Biography

William Owens

Director

Admiral Owens has served as an independent director since May 2018. He is the co-founder and Executive Chairman of Red Bison Technology Group, a provider of high-speed telecom networks for commercial properties, and serves as Chairman of Visionary Vehicles, Kyrrex (a European cryptocurrency exchange), and Massif (an electric-bicycle company). He also serves on the boards of Siply and Compass and has previously chaired or served on the boards of more than 25 public and private companies, including CenturyLink (now Lumen), SAP USA, Daimler, British American Tobacco, Telstra, Nortel Networks, and Polycom. From 2007 to 2015 he was Chairman and Senior Partner of AEA Investors Asia and Vice Chairman of the NYSE for Asia.

A retired four-star U.S. Navy Admiral, Owens served as Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the second-ranking U.S. military officer, with responsibility for post-Cold War force restructuring and for advancing technology integration across the armed services. He was Commander of the U.S. Sixth Fleet during Operation Desert Storm and earlier served as Senior Military Assistant to Secretaries of Defense Carlucci and Cheney. A career submariner, he commanded the USS Sam Houston, USS Michigan, and USS City of Corpus Christi. He is widely recognized as an architect of the Revolution in Military Affairs for bringing commercial innovation into defense operations.

Admiral Owens is a 1962 honor graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy in mathematics and earned degrees in politics, philosophy, and economics from Oxford University and a master’s degree in management from George Washington University. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Fellow at the Stimson Institute. His decorations include France’s Légion d’Honneur and the highest civil awards of Indonesia and Sweden. He has authored three books on national security, including Lifting the Fog of War and China–US 2039: The Endgame?

 

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