Board Members

Meet the Board

Col. Jake Graham

Advisor

Colonel Jacob L. Graham, USMC (Ret) is a Professor of Practice at The Pennsylvania State University College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) and Director of the Center for Network Centric Cognition and Information Fusion (NC2IF). Jake is the Director of the Red Cell Analytics Lab and teaches Security and Risk Analysis. His passion is writing and facilitating Analytic Decision Games, teaching analytic methods and mentoring students and is the author of more than 25 academic publications. He is married to Dr. Kim Graham, a Penn State Graduate and retired Lieutenant Colonel of Marines. He and Kim have two children, Meghan, 23, a recent graduate of Penn State, now working as a DoD Analyst and Brett, 19, a redshirt freshman football player at UCONN.

Sarah Rajtmajer

Assistant Advisor

Sarah Rajtmajer is an Assistant Professor in the College of Information Sciences and Technology and core faculty in the Rock Ethics Institute. Before joining the Penn State faculty, she served as a consultant to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency (IARPA) on scientific programs related to computational social science, big data and machine learning. Prior to her work in consulting, Dr. Rajtmajer was an Intelligence Community Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Applied Research Laboratory and a Postdoctoral Scholar in the Department of Mathematics at Penn State. Dr. Rajtmajer has a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Zagreb, Croatia, and a BA in Mathematics from Columbia University.

Nathan Tack

Student Director

Nathan is a Junior majoring in Applied Data Sciences with a focus in Cybersecurity. He joined RCAL in his freshman year and was thoroughly thrilled to find a community of students dedicated to Security and Risk Analysis by Red Teaming. Nathan also enjoys working as a Learning Assistant in Calculus and Data Science classes. In his spare time, he plays the piano, practices with his yo-yos, and plays games with his friends and family.

Charlotte Burt

Deputy Director

Charlotte is a Junior in the college of IST. She is majoring in Security Risk Analysis (SRA). In addition to RCAL, Charlotte serves as Secretary of Gamma Tau Phi (IST Honor Society). Charlotte enjoys running, playing the piano, and painting in her free time.

Ronan Berger

Operations Officer

Ronan is a Senior studying Security Risk Analysis with a focus on Intelligence Analysis and Modeling. Ronan is a big sports fan, and his favorite teams are the Pittsburgh Penguins and the New York Yankees.

Kaelin Churchill

Communications Officer

Kaelin is a junior, majoring in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations with a law and policy focus. Additionally, she has a minor in Security Risk Analysis. Kaelin joined Red Cell to participate in penetration testing and red team / blue team scenarios. In her free time, Kaelin enjoys spending time with her cat, Juniper, and listening to music.

Wyatt Gould

Financial Officer

Wyatt is a Senior majoring in Security Risk Analysis with the Intelligence and Modeling focus, and minoring in both German and Economics. He also works as a Learning Assistant in the college of IST and enjoys playing intramural soccer in his spare time.

Michael Smith

Logistics Officer

Mike is a Senior studying Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations. In addition to RCAL, Michael is involved in Gamma Tau Phi (IST Honor Society), Army ROTC, the Cadet Relations Team, and IM Racquetball. In his free time, he enjoys running, lifting, and playing guitar.

Colin Pierce

Science and Technology Officer

Colin is a Senior majoring in Cybersecurity Analytics and Operations focusing in geopolitics. Colin is also minoring in Security Risk Analysis. He is an LA for SRA 231, Decision Theory and Analysis. Colin enjoys programming, video games, and movies in his spare time.

Ronan Berger

Operations Officer

William A. Parquette

Co-Advisor

Mr. Parquette was formerly the Chairman of the Foreign Denial and Deception Committee (FDDC) of the National Intelligence Council (NIC), Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI). Mr. Parquette was full time faculty at the National Intelligence University (NIU) for thirteen years and formerly from NIC for the past 17 years. Mr. Parquette has 22 years’ experience in strategic intelligence, denial and deception operations, planning, analysis, and collection as an operator, educator and senior policy advisor. Mr. Parquette is well versed in the sources of foreign knowledge, adversarial reasoning, information security and management as it pertains to issues in the government and the of the Intelligence Community (IC). Mr. Parquette has provided subject matter expertise in the areas of strategic intelligence, deception analysis, Foreign Denial & Deception (FDD), Military Deception, Information Operations (IO), Information Warfare (IW), and Strategic Planning for a variety of clients. Mr. Parquette is a retired Lieutenant Colonel with twenty-two years of active service and nineteen years’ experience as a program manager in the United States Government (USG), Intelligence Community (IC). Mr. Parquette holds an M. Ed, Loyola University, Maryland, M.A., Webster University, St. Louis, Missouri, and a B.S. from Northeastern University, Boston.

Lest We Forget

Captain Samuel Schultz - Founding Board Member, 2008

On April 3, 2018, Captain Samuel Schultz was killed when his CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter crashed outside the border town of El Centro, California. Three other members of his squadron were also killed in the crash. Sam was a 2012 graduate of Penn State University and was commissioned through the NROTC program as a Marine Option Midshipman. Sam’s memory is preserved in perpetuity at the Penn State NROTC unit through the Captain Sam Schultz Memorial Award and a memorial in the Wagner Building lobby that recognizes all Penn State Sailors and Marines killed in the line of duty since 9/11. Rest in peace Sam.

Semper Fidelis

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