Our fifteenth recipient, Colonel (Ret) William C. Berris, completed the AMP at Harvard Business School in April 2016. Will retired from the Marine Corps in the summer of 2019 and currently serves as the Senior Military Advisor for the Saudi Armed Forces in Riyadh. After serving in the Coast Guard from 1984 to 1991 and in 1992, he was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Marine Corps in 1992 and was assigned the occupational specialty of communications officer. Will has served in a variety of billets including Chief of Staff, Task Force 51/5th Marine Expeditionary Brigade; Commanding Officer, Cyberspace Operations Group; Director of Cyberspace Plans & Engineering, Special Operations Command Headquarters; and Commanding Officer, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC. He is a graduate of Western Michigan University and received a Master’s degree from Western Kentucky University.
Will and his wife, Melissa, have four children.