Arthur W. (Nick) Arundel
A 1951 Harvard College graduate and U.S. Marine Corps special forces combat officer with Purple Hearts in the Korean and Vietnam Wars during which he parachuted behind the lines into Hanoi in 1954 leading a clandestine team to successfully destroy key instillations before Ho Chi Minh took over the city after the French loss at Dienbenphu. He covered Washington as a correspondent for CBS News and later The White House for United Press International. As founder of his privately owned Arundel Communications, (ArCom) based near Dulles Airport, he originated in American journalism the concept of All News broadcasting at Washington radio station WAVA in 1960. He is now the active Chairman and Publisher of 17 newspapers and Online News Operations, and has been recently inducted into the Hall of Fame of Virginia Communications. With wife Peggy, now married for 50 years, he is father of five children.

Jim Campi
Mr. Campi is the Policy and Communications Director for the Civil War Preservation Trust (CWPT) and is responsible for overseeing all government and media relations at the national nonprofit organization. Prior to joining CWPT, Mr. Campi worked for 14 years in political communication and administration, including serving as press secretary for U.S. Congressman George W. Gekas and spokesperson for the U.S. House Judiciary Subcommittee on Commercial and Administrative Law. He is also the veteran of more than 60 national, state, and local political campaigns. He currently serves on the boards of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground and Franklin’s Charge (Tennessee). Mr. Campi is a free-lance writer; his first book, Civil War Battlefields Then and Now, was published by Thunder Bay in November 2002. He was most recently a contributor to The Political Lincoln: An Encyclopedia, published by CQ Press in 2008. Mr. Campi is a graduate of Elizabethtown College, near Hershey, Pennsylvania; he and his wife Jennifer live in Springfield, Va.

Scott Faulkner
Mr. Faulkner advises numerous corporations on strategic change and leadership and also works with governments and corporations in emerging economies. His articles on leadership, management reform, and global competitiveness are published in The New York Times, The Washington Times, and various business publications. He has appeared on Bloomberg, CBS News, CNN, CSPAN, FOX, NPR, PBS, VOA, and numerous talk radio programs.

In 1995, Scot Faulkner was elected the first Chief Administrative Officer of the U.S. House of Representatives. His business-based reforms became a model for the operation of 44 national parliaments around the world and were named one of the /Top 100 Innovations in American Government/ by the Ford Foundation and Harvard University.

Mr. Faulkner was the National Director of Personnel for the Reagan Bush Campaign of 1980. He went on to serve in the Presidential Transition and on the White House Staff. During the Reagan Administration, Mr. Faulkner held executive positions at the Federal Aviation Administration, the General Services Administration, and the Peace Corps.

Mr. Faulkner earned a Masters Degree in Public Administration from American University and a Bachelors Degree in Government from Lawrence University. He also studied at the London School of Economics and at Georgetown University.

In March 1988, Mr. Faulkner, along with the late Brad Nash (former Mayor of Harpers Ferry), founded Friends of Harpers Ferry National Historical Park. The organization has preserved over 1,800 acres of historic and scenic land in the Harpers Ferry area and supported numerous park programs. In 1994, Friends of HFNHP received the Partnership Award from the Department of Interior for its role in supporting the 50^th Anniversary of the Park. In 2001, West Virginia Governor Bob Wise recognized Friends of HFNHP for its role in establishing Harpers Ferry Main Street. The group received its second Interior Partnership Award in 2006 for its role in the passage of Public Law 108-307, the expansion of the Park's boundary.

Norris Flowers
Mr. Flowers is President and CEO of the Gettysburg Convention & Visitors Bureau, the official Tourism Promotional Agency for Gettysburg and Adams County, PA. Mr. Flowers has over 35 years Travel Industry experience, including senior level management positions with industry consultant firms, transportation companies and served as Director of Tourism for the Greater Kansas City, MO Convention & Visitor Bureau. Mr. Flowers is a Charter member of the National Tour Association’s (NTA) “Certified Tour Professional” class. Mr. Flowers has received numerous industry awards during his career including: Missouri Division of Tourism’s Service Award for a career of outstanding contribution to Missouri Tourism, Missouri Tourism Ambassador Award, first recipient of Group Leader’s of America (GLAMER) “Group Leader of the Year Award”, Missouri Travel Council “Presidents Award” and the National Tour Association “Presidents Award”. Norris Flowers serves as a Board Member of the Dutch Country Roads Regional Tourism Marketing Corporation, Main Street Gettysburg, the Gettysburg Adams Chamber and Adams County Economic Development Corporation. He is a member of the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Destination Marketing Committee and serves on the membership committee for Destination Marketing Association International.

Gilbert Grosvenor
Mr. Grosvenor has been the Director of National Geographic Society, with which he has been associated since 1954, since June 1993. Before that, he was President from 1980 through 1996, and has been Chairman of the Board of Trustees since 1987. In 2008, the National Park Service awarded Mr. Grosvenor the Honorary National Park Ranger Award. Mr. Grosvenor helped to form the Friends of the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail. In June 2004, Mr. Grosvenor received the Presidential Medal of Freedom. He is a director or trustee of numerous foundations and corporations, including Chevy Chase Bank, the B.F. Saul Real Estate Investment, The Jason Foundation, Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International, National Wildflower Research Center and Federal City Council (Washington). He also is a member emeritus of the board of visitors of Duke University's Nicholas School of the Environment; chairman emeritus of the foundation board of the Alexander Graham Bell Association for the Deaf; former vice chairman, President's Commission on Americans Outdoors; and former member of the President's Commission on Environmental Quality. Mr. Grosvenor graduated in 1954 from Yale University.

Kathleen Kilpatrick
A native Virginian and resident of Goochland County, Ms. Kilpatrick has served as Director of the Department of Historic Resources and State Historic Preservation Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia since February of 2001. Ms. Kilpatrick began at the department as Deputy Director in 1995, bringing extensive experience in state and federal government and a broad background in natural and cultural resource policy. Before coming to the department, Ms. Kilpatrick served in state government as Special Assistant for Policy and Legislation to the Virginia Secretary of Natural Resources with oversight responsibilities for historic resources, game and inland fisheries, marine resources, state parks, and recreation. Her federal service includes five years with the U.S. Department of Interior as Senior Special Assistant to the Assistant Secretary for Policy, Management, and Budget from 1988-93. In 1984, she was confirmed by the United States Senate to a six-year term on the National Council on the Humanities, and served as chairman of the Committee on General Programs with policy and grant-making responsibilities for public programs conducted by museums, historical societies, libraries, radio, and television.

William Kough
Mr. Kough grew up in Oklahoma and attended Oklahoma University, graduating in 1968. Mr. Kough worked in the retail garment industry, owning a specialty and department store in Oklahoma. He lived in Florida for 12 years as a regional sales manager, then moved to California to be national sales manager of a garment manufacturing company. Mr. Kough traveled the U.S. extensively and commuted to New York City monthly. He moved to Pennsylvania in 1999 to live in the country and change careers and he started working in the banking industry, at that time as a commercial lender. Today Mr. Kough serves as Vice President for Adams County National Bank in Gettysburg. He has served on many community boards including United Way, President of Gettysburg Rotary Club, and Chair of the Board for Main Street Gettysburg. He and his wife Norma live in Gettysburg.

Charles Ledsinger
Mr. Ledsinger is vice chairman of Choice Hotels International, Inc., where he served as President and Chief Executive Officer from 1998 until 2008. In 2006, he was elected vice chairman.  Mr. Ledsinger’s career includes nearly 20 years at Promus (now Hilton) and its predecessor companies.  From 1988 to 1990, he served as treasurer of Promus and in 1990 was named senior vice president and chief financial officer after Promus' sale of Holiday Inns to Bass, plc.  In 1995, after managing the successful separation of Harrah's and Promus in a spin-off to create two publicly traded companies, he was named senior vice president and chief financial officer of Harrah's Entertainment. Immediately prior to joining Choice, Mr. Ledsinger was president and  chief operating officer at St. Joe Company, Florida's largest private landowner and developer of master-planned communities, resorts, and commercial and industrial facilities. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the board of trustees of the University of Richmond, he serves on The Commonweal Foundation board, is a past Co-Chairman of the Industry Real Estate Financing Advisory Council of American Hotel and Lodging Association. Mr. Ledsinger is a former member of the board of trustees of the Bullis School in Potomac, Maryland; served as an Executive Board member of the Chickasaw Council of The Boy Scouts of America; a former trustee at St. Mary’s Episcopal School, in Memphis, TN and a former member of the board of the Memphis Development Foundation (Orpheum Theatre). Mr. Ledsinger earned his Bachelor’s degree from the University of Virginia and Masters of Business Administration from the University of Memphis.

Sally Mcconnell
Ms McConnell is the Director of Brand Strategy and Marketing Communications for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation. In this capacity she is responsible for all aspects of brand stewardship including creative services, internal and external communications, online marketing, new media, print advertising, and market research and marketing analytics. Prior to joining the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation in 2004, she co-founded French Country Living, a multi-channel home furnishings brand and grew the company from a small boutique to the largest direct seller in its category. Ms. McConnell was the Director of Grassroots Lobbying for Common Cause from 1977-1985 before moving to France. She’s served as a marketing consultant to various non-profit organizations, as Board member of the Waterford Foundation, Chair of the Wakefield School development committee and as a member of the outreach committee of Bruton Parish church. Ms. McConnell and her husband Bringier have two daughters and live in Williamsburg, Virginia.

Christopher Miller
Christopher G. Miller has served as Piedmont Environmental Council (PEC) President since January 1, 1996. He is an attorney with expertise in environmental and transportation policy. Mr. Miller is responsible for overall management and strategic planning for PEC, including the land conservation program, land use policy, smart growth and transportation policies. He is a member of the Steering Committee of the Coalition for Smarter Growth and serves on the boards of the Virginia League of Conservation Voters, the Virginia Conservation Network, the Chesapeake Crescent initiative, the Journey Through Hallowed Ground Partnership, and the Nonprofit Roundtable of Washington, D.C.. Mr. Miller initially worked for PEC as coordinator of the successful campaign that challenged Disney's America development proposal. Prior to joining PEC, he was Assistant Director for Federal Affairs at the Surface Transportation Policy Project, a national non-profit transportation organization based in Washington, D.C. Until 1993, he was an Associate with the law firm of Beveridge & Diamond, P. C. Mr. Miller also worked for the Sierra Club Legal Defense Fund, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the Environmental Law Institute, and the American Council on U.S./Soviet Relations. In 2004, Mr. Miller received the Virginia Conservation Network's Blue Ridge Award for outstanding conservation leadership in the Piedmont. He acquired his J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School and B.A. with honors in Environmental Studies from Williams College. Chris Miller is married to Catherine Anthony and has two daughters, Caroline and Claire.

Jim Moorman
Mr. Moorman served in the Land & Natural Resources Division (now Environment & Natural Resources Division) as a staff attorney from 1966 to 1969, and as Assistant Attorney General in charge of the division from 1977 to 1981. He also served both as Executive Director and as Staff Attorney of the Defense Fund (now known as the EarthJustice Legal Defense Fund). As a staff attorney, Mr. Moorman devoted efforts to the protection of forest lands. As the Defense Fund’s first executive director, he was responsible for all aspects of the organization, and engaged in a wide variety of start-up activities necessary to establish the Fund as a functioning entity and successfully launch its programs and expand its funding sources. As one of the four founders of the first public interest law firm, he brought landmark litigation that established that the National Environmental Policy Act as a significant environmental protection law and triggered administrative proceedings that led to the demise of DDT as a pesticide that can be used in the United States, and helped establish environmentalists’ standing to bring lawsuits to protect the environment. Mr. Moorman served as the president and CEO of Taxpayers Against fraud and Taxpayers Against Fraud Education Fund (jointly “TAF”), He is a member of the Bar in New York, District of Columbia, and California

Donald R. Pongrace
From 1989 to 1993 Mr. Pongrace served as the managing partner of the Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP’s Brussels office. Prior to transferring to Brussels for the office's opening in 1989, he worked in the Washington office for four years, focusing on various public policy issues. In Brussels he represented clients in multilateral trade and investment projects and U.S.-EU bilateral economic relations. Mr. Pongrace received his B.A. magna cum laude in 1979 from Bates College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned his J.D. magna cum laude in 1985 from American University, where he was note and comment editor of the American University Law Review. From 1985 until 1986 he was a law clerk to the Honorable H.E. Widener Jr. of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit. Mr. Pongrace is a member of the District of Columbia Bar. He is fluent in French.

Ann H. Taylor
Ann Taylor is the Executive Vice President of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation, the nonprofit organization that owns and operates Monticello. She is responsible for overseeing the Foundation’s marketing, communications, planning, visitor operations, facilities and tourism business development. Taylor rejoined Monticello in this capacity in February 2009 (She previously served as CFO and COO between 1987 and 1999). Between 2004 and 2007, Taylor served as Executive Director and Secretary of the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia, where she was responsible for operations of the Foundation and its $200 million endowment, as well as all external relations to include development, alumni relations and Darden School marketing. Before being named Executive Director, Taylor was the co-founder and COO of Gold Violin, Inc., a multi-channel specialty retailer recognized as the American Society on Aging’s 2002 Business of the Year. Taylor graduated from the University of Virginia in 1980 and earned her MBA in 1985 from the Darden School, where she was a Shermet Scholar. Her two sisters, Eileen and Connie, are also UVA undergraduates and Darden MBAs. Taylor resides in Keswick, VA with her husband and two sons.

David Williams
Mr. Williams practices law with Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP, where he is a partner resident in the Washington, D.C. office. His practice is concentrated in commercial litigation. He has represented a broad array of corporations, financial services institutions, and individuals in various areas of the law including antitrust, banking, bankruptcy, contract disputes, environmental, real estate, insurance disputes, and other areas. He also has represented nonprofits and individuals on a pro bono basis in environmental, historic preservation, and civil rights matters. Mr. Williams is a graduate of Yale College (B.A. 1974) and the University of Virginia School of Law (J.D. 1979). From 1996-2006 and again in January 2009 going forward, he has been a member of the Board of Directors of Oatlands Plantation, located on Route 15 in Loudoun County, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs. Mr. Williams, and his wife, Cary, have three sons and live in Chevy Chase, MD. He and his family own Little Oatlands, which borders Route 15 and is adjacent to Oatlands in the Oatlands Historic District.