H. HOLLISTER CANTUS

In the private sector, H. Hollister Cantus founded The ILEX Group in 1985 to provide clients with strategic and tactical advice on marketing to governments (Federal, state and local) and to assist in finding market opportunities in the commercial sector with emphasis on the national defense, national security, energy, transportation, and aerospace industries. He had previously served as the Senior Executive in Washington for two $6-billion dollar Groups (United Technologies Building Sector and Lockheed Missiles and Space Group) and a $1-billion dollar corporation (ICF Kaiser). Mr. Cantus has also served on the Board of Directors of numerous trade associations, corporations, non-profit organizations, and industry advisory committees.

In public service, as a Naval Flight Officer (Captain, USNR-ret.) and as a senior civilian official, he has served in the Executive Branch under eight Presidents, including appointments as Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Associate Administrator of NASA, among others. Mr. Cantus has also been on the House Armed Services Committee staff and on numerous Advisory Committees to the Virginia General Assembly. He has most recently served as one of the Governor’s appointees to the Virginia Commission on Military Bases, and as a Legislative appointee to the Joint Committee on Technology and Science’s Aerospace Advisory Committee.

A graduate of Williams College and a Virginian for four decades, he has been deeply involved in national, federal, state and local political activities and campaigns. He is married to Barbara Park Cantus, a fund-raising consultant for charitable and political organizations as well as an award-winning artist.

JANE-SCOTT CANTUS

Jane-Scott Cantus has over 20 years of experience in helping businesses grow.  She provides strategic and tactical consulting services to public and private corporations, private equity funds and their portfolio companies, professional services firms, not-for-profits and law firms. 

Her prior corporate strategic, managerial and business development experience includes marketing, business development, project control engineering  and project financing with several divisions of Bechtel Corporation, merger and acquisition analysis with Martin Marietta, and as a wealth management advisor at Morgan Stanley and as Senior Vice President at Fiduciary Trust Company International where she assisted corporate and individual clients in crafting solutions to complex financial situations.

Prior retained management recruitment experience includes Korn/Ferry International and Christian & Timbers, during which time she personally led 75+ C-level searches and completed over 200 assignments.  She established both firms' Virginia offices.

She has been appointed by two Governors of Virginia to the Small Business Financing Authority and serves on several corporate and charitable foundation Boards of Directors, including the National Advisory Board of the Pentagon Foundation.

Jane-Scott Cantus is a Duke University graduate (BA) and holds a Masters in Business Administration from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business and a JD from the George Washington University School of Law.