LEADERSHIP

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Founder and Chairman

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.  

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Chief Operating Officer

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.

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Executive Vice President

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 Executive Vice President, Ralph continues to manage and direct the Enterprise Shared Services division comprised of HR, IT, Logistics, Security, and Contracting/Procurements.

VP, GROWTH

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.

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VP, Operations

John Doran

John joined Mission Essential in 2008. He leads an extensive business unit spanning over 40 countries and is responsible for customer growth. John brings more than 35 years of experience in the intelligence community, 22 years of those serving in the US Navy. John retired from service as a senior enlisted Command Master Chief. 

 

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VP, Intel Programs

Greg Crawford

Greg Crawford joined Mission Essential in 2019 and serves as Vice President, Intelligence Programs. Greg has over 25 years of proven military and civilian leadership experience. As a strategic business leader in our Intelligence Business Unit, Greg directs our global intelligence operations and collaborates with the Intelligence Community (IC) to provide mission-critical national security resources. He’s also a guest lecturer at the University of Virginia’s, National Security Policy Center (NSPC) where he helps academia shape research that solves real-world security matters.