Respected professional with over 17 years of experience leading teams across diverse industries and government agencies. Highly skilled and disciplined in researching, analyzing, and articulating messages related to mission, function, and execution of government policy, in the areas of defense, national security, veterans’ affairs, and international affairs. Transatlantic security cooperation practitioner. Demonstrated success in the areas of public and media relations and developing policy and training materials. Skilled in program development and implementation, team leadership, exchange facilitation, and partnership building. Inactive Top Secret/SCI security clearance.

Human Resources Executive with over 20 years of experience in talent development, employee engagement, labor relations, organizational design, performance management, and adult learning. Cultivator of high performing teams and inclusive cultures. Transformational and forward looking leader that aligns business and human capital strategies to achieve the very best for organizations.

Roosevelt J. Donat has extensive experience in the areas of real estate development, government relations, and public policy, in Newark and throughout New Jersey and other jurisdictions. Roosevelt formerly served as the Director of Government Relations and Strategic Planning for Brick City Development Corporation (the predecessor to the Newark Community Economic Development Corporation). In that role, he was responsible for developing the organization’s political engagement strategy with federal, state, and local elected officials, and business engagement strategy with corporations. Roosevelt also advised the organization’s department heads on the impact of proposed legislation and determined an appropriate response to that legislation. He regularly appeared before the Newark City Council and liaised with local and state officials to articulate, promote, and protect the interests of Brick City Development Corporation. After Brick City Development Corporation, Roosevelt worked in the New Jersey State Assembly Majority Office before he was recruited to Wall Street, where he served in the Global Legal Compliance and Regulatory Office at one of the world’s largest insurance organizations. In this function, he was critically involved in the structuring, negotiating, and execution of a wide variety of domestic and international transactions and other business arrangements. A former Eagleton Institute of Politics Fellow, Roosevelt earned his law degree from Rutgers Law School, where he was a Dean’s Merit Scholarship recipient and a member of the Rutgers Business Law Review. Roosevelt earned his undergraduate degree from Georgetown University, which he attended on a four-year academic scholarship and walked on to, with no prior football experience, the Hoyas’ football team