The Board of Directors includes James Gimian, Fred Krawchuk, Richard Moser, Tim Rosenberg, Tammy Schultz, Alan Schwartz, and Liz Stanley. 

James Gimian is the Publisher of the Shambhala Sun Foundation, a nonprofit, independent media company dedicated to bringing the benefits of contemplative and mindfulness practices to all the important issues in modern life. The Foundation’s magazines, websites, conferences, and other media reach over 250,000 readers. James is currently directing the Foundation’s Mindful.org initiative, a web-based community-building project that reports on the application of secular mindfulness practices throughout our society. James is co-author with Barry Boyce of The Rules of Victory: How to Transform Chaos and Conflict — Strategies from the Art of War (2008), and the general editor of the Art of War: The Denma Translation (2001), which has received critical acclaim from military officers, business leaders, and scholars, and which has been used in United States military war college classes. He continues to teach and consult on the application of strategies from The Art of War in both the private and public sectors. James began his forty year career as an owner, manager, and consultant in the publishing and bookselling industry in 1971 after four years at Stanford University. He is a practicing Buddhist and has been a meditation teacher since the 1970s.

Fred Krawchuk is a Special Forces Colonel with more than 24 years of active-duty service in the U.S. Army.  Fred has started up and led a variety of high performance military and interagency organizations with his most recent assignment at U.S. Special Operations Command (SOCOM), and deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.  Originally introduced to contemplative practices by Richard Strozzi-Heckler, Ph.D., Fred has a long-standing mindfulness practice, has been a member of Strozzi Institute since 1992, and has attended courses at Integral Institute, Esalen Institute, Spiral Dynamics Integral, and Spirit Rock Meditation Center.  He has actively participated in forums with the Council on Foreign Relations, the French American Foundation, Aspen Institute, and the Council for Emerging National Security Affairs.  Fred is also a conflict resolution expert and a writer – with articles published on strategic planning, terrorism, leadership, interagency collaboration, and strategic communication.  Fred served as an Olmsted Scholar in Spain and as an Army Senior Fellow with the U.S. Department of State.  He is a General MacArthur Leadership Award Winner and holds an M.B.A. from the University of Navarra’s IESE Business School, an M.P.A from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, and a B.S. in Latin American Studies from the U.S. Military Academy (West Point).

Richard Moser is a managing member of Phoenix Management Partners, LLC, specialists in the substitute management of venture capital and technology investment funds.  With more than 40 years of experience in small business investment, planning, governance and senior management, Dick has served on the boards of directors of some two dozen public and private companies. As a U.S. Marine Corps helicopter pilot, Dick is a combat veteran from the Vietnam War and was awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross and 34 other personal decorations. He holds an M.B.A. from Stanford’s Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Psychology from Yale University.

Tim Rosenberg is the Director of Cyber Exercises for iSIGHT Partners, where he runs large-scale computer network attack and defense exercises.  Previously Tim was co-founder and CEO of White Wolf Security,a leading provider of cyber-security training and exercises until it was acquired in 2010 by iSIGHT Partners.  Since 1999, Tim has presented classes and conducted exercises around the country and the world with diverse populations.  His expertise has been engaged by some of the most prominent names in cyber security – SANS, the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team, and Syscan Singapore – and by defense institutions, such as the United States Military Academy, Sandia National Labs, the U.S. Naval War College's Strategic Study Group, the U.S. Army War College, and the National Defense University.  Tim also served as an enlisted infantryman in the Pennsylvania National Guard (1989-1993).  Tim is a non-practicing attorney with a J.D. from Villanova University School of Law and a B.S. in Education from Indiana University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Tammy S. Schultz is the Director of the National Security and Joint Warfare Department and an Associate Professor of Strategic Studies at the United States Marine Corps War College.  In 2010, she won the Elihu Rose Award for outstanding civilian professor across all Marine schools. Tammy also conducts communication simulations for Foreign Service officers at the State Department and is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Security Studies Program and Northwestern University’s Medill Washington program.  She is a member of the Term Member Advisory Council of the Council of Foreign Relations, a principal in the Truman National Security Project, and an executive board member of Women in International Security (WIIS).  Tammy has also served as a Fellow at the Center for a New American Security (CNAS), as Director of Research and Policy at the U.S. Army’s Peacekeeping and Stability Operations Institute, and as a research fellow at the Brookings Institution.  Tammy is a frequent media commentator on national security issues and has published widely. Tammy holds a Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University, an M.A. from Victoria University in New Zealand, where she attended on a Rotary Fellowship, and a B.A. in Political Science and English from Regis University.

Alan R. Schwartz is Principal and Co-Founder of PolicyFutures LLC, which provides consulting, facilitation, scenario planning, policy forecasting, and analytic design services to the U.S. government and the private sector.  His recent projects include scenario planning about Iraqi domestic politics, the insurgency in Iraq, and peace in Sudan.  On behalf of Pherson Associates, LLC, he teaches advanced analytic techniques to analysts in the Intelligence Community and military organizations.  Alan has served as Counsel to the President’s Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism and as a member of the U.S. Army Science Board (2002-2007), including as chair of the 2003 Force Protection Interface Panel. He has also participated in three U.S. Defense Science Board studies (2004-2006) and on the Task Force on Vulnerabilities Assessment (2001). He currently serves on several Defense Business Board task forces.  Alan received his LL.M. in Administrative Law from the Georgetown University Law Center as a Ford Foundation Fellow and his J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School.

Intellectual Property Advisor to the Board of Directors:

Matthew Simchak practiced litigation and counseling in U.S. Government Contract Law from 1972 until 2006.  He was a partner in the law firm of Wiley, Rein & Fielding and a Co-chairman of its Government Contracts Law practice group.  His experience includes matters across the breadth of Government Contract law, but especially the protection of intellectual property embodied in high-technology; terminations; claims for constructive changes; the defense of defective pricing claims; the defense of Government claims under inspection and warranty clauses; and bid protests.  His experience includes litigation before the board of contract appeals (performance disputes and bid protests), as well as litigation in U.S. district courts, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims, the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit and the General Accounting Office.  He has been asked to testify before the U.S. House of Representatives on the reform of the Government Contract laws.  He has served as an Advisor to the Federal Contracts Report; a member of the Advisory Board of the Government Contractor; and he has authored many articles and texts on topics in Government Contract Law.  Mr. Simchak holds a B.A. from Trinity College and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.