Admiral Craig Faller, USN (Ret.)

Craig Faller is a retired four-star admiral who has successfully led large, complex organizations with billion-dollar annual operating budgets. He currently serves on the boards of directors of Battelle, Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Sigma Defense, and Viken Detection. He is an advisor to other companies with portfolios ranging from energy to financial technology. Additionally, he is chairman of the board of the Surface Navy Association, an advisory board member for the Penn State Applied Research Laboratory (ARL), and a distinguished fellow at the National Defense University.

From 2018 to 2021, he commanded US Southern Command in Miami, Florida, where he led a team of 7,000 people with an annual operating budget of over $1 billion. In this role, he enhanced Western Hemisphere security by building strong, trusted partnerships between the US military and Latin American and Caribbean security forces. Previously, Faller served as the top military assistant to the Secretary of Defense and as the Department of the Navy’s Chief of Legislative Affairs. Other positions leading large teams have included commanding the Navy’s 5,000-person recruiting organization and Director of Operations for US Central Command, where he coordinated military operations and activities across the Middle East. At sea, he has commanded an aircraft carrier strike group and two warships, the USS Stethem (DDG-63), and USS Shiloh (CG-63).

He is a 1983 graduate of the US Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science in systems engineering and a distinguished graduate of the Naval Postgraduate School with a master’s degree in National Security Affairs (Strategic Planning). A nuclear-trained surface warfare officer, Faller was a student, instructor, and operator in the Naval Nuclear Power Program.