Dr. J. D. Crouch II is the CEO & President of the United Service Organizations, the premier charity supporting U.S. service members and their families since 1941.
Dr. Crouch was Chief Executive Officer of QinetiQ North America (QNA), now part of Peraton. He also held positions with QNA as President of the Technology Solutions Group and Executive Vice President for Strategic Development.
He served as Assistant to the President of the United States and Deputy National Security Advisor from March 2005 until June 2007. He reported directly to the President as a senior advisor on national security matters, chaired the sub-cabinet Deputies Committee, and was second in command at the National Security Council.
He also served on several government advisory boards, including as past Chairman of the Secretary of Defense’s Defense Policy Board and the NSA Advisory Board.
Dr. Crouch served as U.S. Ambassador to Romania where he managed this complex relationship at the time of Romanian military deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan. He directed the Embassy team involved in developing new and promoting existing U.S. business opportunities in Romania.
Dr. Crouch served in President George W. Bush’s first term as Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy. He was the principal advisor to the Secretary of Defense on policy for missile defense, nuclear forces, NATO, Europe, Russia, the Central Asian Republics, the Caucuses and the Balkans, technology security and export policy, counter-proliferation, and arms control.
From 1993 to 2001, and late 2003 to 2004, Dr. Crouch was Associate Professor of Defense and Strategic Studies at Missouri State University in Springfield, Missouri.
He co founded and was Chief Marketing Officer of PalmGear.com, the Internet’s leading PalmOS App Store from 1995-2001.
Dr. Crouch previous experience includes positions as Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy in President George H.W. Bush’s Administration, Military Legislative Assistant to Senator Malcolm Wallop and the Senator’s staff designee on the Senate Armed Services Committee, and in the Reagan Administration as a special assistant to the Assistant Director for Strategic Programs in the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and as a U.S. Advisor to the Nuclear and Space Arms Talks with the former Soviet Union.
Dr. Crouch has twice been awarded the Department of Defense Distinguished Public Service Medal. He received the Alumni Merit Award from the University of Southern California in 2006 and Military Merit Grand Cross with White Ribbon, from the Kingdom of Spain in 2003. He was the Missouri Deputy Sheriff of the Year for 2000.
Dr. Crouch holds a Ph.D., M.A., and B.A. in International Relations from the University of Southern California. He served pro bono for ten years as a reserve deputy sheriff in southwest Missouri, and as a member of a multi-county Special Response Team. He is an avid outdoorsman and conservationist.
He lives with his wife Kristin Crouch in McLean, Virginia. They have two children, Lara and Jake.