Mark J. Gerencser
Mark Gerencser, Booz Allen Hamilton Senior Vice President, served as the Managing Director of the firm’s Global Government business, leading the expansion of public sector business within the U.S. and abroad. He served on the firm’s Board of Directors as well as on the Leadership Team that set Booz Allen’s strategic agenda, including market direction and strategy, resource allocation, and major investments. He also chaired the Corporate Ethics Committee, addressing ethics and compliance matters across the firm.
Elected vice president in 1995 and senior vice president in 2003, Mr. Gerencser now leads the firm’s efforts in modeling, simulation, wargaming, and analysis, and its strategic investment in cyber. He plays a lead role in helping clients develop, initiate, and sustain “megacommunities” to solve complex problems.
Previously, Mr. Gerencser built the firm’s National Security business, created the Homeland Security team, and started the commercial Enterprise Resilience business, serving clients in the consumer, financial services, energy, and healthcare industries.
Many of the external leadership roles in which Mr. Gerencser served included leading CEO summits addressing the interdependencies between business, trade, and security; leading a Cyber-Summit for Fortune 1,000 firm and government agency CIOs to create a shared agenda for information privacy and information assurance; chairing studies for the Electronics Industries Association (EIA) to forecast the impact of technological change on business; and representing industry to Office of Secretary of Defense (OSD) Net Assessment initiatives to assess the readiness level of U.S. defense capabilities.
Mr. Gerencser created the U.S. National Security Scholarship Program, which works with local universities and the federal government to recruit new talent into the national security community, and he was nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate Armed Services Committee as a member of the National Security Education Board. He is a member of Business Executives for National Security (BENS) and serves on its board of directors. He is also a member of the University of Maryland’s Board of Visitors and the advisory board of its Strategic Security Laboratory; the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA); and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). Consulting Magazine named him as one of the top 25 most influential consultants in 2007.
He has appeared on numerous television news programs (e.g., MSNBC, CNN, Fox News) and has been featured in print (e.g., Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, L.A. Times). Mr. Gerencser has authored articles on technology and its impact on business and national security, and co-authored the book, Megacommunities, which defines how leaders in government, private industry, and civil society can tackle today’s global challenges together.
He holds an M.S. degree in technology management from the University of Maryland University College and a B.S. in electrical engineering from Rutgers University College of Engineering.
profile updated December 2008