Bruce Pasternack Biography

Pasternack spent more than 28 years as a Senior Vice President of Booz Allen Hamilton, Inc., and was Managing Partner of its San Francisco Office. He was the founding partner and leader of Booz Allen's firm-wide organization and strategic leadership practice, which is concerned with top management organization, business model transformation and leadership issues. Previously, he led Booz Allen?s energy, chemicals and pharmaceuticals practice, was a member of Booz Allen's Board of Directors and chaired its personnel committee.

Along with a colleague, he wrote a book called The Centerless Corporation, published by Simon & Schuster in February 1998, and has published many other articles, including "Yellow Light Leadership" in The Wall Street Journal, and "The Four Bases of Organizational DNA" in strategy+business. He led a worldwide study with the World Economic Forum on how companies build the organizational capacity for leadership and renewal, which was reported on in Davos, Switzerland. His new book, Results: Keep What's Good, Fix What's Wrong and Unlock Great Performance, co-authored with Gary Neilson, Booz Allen Senior Vice President, will be published in October 2005 by Crown Business, a division of Random House.

Prior to joining Booz Allen, Pasternack was Associate Administrator for Policy and Program Evaluation at the Federal Energy Administration (predecessor of the Department of Energy), responsible for all energy policy development and coordination in the Executive Branch. He served as principal staff to the President's Energy Resources Council and participated in the Camp David Energy Summit.

Before coming to the FEA, he served as a staff member at the President's Council on Environmental Quality in the Executive Office of the President. His industrial experience includes more than four years at the General Electric Company's Space Division, where he was an aerospace systems engineer, and at Exxon Research and Engineering.

Bruce Pasternack is a member of the Board of Directors and Executive Committee of the Board of Special Olympics; the Board of Trustees at The Cooper Union; the Board of the Bay Area Council; and the Western Region Advisory Board of Catalyst. He served on the Advisory Council of Stanford University's Graduate School of Business; the Advisory Board of the North American Nutrition and Agribusiness Fund; the corporate Advisory Board of USC's Center for Effective Organizations (CEO); and the Board of Lifespring Home Nutrition. He was a member of the Governors for Energy of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, and is on the San Francisco Mayor's Municipal Fiscal Advisory Committee.

Pasternack has engineering and operations research degrees from The Cooper Union and the University of Pennsylvania.

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