General Bryan P. Fenton is a retired U.S. Army four-star General and career special forces officer. He served as the 13th Commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, overseeing the global special operations of the U.S. Department of Defense, with command of 70,000 Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Special Operations personnel. Prior to that role, he was the Commander of the Joint Special Operations Command and before that, served as the senior military assistant for two U.S. secretaries of defense. With 38 years of military service, Fenton commanded at every level of special operations. He deployed multiple times to Afghanistan, Iraq, as well as numerous locations in the Middle East, South America, Europe, Africa and he served for over five years in the Indo-Pacific region.

He currently serves as a board member for Duke University’s Fuqua Business School/Coach K Center on Leadership and Ethics and previously served on the University of Notre Dame’s Monogram Club Board and the Armed Services Mutual Benefit Association Insurance Board. Fenton has received several prestigious awards, including the Moose Krause Service Award from the University of Notre Dame, the Eisenhower Award from Business Executives for National Security, and the Omar N. Bradley Spirit of Independence Award.

Fenton graduated from the University of Notre Dame in 1987 and was the U.S. Army Fellow at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. from 2009 to 2010. He also holds a master’s degree from the U.S. Army Command and Staff College.