Halfaker & Associates

Advisors

Les Brownlee
Former Acting Secretary of the Army
27th Under Secretary of the Army

Les Brownlee served as the Acting Secretary of the Army from 10 May 2003 until his resignation effective 2 December 2004. He became the 27th Under Secretary of the Army on 14 November 2001, following his nomination by President George W. Bush and confirmation by the United States Senate. From 10 May 2003 until 19 November 2004, he served as the Acting Secretary of the Army. As Under Secretary, Brownlee assisted the Secretary in fulfilling statutory responsibilities for recruiting, organizing, supplying, equipping, training and mobilizing the United States Army and managing its $98.5 billion annual budget and more than 1.3 million active duty, National Guard, Army Reserve and civilian personnel.

Brownlee served on the Republican staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee beginning in January 1987, under both Senator Strom Thurmond and Senator John Warner. In March 1996, Brownlee was designated Staff Director of the Senate Committee on Armed Services by then Chairman, Sen. Thurmond. In January 1999, he was designated Staff Director for then Chairman, Sen. Warner, serving until November 2001 when he was confirmed as the Under Secretary of the Army.

From 1987 to 1996, he was a Professional Staff member responsible for Army and Marine Corps programs, special operations forces and drug interdiction policy and support. In addition, as Deputy Staff Director, he was deeply involved in policies and programs relating to ballistic missile defense, strategic deterrence and naval strategy, shipbuilding and weapons programs.

Brownlee is a retired Army colonel. He was commissioned in 1962 as a lieutenant in the infantry through the ROTC program at the University of Wyoming. He is a distinguished honor graduate of the U.S. Army Ranger Course, an honor graduate of both the Infantry Officer Advanced Course and the Command and General Staff College, and a graduate of the Army’s airborne course as well as the U.S. Army War College. Brownlee served two tours in Vietnam. During the last two and a half years of a four and a half year tour in the Pentagon, before retiring in 1984, he was Military Executive to Under Secretary of the Army James Ambrose.

His military decorations include the Silver Star with Oak Leaf Cluster, the Bronze Star with two Oak Leaf Clusters, and the Purple Heart. He holds a masters degree in business administration from the University of Alabama.

 

Kevin F. Delaney
U.S. Navy Rear Admiral (Ret)
Delaney & Associates

After serving 34 years in the United States Navy, Rear Admiral Delaney retired from the Navy in 1998.  After three years as a senior executive in the automotive and healthcare sectors, he founded Delaney & Associates Consulting in December 2001.  The company specializes in a full range of government business opportunities particularly for start-up companies and emerging technologies. Rear Admiral Delaney continues to speak nationally on various leadership, management, total quality and process improvement subjects.  He is currently a co-spokesman with William Shatner for the nationally syndicated, Heartbeat of America Inc.'s "Keeping America Strong" series and is also partnered with Rudy Ruettiger (of the movie "Rudy" fame) in several business ventures. 

Rear Admiral Delaney is a 1968 graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, with a BS in Engineering, and has a Master's Degree in Business from George Washington University.  He is a graduate of the Armed Forces Staff College, and has completed advanced postgraduate studies at MIT and Harvard.  He was also Federal Executive Fellow at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC.

Rear Admiral Delaney is a Vietnam Veteran who flew nearly 700 combat missions in Southeast Asia.  He has had six command tours including two award winning aviation squadrons, an aircraft wing, Naval Air Station Jacksonville (which, under his command, was selected from 178 Navy bases worldwide for the Commander-in-Chief’s Installation Excellence Award as the Navy’s best shore installation), and was Commander, Naval Shore Activities, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.

Just prior to his retirement, he served as the Navy’s Regional Commander for the Southeastern United States and the Caribbean. He was responsible for over 40 commands including 14 major Naval installations and four hospitals.

Rear Admiral Delaney is Chairman of the Ronald McDonald House Advisory Board, Past President of the Florida Community College of Jacksonville Foundation, a member of the Board of Trustees of Jacksonville University, Past President of the Rotary Club of Jacksonville and is a Paul Harris Fellow.  He is Chairman and Past President of the Northeast Florida Safety Council, Past Chairman of the United Way of Northeast Florida and was Chairman of the United Way Northeast Florida’s 2001-2002 Campaign. In August 2006, he was appointed to a two year term on the U.S. Business Administration’s National Advisory Council. Most recently, he has been elected to the national Board of Directors of The Wounded Warrior Project and was appointed by Governor Charlie Crist to serve as a Trustee for Florida Community College.

Rear Admiral Delaney and his wife Pat reside in Jacksonville, FL. They have three daughters and the newest additions to the Delaney family are four grandsons.

 

Sherwood (Woody) D. Goldberg, Esquire
U.S. Army Colonel (Ret)
Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) for the District of Columbia

Sherwood (Woody) D. Goldberg is a graduate of Dickinson College (B.A.), the University of Pennsylvania (M.A.), and Temple University School of Law (J.D.). He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel, having served as an Infantry Officer with the 4th Armored Division in Germany, the First Infantry Division (Big Red One) for two tours of duty in Vietnam as a mechanized Infantry Company Commander, Brigade Headquarters Company Commander, Assistant Brigade and Division Plans and Operations Officer, and subsequently as an Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y.

Among his military decorations are the Combat Infantryman’s Badge, the Legion of Merit, Meritorious Service Medal, Bronze Star( two for valor, five for achievement), and the Army Commendation Medal with two oak leaf clusters. He was awarded both the Ranger Tab and Parachutist Wings. He was elected a “Friend of West Point” in 2000. On September 29, 2005, he was inducted as a Distinguished Member of the 16th Regiment (DMOR) in a ceremony at Fort Riley, Kansas. He is an “Honorary Capital Guardian” of the District of Columbia National Guard.

He is a member of the Board of Trustees of Dickinson College and Chairs the Board’s Student Life Committee. He is a member of the Board of Trustees of the West Point Jewish Chapel Fund and a Trustee of the Command and General Staff College Foundation, Inc. Since 2000, Mr. Goldberg has served as the Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army (CASA) for the District of Columbia.

For more than twenty-six years, Mr. Goldberg served as Chief of Staff and Senior Advisor to General (Ret.) Alexander M. Haig, Jr., the 59th U.S. Secretary of State, both in the Department of State and in the private sector. Currently, Mr. Goldberg is President of SDG International, an international advisory firm; Senior Advisor for Asian Affairs at The CNA Corporation in Alexandria, Virginia; member of the Board of Directors of TurboCombustor Technologies, Inc., an aerospace company located in Stuart, Florida; a member of the Board of Directors of Douglas Machine, Inc., located in Cincinnati, Ohio; and a member of the Board of Directors of AeroSat,Inc., located in Amherst, N.H., also in the aerospace field. He serves as military expert for the law firm of Berger&Montague, P.C. Mr. Goldberg is a member of the Bar of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.  He and his wife, Susan, maintain residences in Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.  

 

Scott A. Snook
U.S. Army Colonel (Ret)
Associate Professor of Business Administration
Harvard Business School

Scott Snook graduated with honors from West Point and was commissioned in the US Army Corps of Engineers where he served in various command and staff positions for over twenty-two years, earning the rank of Colonel before retiring in 2002. He has led soldiers in combat. Among his military decorations are the Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Purple Heart, and Master Parachustist badge.

He has an MBA from Harvard Business School, where he graduated with High Distinction as a Baker Scholar. Dr. Snook earned his Ph.D. from Harvard University in Organizational Behavior winning the Sage-Louis Pondy Best Dissertation Award from the Academy of Management for his study of the Friendly Fire Shootdown in Northern Iraq. Until July of 2002, Colonel Snook served as an Academy Professor in the Behavioral Sciences and Leadership Department at the United States Military Academy. He also directed West Point's Center for Leadership and Organizations Research as well as its joint Master's Program in Leader Development. Professor Snook's book, Friendly Fire was selected by the Academy of Management to receive the 2002 Terry Award. He has also co-authored a book that explores the role of "common sense" in leadership titled, Practical Intelligence in Everyday Life, available from Cambridge University Press (2000).

Scott’s research and consulting activities include leadership, leader development, leading change, organizational systems, and culture. He currently lives in Concord, Massachusetts with his wife Kathleen and their five children.

 

Jack L. Tilley
Former Sergeant Major of the Army

Jack Tilley was sworn in as the 12th Sergeant Major of the Army (SMA) on June 23, 2000 and served until January 15, 2004.   In this position, he was the senior enlisted person in the Army and served as the Army Chief of Staff's personal advisor on all enlisted matters, particularly in areas affecting soldier training and quality of life.  Traveling extensively throughout the world, he also sat on a wide variety of councils and boards that made decisions affecting enlisted soldiers and their families, and he was routinely invited to testify before Congress.

SMA Tilley was born in Vancouver, Washington, on December 3, 1948. He entered the Army in November 1966 and attended basic training at Fort Lewis, Washington, and advanced individual training at Fort Knox, Kentucky. Following tours in Vietnam and Fort Benning, Georgia, SMA Tilley left the Army for two years before enlisting again in September 1971.

SMA Tilley previously served as the Command Sergeant Major of 1st Battalion, 10th Cavalry, 194th Separate Armor Brigade, 1st Armored Division, United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command, and United States Central Command.

Throughout his 35+ year career, SMA Tilley held every key leadership position including tank commander, section leader, drill sergeant, platoon sergeant, senior instructor, operations sergeant and first sergeant.  His military education includes the First Sergeants Course and the Sergeants Major Academy. He also was a graduate of the basic airborne course, drill sergeant school and master gunner's course.

His awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit with two oak leaf clusters, Bronze Star with V Device, Meritorious Service Medal with one oak leaf cluster, Vietnam Service Medal and Campaign Medal, Presidential Unit Citation, Overseas Service Ribbon (2), NCO Professional Development Ribbon (4), Drill Sergeant's Badge, Parachutist's Badge and the Army Staff Identification Badge.

In retirement, SMA Tilley continues his advocacy of the men and women in uniform.   He is Vice President for Military Programs for Oak Gove Technology; while also providing consulting services for Raytheon, General Dynamics, Flanagan Consulting and IBM.
A sought-after speaker, his talks are designed to both educate the general public and stimulate support for our military.  He also co-chairs American Freedom Foundation, Inc. a non-profit organization dedicated to raise the national awareness of the sacrifices our Troops and their families endure.  Proceeds from the foundation are used to enhance educational opportunities and the general welfare of families and service.

 

Harvard Business School Advises Halfaker and Associates, LLC

As students at the Harvard Business School, Jamie Holden, Ann Gallo, and Tim Joyce conducted a field study for Halfaker & Associates, LLC to analyze current business processes and study strategic implications of future expansion.   The team was under the direct supervision of Harvard Business School Professor Scott Snook, who is a former Army Colonel and West Point Professor.  They also received guidance from other HBS professors in the Entrepreneurial Management, Marketing and Strategy disciplines. 

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