Michael Bayer
President/CEO, Dumbarton Strategies, and Board of Advisors Naval Postgraduate School

Michael Bayer is the President and CEO of Dumbarton Strategies which provides strategic planning and merger and acquisition counsel for enterprises engaged in the energy and national security sectors.  Mr. Bayer also serves as Director of Dyncorp International, Siga Technologies Inc, and Willbros Group Inc.  In addition, he is the Chairman of the Defense Business Board, a member of the Sandia National Laboratory’s National Security Advisory Panel, the Defense Science Board, the Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s National Security Strategic Advisory Group, and the CNO’s Executive Panel.  Early in his career, he was Counsel to a senior Member of the US House of Representatives, Deputy Assistant Secretary at the US Department of Energy, Malcolm Baldrige’s Associate Deputy Secretary of Commerce, Counselor to the US Synthetic Fuels Corp, Counselor to President Bush’s Commission on Aviation Security and Terrorism, and the Federal Inspector for the Alaska Natural Gas Transportation System.