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Board of Advisors
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Dr. Carole Adams
President
Foundation for American Christian Education
Carole Goodman Adams is President of the Foundation for American Christian Education and the founder of StoneBridge School, one of America's model private K-12 institutions. In addition to TheVanguard.Org, Dr. Adams serves on the boards of Principle Approach International and of Semilla, Inc. A noted author, teacher and curriculum developer, she is one of Christian education's brightest stars. A devoted wife and mother of three, she lives in Chesapeake, Virginia.
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Dr. Gil Amelio
Chairman and CEO, Jazz Technologies;
Former CEO, Apple Computer
Former CEO, National Semiconductor
Gil Amelio is TheVanguard.Org's Finance Chairman and is Chairman and CEO of Jazz Technologies.
For three decades, Dr. Amelio has been a transformative leader, in business and technology, in Silicon Valley and around the globe. The savior of National Semiconductor -- taking it (as CEO) from its worst-ever quarter to its best in just three years -- and the man who put a dying Apple Computer on the road back to health, Amelio's leadership of Fortune 500 companies has directly created increased investor value of more than $9 billion. Since 1998, he has been a venture capitalist focusing on early-stage startups, and in 2005 he founded Acquicor Technology (now Jazz Technologies) with former Apple CTO Ellen Hancock and Apple Co-Founder Steve Wozniak.
A former director and chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association, Amelio has since 1996 been an advisor to the Malaysia Multimedia Super Corridor and to Malaysia's Prime Minister. He is a current or past director of AT&T (formerly SBC Communications), Pacific Telesis, Chiron, Sematech, the Georgia Tech Advisory Board (as chairman) and the American Film Institute. He is an IEEE Fellow, has been awarded 16 patents, earned his Ph.D. in physics at Georgia Tech, and is the author of three books, An American Imperative (1993), Profit from Experience (1995) and On the Firing Line: My 500 Days at Apple (1998), the latter two of which were business best sellers.
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Ernst Bauer
Director of Business Development
Heimstra Product Development
Ernst Bauer is Director of Business Development for Heimstra Product Development in San Francisco, California. He previously founded Strategies International, a business development consulting firm where he gained much of his two decades' experience, including successful tenures at Georgia Pacific, Lockheed and Drexel Burnham Lambert. Bauer serves on the board of The Salvation Army in San Francisco and the Advisory Council of the Sam M. Walton College of Business at the University of Arkansas; and from 2000-2006, he served the maximum number of terms on the national board of directors of the University of Arkansas Alumni Association. In 2000, he was the top Bay Area fundraiser for George W. Bush.
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Joel Belz
Founder and Former Publisher
World Magazine
Joel Belz is the founder and former publisher of World Magazine, America's fourth largest circulation newsweekly. He also serves as Chairman of the Board of Covenant College (by which he was named Alumnus of the Year in 1977), and in 2003 was elected Moderator of the 31st General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America. A former chairman of the Evangelical Press Association, his World Journalism Institute trains a new generation of aspiring journalists from across America in the art and practice of fair, accurate and balanced reporting.
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James C. Czirr
President and CEO
Minerva Biotechnologies
Jim Czirr is President and CEO of Minerva Biotechnologies. Minerva is the developer of a nano-particle size bio chip, which it has used to determine the mechanism causing 75% of all solid tumors; the company has also filed 120 additional patent applications covering a wide variety of technologies in fields from medical research to homeland security. Czirr is also the founder of Extol Energy Corporation, a former director of Metalline Mining Corporation, and a co-founder and former director of Pro-Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a drug development company focusing on Glyco-Upgrading existing cancer therapies to remove harmful side-effects and improve drug effectiveness at reducing tumors. He was also an All-Conference Center for the 1975 Michigan Wolverines.
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Bobby Greenberg
Founding President
Semiconductor Equipment and Materials Institute (SEMI), North America
Bobby Greenberg is the president and founder of Prism Technologies, Inc. in Silicon Valley. With more than 32 successful years in the semiconductor equipment and materials industries, Prism provides professional business development, strategic alliance, and sales & marketing consulting services. He was previously the first President of SEMI, North America, a semiconductor industry trade association that represents the interests (including public policy) of more than 2000 members doing business across the North American continent. In 1973, he was a founding member of KTI Chemicals (acquired by Union Carbide in 1977), and in 1982 he was a founding member of Semiconductor Systems (acquired by General Signal Corp. in 1983). Born in Hope, Arkansas and a graduate of Hot Springs High School, he received his BSBA degree from Henderson State University in 1970; and in 2000, he received Henderson State University's Alumni Entrepreneur of the Year Award.
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Hon. Bryan Hughes
Vice Chairman, Judiciary Committee
Texas House of Representatives
Bryan Hughes represents the 5th District in the Texas House of Representatives, wherein he is Vice Chairman of the House Judiciary Committee and Vice Chairman of the Rural Caucus. A native of Mineola and a fifth-generation Texan, he graduated from Baylor Law School, after which he served U.S. District Judge William M. Steger as a briefing attorney for two years before entering private practice. Since 1996, Hughes has served on the Board of Trustees of the Stewards Foundation, a Dallas-based nonprofit which makes loans to churches for building projects and provides health care assistance for Christian workers.
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Eric Jackson
Former Marketing Guru, PayPal.com
Founder and CEO, WND Books
Eric Jackson is TheVanguard.Org's Outreach and Web Guru. An award-winning author and Silicon Valley businessman, Jackson is WorldNetDaily's Executive Vice President of Strategy and the founder and CEO of WND Books. He previously oversaw marketing for the online payment service PayPal, where he helped catapult the startup dot-com from losing $10 million per month to profitability, the tech sector's first successful post-crash initial public offering, a $1.5 billion merger with dot-com giant eBay, and beyond.
After leaving PayPal, Jackson founded the independent publisher World Ahead Media and served as its Chairman and CEO, guiding the company to a NYT bestseller and multiple book club selections-of-the-month, as well as its acquisition by WorldNetDaily in January 2008. A longtime advocate of free markets and traditional values, Jackson previously served on the alumni board of The Stanford Review, and has appeared on numerous TV shows including Fox News and Comedy Central's “The Daily Show.” He has been quoted in publications ranging from Publishers Weekly to Forbes, and has lectured for the Cato Institute and the Reason Foundation. He earned a degree in economics with honors from Stanford University.
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Wayne C. Johnson
President, JohnsonClark Associates
Wayne Johnson is a Senior Political Strategist for TheVanguard.Org and serves as President of JohnsonClark Associates, one of America's most successful political strategy and public affairs firms, particularly noted for its aggressive campaign tactics and innovative strategic survey techniques. He is a multiple winner of the American Association of Political Consultants' "Pollie Award" for campaign excellence in races across the nation and around the world, and has previously served as a member of the governing board of the International Association of Political Consultants. A frequent lecturer at both Republican and non-partisan political training seminars in the U.S. and abroad, Johnson's articles have often appeared in trade publications such as Campaign & Elections Magazine.
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Keet Lewis
Chairman
Lewis Group International
Keet Lewis is a serial entrepreneur, consultant, speaker and trainer. He is Chairman of Lewis Group International, as well as several other diversified corporations. He has been involved in politics since the Goldwater for President campaign, co-founding The Delta Forum and serving on the boards of The Free Market Foundation, Heritage Alliance, Heritage Alliance PAC, and the George W. Bush Presidential Library National Steering Committee at Baylor University. Lewis is a past chairman of the Deacon Ministry at Prestonwood Baptist Church, has served on the Southern Baptists of Texas Building Committee, and in 2003-2004 was Chairman of the Southern Baptist Convention's Committee on Nominations. He lives in Dallas with his wife and two beautiful daughters.
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Walt Longyear
Former Vice President
The Leadership Institute
Walt Longyear is a true pioneer of conservative fundraising techniques. He has over 40 years of experience as an activist, and devoted 33 of those years to raising money for conservative Republican candidates, organizations and Christian ministries, much of that with his partner Richard Viguerie. He later served as Vice President for Development of the Leadership Institute, America's premier training ground for conservative leaders.
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Grover Norquist
President
Americans for Tax Reform
Grover Norquist is president of Americans for Tax Reform (ATR), America's premier coalition of taxpayer groups, individuals and businesses opposed to higher taxes at the federal, state and local levels. He also serves on the boards of the National Rifle Association and the American Conservative Union, and previously served on the National Commission on Restructuring the Internal Revenue Service. In the words of former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, Grover Norquist is "the person whom I regard as the most innovative, creative, courageous and entrepreneurial leader of the anti-tax efforts and of conservative grassroots activism in America . . . He has truly made a difference and truly changed American history."
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Dr. Marvin Olasky
Editor-in-Chief, World Magazine
Father of "Compassionate Conservatism"
Marvin Olasky is widely credited as being the father of "compassionate conservatism" and was a senior domestic policy advisor to candidate George W. Bush in 2000. In addition to being Editor-in-Chief of World Magazine, he has been a professor of journalism at the University of Texas at Austin since 1983, as well as a senior fellow at the Acton Institute for the Study of Religion and Liberty. A noted author, Dr. Olasky has written 13 books, including Compassionate Conservatism -- to which Bush wrote the forward -- and The Tragedy of American Compassion, the single most influential book leading to the Republican welfare reforms of the mid-1990s. A trustee of Covenant College and father of four, Olasky lives in Austin with his wife Susan.
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Jane Russell
Actress and Activist
Voluptuous sex symbol -- the quintessential "bombshell" -- and star of movies, TV and nightclubs, Jane Russell had a long and impressive Hollywood career which included such memorable films as Howard Hughes' The Outlaw (1941) and (with Marilyn Monroe) Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953). Moreover, along with friends Robert Mitchum, Ronald Reagan and others, she staunchly stood against Communism in the Hollywood of the 1940s and 1950s. She championed the passage of the Federal Orphan Adoption Amendment in 1953, which allowed children of American servicemen born overseas to be placed for adoption in the United States; and through her organization WAIF (World Adoption International Fund), she is directly responsible for placing 51,000 children with adoptive families. Today, she is involved in numerous charitable works, conservative political causes and church-related missions.
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Alan E. Sears, Esq.
President, Alliance Defense Fund
and Former Federal Prosecutor
Alan E. Sears is President of the Alliance Defense Fund, the nation's largest religious liberty legal alliance. Selected for that role by the organization's founders -- Dr. James Dobson, the late Dr. Bill Bright, the late Larry Burkett and Dr. D. James Kennedy -- he built the organization from scratch, and has established for ADF a three to one success rate in cases litigated to conclusion. Previously, he held numerous positions with the United States Government including the Department of Justice, under Attorneys General William French Smith and Ed Meese III, as an Assistant United States Attorney and Chief of Criminal Section; as Director of the Attorney General’s Commission on Pornography; and the Department of Interior under Secretary Don Hodel. As a federal prosecutor, he was responsible for running regional and national task forces, prosecuted hundreds of complex federal crimes, and argued 22 cases before the federal court of appeals with only one loss. He is also a noted author and widely sought-after commentator on First Amendment issues.
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Dr. Jack Wheeler
Architect of the Reagan Doctrine
The debt which America and the entire world owes Dr. Jack Wheeler is virtually immeasurable: as architect of the Reagan Doctrine, he is one of the handful of men most responsible for the defeat of the Soviet Empire in the 1980s. He served his country as an "unofficial" liaison between the Reagan White House and anti-Soviet insurgents, pro-democracy activists and freedom fighters around the world, in Nicaragua, Angola, Mozambique, Ethiopia, Cambodia, Laos, Afghanistan, throughout Eastern Europe and in the Soviet Union itself. With a Ph.D. in Philosophy, he is a former lecturer in Aristotelian ethics at the University of Southern California, author of several books, and is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the first free fall sky-dive in history at the North Pole. From becoming the youngest Eagle Scout in history, to climbing the Matterhorn at 14, to swimming the Hellespont and living with Amazon headhunters at 16, to having once defeated Vladimir Putin -- and his KGB bodyguard! -- in arm wrestling, Jack Wheeler has lived an amazing life, as noted by the Wall Street Journal when it called him "the real Indiana Jones" (around the same time, the Soviet press called him "an ideological gangster"). As owner of Jack Wheeler Expeditions he continues to lead three to five expeditions a year; and when he isn't retracing Hannibal's route over the Alps with elephants or discovering unknown tribes in Africa and New Guinea, as President of the Freedom Research Foundation he provides senior government leaders with crucial information on political and economic freedom, and he remains a key consultant to numerous international corporations regarding geopolitical strategy. His writings are online at ToThePointNews.com. |
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