Mr. John R. Campbell Appointed Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care & Transition Policy

In 2010, Mr. John R. Campbell was appointed by the Secretary of Defense as the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy, where he will be responsible for ensuring wounded, ill, injured and transitioning Service members receive high quality services and experience a seamless transition to civilian life.

The Mission of the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Wounded Warrior Care and Transition Policy is to ensure wounded, ill, injured & transitioning warriors receive high quality care & seamless transition support through proactive leadership, responsive policy, effective oversight & interagency collaboration.

In 2007, Campbell founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of MyVetwork, LLC, which is a novel on-line community utilized to connect our service men and women to job opportunities and to one another for trusted mutual support.  His community is predicated on the belief that Americans have a sacred trust with the military personnel who serve this nation.

From 1997- 2007, Mr. Campbell served as Chief Financial Advisor and Senior Advisor for Wf360, where he helped create  transformative conversations that achieve a variety of specific goals for large organizations with dispersed workforces, as well as companies interested in leveraging customer relationships. Wf360 Global Conservationalists have included Meg Whitman, CEO of eBay, General James Jones, Supreme Allied Commander of NATO Forces, amongst several other notables.

Prior to his service with Wf360, Mr. Campbell co-owned S.W. Bird & Company, Inc., where he managed an entrepreneurial real estate brokerage and investment company.  He has held a variety of high ranking leadership positions within the top financial institutions in the world. This includes his service as Managing Director Senior Advisor for Credit Suisse First Boston, where he served in the capacity of Chief of Staff, implementing strategic planning, budgeting, financial analysis, and resource management. Before serving in this capacity, Mr. Campbell served in several roles in senior management for Credit Suisse including: Managing Director Senior Advisor and Head of Commercial Banking – North America.

His tenure within the financial sector also encompassed positions of high leadership within J.P. Morgan and Company, Inc. such as:  Vice President and Head of Administration for the Corporate Finance and Treasury Operations Support Group.  In this capacity, he was responsible for a diverse series of activities including profit and global planning for Corporate Finance Technology and Facilities needs. Before this position, he served as Vice President and General Manager and Vice President and Department Head. In both capacities, he managed a budget of $1.5 billion and $1billion dollars respectively and served as Head of the Latin American Group. Mr. Campbell played a key role in merging National and International Banking Division and his accomplishments included initiating standardized banker workstation, consolidating dual expense reporting system, monitoring cost structure in foreign branches, and designing Annual Management Meeting.

Mr. Campbell served in Vietnam with the United States Marine Corps as a Platoon Commander from 1967-1970, where he received two purple hearts. Mr. Campbell holds a Bachelors of Science in Business Administration (B.S.B.A.) from Georgetown University and a Masters of Business Administration (M.B.A.) from Columbia University.