Officers
M. Roman Hachkowski Ph.D.
Defense Industry Executive
NDIA New England President and Director
Dan Kelly
Partner, McCarter & English’s Government Contracts & Export Controls Group
NDIA New England Vice President and Director
Mike DiBiase
President, CPI Satcom & Atenna Technologies Inc.
NDIA New England Vice President and Director
Daniel Pikora
President, Ultra Electronics Herley
NDIA New England Secretary and Director
Jonathan Farnham
Operations Manager, Business Development Team, Liquid Measurement Systems (LMS)
NDIA New England Treasurer
Directors
Clarke Orzalli
Rear Admiral John Clarke Orzalli, USN (RET)
Jeremy Held
CPA, SMCPA
Joel Taves
Senior Director of Contracts for Raytheon’s Integrated Defense Systems
Jack Gay
Senior Manager in Ernst & Young’s Fraud Investigation & Dispute Services (FIDS) Government Contract Services (GCS) practice
Ryan Parsons
Senior Marketing Manager, General Dynamics Mission Systems
Gerard Lorden
Morgan Stanley
Paul Serotkin
Govcon Executive
AJ Jarnagin
CEO & Founding Partner of EXPANSIA
Gregory Maguire
Sr. Director of Legal and Government Affairs for Revision Military
Ryan Koenitzer
President, RKI, U.S. Government Contracts Practice
Juhee Bae
Deputy NC3 Lead,
General Dynamics Mission Systems
John Penders
Co-Founder and Managing Director, The Mainsail Group, Inc.
Brian Perry
EVP and President, Processing Division, Mercury
Bogdan Vernescu
Professor of Mathematical Sciences and the Vice Provost for Research, Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
Brian Berger
President and CEO
GTDS America LLC
Brian Fredriksson
Vice President of Operations
Applied Research Solutions (ARS)
Dr. Laura Hooks
Vice President, Strategic Systems
General Dynamics Mission Systems
Ryan Heidorn
Co-Founder & Managing Partner
Steel Root
Peter Boynton
CEO
Kostas Research Institute
Nick DeLena
Partner, Business Advisory Group, DGC
Michael Schwarm
Vice President, Worldwide Sales & Marketing, API Technologies Corp
John Stack
Managing Director, Head of U.S. Aerospace & Defense (A&D) investment banking, Canaccord Genuity
David Sigillo
Vice President, Seica, Inc.
Josh Garvey
Owner & Operator, ClearPlan
B. Stephanie Siegmann
National Security Expert and Litigation Partner, Hinckley Allen
Donna Gandt
Northeast Vice President
Unanet
Dr. Elaine B. Coleman
Vice President of Commercialization
Charles River Analytics
Adam Fouse
Principle Engineer & Director of the Performance Augmentation Division, Aptima
Adrienne Benton
President & CEO
Onyx Spectrum Technology
Mike MacEwen
President, CTO & Co-Founder
Beacon Interactive Systems
Women in Defense Greater Boston Chapter Leadership
Karen Krause-Bencal
Vice President of Defense Innovation, Activate Global
President, WID Greater Boston Chapter
Diane Phillips
Vice President, Joint Research & Development (JRAD)
Vice President of STEM, WID Greater Boston Chapter
Amie Cafferty
Director of Talent Acquisition, L3Haris
Past President, WID Greater Boston Chapter
Liaisons
Jeff DiTullio
Office of Research & Technology Applications Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory (CRREL), U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center
Peter Cokotis
Program Manager of the Massachusetts PTAC
William Surrey
Assistant Head of the Contracting Services Department, Contracts and Compliance, MIT Lincoln Labs
Steven Wert
Member of the Senior Executive Service, is Program Executive Officer for Battle Management, Air Force Life Cycle Management Center, Hanscom Air Force Base
Jason R. Weiss
Chief Software Officer, Department of Defense, Office of the Secretary of Defense, Chief Information Officer, Pentagon
Vinit Nijhawan
Managing Director, MassVentures
Yoojeong Kim Ph.D.
Innovation & Outreach Team Lead for the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command Soldier Center (DEVCOM SC)
Jay Lustig
Maritime Domain Business Operations Manager, MITRE Labs