DRIVe Chief of Innovation and Strategy Implementation

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Craig is the DRIVe Chief of Innovation and Strategy Implementation – a position he’s held since he joined DRIVe in September of 2019. Craig has over 20 years of experience in executive leadership, direct management, financial, portfolio and program oversight and execution, and operational roles managing and executing multi-million-dollar programs. In his DRIVe role, Craig performs leadership and managerial oversight by supervising, guiding, recruiting, hiring, mentoring, and empowering a diverse DRIVe workforce. At the beginning of the BARDA response to COVID-19 in January of 2020, Craig served as the Operations Lead to the Medical Countermeasures Support Director, reporting directly to the BARDA Director, solving the highest-level challenges, providing expert advice, and creating a vision and strategy to promote maximum work production.

Prior to joining DRIVe, Craig was a Program and Portfolio Manager at the Office of Naval Research, and held a progression of positions, finishing as the Deputy Director of Research, then as the Deputy Director of Performance Improvement and Information Management. Craig completed his career in the United States Air Force as a Colonel during which he was the Acting Director of Operational Experimentation and Project Director of Emerging Technologies in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, an F-15C Command Fighter Pilot with combat experience, a Master Instructor Pilot, a Commander, a Director of Operations, and an Assistant Professor of Management. Craig has an MS in National Security Strategy from the National War College in Washington, D.C., an MBA from the University of Texas Graduate School of Business in Austin, TX, and a BS in Management from the United States Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, CO.