Rear Adm. H. Wyman Howard III, USN (Ret) has served on the Board of Directors since October 2024. Mr. Howard retired from the U.S. Navy in September 2022 as Rear Admiral (Upper Half) after over 32 years of service in Naval Special Warfare and Joint Special Operations. He has had multiple tours in command of Special Operations Joint Task Forces and was among the first to deploy into Afghanistan following the attacks on September 11, 2001. The combat contributions of the teams Mr. Howard commanded, and with whom he served, were recognized with five Presidential Unit Citations, a Navy Unit Commendation medal, and four Joint Meritorious Unit Awards. Mr. Howard’s joint, interagency, and intelligence experience include service as the second Director of Operations for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency in 2016, Commander, Special Operation Command Central from 2018-2020, and as the Commander, Naval Special Warfare Command, from 2020 to 2022, which are equivalent leadership roles of a Chief Operating Officer and Chief Executive Officer, respectively. Mr. Howard also serves on the board of Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, Inc. (NASDAQ: BAER), an aerial wildfire suppression and aerospace services company, and NextNav Inc. (Nasdaq: NN), a leading developer of a 3D geolocation service. Mr. Howard is a Frontier Scientific Solutions partner, a provider of life sciences supply chain solutions, a McKinsey & Co. Senior Advisor, and an advisor to a portfolio of Advanced Industry sector companies. Mr. Howard holds a Master of Business Administration from the TRIUM consortium of the London School of Economics, HEC Paris School of Management, and New York University’s Stern School of Business; a Master of Science in National Security and Resource Strategy with a focus on space from the Eisenhower School, where he earned three Commandant's awards for excellence in writing; and a Professional Certificate in Artificial Intelligence and Business Strategy from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory.