Gen. Tom Hobbins retired as Commander, U.S. Air Forces in Europe; Commander, NATO Allied Air Component Command, Ramstein; and Director, Joint Air Power Competence Centre, Ramstein Air Base, Germany. There, he was responsible for Air Force activities in a theater spanning three continents, covering more than 20 million square miles, 93 countries and territories, and possessing one-fourth of the world’s population and about one-third of the world’s Gross Domestic Product.

General Hobbins entered the Air Force as a graduate of Officer Training School. He has commanded a MAJCOM, a NATO Component, a numbered air force, two tactical fighter wings and a composite air group. He has served as the Director of Plans and Operations for U.S. Forces Japan, Director of Plans and Policy for U.S. Atlantic Command, the Director of Operations for U.S. Air Forces in Europe, and as a Deputy Chief of Staff, Headquarters U.S. Air Force. As USAFE’s Director of Operations, General Hobbins was responsible for the planning, bed-down and execution of combat forces in Europe for Operation Allied Force (Kosovo Air Campaign) . As 12th Air Force Commander, the 12th Air Force Air Operations Center deployed to Southwest Asia as operations Enduring Freedom and Iraqi Freedom’s alternate AOC. As Deputy Chief of Staff for War fighting Integration and the Air Force’s Chief Information Officer, General Hobbins developed and implemented the Air Force’s C4ISR Roadmap for networks enabling predictive battle-space awareness and targeting. As Director of the Joint Air Power Competence Centre, he guided the development of NATO’s C4ISR and Unmanned Aerial Systems Roadmaps. Finally, as the USAFE Commander, General Hobbins directed the Organize, Train and Equip functions for 28,500 mission ready Airmen in Europe, and oversaw European Theater Air Defense missions for POTUS and NATO Summits. He also served as NATO’s and AFRICOM’s senior air transformation advisor.

General Hobbins received a BS in Business Finance from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Troy State University. He attended the Armed Forces Staff College and Air War College and has numerous university sponsored civilian and military leadership courses to his credit.

A command pilot, the general has more than 5,100 flying hours, primarily in fighter aircraft.

Dr. Jones has made significant contributions to computer science research and in the Department of Defense (DOD) science and technology programs. Dr. Jones served as the Director of Defense Research and Engineering in the Pentagon for over four years, where she controlled the budget for research and engineering for the DOD, and was recognized for her exemplary service to the country with the Department of Defense Award for Distinguished Public Service. Dr. Jones’ service to the computer science industry is also well known as she has served as founding editor-in-chief of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Transactions on Computer Systems and as an editor of the Communications of the ACM, two of the more widely circulated journals within the field, served on several advisory boards including MIT Lincoln Laboratories Advisory Board, the Defense Science Board and has served on or chaired numerous national academies’ committees. Her research has produced seminal results in several areas including operating systems, protection, security and software engineering. Dr. Jones was instrumental in building a “top-notch” computer science research program at Virginia. Dr. Jones served as vice chair on the National Science Board where took a leadership position in fostering advancement in long-lived data repositories, increased investment in small and medium research infrastructure and more transparent management of the major research equipment construction processes. Currently, Dr. Jones is the Lawrence A. Quarles Professor of Engineering and Applied Science and University Professor in the department of computer science at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va., where she has taught for 19 years. An IEEE Fellow, Dr. Jones has a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from Rice University, Houston, Texas and a master’s in English Literature from the University of Texas at Austin and a doctorate in Computer Science from Carnegie-Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Pa.

Dr. Keeley has, for more than 20 years, consulted on or served as an expert in a variety of business issues and legal disputes, including antitrust, intellectual property, breach of contract, securities fraud, and other complex business litigation. He has consulted on or served as an expert in a number of cases, including the Long Beach case (MDL 150), the Mercedes-Benz tying cases, Aguilar, et al. v. Atlantic Richfield Corporation, et al., Anzai v. Chevron, et al., Sony v. Connectix, MCI v. AT&T, and In re Cigarette Antitrust Litigation. Dr. Keeley also has consulted on nonlitigation business and economic issues, such as antitrust policy, auction design and bidding, and pricing strategies. He has expertise in a number of industries, including oil and gas, computer hardware and software, telecommunications, electric utilities, pharmaceuticals, healthcare, chemical, automotive, and financial services.Dr. Keeley has published his research in and served as a referee (i.e., reviewer) for economics and finance journals. He was selected for inclusion in Who’s Who in Economics and was awarded the Garn prize for his research on bank risk-taking. Dr. Keeley has a bachelor’s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and both a master’s and doctorate degree from the University of Chicago.