Vice Admiral Ann Rondeau U.S. Navy (ret.); Strategy and Transformation Partner, IBM, Global Business Services
Her last active duty assignment was President, National Defense University. Serving in the Navy during dynamic years of transition, Rondeau served in leadership, staff and command assignments in myriad mission areas: fleet operations (anti-submarine warfare, air operations, operations, intelligence, maritime transportation and sealift), strategy and policy, policy planning, operations analysis, training and education, workforce development, business enterprise and shore installations. She was selected as a White House Fellow, Chief of Naval Operations Strategic Studies Group Fellow and became permanent member of the Council of Foreign Relations. As president of NDU, she was a member of the Board of Directors of the United States Institute of Peace and served as a Department of Defense liaison to The Center for the Study of the Presidency and Congress. She has been active with the National Defense Transportation Association. Rondeau is a member of the Board of Directors of the German Marshall Fund, the American Public University System and is a member of the Center for Naval Analysis Military Advisory Board and the Atlantic Council. Rondeau holds a Bachelors Degree in History and Social Science from Eisenhower College, a Masters Degree in Comparative Government from Georgetown University and a Doctorate in Education from Northern Illinois University and has attended several senior executive training and education courses and seminars.
She is currently an executive with IBM as Strategy and Transformation Partner and DoD Supply Chain Innovation Leader in IBM, Global Business Services, Public Sector.