TACTICAL ATHLETE - LEADERSHIP BOARD
Sustaining the Tactical Athlete of Today
Preparing for the Tactical Athlete of Tomorrow
Founded in 2020, the Tactical Athlete Leadership Board (TA-LB) is a collection of experts and leaders from the U.S. Armed Forces, from academia, and from the human performance data and technology industries, with experience across the professional sports landscapes. The TA-LB is brought together with one goal in mind: to explore human performance technologies that can help sustain the tactical athlete of today and prepare for the needs of the tactical athlete of tomorrow.
What is a “Tactical Athlete”?
There are many different kinds of tactical athletes. From Marines to Soldiers, Airmen to Sailors, first-responders to analysts—the many different types of tactical athletes have varied role expectations, and thus unique fitness and human performance demands. The TA-LB works to address the needs of all tactical athletes.
BOARD MEMBERS
Michael Baum
Executive Champion
US Army
Branch Chief, Trainers/Human Dimensions (S3I)
Yusuf Boyd
VALD
Head of Tactical
Dr. Allison Brager
U.S. Army John F. Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School
Deputy Chief Science Officer
Dr. Reuben Burch
Mississippi State University
Associate Vice President of Research, Associate Professor, & Associate Director of Athlete Engineering
Dr. Bill Burgos
Bucogroup LLC
CEO
Logan Byman
WWE
Manager, Strength & Conditioning
Meridith Cass
Nix Biosensors
Founder & CEO
Karen Cogan
USOPC
Lead Psychological Services Provider
Dr. Mark Derriso
Air Force Research Lab
S&T Chief Engineer & Supervisor
Nirav Desai
Moonbeam
CEO
Pat Tillman Foundation
Associate Director of Programs & Leadership
Adam Faurot
SPEAR Human Performance
Chief Commercial Officer
David Fivecoat
The Fivecoat Consulting Group
Founder
Roman Fomin
UFC Performance Institute
Director of Sports Science
Justin Foster
The Excelling Edge
Cognitive Performance Coach
Dr. Meg Garvey
Output Sports
Dr. Jay Goldstein
University of Maryland
Lecturer
Sean Harrington
Teamworks
VP & General Manager
Bridge Athletic
Director of Tactical & Education
Dr. Bradley Hatfield
University of Maryland
Professor, Kinesiology
Kristen Holmes
WHOOP
Vice President Performance
Dhani Jones
QEY Capital
Chairman
Janell MacAuley
Warriors Edge
Co-Creator
Dr. William Mackenzie
The University of Alabama in Huntsville
Associate Professor, College of Business
Frank McKinnon
VALD
Head of Enterprise - North America
LTC Nick Rinaldi
Army Applications Lab
Operations Officer
Hillary Plummer
San Diego Padres
Quality Assurance Specialist, Player Health & Performance
Dale Russell
US Navy
Human Factors Engineer / Research Psychologist
Angie Sandritter
Rippleworx
Founder & CEO
Dr. Leslie Saxon
USC Center for Body Computing
Executive Director
Sean Sansiveri
One Team Partners
CEO
Dr. Jen Schumacher
Northwestern University
Mental Performance Coach
Dr. Joellen Sefton
Warrior Research Center
Auburn University
Director
Rob Shaul
Mountain Tactical Institute
Coach/Founder
Adam Thamel
Movella
Manager, Military Sales & BD
Meg Tucker
The Valkyrie Project
Founder
Raytheon Technologies Research Center
Associate Director & Principal Research Scientist - Human Machine Interaction
Mat Young
Human Performance Technology Consultant
Dr. Jenna Yentes
Texas A&M
Associate Professor
