Virtual Happy Hour Tonight, June 5th, 2023, 6-7pm on Zoom
with Admiral Jeff Lemmons, USN (ret.), linking foundations and NGOs to US Defense, USAID and State Department initiatives
Join us for another Virtual Happy Hour Tonight, June 5th, 2023, 6-7pm on Zoom with with Admiral Jeff Lemmons, USN (ret.), President, J. Lemmons Consultants
dial in details will be emailed by 5:30 pm EDT
A Little Bit About Admiral Jeff Lemmons
Rear Admiral Jeff Lemmons graduated from Brownwood High School, Texas in 1975 and attended the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis Maryland. Upon graduation in 1979 he entered flight training in Pensacola Florida and was designated a naval aviator in November 1980. After several decades of active and reserve naval service, he was promoted to flag rank in 2004 and assigned duties as the commander, Naval Air Force Reserve at NAS North Island, San Diego. His staff assignments included U.S. Navy Director for Fleet Readiness; assistant deputy Chief of Naval Operations for Operation, Plans and Strategy; U.S. Navy Director for International Engagement, and military assistant to the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness. His last assignment was Director of the Inter-American Defense College on Ft. McNair, responsible for preparing military officers, police officials, and ministerial civilians of Western Hemisphere nations for senior national level defense and security leadership responsibilities. He has completed the Naval War College and National Defense University Reserve Component studies curriculum and served as a member of the Secretary of Defense Reserve Force Policy Board. Lemmons is a Harvard University Kennedy School Senior Executive National and International Security Fellow and also a Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Seminar XXI Fellow. Rear Admiral Lemmons retired from active service in June of 2014 and began work as a consultant with the Institute for Defense Analysis (IDA) in Washington DC, a federally funded research facility and thinktank. He spends time in the DC metropolitan area but can often be found in Central Texas. where he has ranching and farming interests and serves on the Board of Directors for the Central Texas Veterans’ Memorial Association.
Can’t join us this week? No worries! Join us for other great virtual and live networking events…
June 12, 2023: Alex Gallo, Co-Founder & Executive Director, Common Mission Project
June 19, 2023: Justin Nassiri, CEO, Executive Presence
June 26, 2023: Michelle Madaras, President and Co-Founder, WingXpand
July 3, 2023: No Virtual Happy Hour - Happy Independence Day!
July 10, 2023: Steve McCalmont, CEO, Braveheart
July 17, 2023: TBD
July 24, 2023: TBD
July 31, 2023: Greg Knutson, Venture Capital Fellow, Blue Ivy Ventures
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Jun 28 (Sponsor: Federal Compass)
Jul 26 (Sponsor: Stealth Cyber Startup)
Aug 30 (Sponsor: Stealth AI Startup)
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