Biographies of our Leadership

David E. Jeremiah, Chairman of the Board
A retired Admiral with over 38 years in the Navy, having broad command experience for the final 20 years of his career. During his military career Admiral Jeremiah earned a reputation as an authority on strategic planning, financial management and the policy implications of advanced technology. Prior to leaving military service in February 1994, Admiral Jeremiah served four years as Vice Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff for Generals Powell and Shalikashvili. He was Colin Powell’s alter ego during the Gulf War and a key player for both Chairmen in the transition to a post-Cold War military. Admiral Jeremiah was Commander in Chief of the United States Pacific Fleet from 1987-1990. He commanded a task force, battle group and destroyer squadron in earlier tours in the Mediterranean. In October 1985 he directed the capture of the Achille Lauro hijackers and in April 1986 led combat operations against Libya in the Gulf of Sidra. Ashore, Admiral Jeremiah served as Director, Navy Program Planning and in financial planning positions on the staffs of the Secretary of Defense and Chief of Naval Operations. Admiral Jeremiah is Chairman of the Board for Wackenhut Services, Inc., and a member of the Boards of Directors for Geobiotics, LLC; In-Q-Tel; ManTech International Corporation; and the Board of Trustees for MITRE Corporation. He serves on advisory boards for Northrop Grumman Corporation and the Jewish Institute for National Security Affairs. He is a member of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, the National Reconnaissance Office Technical Advisory Group, and has served on the National Defense Panel, the Commission to Assess U.S. National Security Space Management and Organization, a Defense Science Board Task Force on Human Resources, as Chairman of a panel that recommended changes to the structure of the National Reconnaissance Office, and a panel that recommended changes to the Intelligence Community in the wake of the Indian nuclear tests. Admiral Jeremiah earned a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from the University of Oregon and a master’s degree in Financial Management from George Washington University. He completed the Program for Management Development at Harvard University.

Dr. John S. Foster, Jr., Chairman Emeritus and Member of the Board
Has over 40 years of government and industry experience in science, technology, policy, engineering, manufacturing and R&D. A designer of nuclear devices, he went on to become Director of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He was Director of Defense Research & Engineering for two administrations, served on the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board for fourteen years, and is a past Chairman of the Defense Science Board. At TRW, he served variously as VP and GM of TRW’s Energy Group, as Chief Scientist, and as a member of the Board of Directors. Dr. Foster currently serves on the Defense Science Board, is Chairman of Pilkington Aerospace and is a member of the Board of Directors of Jaymark (formerly Jaycor), Areté Associates and Wackenhut Services, Inc. He has also served on the Board of Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and as a Trustee of Marymount College. Dr. Foster holds a B.S. from McGill University and a Ph.D. from University of California-Berkeley.

Howard K. Schue, Chief Executive Officer
Has over 40 years of government and industry experience in command, line management, new business development, strategic planning, and technical oversight in the aerospace/defense, intelligence, and information technology fields. As an Air Force officer, he served in the National Reconnaissance Office, the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force, on the Intelligence Community Staff, and as commander of a special intelligence unit that served the highest levels of Government. In the aerospace/defense industry, he served in senior line management, business development, strategic planning, and advanced programs management positions at both AT&T and Martin Marietta Corporation. He was the Martin Marietta Corporation’s senior Strategic Planner, and subsequently was elected President/COO of a Martin Marietta subsidiary corporation. He is a member and past Chairman of the Board of Regents and is a member of the Board of Directors of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He has participated in several studies sponsored by the Defense Science Board. He serves as a member of the Air Force Scientific Advisory Board, where he has participated in or chaired several major studies on coalition operations, advanced technologies, and information technology. He served as a member of the Air Combat Command Commander’s Advisory Group. He has served on Government-chartered panels and commissions that: considered the implications of moving to smaller size national security satellites; proposed recovery procedures for a troubled national security space program; recommended changes to the Intelligence Community in the wake of the Indian and Pakistani nuclear tests; and assessed the impact of alleged espionage at Los Alamos Laboratories. He served as Staff Director for a Presidentially-directed review of national intelligence. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.S. in aeronautics and astronautics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is a graduate of the Air War College.

Jim LeMunyon, Vice President, Commercial and Small Business
Has more than 20 years of experience in business and government. He co-founded and served as president of Sterling Semiconductor, a producer of silicon carbide substrates, and sold the business within four years achieving an eight-fold return for early stage investors. Mr. LeMunyon’s business ventures have also included managing outsourced R&D programs for Duracell, GE, Kodak, Dow, Sumitomo, Toyota and other companies in a variety of technologies ranging from plastics, electronics materials, and software. He has recently served on the board of Directors of the American Electronics Association. In government, Jim served President George H.W. Bush as Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration at the Department of Commerce from 1989-1993, where he was a senior official responsible for restricting U.S. commercial sales to adversary countries of technology with potential military or terrorist uses. Early in his career, he served as chief-of-staff to Congressman Ed Zschau from California’s Silicon Valley. Jim earned a B.S. in physics and mathematics, and a computer science minor, cum laude, from Valparaiso University. He earned a M.S. in meteorology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Susan S. Parker, Vice President, Government Programs
Has over 35 years of government and industry experience within the Intelligence Community, supporting a variety of intelligence collection and analysis programs, studies, and advisory groups. Areas of particular expertise include systems engineering, program management, imagery tasking, collection, processing, exploitation, dissemination (TCPED), as well as software exploitation. She has served with the Central Intelligence Agency and the Intelligence Community Staff in senior support positions. She has served in systems engineering and management positions with Innovative Solutions Systems supporting the National Photographic Interpretation Center; with Science Applications International Corporation providing task management support to CIA’s Office of Research and Development, and McDonald Bradley providing program support to the National Reconnaissance Office.

Nancy M. Bryant, Vice President, Business Management
Has over 25 years of administrative, financial and accounting experience. She is responsible for all internal finance and accounting functions, contract management and human resources. She also serves as the Corporation’s Secretary and Treasurer. Prior to joining TS&A in 1994, she worked in the banking and finance industry.

Donald A. Imgram, Associate
Specializes in technology assessments, and strategic and tactical planning in the defense, space and intelligence areas. He has over 40 years of aerospace industry experience as a Grumman executive directing state-of-the-art development programs for both hardware and software products, leading advanced technology and R&D programs, and managing new business operations. As an AIAA Congressional Fellow, he served as a key staff assistant to Senator Dan Quayle, handling the Senator’s entire Armed Services and Foreign Relations defense- and treaty-related activities, and his interests in intelligence programs. He participated in Defense Science Board (DSB) studies assessing NIMA’s roles and missions, Global Surveillance, and Scenarios and Intelligence. He holds a Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering Degree from the Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn and is a graduate of the Harvard Business School’s Program for Management Development. He has completed additional advanced studies at M.I.T., Adelphi University, Purdue and UCLA.

Cloyd H. “Mike” Pfister, Associate
An expert in intelligence, electronic warfare and command and control warfare operations. Prior to joining TS&A, he was an independent consultant with various defense industries. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the National Correlation Working Group (NCWG), served on the Board of Director’s Forum for the National Imagery and Mapping Agency (NIMA), and on the Defense Science Board Summer Study Task Force on Information Architecture for the Battlefield. He also was a member of the Senior Review Group for the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office Technology Program. During the course of his career, Major General Pfister served as the Assistant Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, Headquarters Department of the Army, Director of Intelligence, United States Central Command and the Deputy Chief of Staff for Intelligence, United States Army, Europe and Seventh Army. In past assignments he served as Chief of Staff and Deputy Commander, United States Army Intelligence Center; Middle East Country Director in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense (International Security Affairs); and commanded the United States Army Field Station in Berlin. Major General Pfister is a member of the Intelligence Committee of the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association and other professional organizations.