Mr. Card has served as a director of the Board since October 2020. Since January 2018, Mr. Card has served as Chairman of the National Endowment for Democracy, a nonprofit foundation. From 2015 until 2016, Mr. Card served as President of Frankin Pierce University, and also previously served as the Executive Director of the Office of the Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Texas A&M University. Prior to that, Mr. Card served as Chief of Staff to President George w. Bush, the 11th Secretary of Transportation under President Hw. Bush and Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of Intergovernmental Affairs for President Ronald Reagan.
Additionally, Mr. Card previously served as Vice President-Government Relations for General Motors Corporation, and as the President and Chief Executive Officer of the American Automobile Manufacturers Association. Mr. Card has served as a director of Union Pacific Corporation, a railroad company. since July 2006, Draganfly Inc., a manufacturer of unmanned aerial vehicles, since November 2019, and Lorillard Inc, a tobacco company. from July 2011 to June 2015.
Mr. Card is a graduate of the University of South Carolina with a B.S. in Engineering. He also attended the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy and the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. Mr. Card served in the U.S. Navy from 1965 to 1967.