BRTRC benefits from the unique experience and leadership of a select team of experts who make up our board of directors. These individuals provide guidance on the conduct and management of company affairs. Their duties correspond to BRTRC's corporate mission while upholding our company values and standards of excellence.
Board of Directors:
Mike Chisolm
Stephen Huggard
Michael Stafford
Christine Villa
Charles Walters
Mike Chisolm
Mike Chisolm has more than 26 years experience developing, managing, and delivering professional technical and analytical Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA) and information technology (IT) services to federal customers. During that span, he has served as an individual contributor, project manager, consulting practice manager (with profit/loss (P/L) responsibility), relationship manager (with P/L responsibility), and line manager. He has demonstrated success across the life cycle of government consulting projects — from business development, value proposition creation, proposal preparation, hiring/staffing, project planning/management, negotiating business partner relationships when necessary, customer and corporate expectation management — through completion and customer satisfaction. Chisolm has worked for both SETA contractors (BDM, ANSER, GRC) and IT software and service providers (Sybase and IBM). This experience gives him a strong appreciation for, and understanding of, what is required to deliver successful consulting services to the federal government.
In addition, Chisolm served eight years active duty with the U.S. Air Force, primarily as a B-52 pilot.
His education includes master's degrees in management and engineering administration.
Stephen G. Huggard
Stephen Huggard is a partner with the law firm Edwards Angell Palmer & Dodge, LLP. He represents corporations and individuals in criminal and complex civil litigation. After 17 years as a prosecutor with the Department of Justice, Huggard applies his considerable experience to assisting corporations and executives with any government inquiries or internal investigations. Most recently, Huggard served for four years as Chief of the Public Corruption & Special Prosecutions Unit at the U.S. attorney's Office, District of Massachusetts. He was one of the Assistant United States Attorneys selected to work around the clock following the attacks of September 11. Prior to becoming chief, Huggard was part of the Economic Crimes Unit, where he prosecuted complex tax, healthcare fraud, and investment fraud cases. Huggard has been a frequent lecturer at the Department of Justice, Internal Revenue Service, and privately sponsored training seminars on the subjects of excise tax fraud, healthcare fraud, and financial prosecutions. He also has been a guest lecturer for the American Bar Association, Suffolk University Law School, Harvard Law School, New England Institute of Law Enforcement, and National Advocacy Center. He recently co-chaired a Boston Bar Association seminar on criminal tax cases, entitled "Tax Fraud Matters — Criminal and Civil Practice Pointers."
Michael D. Stafford
Michael Stafford has a unique 360-degree perspective with regards to federal contracting, particularly for the Department of Defense, as well as direct experience with ensuring ethical conduct under a compliance agreement. He has more than 40 years experience with federal contracting, crisis management, and compliance programs.
He was the senior contracting officer for the Navy's F/A-18 Hornet Strike Fighter and Harpoon Anti-Ship Missile Programs. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, he was the Director of Acquisition Regulations for the Navy, reporting directly to the Assistant Secretary of the Navy, and was responsible for the successful implementation of the Competition in Contracting Act and the first Procurement Reform Act into the Federal Acquisition Regulation. At the request of the Assistant Secretary of Defense, he also served as the Director of the Defense Acquisition Regulatory Council.
Stafford then moved to industry where, as Senior Vice President for Ogden Environmental and Energy Services, he was part of the management team that grew the company from a $12-million to a $250million per year enterprise. When one of Ogden's environmental testing subsidiaries fell under criminal investigation for testing protocols, Stafford was appointed Chief Executive Officer to restore ethical conduct, and he negotiated an omnibus settlement that avoided debarment and allowed the company to continue doing work with the federal government. Since then, Stafford has provided crisis management and compliance consulting for many major defense contractors.
Stafford returned to federal service and concluded his 30-year federal career as the Director for Acquisition Management for the Department of the Treasury's Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Currently, Stafford is the Director for Contracts and Pricing for Booz Allen Hamilton, where he is responsible for compliance with government-approved pricing, estimating, and accounting systems.
He is in the unique position of being able to provide insight and guidance regarding compliance after a criminal investigation. He fully understands the federal contracting arena and its allowable cost, accounting, and ethical conduct standards. He understands the military marketplace and the industry techniques necessary to grow a company exponentially.
Stafford graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aeronautical Engineering and from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute with a Master of Science degree in management.
Christine M. Villa
Christine Villa, Chief Technology Officer, BRTRC, has more than 20 years of personal IT experience in technical programming, modeling and simulation, database administration, statistical processing and reporting, and performance analysis. She leads cross-functional IT teams to consistently deliver secure network infrastructure and Internet products and services in modeling and simulation, expert systems, and Web-based information solution systems for grants management, electronic surveys, and client-server database management. For 15 years, she has been a principal consultant to the Department of Defense in the analysis and management of the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program.
She holds a Bachelor of Science in mathematics from the College of William and Mary, a Master of Science. in operations research from George Mason University, and has undertaken doctoral studies in integer programming (combinatorial optimization of the bandwidth packing problem) also at George Mason University.
Charles A. Walters, Jr.
Charles Walters has 36 years of experience with accounting and financial analysis, planning, and management. During his 20-year tenure with the Wolf Trap Foundation of the Performing Arts, Walters held the positions of Executive Vice President/Chief Financial Officer, Acting President/Chief Executive Officer, Senior Vice President, and Vice President of Finance and Administration. During this time, the foundation grew from $3.3 million to $26 million. He provided financial stewardship and strategic planning to the not-for-profit (501(c)3) organization. He managed its $26 million in budgets (operating/capital) and served as the primary staff liaison to the Department of the Interior – National Park Service. Walters worked closely with the foundation's Board of Directors Audit, Finance, and Membership Committees on organizational matters, including Congressional legislation to successfully restructure the foundation's $11 million debt.
In addition, Walters served four years in the U.S. Air Force before he was honorably discharged. He holds a Bachelor of Science in business administration (accounting/finance).