Jim Nantz
Jim Nantz, the three-time Emmy Award winner and five-time National Sportscaster of the Year, joined the CBS Television Network in 1985. He currently serves as the lead play-by-play announcer for THE NFL ON CBS, including the Super Bowl and Thursday Night Football games; the lead anchor of CBS’s golf coverage, including the PGA Tour, Masters and the PGA Championship; and lead play-by-play announcer for college basketball, including the NCAA Men’s Final Four. In 2007, 2010, and 2013, Nantz completed a rare broadcasting triple by becoming the first commentator in history to broadcast the Super Bowl, NCAA Men’s Final Four and the Masters, all in the same year. He will once again repeat this trifecta in 2016.M
In August 2011, Nantz received the Pro Football Hall of Fame Pete Rozelle Radio-Television Award. He is the youngest recipient ever of this award. Nantz also was honored by the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as its youngest recipient of the Curt Gowdy Media Award in 2002. Nantz joins Dick Enberg and Curt Gowdy as the only broadcasters to receive both Pro Football and Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame honors.
Kyle M. Chandler
Kyle M. Chandler is an Emmy-winning American actor born in Buffalo, New York 1965. He resides in Texas with his wife, Kathryn Chandler, and their two children, Sawyer and Sydney. Some of his most notable credits include “Friday Night Lights” (Friday Night Lights (2006)), “Bloodline” (Bloodline (2015)), The Wolf of Wall Street (The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)), Argo (Argo (2012)) and Zero Dark Thirty (Zero Dark Thirty (2012)), to name a few.-Courtesy IMDB.
Jon Seda
Jon Seda’s first passion was to be a championship boxer. After taking runner-up in the NJ Golden Gloves, the 1992 Olympics was the next goal. That’s when fate stepped in; he was given a co-starring role at his first audition for Gladiator (1992)! Since then, he has branched off into numerous television and film roles. He has garnered critical acclaim for his roles in such films as I Like It Like That (1994), The Sunchaser (1996), Selena (1997), Undisputed (2002), and in television for his roles in Homicide: Life on the Street (1993), UC: Undercover (2001), Third Watch (1999), Oz (1997), NBC Chicago PD, and he also starred as Marine Sgt—John “Manila” Basilone in HBO’s award-winning mini-series The Pacific (2010). Most recently, Jon starred in the television series La Brea on NBC.-Courtesy IMDB.
Gary Sinise
Gary Sinise’s stage, film and television career has spanned more than four decades. In 1974, at 18 years old, he co-founded Chicago’s Steppenwolf Theatre Company. 20 years later, for his performance as Lt Dan Taylor in Forrest Gump, he received nominations for Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards, and earned the Best Supporting Actor Award from the National Board of Review and the Commander’s Award from the Disabled American Veterans. Other film credits include Apollo 13, Ransom, Snake Eyes, Impostor, The Green Mile, Mission to Mars and The Human Stain.
His most recent film and television work include, I Still Believe, Good Joe Belland the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why. Gary has starred as Jack Garrett on the series Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders, and for nine seasons as Detective “Mac” Taylor on the hit series CSI: NY, both of which aired on CBS. Sinise is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and two-time SAG Award winner for his roles in Truman and George Wallace. He also received a SAG Award nomination for his role in The Stand.
Charles N. Davis
Charles N. Davis is the Dean of the Henry W. Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Georgia. He was appointed in 2013 after a long career in journalism.
Davis worked for ten years as a journalist after he graduated from North Georgia College. He spent 14 years as a faculty member, including four as department chair at the Missouri School of Journalism. Davis also spent five years at Mizzou as Executive Director of the National Freedom of Information Coalition.
Randy Tymofichuk
Vice President and General Manager, Caterpillar Defense
Randy Tymofichuk serves as the Vice President and General Manager for Caterpillar Defense within Caterpillar’s Industrial Power Systems Division. In this role, Randy leads a global team for both US and International Caterpillar Defense and Governmental opportunities. His team supports governments and government contractors in providing solutions and adaptation of Caterpillar product offerings.
Prior to Caterpillar, Randy worked for BAE Systems as Director for two profit and loss businesses supporting large systems engineering activity for land based intercontinental ballistic missiles and supporting production activity for test range radars. Randy’s last position with BAE Systems was as the Vice President, Business Development Strategy and Growth, Air Force Solutions where he oversaw a portfolio valued at over $6.9B. Randy has worked in the defense industry since 2010.
Before his defense industry career, Randy served in the United States Air Force (USAF) for over 25 years as a Munitions and Maintenance Officer, retiring as a Colonel. He commanded at the Squadron level once and group level three times. His maintenance background included field level ICBM maintenance, conventional munitions maintenance and depot maintenance.
Randy graduated from Montana State University with a bachelor’s in political science and a master’s in public administration. He also holds master’s degrees in military operational art and science from Air Command and Staff College, and military strategic art and science from Air War College. He was a board member for the Utah Governor’s Office of Economic Development Coordinating Council and Davis Chamber of Commerce and Utah Defense Alliance. Randy served on the Association of Air Force Missileers as a Board Member and currently serves on the Air Force Museum Board of Trustees.
Ken Levy
Ken Levy currently serves as a non voting member on the Board of The Bob & Dolores Hope Foundation providing brand and marketing expertise . This followed a 40 year career in the advertising business.
Ken held senior management positions with The Grey Group, part of WPP Group of Companies, before he retired in 2013. In his final five years with the Company he was based in London as the Group Executive Vice President and Board Member of G2, Grey’s then branding and marketing arm , where he oversaw the $1 billion BAT global account across forty countries.
Prior to Ken’s time in London he was an Executive Vice President, Managing Partner and Global Account Director across a variety of accounts based in NY for Grey. He built both domestic and international brands across a broad range of clients believing in multi channel communication as the most effective strategy for achieving success. In total Ken spent 35 years with The Grey Group.
Those Grey client’s that Ken helped lead and build included: Unilever Slim Fast; Con Agra and a host of brands such as Healthy Choice, Banquet, Marie Callender’s, Orville Redenbacher, Parkay,Reddi Wip,Kid Cuisine, Hebrew National, Butterball Turkey; The American Egg Board;Canon Cameras (SLR’s); Gerber Baby Food and multiple P&G brands across twenty plus years such as Downy,Sure, Crisco, Jif, Joy and Duncan Hines.
Before Ken joined Grey in 1978 he spent almost five years at Ketchum, McLeod and Grove (now part of Omnicom)in Pittsburgh,Pa. He grew to be an account supervisor on the H J Heinz business before deciding he needed to move to NY to grow his career.
Ken was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio. He earned his BS and MBA from The Ohio State University. He remains a loyal Buckeye. He is married with two adult children and a new granddaughter. He is currently and living outside of Chicago, Il. Previously he was on the board of Give Kids the World in Orlando, Florida.
David J. Urban
David J. Urban is a Managing Director at BGR Group. He has more than three decades of experience in the military, law, business, politics and public service sectors. David provides strategic advice and counsel to BGR clients throughout the firm.
Prior to joining BGR, David served as Executive Vice President of North American Corporate Affairs for ByteDance, the parent company of TikTok. In this senior role, he worked alongside the company’s top leadership, helping them navigate public policy and communications challenges, as well as advising on Environmental, Social, and Governance and Corporate Social Responsibility issues.
As President of the American Continental Group (ACG) he provided high stakes counsel to key clients including the CEO of Zoom during the early tumultuous days of the COVID-19 pandemic and the CEO of 7-Eleven to help the company adapt to a rapidly changing regulatory environment.
Before joining ACG, David served as Chief of Staff to the former U.S. Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania for five years. In this role, David was the Senator’s senior advisor on all legislative, political, media and administrative matters in Pennsylvania and Washington.
David was appointed by former President Donald Trump to serve as the 11th Chairman of the American Battle Monuments Commission. He was also appointed by the President to the Board of Visitors (Trustees) for the United States Military Academy at West Point.
A graduate of West Point, David served as an artillery officer in the 101st Airborne Division where he was awarded the Bronze Star for his service during Operation Desert Storm. He earned a law degree from Temple University and a Master’s in Government Administration from the University of Pennsylvania. He completed an ESG certification program through the Said School of Business at Oxford University and the Stratfor certification program in geopolitical analysis at the Florida Atlantic University. He served as an adjunct professor at Carnegie Mellon University’s Heinz School of Government. An active member of the Pennsylvania Bar, David is admitted to practice before the Pennsylvania Supreme Court, the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, the United States Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit, and the Supreme Court of the United States.
Curt Schilling
Curt Schilling is a three-time World Series champion pitcher for the Philadelphia Phillies, Arizona Diamondbacks, and Boston Red Sox.
As a power-pitching right-hander, Schilling struck out 3,116 batters in Major League Baseball, making him one of only 16 pitchers to reach the 3,000 Strikeout Club.
With a postseason record of 11-2, Schilling has another notable distinction: no player with 10 or more postseason decisions boasts a better winning percentage (.846).
In postseason play, Schilling struck out 120 batters and walked 25.
Three times—in 1997, 1998, and 2002—Schilling recorded over 300 strikeouts.
Curt is a six-time All-Star and finished second in Cy Young voting in 2001, 2002, and 2004.
He won 216 major league games and lost 146.
Curt Schilling’s father, Cliff, served in the United States Army for 22 years as a master sergeant in the 101st Airborne Division, stationed at Elmendorf Air Force Base near Anchorage, Alaska, when Curt was born.
Joseph (Joey) Ivanov
Joey first served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1995-2004 as an Infantry Marine and Recon Marine. He then joined the U.S. Army in 2004 where he served as a U.S. Army Special Forces NCO and Officer until November 2021.
Joey’s deep love of military history, WWII and D-Day inspired him to become the founder and driver behind the creation of the Normandy French Resistance Monument that was placed behind Utah Beach in Sainte-Marie-Du-Mont, France in June 2021.