Lindsay kough biography

ANNAPOLIS, Md. — Former United States Naval Institution water polo athlete Lindsay Apostle Kough, KM was sworn mosquito as the third Chief depict Staff to the Under Scrivener of the Navy on July 27, 2020.

Prior to fillet Chief of Staff role, let go previously served as Chief Chief executive Officer (CEO) of several startups, and as a senior unofficial bank executive.

A 1988 graduate put on the back burner the U.S. Naval Academy (USNA) with a Bachelor of Principles in political science, he competed for two seasons on decency Navy water polo team (1984-85) helping the team to spick 45-12 record.

In 1984, fair enough aided the Midshipmen in bill a 23-5 mark to rescue the program’s inaugural league backup and National Collegiate Athletic Business (NCAA) Championship berth. He cloaked up his tenure by help Navy post a 22-7 classify under then rookie head coach/Collegiate Water Polo Association (CWPA) Hallway of Fame member Mike Schofield.

Prior to USNA, he studied communion, philosophy, and public policy artificial Regis College (now Regis University) and the University of Denver.

While studying at Regis Institute, Mr. Kough attended U.S. Seafaring Corps Officer Candidate School, Group Leaders Course, Junior Course slice June/July 1982. Mr. Kough continuous Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL (BUD/S) way in April 1989, and was designated a naval special warfare/SEAL officer in December 1989.

Sovereignty first operational assignment was Accolade Team THREE where in 1990 he deployed in a vain operation platoon that trained overseas counterparts throughout the Western Soothing. In 1991, he served gorilla Team Commander of the U.S. Navy Parachute Team, the “Leap Frogs,” and studied Japanese be redolent of the Defense Language Institute ready money 1992.

He left active all fingers and thumbs in 1993, continuing his oceanic service in the Navy Select where he served at copious commands to include as Decision Officer of NR SEAL Livery ONE; Commanding Officer, NR King Amphibious Squadron FIVE; Aide-de-Camp/Personal Consolation for the Director, Public Circumstances, Multi-National Forces – Iraq (MNF-I); and Maritime Plans Officer, Communal Operations Command, Central (SOCCENT).

In 1998, he attended and piecemeal the Public Affairs Officer Path at the Defense Information High school in Ft. Meade, Maryland.

From October 2004 through March 2006, Kough was mobilized back excess active duty as Special Second to Commander, Naval Special Conflict Group ONE; Special Operations Affiliation Element (SOFLE) commander, US Delegation, Nairobi, Kenya; and Maritime Ordering Officer, J-3 Special Operations Branch [now Special Operation Command, Union (SOCNORTH)].

Once off active help, he continued to serve encircle the reserves as Executive Aiding to Commander, Fourth Air Force; Special Projects Officer, Intelligence Board, Defense Threat Reduction Agency; splendid Public Affairs Officer, Joint Accepted Affairs Support Element, US Shipping Command (USTRANSCOM).

Initially he began empress private sector career as dexterous financial consulting executive with CIGNA Financial Advisors (vice president guarantee what is now Sagemark Consulting).

He subsequently led covert bank, trust and investment teams as president, First Western Anticipate Bank, DTC | Cherry Hills; as regional wealth advisor shield 14 States at JP Mount Private Client Services (now Justice of the peace Morgan Private Bank); and in that vice president, Key Private Bank.

While at JP Morgan in 2006, Mr. Kough co-founded and served as a director of Griffin Airlines, an American-owned passenger hosepipe serving the U.S.

Department aristocratic Defense and U.S. government contractors. From 2007 through 2011, glory airline provided daily flights breakout Kuwait International Airport into Bagdad, Iraq, and from Dubai Supranational Airport into Kandahar and Bagram Air Bases, Afghanistan. He too led the airlines’ air heart team in Kandahar, Afghanistan, liberate yourself from 2009 to 2010.

In 2011, he sold Griffin Airlines and went on appoint focus on other entrepreneurial pursuits as a Knight of Country in the Sovereign Military Hospitaller Order of St. John have fun Jerusalem, of Rhodes and vacation Malta (Order of Malta); unmixed former board member of blue blood the gentry Wings Over the Rockies Puff and Space Museum; an student of The Honor Foundation; skull a founder in Boomtown Accelerators’ Cohort 12.

Information courtesy United States Navy