O'Meara, Scott

A retired U.S. Marine Corps Brigadier General, Scott served over thirty-five years in numerous leadership positions. His command assignments included commanding a helicopter squadron of over two hundred Marines and Sailors deploying to Iraq in 2004 along with commanding an air group consisting of multiple helicopter, fix-winged and ground support squadrons deploying to Iraq in 2009. Selected for promotion to Brigadier General in 2011, his General Officer assignments included Director of Strategy and Plans, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps, Deputy Commander U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe and Africa where he also performed the duties of Commander U.S. Marine Corps Forces Europe, a 3-star assignment, and his final assignment as the Assistant Deputy Commandant for Plans, Policies, and Operations, Headquarters U.S. Marine Corps. During his two General Officer Pentagon assignments he also was assigned the duties of Operations Deputy meeting routinely with the Director of the Joint Staff an other members consisting of Service 3-star Operations Flag Officers tasked to assist the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff is formulating best military advice for the Secretary of Defense and the President of the United States. He retired from active duty in August, 2018.

Following his retirement, his first private sector employment opportunity was as a director and program manager for a Virgin-based small firm supporting the Department of Homeland Security National Operations Center with opensource intelligence. Later he accepted a senior level consulting position with a large Virginia-based firm supporting a Department of State initiative in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. In the fall of 2023, he joined the University of North Carolina, Wilmington, first providing a leadership elective within the Honors College and later an Honors course with the Watson College of Education leadership minor program. He has also taught semesters of UNI-201 Transfer Student seminar. He has also remained active with several non-profits volunteering as the Secretary of the Board for the American College of National Security Leaders, as a leadership mentor for the Severn Leadership Group based out of Annapolis, MD, and as the Chair of the Expeditionary Warfare Division of the National Defense Industrial Association.

He possesses a Master of Science in National Resource Strategy from the National Defense University, a Master of Business Administration in Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and a Bachelor of Art in Sociology from Ramapo College of New Jersey. He has attended multiple executive education seminars provided by the Air Anniversary, UNC Kenan–Flagler Business School, and online with the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.