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Senior Leadership Team
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Rod D. Martin, J.D.
Founder and Chairman
Rod D. Martin, Founder and Chairman of TheVanguard.Org, is a noted futurist and a leading advocate for the eradication of poverty and the expansion of liberty throughout the world. A writer, speaker and technology entrepreneur, former senior advisor to PayPal.com founder Peter Thiel and policy director to Arkansas Governor (and recent Presidential candidate) Mike Huckabee, he also serves as President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), Chairman of The Arlington Group's National Security Team, and as a member of the Board of Governors of the Council for National Policy.
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Sherri R. Martin
Co-Chairman
Sherri Ross Martin is Co-Chairman of TheVanguard.Org. She is currently serving her fourth term as a national director of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) and her second term as chairman of the NFRA's membership committee; she is also a member of the board of directors of the Florida Federation of Republican Assemblies. She has previously served as a group home mother for retarded and handicapped adults, has been instrumental in the founding and development of Christian schools across the eastern United States, and was the founding principal of Mountain Top Christian School (now Chattanooga Christian School) in Tennessee. She holds a triple-disciplinary B.A. from Covenant College, and is the much beloved mother of three.
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Shawn Mitchell, DMD
Vice Chairman
Shawn Mitchell is Vice Chairman of TheVanguard.Org, Secretary of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA), and a member of the Board of Governors of the Council for National Policy. Professionally a dentist for almost three decades, he is a lifelong activist, a member of the board of directors of the Florida Federation of Republican Assemblies, and a national pro-life, civic and religious speaker. He has served as a counselor for Life, Inc., organized the Emerald Coast area for Save-A-Life, co-founded the Northwest Florida Republican Assembly (the state's first local chapter), and was co-founder of Trinity Presbyterian Church, Valparaiso, Florida.
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Gil Amelio, Ph.D.
Finance Chairman and Systems Strategist
Gil Amelio is TheVanguard.Org's Finance Chairman and Systems Strategist, 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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Eric M. Jackson
Outreach Guru
Eric Jackson is TheVanguard.Org's Outreach 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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Shannon Royce, Esq.
Washington Director
Shannon Royce is TheVanguard.Org's Washington Director. She previously served as National Grassroots Director for the Fred Thompson presidential campaign, and as Executive Director of The Arlington Group, a national coalition of America's leading Christian Right organizations such as Focus on the Family, the American Family Association, the Family Research Council and the Center for Reclaiming America. At the Arlington Group, Royce represented coalition members on Capitol Hill, coordinated coalition efforts to successfully confirm Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Samuel Alito, and helped spearhead pro-life and pro-marriage initiatives across the nation.
Royce came to the attention of the nascent Arlington Group after several years' outstanding service as Director of Government Relations and Legislative Counsel for the nation's largest non-Catholic denomination, the Southern Baptist Convention, with over 16 million members in 43,000 churches. She has also served on the staffs of Senator Chuck Grassley (R-IA), where she played an important role in the welfare reforms of 1995-1996, and Senator Slade Gorton (R-WA). She is a cancer survivor, holds a Juris Doctor degree from the George Washington University School of Law, and is the happily married mother of two fine boys.
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Kellyanne Conway, J.D.
Research Director and Senior Political Strategist
Kellyanne Conway is TheVanguard.Org's Research Director and Senior Political Strategist, as well as President and CEO of the polling company™, inc. / WomenTrend. She has provided primary research and advice for clients in 46 of the 50 states and has directed hundreds of demographic and attitudinal survey projects for political races, trade associations, and Fortune 100 companies. An attorney, a nationally acclaimed expert on women consumers, and a regular commentator on national network and cable television, Conway has worked for a diverse portfolio of corporate, political and non-profit entities, including Major League Baseball, ABC News, Lifetime Television, Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia, Cendant, Grocery Manufacturers of America, Mass Connections, the Heritage Foundation, the Republican National Committee, the National Rifle Association, and the Family Research Council.
Conway is co-author (with Celinda Lake) of What Women Really Want: How American Women Are Quietly Erasing Political, Racial, Class, and Religious Lines to Change the Way We Live. She was recognized as the most accurate predictor of the 2004 elections, for which she received The Washington Post’s “Crystal Ball” award. |
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Thomas Dodd
Strategic Partnerships Director
Thomas Dodd is TheVanguard.Org's Strategic Partnerships Director. Before joining TheVanguard.Org, he served as a major gifts development officer at The Leadership Institute from 2003 to 2007, working with the Institute's top donors; and as an aide to former U.S. Senator William V. Roth, Jr. (R-DE). A graduate of the University of Deleware, he has also served as a consultant to several national public health studies, and currently serves as Eastern Region Vice President of the National Federation of Republican Assemblies (NFRA) and on the board of the Tocqueville Fellowship in Paris, France.
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Nicholas Stehle
Information Technology and Policy Director
Nicholas Stehle is Information Technology and Policy Director at TheVanguard.Org. He has worked on numerous local, state and federal election campaigns, and been active in both political organizations and Christian ministries; he has also served as IT Director for a billion dollar (sales) company. Nicholas is happily married to the love of his life, Lee Ann, and they are currently expecting their first child.
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Cleta Mitchell, Esq.
General Counsel
Cleta Mitchell is TheVanguard.Org's General Counsel and a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Foley & Lardner, LLP. She has more than 30 years of experience in law, politics and public policy, advising corporations, nonprofit organizations, candidates, campaigns, and individuals on state and federal election and campaign finance law, as well as compliance issues related to lobbying, ethics and financial disclosure. She normally practices before the Federal Election Commission and similar federal and state enforcement agencies, and is admitted to practice in the District of Columbia, the State of Oklahoma, the Supreme Court of the United States and federal district and appellate courts.
Mitchell has previously served as legal counsel for the National Republican Senatorial Committee, the National Rifle Association and the Term Limits Legal Institute. She is a former member of the Oklahoma House of Representatives, where she chaired the House Appropriations and Budget Committee, and served on the executive committee of the National Conference of State Legislatures. She currently serves on the board of directors of the American Conservative Union, the Board of Governors for the Republican National Lawyers Association, and the board of directors of the Washington Scholarship Fund, a non-profit, 501(c)(3) organization committed to expanding and improving educational options in Washington, D.C.
Mitchell has testified before Congress numerous times and is a frequent speaker and guest commentator on election law and politics. In 1999, she authored The Rise of America's Two National Pastimes: Baseball and the Law, published by the University of Michigan Law Review.
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