Major General Errol R. Schwartz, U. S. Army (Ret) is Chairman of the Board. Prior to this assignment, General Schwartz served as the Commanding General of the District of Columbia National Guard until January 2017 after being appointed by President Bush in June 2008 and President Obama in January 2009. He also served as the Adjutant General of the District of Columbia National Guard from 2003 to 2008.

Prior to 2003, General Schwartz was assigned as a civilian to the Department of Defense as a Defense Intelligence Senior Executive. He held numerous leadership positions in the intelligence community culminating as the Director of the National Security Incident Response Center at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland. He was responsible for providing real-time indications and warnings of all cyber incidents that affected the United States National Security Information Systems.