Bill Brehm has been a director of SRA since 1978 and served as Chairman of the Board from 1980 to 2003. An employee since 1980, Mr. Brehm now serves SRA on a part-time basis. In 1968, after serving four years on the staff of the Secretary of Defense, Mr. Brehm was appointed Assistant Secretary of the Army for Manpower and Reserve Affairs and served until December 1970. He then left government and assumed the post of vice president for Corporate Development at Dart Industries, a consumer products firm, where his responsibilities included mergers and acquisitions and corporate research and development. In 1973, he returned to the Defense Department as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Manpower and Reserve Affairs under James Schlesinger and later for Legislative Affairs under Donald Rumsfeld. He served through the end of the Ford Administration. Mr. Brehm is a retired director of Herman Miller, Inc., where he was a member of the executive committee. He is now Chairman of the Board of The CNA Corporation and is also a trustee of Guideposts and a director of the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is past Chairman of the Board of Fuller Theological Seminary and continues there as trustee and a member of the executive committee. He holds bachelors and masters degrees in mathematics and physics from the University of Michigan. |