The VTF Team
Our management team is comprised of veterans with 80 years’ business experience in sales, employment, business start-ups, operations, and marketing. We have established strong, collaborative relationships with subject experts and industry leaders whose extended capabilities, resources, and skills supplement our own.
Management Team
Phillip Trigg
Executive Director
Phil is a retired Army Officer and a Vietnam veteran. His military career includes assignments in intelligence at the...
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Brian Morgan
Director of Development
Brian brings over forty years of challenging business development, corporate management, planning and strategic leadership expertise to the VTF...
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Michael Steele
Senior Mentor
Michael has over 35 years of successful, diversified, marketing, management, decision – making and leadership experience, including executive level...
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Dick Mueller
Senior Mentor
Dick is a Senior Mentor with the Veterans’ Transition Forum (VTF) helping veterans choose the best civilian career after...
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Phillip Trigg
Executive Director
Phil is a retired Army Officer and a Vietnam veteran. His military career includes assignments in intelligence at the...
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Donna Ettenson
Vice President, Operations America’s SBDC (ASBDC)
Donna Ettenson currently serves as the Vice President of Operations for the America’s SBDC. The association representing 63 state...
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Rear Admiral Norton Joerg (Ret.)
Mr. Joerg is a retired Navy Officer and Judge Advocate. For his most recent military assignment, begun in December,...
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