Board of Governors
J. Patrick Campbell (USANG, Ret.)
Interim President of Grantham University & President/Chief Operating Officer of Grantham Education Corporation
Prior to accepting a position with Grantham Education Corporation, Mr. Campbell acted as a consultant to financial institutions and a variety of corporate entities. In addition to serving as Chairman of the Board for Digital Focus, Mr. Campbell also serves on the boards of various corporations.
In December 2001, Mr. Campbell retired as the President of Nasdaq U.S. Markets. From January 1997 to December 2001, he held various executive positions at The Nasdaq Stock Market including Chief Operating Officer for Nasdaq Inc. and Chairman of Nasdaq Investment Products. Prior to joining Nasdaq, Mr. Campbell worked as a Senior Executive Vice President for The Ohio Company from 1971 to 1996, and served as a member of their Board of Directors from 1991 to 1996.
Mr. Campbell retired from the Air National Guard in 1992 as a Major for the United States Air Force, where he received numerous awards and medals including a Bronze Star and three Air Medals.
Joseph C. McGrath
Mr. McGrath has been involved in one capacity or another with Grantham University and Grantham Education Corporation (and its predecessor, the Level Playing Field Corporation) since 2001. He currently serves as Executive Vice President.
From 1998 to 2005, Mr. McGrath was involved with a small, private venture fund that was seeking approval as an SBIC. He spent two years in Switzerland as the Chief Financial and Administrative Officer of a group of private schools located in Lugano, Switzerland, Athens, Greece, and Staines, England with summer schools in a number of other European locations. For 25 years, Mr. McGrath worked as a commercial and corporate banker in banks from New York City, NY to Washington, DC. He has been President of a community bank as well as Senior Vice President of all corporate and commercial banking for a billion dollar plus regional commercial bank.
Mr. McGrath served in the US Army for three years as an officer at the NATO Headquarters LANDSOUTHEAST in Izmir, Turkey and as an officer at the Third Regional Assistance Command (TRAC) in South Viet Nam.
He has been a member of the boards of the TASIS Schools, the Washington Harvard Club, the Lt. Joseph P. Kennedy Institute, the Metropolitan Police Boys and Girls Clubs and a number of private, secondary schools and political organizations in the Metropolitan Washington area.
Mr. McGrath holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Government from Harvard College and a Master’s Degree in Education from the University of Southern California.
John Ashford
Mr. Ashford is an advisor to Fortune 100 companies as chairman and CEO of The Hawthorn Group, L.C., an Alexandria, Virginia, international public affairs firm which he co-founded 15 years ago.
Mr. Ashford attended Missouri State University and received his Bachelor of Arts, magna cum laude, from Missouri Valley College, where he served on the board for nearly 20 years and from which he received an honorary Doctor of Letters degree. He now co-chairs Missouri Valley’s Presidential Task Force on strategic planning. Mr. Ashford earned his Masters in Public Administration at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
A frequent speaker on corporate platforms, his academic lecture assignments have included Alabama, Emory, Georgia, Harvard, Missouri, Pittsburgh, Stanford, Temple, Texas, and Moscow universities.
Mr. Ashford serves on the Board of the Society for Energy and Environmental Research and on the Board of the INOVA Foundation. He is a member of the American Association of Political Consultants, the Harvard Club, the International Churchill Society, and the Scotch Malt Whisky Society.
David E. Baker, Brig. Gen. (USAF, Ret.)
General David Baker serves as Senior Vice President for the Stanford Washington Research Group which is part of Stanford Group Company. He was a highly decorated combat veteran fighter pilot and the only Air Force Prisoner of War repatriated from Cambodia at the end of the Vietnam War. In addition, the General returned to combat and flew 20 missions in the F-15E during Operation Desert Storm. Most recently, he served on the Joint Chiefs of Staff as the Deputy Director of Operations (National Systems Support).
Gen. Baker also served in the Pentagon as Vice Director for Operational Plans and Joint Force Development, J-7, Joint Chiefs of Staff. In that position, he was responsible for formulating Joint Professional Military Education policy and programs; conducting the Process for Accreditation of Joint Education; coordinating periodic review of all Joint Professional Military Education (JPME) curricula; and providing Joint Staff oversight to Centers for Regional Security Studies.
He received a BBA from Hofstra University and an MBA from the University of Hawaii (Beta Gamma Sigma).
Rear Admiral Karen Harmeyer
Rear Admiral Karen Harmeyer graduated from Creighton Memorial St. Joseph Hospital School of Nursing in Omaha, Nebraska; earned a Bachelor of Science Degree in Nursing from the University of Iowa; and, attained a Master of Arts Degree in Management from Webster University.
Currently, Admiral Harmeyer is employed by Naval Medical Center, Portsmouth, VA in the Healthcare Quality Improvement Department with professional nursing duties in utilization, quality and case management
Throughout her nursing career, Harmeyer served in the U.S. Naval Reserve holding assignments as commanding officer (at ranks of LCDR, CDR, and CAPT), executive officer, special projects manager, training and administrative officer for hospital augment units and the National Disaster Medical System. She held positions on the command staff of three Naval Reserve Readiness Command Regions (Charleston, SC, Great Lakes, IL, and New Orleans, LA); twice as Director, Health Services (highest medical position) for the multi-state commands.
Selected for Rear Admiral (lower half) in 1997, Harmeyer became the Deputy Director, Navy Nurse Corps, Reserve Component, responsible for over 2000 nurses. In June 2000, Rear Admiral Harmeyer became the Interim Director of the Navy Nurse Corps, responsible for over 5000 active duty and reserve Navy nurses. Rear Admiral Harmeyer received her second star and served as Chief Staff Officer, Navy Surgeon General, OPNAV 093R. Harmeyer was the first female and the first Nurse Corps Officer in the Naval Reserve to achieve this rank.
Dr. Herbert I. London
Dr. Herbert I. London is president of the Hudson Institute, a world-renowned think-tank in Washington, DC. He is the former John M. Olin Professor of Humanities at New York University, and he was responsible for creating the Gallatin School of Individualized Study in 1972 and served as its dean until 1992.
Dr. London is a graduate of Columbia University, 1960 and the recipient of a PhD from New York University, 1966. He is also professor emeritus at New York University.
Dr. London is a noted social critic whose work has appeared in every major newspaper and journal in the country including such diverse publications as Commentary, National Review, American Spectator, Wall Street Journal, Fortune, Washington Times, New York Magazine, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Modern Age, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Orbis, Encounter, Forbes, and The New Criterion. He is the author and editor of twenty-one books.
He has been a guest lecturer on many major radio and television news programs and at colleges and universities and has appeared as co-host on the popular CNN program, "Crossfire." He is the former chairman of the National Association of Scholars and the erstwhile editor of Academic Questions. He is presently a syndicated columnist with Knight-Ridder and was formerly syndicated by Bridge News. He is a contributing editor for St. Croix Review and American Arts Quarterly.
Dr. London is listed in the Outstanding People of the 21st Century; Directory of Distinguished Americans; Who's Who in Education; Who's Who in the East; Men of Distinction; Who's Who in America, Kingston’s National Registry of Who’s Who, and 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21st Century. Dr. London has received numerous awards including the Martin Luther King Award from the Congress of Racial Equality for Citizenship Achievement in 1966, and he was the first recipient of the Peter Shaw Award for his exemplary writing on higher education and American intellectual culture. In 2000, he received the Ellis Island Medal of Honor, in 2001 the American Jewish Congress Award, and in 2002 the Liberty and Media Award.
Harry Hagerty
Harry Hagerty is the President and Chief Executive Officer of Math Mastery, an e-Learning company that provides tutorial products for AOL, Discovery and 71,000 schools nationwide. He has served as Chairman and CEO of Systems Impact, Inc. since 1983, and is President of Hagerty & Associates, a company that invests in, and consults with, start-up and early-stage businesses.
Mr. Hagerty served as Chairman and CEO of Globalink, Inc., a translation software development and publishing company until its acquisition in 1998 by Lernout & Hauspie. Mr. Hagerty participated in the initial funding of the Discovery Channel and was founder of Digital Switch Corporation (now “DSC Communications, Inc.”). Mr. Hagerty graduated from West Point in 1962. He served with the 82nd ABN INF DIV from 1963 through 1965 and served in Viet Nam from1965 through 1966. He served as the Chair of Grantham University’s Military Advisory Board from 2005 – 2007.
