Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Thomas L. Keltner, Hilton Hotels Keltner received a master’s degree from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Ohio University. He served as an officer in the U.S. Navy Submarine Service.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Robert J. Stevens, Lockheed Martin Some of the lessons Robert J. Stevens learned in the Marine Corps have no doubt aided and abetted his subsequent career, now at the top of Lockheed Martin Corporation.
Military & Veterans Life TopVet: Michael Jordan, EDS Life has come full circle for Michael Jordan, Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of tech services giant EDS. After college, the young Jordan served a four-year tour of duty with the U.S. Navy on the staff of Admiral Hyman Rickover.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Samuel K. Skinner Skinner served as a Lieutenant and a tank platoon leader in the United States Army in 1960-1961 and is an honor graduate of the Army Officers Basic Course.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Curtis W. Robb, CIO Delta Airlines Air Force Veteran and Delta Airline Chief Information Officer Curtis Robb, is charged with rolling out transformational technologies at the global air carrier, and creating a new paradigm for the airline industry with sophisticated real-time data.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Gordon Bethune, Continental Airlines I was in the Navy, and by default, I got promoted to petty officer second class. I supervised the second shift, which worked from seven at night to seven in the morning. We were airplane mechanics, but I was in charge.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Captain Christopher P. Boylan Christopher Boylan, Senior NY Metropolitan Transportation Authority Executive and a Captain in The Naval Reserves balances an extraordinarily successful professional career with a deep commitment to continuing service to our country.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Richard North Patterson Army Veteran Richard North Patterson brings his experience among Washington’s inner circles toward helping and entertaining others. He’s a best-selling novelist, and is active in family outreach programs.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Dick Murphy Former Army 1st Lieutenant Dick Murphy is the 33rd Mayor of the City of San Diego, the nation’s seventh largest city, and is regarded as bringing a fresh outsider’s thinking to the challenges of local politics.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Ted Stevens, U.S. Senator from Alaska Ted Stevens, Alaska’s senior senator, is one of the longest serving -- and most powerful members of the United States Senate.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Bob Dupuy America’s pastime also has an American patriot at the top. Vietnam Army Veteran Bob DuPuy is president and chief operating officer of Major League Baseball (MLB), leading day-to-day operations for his high-profile boss, Commissioner Bud Selig, and helping navigate the MLB through unprecedented growth during one of the most controversial periods in its history.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Bill Elmore Twenty years ago, "Jobs for Vets" was one of the rallying cries of advocates who cared about those who had returned to a less than rousing "welcome home" after serving in Southeast Asia.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Quang X. Pham, Executive & Author Several hundred veterans and their friends gathered recently at Vietnam Veterans Plaza in downtown Manhattan to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Angel Almedina Chapter 126 of Vietnam Veterans of America. Among them were a former Marine major who had served in the first Gulf War and a onetime Army Spec/5 who had spent ten months in Vietnam more than half a life ago. They shared hugs and beers.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Virgil Spight /PAL to Kids Virgil L. Spight, who has more than 37 years of public service experience in law enforcement and in the military, where he served as a staff sergeant in the Air Force, is the new executive director of the Detroit Police Athletic League (PAL).
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Charles R. Larson, Admiral, US Navy (Ret.) Admiral Charles R. Larson has unique experience across the spectrum of military leadership, education, management and government policy. Today, after decades of military service, he continues to serve, this time in Corporate America, as a member of the Board of Directors of Northrop Grumman, where he was elected in 2002.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Chuck Widger, Money Manager Chuck Widger, Navy Veteran, is president and CEO of Brinker Capital, a specialist in strategic investment planning, an eminently successful and astute "educated person" whose firm now manages in excess of $3 billion in assets.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Tom Ridge Former Homeland Security Chief Tom Ridge stood tall as a key player in diffusing our nation’s global challenges, as the Bronze Star recipient earned a reputation of being a fiercely focused taskmaster, tough-on-crime legislator and loyal ally to President Bush. He now serves in the private sector as a board member to Home Depot.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet Dennis Frantz, Actor Widely considered one of the best actors on television - he's earned a quartet of Best Actor Emmys for his portrayal of NYPD Blue Detective Andy Sipowicz along with an array of Golden Globes, Screen Actors Guild, and Viewers for Quality Television awards and accolades - barrel-chested actor Dennis Franz has more than made his mark in the entertainment world.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Col. Tom Tyrrell, Chief of Intrepid Museum Operations In the quarter-century that he served in the Marine Corps, Tom Tyrrell garnered great respect for enlisted men.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Ken Storms, 'Piloting' Meridian, MS For most of us, the dreams of childhood - to be a firefighter or an astronaut, a cowboy, an actress, a soldier who defeats all the bad guys - remain forever in the realm of fantasy.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Bill Donaldson, Wall Streeter William H. Donaldson is a veteran - of the Marine Corps, where he served as an officer in the Far Eastern Theatre from 1953-55; and of Wall Street, where he cut his spurs as a principal and founder of the brokerage house Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette. Now, at age 71, Bill Donaldson, whom President Bush called "one of the most respected business leaders in our nation," is about to take on another challenge as the Bush administration's choice as the new chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. His appointment as the 27th chairman of the commission requires Senate approval.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: David Gunn, Amtrak CEO David L. Gunn, who had previously headed the largest transit systems in both the United States and Canada, was named president and CEO of Amtrak, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation, effective May 15, 2002. Gunn, who served in the U. S. Naval Reserve, was president of the New York City Transit Authority from 1984-1990 and was chief general manager of the Toronto Transit Commission from 1995-1999.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Ben Nighthorse Campbell, U.S. Senator When he was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1992,Colorado's Ben Nighthorse Campbell became the first American Indian to serve in the Senate in more than 60 years. He is the only American Indian presently serving in either the Senate or the House of Representatives.
Veterans Advantage Awards TopVet: Jim McDermott, Congressman Representative Jim McDermott, who as a Navy psychiatrist treated Vietnam veterans, is in his seventh term representing the 7th District in the state of Washington.
