Since 2011, Stuart Taylor has served as the President and CEO, of the Allied Forces Foundation, Inc., (AFF) an American-British philanthropic organization that promotes awareness and funding for the common wounded, ill and injured (WII) service personnel and their families affected by the conflicts and most recently Iraq and Afghanistan.

Mr. Taylor served 25 distinguished years with the British Army where he rose too the position of Warrant Officer Class 1 (WO1) Command Sergeant Major. Mr. Taylor completed multiple deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan.  This drove him to support the needs of wounded warriors, families, and caregivers with challenge-based events.

Mr. Taylor is the President & CEO of Stucan Solutions, Corp a Defense and Security consultancy supporting international companies penetrate the U.S. market and is based out of Leesburg, Virginia.

Danny attended the University of Florida as a second generation Gator and received his Bachelor’s of science in Journalism. While there, he was the Captain of the UF Club Lacrosse Team and the Cadet R.O.T.C. Battalion Commander. During his tenure in Gainesville, Danny served in the Florida National Guard with the 124th Infantry Regiment in Leesburg, Florida.

Upon graduation, Danny was commissioned as an Infantry Officer in the United States Army. During his time in the military, Danny was deployed to South Korea as a line platoon leader and later assigned to various leadership positions within the US Army Airborne School. While there, he was a jumping member of the historic Fort Benning Command Exhibition Parachute Team, “The Silver Wings.” Before he separated from the service, he earned a Masters of Science degree in Education from Troy State University in Alabama.
 

Dr. Brown is a retired U.S. Army combat veteran and highly respected leader with nearly 30 years of success managing high performing joint military and international government teams. As a Blackhawk Pilot, Strategist, and Force Manager, she has extensive experience across multiple disciplines including continuity of government, national contingency operations, homeland security, emergency management, disaster response, policy development, and aviation operations. Her wide-ranging military career includes service in the President’s Emergency Operations Center at the White House, Senior Military Fellow for the Chief of Staff of the Army’s Strategic Studies Group, and Military Advisor to Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection and Secretary, Department of Homeland Security. Her combat experience includes deployments in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) and Operation Enduring Freedom (OEF) – Afghanistan.​

John Perkins is a retired Partner from Deloitte Consulting and now operates his own firm SRJ Consulting, LLC.  John has extensive experience consulting in the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). The most rewarding experience of his entire career was working as a Deloitte co-leader establishing the Warrior Games with the DoD, VA and US Olympic Committee.  Until his retirement in 2018 John continued his support of the wounded, ill and injured service members through the Warrior Games and PGA Hope.   John has served as an Allied Forces Foundation Board ember since 2021 and is currently Board Secretary

John earned an MBA from Anna Maria College and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Massachusetts – Lowell.

Mylee Cardenas is an Army veteran who spent twelve years serving the United States in two conflicts during the Global War on Terror. Always pushing the envelope, Mylee pioneered new ground in the military as a woman, traversing heavily entrenched barriers in the U.S. Special Operations community, ultimately serving with small Special Forces teams in rural Afghanistan. Combat has a tendency to ignore gender. Realizing and adapting to this fact this early on, Mylee was able to positively contribute to daily combat operations shoulder-to-shoulder with her male teammates.

Upon returning home from the battlefield, Mylee was diagnosed with advanced stage breast cancer. After another hard fought battle, and with her daughter at her side, she emerged cancer free and ready for life's next challenge. Now medically retired from the military, Mylee continues to press the boundaries of generally male dominated professions. Returning to some of the most dangerous places on earth, this time as a civilian, she has pushed deep into war-torn Kurdistan to tell the stories of female Kurdish fighters in northern Iraq.

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Colonel Paul Bates is the UK National Liaison Representative to the NATO Headquarters Supreme Allied Commander Transformation. He is married to Claire, a journalist, who is currently Head of Defence Communications in the UK Embassy in Washington DC. They have two boys - Joe, 17 and Jimmy, 15.

He was commissioned to the Royal Artillery of the British Army in 1992 and was immediately deployed for his first operational tour to Northern Ireland as an infantry platoon leader.

Since that time, he has completed two tours in Iraq; the first in 2004, leading his Battery in an infantry role training Iraqi Border Police, and the second as a Battle Group Chief of Staff. In addition, he has deployed twice with the United Nations in Cyprus in a peacekeeping role. His last deployment was to Afghanistan for a year in 2011-12 where he was embedded with the United 

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