LEADERSHIP
Gregory K. Miller
Gregory K. Miller, Chairman and Founder of The Mission Essential Group, has spent his life dedicated to serving. For 16 years, he served in both reserve and active duty in the U.S. Army as a Special Forces soldier with multiple deployments in various conflict zones around the globe. It was during that time his exposure to the quality and level of service from other civilian contractors sparked the idea for the creation of Mission Essential. He instinctively knew that if he could put together the right team - with a common purpose and focus on the mission - that he could create a higher value, higher-performing support structure than he had experienced as a warfighter in-theater. In 2004, Mission Essential was born to provide top-notch Linguistic and Cultural Services to all branches of the military and other federal agencies. Today, what started as a single entity is now a multi-divisional conglomerate that continues to prospect and expand into further opportunities and customer sets.
Mark Quantock
Mark joined the Mission Essential leadership team in 2024 after serving as an EVP for a leading AI-enabled data-to-knowledge company. A retired Army Major General, he served more than 35 years of active federal service as a Military Intelligence officer - including multiple combat tours in the Middle East and South Asia. As Chief Operating Officer, Mark is responsible for leading Mission Essential's globally deployed workforce supporting a wide variety of customers across a number of mission spaces. A proven senior leader, Mark's executive leadership experience with working through our nation's most daunting issues helps enable Mission Essential to tackle our clients most vexing challenges.
Ralph Miller
Ralph has been with Mission Essential since 2014 after retiring as a Colonel from the U.S. Army. With over 26 years of active federal service in Military Intelligence and Armor, he brings a wealth of operational knowledge, international experience, and executive leadership to our team. As our Chief Financial Officer, Ralph continues to manage and direct the Enterprise Shared Services division comprised of Finance, HR, IT, Logistics, Security, and Contracting/Procurements.
Scott "Dutch" Murray
Scott F. “Dutch” Murray, joined Mission Essential in 2024 and serves as the Vice President of Growth. In that capacity, he leads all company growth efforts across the U.S. Government defense, intelligence and homeland security business development and sales portfolios. Dutch brings more than 29 years of experience as a military intelligence leader and six years as a text-based analytics and artificial intelligence commercial software-as-a-service (SaaS) executive. He retired from the Air Force in 2015 at the rank of Colonel.
John Doran
John, a seasoned leader in the intelligence community (IC) and language support, joined Mission Essential in 2008. With over 35 years of experience, he has been instrumental in driving operational excellence and strategic growth across global enterprises. His expertise in military intelligence, SIGINT operations, cyber defense, and language support was honed during a distinguished 22-year career in the U.S. Navy, where he supported the SIGINT community and retired as a senior enlisted Command Master Chief. In his current position as the Vice President of Language and Cultural Operations (Global), he oversees a large business unit operating in several countries and over 60 locations within the CONUS AOR. His responsibilities include driving customer growth and ensuring the delivery of high-value, mission-critical services across the IC, Cyber, and Language support domains.
Daniel Soller
Dan joined Mission Essential in 2024 and leads the company’s overseas operations. He is committed to providing world-class service to America’s forces on the front lines of freedom. He served nearly 32 years in the Army as an Infantry and Intelligence officer, retiring as a Colonel. He has commanded at every level and served in conventional Army units, Special Operations, and the Intelligence community. He worked mostly recently in the US space satellite and tech strategic advisory industries.
Greg Crawford
Greg Crawford joined Mission Essential in 2019 and currently serves as Vice President, National Security and Strategic Operations. As a strategic business leader with over 25 years of leadership experience, Greg oversees U.S. National Security contracts and directs Mission Essential intelligence operations worldwide. As a business leader in the national intelligence field, Greg collaborates with Intelligence Community (IC) leaders to ensure we share a common vision of mission success for all national security programs. He also leads Mission Essential’s Research and Development teams who explore advanced concepts in the intelligence and C2 fields responsible for identifying and building next generation solutions to fill critical intelligence capability gaps. Greg also guest lectures at the Institute for World Politics (IWP) in Washington, D.C and the University of Virginia’s, National Security Policy Center (NSPC), where he helps academia shape research that solves real-world security matters.