Advisors
The Thompson Advisory Group Board of Advisors is a key aspect of how we deliver value to our customers. Time and humility has taught us that no single individual or company can have all the knowledge and all the relationships needed to deliver success for customers in the government space. Instead we rely on an outstanding board of advisors to help us set company priorities, define service offerings, and solutions based upon firsthand knowledge of key government strategic problems and technologies. Through our Advisory Board we are able to greatly expand our relationships and relationship capital to directly support our customer needs. We are able to connect our customers with key business partnering relationships and sources of financial capital. Finally, we are honored to have an Advisory Board that provides first hand intelligence and knowledge that helps our customers not only identify, but win, and execute successful government business.
- Joseph R. Wright – Chief Executive Officer of Scientific Games, former Chairman of Intelsat, former CEO of PanAmSat, former Chairman of GRC International Inc. Served in the U.S. Government under President Reagan as Director of the Federal Office of Management and Budget in the Executive Office of the President and a member of the Cabinet, and earlier as Deputy Secretary of Commerce. Appointed to the President’s Export Council by President George H.W. Bush as Chairman of the Export Control Sub-Committee and was appointed by President George W. Bush to the President’s Commission on the U.S. Postal Service Reform and the National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC).
- Dr. William Schneider – President of International Planning Services, Inc., a Washington-based international trade and finance advisory firm, and is an Adjunct Fellow of the Hudson Institute. Former Under Secretary of State for Security Assistance, Science and Technology. Served as Associate Director for National Security and International Affairs at the Office of Management and Budget prior to being nominated as Under Secretary by the President. Currently serves as Chairman of the Department of Defense Science Board and Department of State's Defense Trade Advisory Group, and is a Member of its Arms Control and Non-Proliferation Advisory Board. Former Staff Associate of the Subcommittees on Defense and Foreign Operations of the Committee on Appropriations in the U.S. House of Representatives and a consultant to the Hudson Institute (New York). Former U.S. Senate staff member and professional staff member of the Hudson Institute.
- Arthur L. Money – Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Command, Communications, Control and Intelligence (C3I), Former Department of Defense Chief Information Officer, Member of the Defense Science Board and Chair of the FBI Science & Technology Advisory Board. Former Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Research, Development and Acquisition and as CIO of the Air Force. Mr. Money currently serves as the Chairman of the Outside Advisory Board for the NSA and the FBI.
- Dr. Mark M. Lowenthal – Assistant Director of Central Intelligence for Analysis and Production and also as the Vice Chairman for Evaluation on the National Intelligence Council. Served as Counselor to the Director of Central Intelligence. Staff director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence in the 104th Congress. Served in the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR), as both an office director and a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State.
- Arthur W. Brill – Of counsel at Roberts and Holland. Focus on estate and income tax planning, including charitable trusts and foundations, as well as financial, investment and business matters. Involved in a number of venture capital, finance, real estate, oil and gas, and other investments in several different capacities, including founder, principal, officer, counsel and advisor. For twenty-five years, Mr. Brill has been involved with the Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research. Currently, he is a member of the Board of Directors and Secretary of the Institute; he also serves on its Investment Committee and Development Committee. He is currently the Chair of the Institute's Annual Fund. Former trustee of the International Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons Foundation and Chairman of its Finance Committee.
