Vice Admiral Peter V. Neffenger, USCG (Ret.)

Vice Admiral Peter Neffenger was appointed in 2015 by President Obama to lead the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), a position he held until January 2017. Prior to this, he enjoyed a distinguished 34-year career in the US Coast Guard, where he served as the 29th Vice Commandant, the head of Coast Guard global operations, and most notably, as the Deputy National Incident Commander for the 2010 BP Gulf oil spill—the largest and most complex in US history. Admiral Neffenger is a recognized expert in leadership and crisis management. When he took the helm of the TSA, the agency’s challenges were substantial and numerous. His subsequent transformation of the organization led to his being named one of the 25 most influential business travel executives of 2016 by Business Travel News.

Admiral Neffenger is Chairman of the US Board of Directors for Smartmatic, the world's largest election security technology company; serves on numerous advisory boards; is a member of the Baldwin Wallace University Board of Trustees; holds a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University; a Master of Arts in national security and strategic studies from the US Naval War College; a Master of Arts in business management from Central Michigan University; and a Bachelor of Arts from Baldwin Wallace University. He is a two-time recipient of the Department of Homeland Security's Distinguished Service Medal, a Distinguished Fellow at the Atlantic Council, a Distinguished Senior Fellow at Northeastern University’s Global Resilience Institute, and an instructor in Harvard University’s National Preparedness Leadership Initiative, a joint venture of the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the Harvard Kennedy School.

Admiral Neffenger is the managing principal of Neffenger Consulting, LLC, an independent consulting business.