George Chewning is the Founder and Executive Director of the US-Ukraine Veterans Bridge, a nonprofit organization which connects the American veterans community with partners in Ukraine to help build an effective veteran support ecosystem. George is a US Army veteran and served as an Infantry Officer in Afghanistan. After leaving the military, he led machine learning solutions in large-scale computing environments at Facebook. George is a former White House Presidential Innovation Fellow and co-founded the first artificial intelligence office at the US Department of Veterans Affairs. He has also led strategic advisory for government service providers and domestic and foreign nonprofit organizations.

George earned a Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy, a Master of Business Administration from the George Washington University, and a Master of Arts in Public Leadership from the University of San Francisco. 

John W. Boerstler currently serves as the Head of Public Sector at Ipsos Public Affairs. Prior to his role at Ipsos, John served as the Chief Experience Officer at the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA). In this role, John provided oversight of the qualitative design and quantitative survey capabilities housed within the Veterans Experience Office and worked collaboratively within VA’s leadership to help achieve greater access and health outcomes for Veterans. Prior to his appointment at VA, he served as the Chief Executive Officer of Combined Arms, a disruptive technology company that ensures the social determinants of health (SDOH) are uniquely addressed for underserved populations. John is also a recipient of both the Eisenhower and Marshall Memorial Fellowships, having traveled globally to compare and develop military to civilian reintegration systems. As the first Marshall Prize recipient, John completed a 3-year project in Ukraine to assist in the development of their Ministry of Veterans Affairs – the first of its kind in Europe. John is a native Texan who served honorably in the U.S. Marine Corps as an infantry unit leader in the Iraq War and in East Africa. He holds a Master’s in Public Administration from the University of Houston and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from Texas A&M University and teaches a course on Customer Experience at Georgetown University.

Christoph Kedzior is a Berlin-based program assistant with GMF Risk and Strategy. He joined GMF as an intern after working as a trainee at the Swiss embassy in Qatar and completing his military service in Switzerland.

Kedzior holds a bachelor’s degree in international relations and organizations from Leiden University.