About Colonel Stephen J. (Steve) Bond

Steve is the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the American Security Council Foundation. He is a retired U.S. Army Colonel and a former member of the U.S. Government Senior Executive Service. He also currently serves as the Senior Vice President for the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) Florida Council.

Steve is a veteran of combat operations in Panama (1989-90) and Saudi Arabia/Kuwait (1990-91), as well as humanitarian/peacekeeping operations in St. Croix (1989), and Haiti (1994). After retiring from the Army, he worked for one of the largest Defense-Aerospace companies in the U.S. as a director of business development. From February 2008 to March 2009, he served in a U.S. Government Senior Executive Service (SES) Flag/General Officer-position as the Director of the Intelligence Transition Team and Senior U.S. Intelligence Advisor to the Iraqi Ministries of Defense (MOD), Interior (MOI), and the Counter-Terrorist Force while assigned to the Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I), Multi-National Force-Iraq (MNF-I) during Operation Iraqi Freedom in what was known as “The Surge”.

He holds a master’s degree in history from the University of Kansas, and a bachelor’s degree in history from the University of Utah. His military education includes the Army Command and General Staff College, and the Army War College.