Roger Stone is a Partner at Potomac Ridge Consulting where he provides strategic growth and management consulting services to Fortune 100 clients seeking to expand market share in the federal, state, and local government sectors. Roger provides specialized advice and valuable strategic insight to clients obtained through his decades of bi-partisan service and success in both the public and private sectors. Roger has repeatedly been selected to appointed positions in both Democrat and Republican Administrations.
A retired U.S. Marine Corps officer, Roger served for more than two decades in both command and staff positions, including multiple combat tours in Iraq. His career is distinguished by service in the White House Military Office during the George W. Bush administration, and by his later selection for a Marine Corps Fellowship at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies. Roger’s decorations include the Bronze Star, Defense Meritorious Service Medals, Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and the NATO Medal among others.
Upon completion of his military service, Roger spent several years in the private sector where he served as an executive at CACI Inc., responsible for business development and strategic growth of a information technology portfolio. He consistently produced results, annually delivering on-contract and emerging opportunity growth in his market segment over a multi-year period. Additional private sector positions included Strategic Risk Management Consultant at AKIMA, and an Executive Management Consultant at the Patuxent Partnership, LLC where he provided specialized technical services to Department of Defense acquisitions officials for classified command and control systems.
Having achieved success in the private sector, Roger accepted an appointment as the Assistant Administrator for Continuity Operations at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) during the Obama Administration. He was responsible for coordinating risk management, continuity, and disaster recovery operations for federal departments and agencies, and directed the National Response Coordination Center, where he coordinated the federal response to 78 federally declared disasters.
Roger later served in the National Security Council as the Senior Director for Resilience, where he advised the National Security and Homeland Security Advisors and developed White House policy in the areas of cybersecurity, critical infrastructure protection, and homeland security.
Roger was appointed Deputy Assistant to the President, and Director of White House Information Technology and was responsible for oversight and direction of all aspects of the information technology enterprise supporting the President, the Vice President, and the White House staff.