Mike Rogers is a businessman and former member of Congress representing Michigan’s Eighth Congressional District, where he rose to chair the powerful House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (HPSCI). As chairman, he authorized and oversaw a $70 billion budget that provided funding to the country’s 17 intelligence agencies, including a large portion of the national security space architecture. He previously served as an officer in the U.S. Army and FBI special agent.

In Congress, Mr. Rogers worked across the aisle with two presidents, Congressional leadership, countless diplomats, military service members, and intelligence professionals to ensure the brave men and women who fight for our nation are equipped with the resources necessary to get the job done. Washington Post columnist David Ignatius remarked, Mr. Rogers was “a rare example of bipartisanship.”

Today, Mr. Rogers advises C-suite executives, providing analysis and expertise on the challenges facing companies operating in the digital era, and on cybersecurity and executive leadership. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board at the MITRE Corporation, and as a Director at leading companies including IAP, IronNet Cybersecurity, D-Wave, and Constella Intelligence.

In 2021, Mr. Rogers founded Leadership to Ensure the American Dream (LEAD), an initiative seeking to reignite optimism in the American Dream. He is currently investing in and helping build companies that are developing solutions for healthcare, energy efficiency and communications challenges. He is also the former chair of 5G Action Now.

Mr. Rogers is a member of the Board of Trustees and the David Abshire Chair at the Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress, where he directs the Center’s national security programs.

Mr. Rogers is a frequent public speaker on global affairs, cybersecurity, and leadership. For three seasons, Mr. Rogers was the Executive Producer and host of the hit CNN show “Declassified”, which revelead the true, untold stories of America’s spies and law enforcement professionals.  

The Honorable Susan M. Gordon is one of the nation’s most respected intelligence professionals and a trusted voice on strategy, innovation, and leadership. Confirmed as the Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence in 2017, she became the Nation’s highest-ranking career intelligence officer. In over three decades of service, including both the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA), Gordon earned a reputation as a visionary, inclusive leader; delivering innovative solutions on a broad spectrum of complex issues, including cyber security, emerging and disruptive technologies, artificial intelligence, information operations, and space. Gordon is currently a consultant on technology and global risk. Among other endeavors, she is a Senior Fellow at Harvard University; an independent director at CACI, International, Blacksky, Security Scorecard; a Trustee at the MITRE Corporation; an advisor to Microsoft and other technology companies; and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Defense Innovation Board.

Steve Kwast is the Chief Executive Officer of Skycorp Incorporated, a company pioneering future sustainable space logistics and economic development.  Born in California, he was raised in a remote African tribe, and graduated from the United States Air Force Academy in 1986 with a degree in Astronautical Engineering. His military career spanned every major combat operation, from a young Lieutenant Fighter Pilot in Desert Storm, culminating as the Commanding Air Force General at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan. He subsequently rose to the highest levels of command in the United States Air Force.  He has a Master’s degree from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government in Public Policy and has been a University President and the President of the number one startup company in America.

RADM (Ret.) Mark Montgomery is the senior director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He also directs CSC 2.0, having served as the Cyberspace Solarium Commission’s executive director. Previously, Mark served as policy director for the Senate Armed Services Committee, coordinating policy efforts on national security strategy, capabilities and requirements, and cyber policy. Mark served for 32 years in the U.S. Navy as a nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, retiring as a rear admiral in 2017.

Frank J. Cilluffo is the Director of Auburn’s McCrary Institute for Cyber and Critical Infrastructure Security. He recently served on the U.S. Cyberspace Solarium Commission and previously led efforts on cyber, supply chain, and economic security for DHS’ Homeland Security Advisory Council. Cilluffo routinely advises senior officials on national and cybersecurity strategy and policy and has publicly testified before Congress on dozens of occasions on a wide range of issues related to cyber threats, counterterrorism, security and deterrence, weapons proliferation, intelligence and threat assessments, and emergency management. Cilluffo previously served as a Special Assistant to President George W. Bush for Homeland Security immediately following the attacks on September 11.