Board of Directors

General Bryan P. Fenton is a retired U.S. Army Four-Star General and career Special Forces officer. He served as the 13th Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM), overseeing the global Special Operations of the U.S. Department of Defense, with command of 70,000 Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Special Operations personnel. Prior to that role, he was the Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) and before that, served as the Senior Military Assistant (SMA) for two U.S. Secretaries of Defense. With 38 years of military service, Bryan commanded at every level of Special Operations. He deployed multiple times to Afghanistan, Iraq, as well as numerous locations in the Middle East, South America, Europe, Africa and he served for over five years in the Indo-Pacific region. Through this global understanding, Bryan garnered invaluable experience in geostrategic and international security issues and gained a vast network of worldwide contacts. 

Bryan brings a wealth of experience in the acquisition and implementation of emerging technologies, inside the commercial and defense sectors. He is also known for his expertise in strategic vision, organizational change management, risk analysis and guiding transformation for large organizations. A people-first leader, Bryan champions optimizing human performance through wellbeing
initiatives across cognitive, physical, and behavioral health areas fostering high performance, positive work environments that empower his teams to succeed and thrive. 

He currently serves as a Board Member for Duke University’s Fuqua
Business School/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics (COLE) and previously served on the University of Notre Dame’s Monogram Club Board and the Armed Services Mutual Benefit Association (ASMBA) Insurance Board. Bryan has received several prestigious awards, including the Moose Krause Service Award from the University of Notre Dame, the Eisenhower Award from Business Executives for National Security (BENS), and the Omar N. Bradley Spirit of Independence Award. 

An accomplished public speaker, Bryan has presented at prominent forums such as the Aspen Security Forum (DC and Aspen), the Reagan National Defense Forum in California, the Halifax Security Dialogue in Canada, the Fullerton Forum in Singapore, and the NFL Owner’s Conference Medical Performance Summit in Orlando. 

Bryan graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1987 and was the U.S. Army Fellow at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. from 2009 to 2010. He also holds a master’s degree from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College. Originally from Seymour, Tennessee, Bryan and his wife, Dawn, are the proud parents of two daughters. As a family, they enjoy traveling, surfing and watching professional and college sports.