Melissa Flagg has served in senior roles in research, government, and non-profit organizations. She is the founder and president of Flagg Consulting LLC, a fellow at the Acquisition Innovation Research Center (AIRC), a visiting fellow at the Perry World House, and a senior advisor to the Center for Security and Emerging Technology (CSET) at Georgetown University where she was previously a senior fellow. Prior to this, she served as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research, responsible for policy and oversight of Defense Department science and technology programs. She has worked at the State Department, the Office of Naval Research, the Office of the Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, and the Army Research Laboratory. Dr. Flagg has served on numerous boards including the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation Advisory Board, National Academy of Sciences Air Force Studies Board, and the Department of Commerce Emerging Technology Research Advisory Committee. She is currently on the Board of World Forest ID. She holds a Ph.D. in Pharmaceutical Chemistry and a B.S. in Pharmacy.

Jaymie Durnan has served in senior roles in the private sector, the government sector, and the not-for-profit sector. A friend, confidant, and mentee of Andy Marshall for over four decades, Jaymie co-founded the Andrew W. Marshall Foundation with Andy to continue Andy’s unrelenting focus on finding and fostering people who are passionate about understanding the long-term strategic challenges facing the United States.

In addition to his role with the Foundation, Jaymie serves as a consultant to the Director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lincoln Laboratory, the nation’s premiere federally funded Department of Defense research, development and prototyping center;  Director of Siga Technologies; Director of Kimball Physics; and Advisor to the Hudson Institute Center for Defense Concepts and Technology.

A member of the New York State Bar, he has served as Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, and Special Counsel at MacAndrews & Forbes Holding Inc.; Product Line Manager at BAE Systems; Partner at Radius Capital Partners; and Managing Member of Woodbury Hill Partners, LLC, a strategic advisory firm.

His government service includes serving as a member of the Federal Senior Executive Service as the Special Assistant (Chief of Staff) to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and a Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense in the President George W. Bush administration; serving as the Senior Advisor to the Chief Technology Officer and Assistant Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering in the President Barack Obama administration; and an aircraft- carrier based naval aviator, with roles in strategy development, strategic assessments, arms control, budgeting, and programming.