Joan A. Dempsey is the chairperson of SRC's board of trustees. She previously served as executive vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton. Dempsey has 25 years of experience working with the federal government and 17 years of experience working as a senior civilian in the Department of Defense. During her career with the federal government, Dempsey held two presidential appointments. First, in the Clinton administration, she served as deputy director of Central Intelligence and Security, and in the Bush administration, she served as executive director of the President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board. During her career with the DoD, Dempsey served as deputy director of intelligence at the Defense Intelligence Agency, as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Intelligence and Security, and as the designated (acting) assistant secretary of Command, Control Communications and Intelligence. In her former role as the executive vice president, Booz Allen Hamilton, she served as deputy director of the Defense and Intelligence Group, managing day to day operations of the firm's largest market facing organization. Dempsey was granted an honorary doctorate in 2004 from the National Intelligence University, holds a master's degree from the University of Arkansas, and is a graduate of Southern Arkansas University. She is an ex officio member of the board of the United States Geospatial Intelligence Foundation and the Central Intelligence Agency Officers Memorial Foundation. In addition to her membership on the SRC board of trustees, Dempsey currently serves on the board of directors for Gigamon, a technology company headquartered in Santa Clara, CA and Intelsat General, the US subsidiary of the Intelsat Corporation. |
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