Board Alumni

Sharon Marr Brown is Philanthropist who has donated time and resources to many causes over more than sixty years. She  holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Northwestern University and a Master of Science degree from Boston University. She has served on numerous boards of both for-profit and non-profit organizations. She was a member of the Junior League and an early advocate for sex education to reduce teen pregnancy. Active in her local community, she and her late husband, the Reverend Badon Brown, donated both time and resources to create the Brown Arts Center Aiken  and the Marr Training Center at the SPCA Albrecht Animal Welfare Center in Aiken, SC. With a lifelong love of the arts, she helped bring Julliard to Aiken for an annual concert series entitled “Joye in Aiken”. Sharon was selected to join the Chorus of the Dallas Ballet as a young woman. However, she chose to further her education instead. She brings that level of commitment and energy to every project she undertakes. Having travelled around the world, her interest in alleviating human suffering , reducing wildlife crime, and supporting democratic reform led her to join the C4ADS Board of Directors.

Lester S. Hyman, a distinguished American attorney, political advisor, and ardent supporter of the arts, passed away on May 9, 2025, in Washington, D.C.  Lester served on the C4ADS Board of Directors from 2008 to 2018.

After honorable service in the U.S. Navy and as a cub reporter for the Brown Daily Herald, Lester began his legal career as an attorney in the Corporate Finance Division of the Securities and Exchange Commission. He then moved to Massachusetts, where he quickly became active in Democratic politics. A protégé of John F. Kennedy, Lester was closely connected to the Kennedy family and played a pivotal role in Massachusetts political life. He served as chief assistant to Governor Endicott Peabody, Secretary of Commerce and Development for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, and chairman of the Massachusetts Democratic Party in the late 1960s.

He later co-founded the prominent law firm Swidler Berlin, helped launch the non-partisan Center for National Policy, monitoring elections in Haiti, served on the Franklin D. Roosevelt Memorial Commission, and vetted candidates for key cabinet posts in the Clinton administration, Lester embraced the life of an engaged citizen.

Lester also maintained a deep affinity for the British Virgin Islands, where he built a home on Tortola in 1987. For more than three decades he championed the territory’s interests in Washington D.C., particularly on issues of travel, finance, and education. He was a committed board member of the H. Lavity Stoutt Community College and the National Parks Trust in the BVI, significantly contributing to the community’s development.

Sue Weisenbarger Kelly is an American businesswoman and politician who served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1995 to 2007, representing New York’s 19th District. She was elected to the seat that had been held by Republican Hamilton Fish IV. Rep. Kelly served on the C4ADS Board of Directors from 2008 to 2022.

Rep. Kelly received the Outstanding Legislator of the Year Award in 2005 and the Charles Dick Medal of Merit in 2001.

Jerrold M. Post, a professor and groundbreaking psychological profiler for the CIA, served on the C4ADS Board of Directors between 2004-2008. Dr. Post passed away in December 2020.

His storied career was covered in an obituary in The Washington Post but Dr. Post devoted his entire career to the field of political psychology. He came to support C4ADS’ work on cognitive science after a 21-year career with the Central Intelligence Agency where he founded and directed the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior, an interdisciplinary behavioral science unit that provided assessments of foreign leadership and decision-making for the president and other senior officials to prepare for summit meetings and other high-level negotiations and for use in crisis situations.

As a professor at George Washington University, Dr. Post was the founding director of the Political Psychology Program and had appointments to both the Elliott School of International Affairs and the School of Medicine and Health Sciences.

In his work for the U.S. government, Dr. Post played a key role in developing the “Camp David profiles” of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for President Jimmy Carter prior to the face-to-face negotiations that led to the Camp David Peace Accords between Egypt and Israel. He also initiated the U.S. government program in understanding the psychology of terrorism.

In recognition of his leadership of the Center for the Analysis of Personality and Political Behavior at the CIA, Dr. Post was awarded the Intelligence Medal of Merit in 1979. He received the Studies in Intelligence Award in 1980 and the Nevitt Sanford Award for Distinguished Professional Contributions to Political Psychology in 2002.

A founding member of the International Society of Political Psychology, Dr. Post was elected vice president in 1994 and served on the editorial board of Political Psychology since 1987.

He also continued work as a consultant for the CIA, wrote 14 books and continued to see patients out of his home.

Dr. Richard Wirt, M.S., Ph.D., is a senior technology executive with 35 years of experience in the computer industry who served on the C4ADS Board of Directors from 2006 to 2022, including as Chairman of the Board from 2010 to 2022.

Dr. Wirt was Managing Director and General Partner at Oxantim Ventures and Vice President and General Manager of Intel Corporation’s Software and Solutions Group. He developed and nurtured the Intel software group from when he founded it in 1982 to a 3000 person worldwide operation in 2007. Working closely with Intel Capital, Dr. Wirt made many successful worldwide investments including 10 large acquisitions of software companies. Operating at the highest executive level, Dr. Wirt worked with Intel industry partners such as Microsoft, Dell, Oracle, HP, IBM, NEC, Fujitsu, Redhat, and many others, building ecosystems to grow Intel’s processors’ market while maintaining more than 85% market share. In 2007 Dr. Wirt also served as Chief Scientist and Executive Vice President at In-Q-Tel, a technology investment group that supports the U.S. government.