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Aric Gray founded Gray Ghost Solutions in 2019 and currently serves as the CEO. Inspired by his 30-year career in government, including executive roles at the State Department and as a Special Forces Green Beret, Aric wanted to offer his expertise and lessons learned to commercial markets.
Aric is an expert in crisis management, government relations and medical contingency operations, and has conducted sensitive operations around the world for decades. He has been recognized as a leader in frontier medicine providing crucial insight to corporate entities, government institutions and non-profits. He has deployed operationally to over 50 countries.
Before founding Gray Ghost, Aric spent two years at Banyan Risk Group serving as Managing Director, leading the global headquarters in Houston Texas. Prior to joining Banyan, Aric held the executive role of Director for Protective Medicine at the State Department where he was responsible for all medical components serving the Foreign Service, Consulates and Embassies worldwide. Before his time with the State Department, Aric served within the United States Army Special Forces as a Green Beret. In the Special Forces, Aric served as a counter terrorism and direct-action expert completing the Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis and Exploitation Techniques, Special Operations Sniper and Ranger schools.
Aric holds a master’s degree from George Washington University and a BA from Campbell University.
Reporting directly to the CEO/Founder, Elisa provides executive support in a one-on-one working relationship while serving as the primary point of contact for internal and external constituencies on all matters of the Office of the CEO. Simultaneously serving as a liaison to the senior management team. Elisa organizes and coordinates executive outreach and external relations efforts and oversees special projects as assigned by key executive management. Upon request, Elisa researches, prioritizes, and follows up on incoming issues and concerns addressed to the CEO, including those of a sensitive or confidential nature, determining the proper course of action, referral, or response. Her abundant resiliency is a key driver in affectively and diplomatically, but firmly, ensuring goals are met under the direction of the CEO. While overseeing the fast-paced environment in support of the office. She can quickly obtain information needed to move forward with a specific need or objective and mold positive interactions, tone, style etc. as needed based on the changing demands on the executive and the multiple internal and external customers and points-of-contact that continually access the executive offices.
As the “Gatekeeper” to G2’s CEO Elisa’s "Gateway" role is instrumental in creating win-win situations for direct access to the CEO's time and office. She routinely communicates directly, and on behalf of the CEO, on matters related to programmatic initiatives. Her dynamic personality enables her to provide a positive bridge for smooth communication between the CEO's office and internal departments, emphasizing leadership at every level to support credibility, trust, and support with senior management staff. Elisa takes part as an adjunct member of the Executive Team including assisting in scheduling meetings and attending all meetings, often representing the best interests of the CEO in his absence. In addition to her duties supporting the CEO she also aids in coordinating the agenda of senior management team meetings on and off-site, all staff meetings, as well as facilitating cross-divisional coordination of community outreach plans.
Her prior experience in managing large practical administration programs within neuropsychology settings, and providing small group facilitation for cognitively challenged individuals both within the institutional and practical settings, serves as a foundational element in her ability to maintain consistent and empathetic contributions to highly stressful situations which require a servant leader mentality.
Josh is the Managing Director, for Gray Ghost Solutions with expertise in crisis planning, emergency/disaster response, consequence management, risk management, training and exercise design. Josh has learned to translate complex problems to create simple, intuitive plans that are flexible in dynamic environments and easily understood in the chaos of the moment.
In his over twenty-year career with the military and Department of State, Josh has conducted diverse planning efforts including the US Government’s medical plan for the Rio Olympics; the diplomatic reentry of the embassies in Libya, Yemen, and Syria; and the largest bio-containment evacuation exercise ever conducted by any organization or government. For the latter, he controlled the operation from Africa to seven hospitals across the United States. Josh has direct experience with emergency management and crisis response— most prominently responding to seven overlapping hurricane landfalls (three catastrophic) over two seasons, coordinating relief to the US embassy in South Sudan with the resumption of their civil war, and coordinating US government response during the 2015 Mali Hotel Shooting.
Josh holds a master’s degree in International Relations and graduated with distinction from the University of North Georgia, earning a BS in Biology. An avid lifelong learner, Josh studies geopolitics and routinely attends courses across multiple domains including Harvard’s Leadership in Crisis program, the Army War College’s Defense Strategy Course, Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness courses, Combined Humanitarian Assistance and Response Team training, and the United Nation’s Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination course.
Thomas Jones is an Army Veteran with 25 years of expertise in planning and executing expeditionary medical support across the globe. His experience ranges from direct combat units to the strategic level. He has supported operations in Europe, Asia, the Middle East and North America and has served as a Foreign Military Advisor and All-Source Medical Intelligence Analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Christopher Frueh, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Trauma and Resilience Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX.
Chris has thirty years of professional experience working with military veterans and active-duty personnel, and has conducted clinical trials, epidemiology, historical, and neuroscience research, primarily with psychiatric patients, prisoners, and combat veterans. He has co-authored over 300 scientific publications (h-Index = 79; total scientific citations > 18, 000), including a historical analyses of U.S. Army suicides dating back to 1819 and a current graduate textbook on adult psychopathology.
Professionally, Chris worked with combat veterans since 1991 – and his earliest interview was with a veteran of the Spanish American War and the Battle of San Juan Hill. More recently he has devoted much of his time to the military special operations community. He has consulted extensively to US Congress, Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and the National Board of Medical Examiners.
Chris has published commentaries in the National Review, Huffington Post, New York Times, Time and Washington Post; and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Washington Post, Scientific American, Stars and Stripes, USA Today, Men’s Health, and Los Angeles Times, among others. Under the pen name Christopher Bartley, he has also published nine novels, including “THEY DIE ALONE” and most recently “A SEASON PAST.”
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