Jeffrey Nadaner

Mr. Nadaner currently serves as the director of the Brute Krulak Center for Innovation & Creativity at the USMC and holds the Marine Corps University Foundation’s Donald Bren Fellowship of Creative Problem-Solving. He possesses two decades of experience, both in the public and private sectors, in security and technology involving complex enterprises. At the Lockheed Martin Co., he held the positions of Vice President of Corporate Engineering and Technology, and Director of Business Development and Strategy in Information Systems & Global Solutions. Within the Department of Defense, he was the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Partnership Strategy and Stability Operations, and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates awarded him the Defense Medal for Distinguished Public Service. He has also served as a Member of the State Department Policy Planning Staff, as a senior speechwriter to Secretary of State Colin Powell, and as a Department of Justice trial attorney. He earned his Ph.D. from Yale University, JD from the University of Pennsylvania, and BA from Duke University.