Richard Guay

Chairman
Richard Guay has thirty-five years of business and government experience. He has spent nine years in association management (two of them as executive director), twenty years interpreting federal policy for private business doing work for states and the Federal Government, and twenty-five years securing congressional appropriations for selected projects. His business experience includes 20 years with Jacobs Engineering as Vice President of Government Relations and six years as Vice president of Wheelabrator Cleanfuels corp. He has also held senior management positions with the US Department of Labor and the Environmental Protection Agency. Other senior positions have included being the chief lobbyist for the National Constructors Association and the Institute of Scrap Iron and Steel. His career started being a congressional aide.

Stuart Alan Clarke

Vice Chairman
Stuart Alan Clarke is the Executive Director of the Town Creek Foundation. He is the Foundation’s second Executive Director and assumed this duty in October of 2004. His previous philanthropic experience includes working as a Program Officer with the Turner Foundation and as the Development Director of the Southern Partners Fund, both in Atlanta, GA. Stuart has also served as an Assistant Professor of Political Science at Williams College in Williamstown, MA; as the Director of the Atlanta Outward Bound Center; and as the Chief Operating Officer of Hands On Network, a national network of community-based centers for volunteerism and civic action. Stuart serves on the boards of the Center for a New American Dream, the Environmental Grantmakers Association, and Outward Bound. He received his undergraduate degree from Lafayette College in Pennsylvania and did his graduate work at Yale University.

Pamela Keeton

Treasurer
Pamela Keeton is an accomplished communicator with a long and varied career in government and industry. She has worked among top level military officers, senior government civilians and diplomats, as well as C-suite executives. She’s handled communications in hostile fire zones in Afghanistan and the Middle East, in crisis situations such as aircraft crashes, and for controversial topics like detainee operations. Pam has developed communications and public affairs plans for major U.S. corporations, developed and executed executive visibility and thought leadership programs for senior executives, and led multi-functional communications teams dealing with a wide variety of issues.

Pam spent the first ten years of her career as an officer on active duty in the U.S. Army and then 14 years in the Army Reserve. She retired at the rank of lieutenant colonel with a host of awards and decorations, including two Bronze Star Medals for public affairs work in combat.

Currently Pam is Director of External Relations for The Aerospace Corporation, a non-profit Federally Funded Research and Development Center. Pam has also been a managing director at Burson-Marsteller Public Relations and a senior vice president at Powell Tate|Weber Shandwick where she led its defense practice. She was an executive with The Boeing Company and has served as a public relations consultant to several of the nation’s largest defense companies.

Keeton has published several articles on effective public affairs, taught at Johns Hopkins University and Central Texas College, and frequently speaks on public affairs and strategic communications. In addition to a master of science in mass communications, she holds a bachelor of arts in English, is a graduate of the U.S. Army Command and Staff College and Defense Information School, and is accredited in public relations by the Public Relations Society of America. She is a board member of the Washington, DC, Chapter of the Defense Industrial Association, a member of Women In International Security at Georgetown University and a founding member of the Women’s Military Memorial at Arlington Cemetery.