Mr. Gregory “Greg” S. Otey is a senior leadership expert with more than 25 years of international experience who successfully created teams and leveraged technology to resolve complex challenges. Mr. Otey possesses a distinguished record of leading/managing operations in large, diverse organizations from 400 to 5,000 personnel.  He is a driven professional with outstanding character, unquestionable integrity, agile learning, relationship building acumen, and polished communications skills to advance business interest in today’s multifaceted environment.

Mr. Otey served for more than 27 years in the United States Air Force and held several Senior Leadership positions during that time. He served as Director and U.S. Forces-Afghanistan Liaison to the U.S. Embassy in which he led a team of 22 military liaison officers to synchronize the U.S. diplomatic and military efforts with Afghanistan and coalition leadership. Mr. Otey also led the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) team, managing $167M and helping eliminate more than 500 metric tons of Syrian declared chemical agents. He synchronized, through collaboration, numerous U.S. inter-agencies and foreign entities to accomplish the first ever destruction of chemical weapons on a ship at sea. Mr. Otey led the team that worked internally and externally in the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Energy (DoE) to reach full operationally capability in support of the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile and combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). He led strategy and concept development to enhance DoD warfighting capability and structured a game changing $50M program for aerial delivered precision resupply, wherein supplies dropped from 20,000 feet precision guided to land within yards of troops in contact. His vision, strategy, testing, and employment saved lives.   

Mr. Otey is a learned professional with two MA degrees, one in Strategic Studies from the Air War College and one in Strategic Studies and National Security from the College of Naval Command, as well as a BS degree in Civil Engineering from Virginia Military Institute. He further studied Executive Leadership under the Kenan-Flagler Business School at the University of North Carolina and National Security Studies at the Elliott School of International Affairs under George Washington (GW) University.

Mr. William R. “Ronnie” Faircloth, formally a member of the Senior Executive Service (SES), was the Director, Operations, Readiness and Exercises (J3/7), for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency (DTRA) and the USSTRATCOM Center for Combating Weapons of Mass Destruction (SCC-WMD). DTRA/SCC-WMD safeguards America and its allies from WMD (chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear, and high explosives) by providing capabilities to reduce, eliminate, and counter the threat, along with mitigating its effects. Mr. Faircloth oversaw the organization’s worldwide efforts supporting Combatant Commanders, U.S. allies, and partner countries with highly specialized CWMD expertise and training, and executing a number of U.S. treaties, including New START and Open Skies, to reduce and eliminate the threat posed by WMD.

Mr. Faircloth is a retired U.S. Army colonel who served for 30 years in a variety of command and staff positions. He served as the Army Force Integration staff officer responsible for the research, development and fielding of new nuclear weapons systems while assigned to the Department of the Army, deputy chief of staff for Operations and Plans staff. He also served as special advisor to the Army Chief of Staff. While serving with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, he was involved with all facets of the ratification of the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), the negotiation of the START II Treaty and other new strategic nuclear arms control initiatives. Mr. Faircloth further served as chief of the Initiatives Division, U.S. Nuclear Command and Control System (NCCS) support staff, reporting to the Secretary of Defense who is the executive agent to the president for the NCCS. This staff leads the DoD and eight other federal departments and agencies to improve the full range of nuclear command and control activities.

Mr. Faircloth earned a BA from The Citadel, Charleston, S.C., and he is a graduate of the National War College, Air Command and Staff College, Field Artillery Officer Basic and Advanced courses, Airborne School, and NATO’s Nuclear and Chemical Target Analyst Course. His military awards and decorations include the Defense Superior Service Medal, Legion of Merit, Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service Commendation Medal, Army Commendation Medal, Army Achievement Medal, and various other personal and unit decorations.

Mr. John Walton is the Senior Vice President of Counter Threat Services for ARServices. He serves as the Program Manager for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency’s (DTRA) Research and Development (RD) Project Management Office (PMO) Advisory and Administrative Services (A&AS) contract. He provides ARServices further with overall management and direction for more than 130 FTEs in support of DTRA RD’s $1B annual Science and Technology (S&T) program. Prior to coming to ARServices, Mr. Walton served as the Department Task Lead for the DTRA RD’s CWMD Technologies Department (RD-CX) on the DTRA RD PMO A&AS contract, where he led and managed more than 50 FTEs focused on countering threats.

Mr. Walton is a retired U.S. Army Officer with more than 28 years of leadership in senior program/project management, risk management, strategic planning, process improvement, DoD acquisition, program objective memorandum (POM)/planning, programming, budgeting and execution (PPBE), C-UAS, and solution implementation. He has extensive federal experience and provides core expertise in the areas of program and systems integration, DoD acquisition processes and procedures, and risk mitigation with a focus on asymmetric threats. Mr. Walton has a deep understanding of DoD and Army-related portfolio challenges and CWMD scope areas, to include countering uncrewed systems. He is thoroughly versed in DoD planning processes and navigating organizational infrastructures with extensive experience in DoD’s POM and PPBE processes.

Mr. Walton spent five years as a leader in the U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Group focused on identifying asymmetric threats and solutions and assisting federal organizations in building risk-mitigating solutions to complex problems. He also spent two years in the Special Operations community serving in the 75th Ranger Regiment, along with multiple combat tours in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo, Saudi Arabia, and Kuwait at various echelons of leadership. He has a BS in Management from the American Public University System and a MS in Management and Systems Engineering from the United States Military Academy, is a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE), and maintains an active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance.

Mr. William Harman spent nine years in uniform and an additional six years supporting DTRA as a contractor. He is a former Deputy Director for the Research and Development Directorate, Deputy Chief of the Nuclear Weapons Effects Division and Branch Chief of the Nuclear Assessments Branch in Nuclear Technologies Department (RD-NT) and a Weapons Effects Program Manager in DTRA’s Technology Development Office (now Counter WMD Technologies [RD-CX]). After retiring from the Army in 2014 as a Colonel, Mr. Harman supported DTRA in leading a variety of DTRA contracts, including advisory & assistance services (A&AS) support to DTRA’s J10 Nuclear Enterprise Directorate (NE), J3/7 Operations, Readiness, and Exercises, and Cooperative Threat Reduction Directorate. While at ARServices as the former Senior Vice President of Operations, Mr. Harman managed a DTRA portfolio that included the RD PMO A&AS contract plus four other DTRA CBRN-related contracts.

Prior to ARServices, Mr. Harman held significant leadership positions at Branch Civil, where he was the Director of Operations, as well as at Engility Corporation, where he oversaw CBRN operations and provided strategic support to various DoD initiatives. His contributions at Engility included leading a portfolio supporting DoD with advisory and assistance services, enhancing CBRN capabilities, and managing extensive teams and budgets.

Mr. Harman’s career is marked by his strategic and operational acumen in both military and civilian roles. While serving as the Deputy Director for Research and Development at DTRA, he managed a $1B annual portfolio focused on CWMD and high explosives. Mr. Harman holds a Master’s Degree in Strategic Studies from the U.S. Army War College and a Master’s in Nuclear Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology.

Ms. Gupta, as the Sr. Director of Talent Acquisition & People Operations at ARServices, leads all Human Resources (HR), recruiting, onboarding, retention, and personnel coordination activities across the company. With a passion for helping people, Marie has developed an extensive career in recruitment and talent management. Her journey includes key roles at mid to large organizations such as GTSI, L3 Communications, IBM, TASC/Engility, and Northrop Grumman.

In the last 8 years, Ms. Gupta advanced into a leadership role within a 1300-person business unit at ManTech, where she supported a General Manager/Senior Vice President and three Vice Presidents while leading a team of fifteen recruiters. Utilizing networking capabilities alongside traditional sourcing methods, Marie successfully recruited specialized talent in Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, and high-yield Explosives (CBRNE), Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD), and medical countermeasures. She focused on filling roles in engineering and technical fields, analysis, scientific research, and program management. She then served as the Director of Recruiting at Quadrint, Inc., where she empowered teams by connecting talent with the right opportunities. Under her leadership, Quadrint experienced a 43% growth, followed by a successful acquisition by CACI.

Ms. Gupta brings invaluable skills such as strategic thinking, business process improvement, optimizing technology for productivity, and a customer-centric mindset. She emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, proactive communications, and being data-driven. Combining a collaborative spirit, emotional intelligence, and intellectual intelligence, she embodies and manages ARServices’ human capital management initiatives as a dedicated brand ambassador. Ms. Gupta holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from Frostburg State University.