Our twenty-second recipient, (Captain) Ian B. Epperson graduated from Harvard Business School in 2021 with an MBA.  Ian served on active duty as an Infantry Officer from 2013-2019.  He served in 3rd Battalion, 1st Marines from 2014-2016, first as a platoon commander deployed on the 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit where he supported Operation Inherent Resolve.  He then served as a headquarters company commander before moving to Quantico, VA, to instruct Lieutenants at The Basic School (TBS).  He was selected to instruct at the Infantry Officer Course in 2017 and received the Captain John Maloney Award for the TBS Instructor of the Year in 2019.  He graduated in the top five percentile of his class at The Basic School and is a graduate of the Infantry Officer Course and Expeditionary Warfare School non-resident course. He graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University in 2012 and earned a Master of Science in Comparative Politics from the London School of Economics the following year.  Ian is an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in Boston, MA, where he resides with his wife, Meredith, and their son.