Roy Panzarella is the Director of the Entrepreneurial Leadership Program at Chaminade University of Honolulu. Previously, he was the Chief Executive of Lockheed Martin – United Arab Emirates and prior to that he was the VP in Central Europe headquartered in Warsaw, Poland. In Hawaii he was the VP of Pacific Operations for the Alaka’ina Foundation.

As a U.S. Army Colonel, he served as the U.S. Defense Attaché to Poland where he negotiated the participation of Polish forces in the Iraq and Afghan wars. He was the Aide-de-Camp to the Supreme Allied Commander of NATO during the Bosnian War and Rwandan Genocide. Additionally, in Baghdad in 2003 he led an elite Interagency Team searching for WMD.

As an aviator, Roy held a variety of leadership and staff positions in Korea, Germany and Hawaii. As the Deputy Commandant of the U.S. Army Russian Institute, he guided a talented faculty that prepared officers and government civilians for challenging assignments to the Post-Soviet States.

Roy holds a Bachelor of Science degree from the United States Military Academy at West Point and Master of Arts degree in International Relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. He earned a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from the University of Oklahoma. He is a former Vice Chair of the Board of Regents of Chaminade University. He served on the Advisory Board of NYU Abu Dhabi’s Department of Engineering.

Roy and his wife, Jody, an artist and therapist, returned to Hawaii five years ago after working and living abroad for over thirty years.