Matthew J. Louis, (LTC USA, Ret.) is the President of Purepost, a next-generation staffing solution and public benefits corporation whose goal is to level the playing field in the nation's talent market. Louis holds an MBA in operations and finance from the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University and a BS in mechanical engineering from West Point. He's also a graduate of the US Army Command and General Staff College. Additionally, Louis served in the Southwest Asia combat theater and on the staff of the US Army's Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. His first book
Mission Transition (HarperCollins, 2019) is the most awarded book of its kind. Louis was selected to replace Dr. Jill Biden on JPMorgan Chase's influential external advisory council, where he advises the organization on its veteran-related efforts. He serves as the veteran Transition Assistance officer for his West Point class and co-chairs the Military Transition Advocacy Roundtable, a nationwide unincorporated non-partisan group of veteran collaboratives that shares best practices and advocates for supportive legislation on their behalf. He also serves as an advisor to the boards of Soldiers To Sidelines and YourNexStage, and is a member of the Business Resource Group Association for Diversity and Inclusion of Veterans (BRGAD-V). He is also a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the Association for Talent Development.
Anthony R. Garcia, Sr.,
Ph.D. (LTC USA, Ret.) is the Chief Science Officer, Board Chairman & creator of "PRISM" - the Science Behind Purepost Inc. and the Purepost Knowledge Center. Dr. Garcia also serves as President of G3 Leadership & Organizational Consulting. He is a recognized Leadership, High-Performance Work Systems, and Competency Modeling practitioner, researcher, and theoretician. Previously, he served as the Director of Manufacturing Operations, Director of Human Resources, Senior Corporate Consultant for Leadership and Organizational Transformation, and Manager of Leadership and Organizational Development for H-E-B Grocery Company, LP.
