Combating Underemployment. One Veteran and Spouse At A Time.
Our mission
American Corporate Partners (ACP) is a national nonprofit organization focused on helping returning Veterans and Active-Duty Spouses find their next careers through one-on-one mentoring, networking and online career advice.
More than 1 million Veterans are expected to transition from the armed forces to civilian life over the next five years. ACP engages the American people in a unique volunteer opportunity to provide career guidance to returning military as they transition back into civilian life.
We believe that the biggest issue facing our returning service members is not unemployment – it’s underemployment. ACP focuses on helping Veterans and Active-Duty Spouses find meaningful employment opportunities and develop long-term careers.
Our history
Founder Sidney E. Goodfriend launched American Corporate Partners on Labor Day 2008 with the help of six founding corporate partners who provided funding to ACP and volunteer Mentors. By the end of 2009, ACP had paired 500 returning veterans with Mentors. In November 2018, ACP announced it is expanding its reach and opening its program to the Active-Duty Spouse community. Currently, ACP has more than 5,000 vVeterans and Active-Duty Spouses paired one-on-one with mentors from more than 140 of America’s top companies, universities and hospitals.
Since its founding, ACP has focused on expanding its number of Corporate Partners, reaching out to a larger number of returning military and designing several new programs and initiatives to help an increasing number of service members, returning Veterans and their families.
Board of Directors
Sidney E. Goodfriend
Chairman and Founder
Daniel H. Bayly
Lt. General (Ret.) Thomas P. Bostick
Jon Brooks
Colleen Deere
Member
James Flaherty
Patty George
Amy O. Goodfriend
Dawn Halfaker
Lt. General (Ret.) Charles W. Hopper
Alain Lebec
John Manzi
Steve Miller
Dan Morehead
Duncan L. Niederauer
John M. Pratt
Advisory Council
George Sorial
Managing Director of Javelin Partners, LLC
Cathy Benko
Vice Chairman and Managing Principal at Deloitte LLP
Alvin H. Brown
Judy Choi
Chief Administrative Officer of the Private Credit & Equity at Morgan Stanley
Christy Ferer
Lea Gabrielle
Captain (Ret.) Carrie Hasbrouck
Director, Information Technology | Service Management at Red Hat | Chair, Military D&I Community
Timothy J. Cochrane
Executive Leader, Tailored Strategic Retention Vice President Growth, Tenova LLC
Eduardo Jany
General (Ret.) John M. Keane
General, United States Army ( Ret.) Former Vice Chief of Staff, United States Army
John P. Langan
Strategic Project Leader at CliftonLarsonAllen LLP
Sam Moser
Senior-Level Media Sales Executive
General (Ret.) Richard B. Myers
General, United States Air Force (Ret.) Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
Mary Jo Myers
General (Ret.) Peter Pace
Chris Peck
UPS Vice President, Corporate Human Resources
General (Ret.) David H. Petraeus
Lt. Col. (Ret.) John W. Phillips
Sergeant Major (Ret.) Michael Quinn
Senior Manager People Advisory Services, Ernst & Young Chief Executive Officer, HireMilitary
Paula S. Davis
Laura Schmiegel
Senior Vice President of Strategic Partnerships at Orion Talent
Lisa Sharkey
SVP, Director of Creative Development, HarperCollins Publishers
Terri Tierney Clark
Jana Toner
Paul Wolfowitz
Former Deputy Secretary of Defense Former World Bank President Visiting Scholar, American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research
Joan K. Woodward
Staff
Executive Staff
Sidney E. Goodfriend
Chairman and Founder
Sarah Wheatley
Special Assistant to the Chairman
Colleen Deere
Member
Richard Comitz
Chief Operating Officer
Leslie Coffey
Vice President - Military Engagement
Molly Fortunoff
Vice President - Programs
Nicole Murray
Vice President - Strategic Partnerships
Megan Rhea
Vice President - Corporate Relations
Senior Managers
Managers
Dallas Blackburn
Data
Andrea Bryant
Programs
Scott Cammisa
Corporate Relations
Emily Christian
Office Operations
Casey DeTamble
Corporate Communications
Carly Holin
Database
Joseph Mastrosimone
Digital Strategy
Matthew Peirce
Corporate Relations
Kayla Rolon
Communications
Casey Smith
Corporate Relations
Natalia Tobaccowala
Strategic Partnerships
Jael Williams
Corporate Relations
Alexandra Zielinski
Programs
Senior Operations Associates
Ashton Andrews
Sam Araysha
Hailey Brindamour
Emma Cindrich
Amber Clark
Samantha Darge
Luke DeTore
Alina Dirito
Courtney Distelrath
Brian Garcia
Erica Gunn
John Hansen
Jordan Hardage
Mikayla Kamber
Christopher Maj
Jasmine Maylott
Jennifer Mitchell
Nicole O’Donnell
Yaroslav Opalynskyi
Chantell Osei
Jennifer Perez
Kristen Ponsell
Lubi Popovic
Jake Samler
Peter Sullivan
Victoria Thompson
Kendra Washington
Operations Associates
Kymbia Bobb
Alyssia Blackburn
Husene Camara
Amber Coulombe
Molly Cuddy
Pauline Fleming
Cameo Flores
Nicole Pallai Green
Katie Griffiths
Carly Kreiser
Kaitlyn Lassiter
Carlos Mendoza
Billy Mullen
Emi Patino-Kishigami
Kimberly Pramana
Jordy Quiroz
Autumn Rice
Preston Riddle
Anna Scriven
Zuzanna Skolimowska
Alexandra Snow
Caroline Troop
Elina Yang
Eugene Yang
Cassandra Zhen
Avery Zigon
ACP audited financials
Interested in a career at ACP?
- Healthcare, dental and vision plans
- Summer Fridays (1/2 day) between July 4th and Labor Day
- Generous PTO package, increasing with your length of employment, including 10 paid holidays off
- Paid time off for volunteering in the community
- Paid parental leave
- Pre-tax transit benefits
- Professional development allowance for workshops, tutorials and online courses
