Sarah Campbell is the Associate Vice President of Research for Defense & Security, and Head of Special Projects at George Mason University. In this role she is responsible for organizing and elevating the various defense and security research initiatives on campus to enhance the university’s research profile. Sarah works closely with the VPR and university leadership as well as the respective academic units to identify university-wide applied research goals, key resource needs, and funding sources to support defense and security programs at Mason. She also directly leads operations on behalf of the VPR with a shared goal to increase operational efficiency and effectiveness, enhance GMU’s ability to scale research and build infrastructure and improve risk management and compliance.
Sarah was previously the Chief of Staff at the Applied Research Laboratory for Intelligence and Security (ARLIS) at the University of Maryland, College Park, (one of the 15 DoD sponsored University Affiliated Research Centers UARC) and Principal Faculty member since 2020. In this role she administered and established consistent processes and information flow to manage all aspects of ARLIS research and operations for the UARC, helping to launch ARLIS as one the fastest growing DoD UARCs in the country with 240 employees and over $140 million in active contracts.
From 2020 to June 2022 Ms. Campbell served on IPA assignment from ARLIS at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) Research component as the Director for Strategic Partnerships & Communications. As a senior leader, Sarah led all efforts related to strategic communications, outreach, legislative affairs, and international affairs on behalf of NGA Research. She spearheaded the first technology accelerator program for NGA, created to fund, mentor, and accelerate the next generation of geospatial technologies, and worked to establish the agency’s first Education Partnership Agreement with a Historically Black College and University.
Prior to UMD, Ms. Campbell was a Senior Program Manager for SAIC, providing strategic support to the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Undersecretary of Defense for Research and Engineering (OSD USD R&E). In this role she helped support and execute legislative and public affairs long range strategic plans across the newly established Research and Engineering enterprise. Ms. Campbell also served as lead for the Office of International Cooperation at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) from 2012-2017. At DARPA she helped to execute the agency’s international cooperation engagement in areas of interest, as well as assist and advise on critical bilateral and multilateral relationships and agreements with foreign partners across the globe. Ms. Campbell also supported the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) in various capacities to include the Research and Development Enterprise, Office of International Cooperation, where she helped lead the first DoD S&T bilateral workshop and Chemical/Biological project agreement with India in 2010. She began her career as a public policy analyst with Austin-based geopolitical publishing firm, Strategic Forecasting
(Stratfor), where she helped communicate and advise Fortune 500 companies on public policy and geopolitical risk.
Ms. Campbell received her bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Mary Washington, and her master’s degree in International Commerce & Policy from George Mason University, Schar School of Policy & Government. Ms. Campbell is a 2015 AILA Fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, DC.

Mike is a graduate of Ohio University with a degree in Engineering. Mike’s background includes Pulp & Paper - with Mead and Georgia-Pacific (GP), Robotics & Software in his early career including Deputy Chairman and CEO of UK based Shepard, LTD, and Construction and Building Products as co-owner of Atlanta based McTech Group, a company serving fortune 500 companies including Walmart, Lowes, Home Depot, Kroger, and others. In 2010, Mike left retirement to join GP as VP Transformation & Innovation, where the MBM® philosophy and Mike’s mindset of innovation were complimentary. In 2019, he was named Innovator of the Year by ASPI, the Association of Suppliers to the Paper Industry. He also received the 2020 Visionary of the Year award from Smart Industry Magazine. He is involved in numerous innovations and transformations across GP and Koch Industries and continues to be a frequently featured keynote speaker at industrial and manufacturing events around the world where he is described as being the “air ahead of the spear”. He is recognized for his knowledge and experience in Leadership, Innovation, Organizational Transformation, and Humble Intellectual Honesty.

George retired from his role as the CEO of Cradlepoint and Ericsson’s Enterprise Wireless Solutions global business unit in July 2024.  He joined Cradlepoint in 2011 and over the course of his 13 years there, worked with an exceptionally talented team to build the company into the global leader for enterprise cellular wide-area networking. Growing from 80 to 1,500 employees and 100’s of millions of dollars of revenue.  He raised $170M in venture capital and in November of 2020 the company was acquired by Ericsson for $1.1Billion. Post acquisition he spent three years leading the Enterprise Wireless Solutions business unit for Ericsson.

Prior to joining Cradlepoint, George spent three years as a general partner at Highway 12 Ventures, a Boise based venture capital firm investing in early-stage technology companies in the intermountain region.

He began his career in technology at Hewlett Packard. Over the course of his 20 year career at HP, George had responsibility for hardware, software and services businesses that ranged in size from several million dollars to multi-billions of dollars of annual revenue. His last position with HP was as Senior Vice President, leading the LaserJet Global Business Unit.

George currently serves as an independent board director for Cambia Health Solutions, Regence Blue Shield of Idaho and Tracer - a Boise based brand security start-up. He is on the Idaho Technology Council board and previously served on Idaho Governor Kempthorne’s Science and Technology Advisory Council and Governor Little’s Cybersecurity Task Force. He was a member of McKinsey & Co’s Advisory Board for their technology practice and was recently inducted into the Idaho Technology Hall of Fame.

George attended San Jose State University on a Division I tennis scholarship, where he received his BS and MBA degrees.

George and Karen have four children between them and recently became Grandparents with the arrival of their first Grandchild.

Antonis Papadourakis founded AlphaPi Global Advisory, LLC in January of 2024 and he is currently serving as its President.  Prior to that, Antonis served as President and CEO of LANXESS Corporation, as the Head of the Americas for the LANXESS Group, and as a member of the LANXESS Global Leadership team from July 2015 until his retirement at the end of October 2023.  He was also a member of the Board of Directors of the American Chemistry Council (ACC), the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), the American Coatings Association (ACA), and the German American Chamber of Commerce (GACC) – Pittsburgh Section.

Antonis began his career with Rohm and Haas in Bristol, PA, US, holding positions of increasing responsibility, including Senior Chemical Engineer, Group Leader of the Process Economics Center, and Process Control Manager for Polymers & Resins worldwide. He moved to London, England in 1997 as the Purchasing Manager for Rohm and Haas (UK) Ltd. and later became the Purchasing & Logistics Manager, Europe, for Performance Polymers. He became Commercial Manager for Construction Adhesives, Europe, in January of 2001. Antonis moved to Paris, France in July 2001, to become Business Manager, Packaging and Converting, Europe for Rohm and Haas. He repatriated to the US in 2005 and joined Engelhard Corporation (now BASF) as Global Business Manager for Stationary Source and Indoor Air. He joined Arkema in February of 2007 as Business Director, Organic Peroxides, Americas. In September of 2008, he was promoted to General Manager, Sustainability Additives and in February 2012 joined Altuglas International (a subsidiary of Arkema) as the Regional Group President, Americas.

Born and raised in Greece, he earned a degree from the University of Thessaloniki and a PhD from the University of Massachusetts – Amherst, both in Chemical Engineering, and served one year in the Greek Armed Forces