Maggart, Lon E.

• Maggart, Lon E. "Bert"

Bert Maggart has over 46 years of leadership experience in both small groups and very large, complex organizations.  He is an experienced speaker and author on leadership, organizational development, critical thinking, and thinking models. He completed his military career as the Commanding General, Fort Knox, Kentucky. Since retirement he has held various leadership positions in the civilian sector (RTI) to include Director, Center for Semiconductor Research, where he was responsible for overseeing research in heterojunction bipolar transistors, plasma technology, wafer bonding, thermoelectrics, and radiation hardening. He served as the Interim Senior Vice President, Engineering, with oversight of technology programs in fuels, environmental science, chemical analysis, filtration, aerospace, agricultural science, and technology assisted learning.  As Senior Vice President, Operations, Maggart was responsible for coordinating the day-to-day operations of the organization to include facilities, security, both domestic and international, and the regional offices. In his current position as Executive Vice President, International Development, he is responsible for 120 contracts, 278 international staff and 1,333 cooperating country nationals in 50 countries that generate $280 million in revenues annually.

Maggart retired as a major general in the U.S. Army and is a veteran of the Vietnam War and the first Gulf War. He received a BA in Political Science at Kansas State University in 1966 and an MS in Human Resource Management from the University of Utah in 1974. His military education includes the Center for Creative Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina; the Army War College at Carlisle Barracks, Pennsylvania; and the U.S. Army Command and the General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.

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