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Board of Directors

Chairman Emeritus
Dan Bannister
Bannister Enterprises

Mr. Bannister is the former Chairman, President/CEO of DynCorp, a $2.5 billion professional services company that was acquired by Computer Sciences Corporation in 2003.

Early in his career at DynCorp, Mr. Bannister served in various managements positions, then as President/CEO from 1985 - 1997 and Chairman from 1997 - 2003. During his tenure the company experienced some of its' most challenging and successful times, including a hostile takeover attempt in 1988 that resulted in a MBO and took the company from public (NYSE) to private ownership. He led an aggressive diversification and expansion program that included over 40 acquisitions and increased revenue to $2.5 billion and 24,000 employees.

Mr. Bannister is an active member of the business community. He serves as a board member of three technology companies and is Chairman of the Board of Social & Scientific Systems Inc. He is also an Executive Advisor to a venture capital fund and a member of the Board of the United Bank of Virginia. In 2005, he was appointed Vice Chairman of the Virginia Center for Innovative Technology.

He currently serves as a Director of the Joe Gibbs Youth for Tomorrow home for boys and girls, the National Defense Industrial Association, the Marshall Legacy Institute and the Army Aviation Scholarship Foundation. He also serves on the Board of the Shenandoah University Foundation, the Board of Visitors at Marymount University, the Board of Advisors of the School of Engineering and Technology at George Mason University and the U.S. Air Force Academy Falcon Foundation Board of Trustees.

Previously, Mr. Bannister served as Chairman of the American Management Association Board of Trustees, the Employees Owners Foundation, the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) and the NVTC Foundation.

Mr. Bannister has received numerous awards for his business and civic accomplishments. They include the Earle C. Williams Award for Leadership in Technology, the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Lifetime Achievement Award, The Community Service Award from the Sales and Marketing Executives of Metropolitan Washington, the Best of Reston Man of the Year, the KMPG Peat Marwick High Tech Entrepreneur of the Year, the Junior Achievement Washington Business Hall of Fame Award, and in 2004, he received the Greater Washington Government Contractors Hall of Fame Award.