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A former commanding officer of the USS Nimitz, Admiral Williamson has held leadership positions at Raytheon Company, Microsoft Corporation and The Severn Group, LLC.
As Microsoft’s first flag officer employee, he was responsible for sales, business development, and the capture/proposal process for the $1.6 billion Public Sector business.
At Microsoft, he created and was accountable for the company’s first-ever global government strategy and developed an Executive Partner Engagement methodology to build strong and beneficial relationships with system with the community of System Integrators that serve Federal and State & Local clients.
While at Raytheon, Admiral Williamson was responsible for its Navy C3I and ForceNet strategies, as well as leading its global communications unit, headquartered in London, UK. In these capacities, over $900 million in sales were attributed to programs awarded to Raytheon.
The Admiral also served as an instrumental member of then Senator Obama’s National Security Campaign team.
In this role, he exercised leadership within the team to highlight the need for greater transparency regarding cyber threats, vulnerabilities, and accelerated the introduction of technologies required to resolve and mitigate cyber issues.
Admiral Williamson graduated from the US Naval Academy, the US Naval Test Pilot School and the Naval War College. Executive level education was completed at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
