest and most sophisticated enterprises.

Andrew has more than 13 years of leadership and sales experience in the data center, telecommunications, and technology industries. He earned a Bachelor of Science degree from George Mason University in 2008.

Andrew is an avid fan of DC sports, and lives in Leesburg, VA with his wife and four children.

Dr. Brian Cochran, DDS is a lifelong Loudoun County resident who grew up in Leesburg and now lives in Purcellville. He is the proprietor of Cochran Family Dental, a thriving dental practice in Leesburg. He earned his high school diploma from Loudoun County High School, undergraduate degree from James Madison University (BA political science, BBA  economics), and his DDS from Virginia Commonwealth University School of Dentistry. He resides in Purcellville, VA with his wife and five children.Item description

Ms. Cox is currently a principal at The Fratelli Group, a policy communications firm. She manages client accounts and handles office operations. She also serves as Secretary of the Corporation. In the service of clients, Ms. Cox specializes in advocacy and communications strategy. She helps a wide variety of organizations – ranging from multinational corporations and NGOs to trade associations and foreign governments – develop and execute communications strategies that advance their missions.

Prior to joining Fratelli in 2005, Ms. Cox managed public policy and business issues for General Motors; was a legislative representative for federal affairs at Ryder System, Inc.; and was a government relations consultant at Peyser Associates. She began her career in Washington, D.C., as a legislative staffer on Capitol Hill.

A native of North Carolina, Ms. Cox received her B.A. from Duke University and her J.D. from Georgetown Law. Though she does not practice, she is admitted to the state bars of Maryland and New York.

In her spare time, she serves Leesburg and the Loudoun community as a member of the Rotary Club of Leesburg.

Lieutenant General Bruce T. Crawford became the Army Chief Information Officer (CIO)/G-6 on 1 August 2017 and retired in August of 2020. As the CIO, LTG Crawford was the principal advisor to the Secretary of the Army, setting strategic direction and objectives for the Army network, and supervising all Army C4 (command, control, communications, and computers) and Information Technology (IT) functions. As the G-6, he advised the Chief of Staff of the Army on the network, communications, signal operations, cybersecurity, force structure, and equipping.

A native of Columbia, South Carolina, LTG Crawford was commissioned through South Carolina State University’s Reserve Officer Training Corps program on May 28, 1986, after graduating as a Distinguished Military Graduate with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering. He also holds a Master of Science in Administration from Central Michigan University, and a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces.

During his 34 years of service, LTG Crawford served in a variety of leadership positions at the tactical, operational, and strategic levels. In his previous assignment, he served as a Special Assistant to the Director of the Army Staff, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Prior to that, he served as the 14th Commander, U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command and Aberdeen Proving Ground Senior Mission Commander, Aberdeen, Maryland. Prior to that, he served in the posts of J6, Director of C4/Cyber and Chief Information Officer, U.S. European Command; Commanding General, 5th Signal Command (Theater); and G-6, U.S. Army Europe in Wiesbaden, Germany. His command assignments included the 516th Signal Brigade, Fort Shafter, Hawaii; 82nd Signal Battalion, 82nd Airborne Division, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Operation IRAQI FREEDOM, Iraq; and B Company, 51st Signal Battalion, 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina.

His key staff assignments included Director of the Coordination Group for the Chief of Staff of the Army, Pentagon, Washington D.C.; Division Chief of LandWarNet Integration for the Army CIO/G-6, Pentagon, Washington D.C.; Division Chief for Net Centric Assessments/Analysis Branch, later Executive Assistant to the J6, Joint Chiefs of Staff, Washington D.C.; and Assistant Operations Officer, and later Corps Emergency Deployment Readiness Officer, for the 35th Signal Brigade, XVIII Airborne Corps, Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM, Saudi Arabia.

LTG Crawford’s awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), the Defense Superior Service Medal, the Legion of Merit, the Bronze Star Medal, the Defense Meritorious Service Medal (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), the Meritorious Service Medal (with four Oak Leaf Clusters), the Army Commendation Medal (with one Oak Leaf Cluster), and the Army Achievement Medal (with four Oak Leaf Clusters). LTG Crawford is authorized to wear the Combat Action Badge, the Master Parachutist Badge, the Ranger Tab, the Joint Chiefs of Staff Identification Badge, and the Army Staff Identification Badge.

LTG Crawford and his wife, Dianne, have two sons, Bruce, Jr. and Corey.

Mr. Daryl Deke is a 1982 Virginia Military Institute graduate, U.S. Air Force Veteran and multiple term Trustee of the VMI Foundation, including oversight of the VMI Endowment. A resident of Nashville, TN, he is an accomplished wealth management professional with CAPTRUST and a longtime admirer of General Marshall.

Christian Hoff is an Arlington, VA-based executive with over 25 years of experience in sales, operations, business development, program management and strategy. As the leader of AWS U.S. Federal Civilian and Health business, Hoff supports cabinet-level civilian agencies and departments, to include military, health and civilian intelligence customers. He earned a graduate degree in Public Administration from George Mason University and an undergraduate degree in International Studies and History from the Virginia Military Institute.

A native Northern Virginian, J. Randall Minchew, known to all as “Randy”, has lived and worked in Leesburg for more than 25 years. Following his graduation from Langley High School in Fairfax County, Randy studied public policy and economics at Duke University. He followed his interest in law enforcement and criminal prosecution after his graduation from Duke and took a position with District Attorney’s office in Durham County, North Carolina, where he worked closely with police and prosecutors. This formative experience, where he witnessed firsthand the corrosive effect of crime and learned the importance of vigorous prosecution of criminals, led him back to Virginia to study law at Washington & Lee University where he served as an editor on the W&L Law Review. Upon graduating from law school, Randy received an appointment as personal law clerk to the Honorable A. Christian Compton, Justice of the Supreme Court of Virginia in Richmond. Following his judicial clerkship, Randy returned to Northern Virginia, settling soon thereafter in Leesburg to establish his home, law practice, and tradition of public and community service.

“I have always held General Marshall as being the most under appreciated Americans of the 20th Century and his leadership, exemplary citizenship, and service above self character attributes remain today as a beacon for all Americans.”

Randy’s leadership in and service to the Leesburg and Loudoun County community has taken many forms over the past 25 years. A founding member and two-term Chairman of the Loudoun County Economic Development Commission as well as a founding member and chair of the Rural Economic Development Task Force, he takes particular pride in the “100,000 Acre Solution,” a detailed plan for strengthening the economic base of rural Loudoun County while preserving scenic areas and open space. Randy has consistently advocated for public policies that create jobs, preserve a favorable business climate, and lead to meaningful transportation improvements. His service to the community has included years spent on the Loudoun County Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors, the Loudoun County Finance Board, the Citizens’ Tax Equity Committee, and the Loudoun Judicial Center Task Force. In 2010, Governor Bob McDonnell appointed Randy as his Deputy Counselor and Advisor, a position he held until he decided to seek elective service in 2011 as the delegate from the newly created 10th House of Delegates District of Virginia. Randy served three terms in the House of Delegates, representing Frederick, Clarke, and Loudoun Counties.

Randy, an Eagle Scout, has been an avid outdoorsman and conservationist from his early days as a Boy Scout. He has remained active with the Boy Scouts of America, twice serving as District Chairman of Scouting in Loudoun County, as well as serving as Scoutmaster of both Leesburg Troop 998 and 2010 National Scout Jamboree Troop 521. In 2010, in appreciation of his years of work for what he has called “the most successful youth leadership movement in the history of the world,” Randy was awarded Scouting’s highest adult leader recognition, the Silver Beaver.

In addition to his degrees from Duke and Washington & Lee, Randy also holds a Diploma in Theology from Virginia Theological Seminary and has served as Lay Eucharistic Minister and Visitor in the Episcopal Church. Randy has taught constitutional law at the law school,

college, and high school levels, and particularly has enjoyed serving as a guest lecturer at Heritage High School where he has taught US and Virginia Government, with a concentration on George Mason’s Virginia Declaration of Rights, a foundational document that was relied upon in the drafting of both the Declaration of Independence and the Bill of Rights.

During his three terms in the House of Delegates, Randy patroned and secured passage of many significant pieces of legislation improving our regional and rural roads, fostering transparent and ethical government operations, strengthening our local schools, and encouraging economic development, deployment of affordable broadband to underserved areas, and expansion of solar and renewable energy opportunities by private landowners. After carrying legislation to fund the Northern Virginia Transportation Authority (NVTA) to be Northern Virginia’s preeminent body overseeing and funding transportation improvements to our region, Randy served as the House of Delegates’ representative on the NVTA for many years. Since passage that legislation in 2013, the NVTA has financed app. $2.5 Billion in congestion-relieving road and transit improvements in Northern Virginia. Committed to bipartisanship, civility, and consensus legislation, Randy has earned the respect and support of a wide variety of stakeholder groups who do not generally concur on matters of public policy.

Professionally, Randy is the Managing Partner of the Loudoun County Office of Walsh, Colucci, Lubeley & Walsh, PC, recognized as Virginia’s preeminent law firm in matters of land use and local government law. Randy holds the highest “AV” rating for lawyers by Martindale Hubbell and has been ranked as one of America’s “Best Lawyers” in the field of land use law by US News and World Report. He is a member of the Bar of the United States Supreme Court and most recently wrote a brief amicus curiae on behalf of many legislators in the case of McDonnell v. United States that lead to a unanimous ruling by the United States Supreme Court overturning an unjust criminal conviction of Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell.

Randy is a PADI-certified Master Scuba Diver and a trained Wilderness First Aid Responder who enjoys hiking and mountain climbing. Randy has been married since 1991 to his wife, Teresa, a certified Master Gardener, who is equally committed to giving back to the community, including service on the Town of Leesburg’s Planning Commission and Board of Architectural Review, and service on the board of directors of the Community Foundation for Loudoun and Northern Fauquier. Together with their son, Jack, a Duke University graduate now attending Georgetown University Law School, Randy and Terri live in and are the stewards of their historic home in Leesburg, built in 1899 and a designated National and Virginia Historic Landmark.

Ms. Janet Rathod is the Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) for Johns Hopkins University and the JHU Medical Centers. Rathod, who resides in Loudoun County, is a former FBI agent and graduate and adjunct faculty member at the George C. Marshall Center for Security Studies in Garmisch, Germany.  She earned a master’s degree in Public Administration from New York University and a bachelor’s degree in Political Science from Nebraska Wesleyan University.

Joe Scanlan is a CPA and accomplished financial leader who is currently a Financial Advisor and Portfolio Manager at Toth Financial. With a diverse professional background, Scanlan has deep expertise in restructuring accounting and finance departments, treasury and cash management, implementing and overseeing budgeting processes, financial reviews, trend analysis, real estate management and implementing new finance and accounting software systems. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Accounting from James Madison University.