Matt Driskill is a Naval Flight Officer with over 2,000 flight hours, primarily in the F/A-18F Super Hornet and EA-18G Growler. Matt has flown combat operations in support of Operations Iraqi Freedom, Odyssey Dawn and Enduring Freedom and has led government-industry planning teams in the pursuit of technology acquisition strategies for U.S. and NATO aircraft. With the help of the Milken Institute, in 2015 he founded the Military Leadership Circle (MLC). MLC members are active duty military and veterans seeking to bridge the civil-military divide through a corporate-military leadership exchange program called RAMP, which is also Driskill's focus as a 2019 Presidential Leadership Scholar. A graduate of Vanderbilt University, Driskill holds an M.B.A. from Auburn University, an M.A. in national security and strategic studies from the Naval War College, is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and a 2019-2020 National Security Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.