People

Stanley Colvin

Board Member

Stanley Colvin, Principal at Colvin Consulting, specializes in government relations, strategic communications and compliance strategies, and is an accomplished administrative law and regulatory attorney with over thirty years of experience in all aspects of Agency regulatory actions.

Mr. Colvin brings to the JTG Board of Directors his solid U.S. Government expertise coupled with strong ties to the international affairs, intelligence and counter-terrorism communities. His knowledge stems from 16 years of experience at the U.S. Department of State in positions of increasing responsibilities, having served as Attorney-Advisor in the Office of Legal Advisor and both Officer Director and Deputy Assistant Secretary for Private Sector Exchange in the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs;  this is where he focused on building consensus to recognize the importance of the private sector in furthering the public diplomacy mission of the U.S. Government and its role in national security.   In his capacity as Senior Advisor, Mr. Colvin was assigned to serve as the counter-terrorism advisor to the Assistant Secretary of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to offer advice on how the Department of State’s public diplomacy budget and human resources could be leveraged to combat terrorism.  Prior to his tenure with the Department of State, Mr. Colvin served as an Assistant General Counsel at the United States Information Agency.

In addition to earning a Master of Public Administration from Harvard University in 1988 and a Juris Doctor from the University of Louisville in 1983, Mr. Colvin holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Security Studies from the U.S. Government’s National Defense University. He presented Department of State policy positions while attending a National Defense University program comprised of intelligence and counter-terrorism military and civilian professionals from 67 allied countries.

In 2015, Mr. Colvin was awarded the Department of State Distinguished Service Award.

W McKay (Mac) Henderson

Board Member

Mr. Henderson has over 30 years in Advisory and Management Consulting. Senior Partner of 350 plus Partners and staff in the PwC Washington Federal Practice. He has worked closely with the Department of Homeland Security, Department of Justice, and the Intelligence Community. Mr. Henderson has expertise in business (efficiency) transformation; financial, procedural, and human resource process improvement; business planning and strategy; program management, and fraud investigations. He also has additional experience in computer forensics, cyber security, litigation support, risk management, internal controls and compliance program assessments.

Mr. Henderson retired from PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC (PwC) after nearly 15 years. Most recently at PwC, he was the Sector Leader for Homeland Security and Law Enforcement in PwC’s WFP, which he co-founded in 2004. Previously in the commercial sector, Mr. Henderson focused on SEC client fraud investigations, served as National Leader of the Healthcare Fraud and Abuse Investigations Practice, and subsequently as Investigations Leader for the Americas for Coopers & Lybrand (C&L) (over 7 years) and PwC after the 1998 merger with Price Waterhouse. He assembled and lead a team comprised of forensic accountants, private investigators and computer forensics/cyber professionals.

Mr. Henderson is a Certified Public Accountant NC, VA, DC, and a Certified Fraud Examiner. He holds a BSBA, Accounting, from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978 – 1981. He brings to the JTG Board of Directors a very solid financial expertise coupled with strong ties to the intelligence and defense community, and his advice and guidance benefits the JTG management team.

Muriel Jérôme-O’Keeffe

Founder

Ms. Muriel Jérôme-O’Keeffe is the founder and former CEO of JTG. She continues to play an integral role at JTG, lending her support and expertise as a Board Member from 2016 to April 2021. Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe now serves on the Board of Advisors to the CEO. She is a recognized leader in the language and localization industry and is frequently called upon to consult on language issues impacting national security.

Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe founded the company in 1995 to respond to a growing need for professionalization of the language industry and to promote the integration of technology with education and language services. In 1996, JTG developed the Concept of Operations for the first online university in South East Asia. This pioneering work in the field of e-learning highlights Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe’s vision. She expanded the company in 2003, adding government services as a new business line. Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe designed a number of best-of-breed methodologies to increase productivity and accuracy in the production of language products, as well as a process to test and measure linguistic performance ability in real time.

Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe served on the board of the American Translators Association (ATA), the largest trade association in the language industry, as Director and President. During her tenure, Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe launched the effort to develop National Translation User Standards. She served on the board of the American Foundation for Translation and Interpretation (AFTI) as Director and President, which afforded her the opportunity to sponsor investment in quality education for those responsible for the future of our national security efforts. In 2000, she was appointed to the board of Semantix (acquired by Convera), a company that specialized in cross-lingual processing and computational linguistics technology.

Ms. Jérôme-O’Keeffe graduated Summa Cum Laude in English and Linguistics from Université de Haute Normandie, Rouen, France – Maîtrise.

Chris Rieley

Board Member

Chris Rieley has been in Banking since 2004, beginning his career with Riggs Bank in McLean, Virginia. He has worked at PNC Bank, Mercantile Potomac Bank and Virginia Heritage Bank, and most recently at Atlantic Union Bank (formerly Access National Bank) in Reston, Virginia since 2014. In his current role, Chris works with local business owners and real estate investors to provide Financial Products and advice with an expertise in commercial credit.

Chris is from Herndon, Virginia, and currently resides in Reston with his wife Lori. He is a graduate of Herndon High School ‘98, Lynchburg College’02, and the Leadership Fairfax Class of ‘14. Chris volunteers on the Northern Virginia Workforce Investment Board that helps to manage the 6 Northern Virginia Skillsource Career Centers.

Chris enjoys running marathons (really just to keep up with his wife Lori), backpacking in the outdoors, traveling abroad, and helping his commercial banking clients.