Leo Mackay, Jr.
| Leo Mackay, Jr. | |
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| 4th United States Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs | |
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In office May 24, 2001 – September 30, 2003 |
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| President | George W. Bush |
| Preceded by | Edward A. Powell (Acting) |
| Succeeded by | Gordon H. Mansfield |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
Leo Sidney Mackay, Jr. August 15, 1961 San Antonio, Texas, U.S. |
| Political party | Republican |
| Education |
United States Naval Academy (BS) Harvard University (MPP, PhD) |
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| Allegiance |
 United States
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| Service/branch |
 United States Navy
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| Years of service | 1983–1995 |
| Rank |
 Lieutenant Commander
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| Unit | VF-11 |
| Battles/wars | Operation Earnest Will |
Leo Sidney Mackay, Jr. (born August 15, 1961) is an American businessman, and a former deputy secretary of the United States Department of Veterans Affairs.
As of 1 August 2016, he is Senior Vice President, and an elected officer, of Lockheed Martin Corporation. Currently, he is Senior Vice President - Internal Audit, Ethics and Sustainability serving as the corporate audit executive (CAE) as well as leading the offices of Ethics and Business Conduct and serving as Chief Sustainability Officer. He reports to the CEO, the Audit Committee, and the Ethics and Sustainability Committee of the board of directors. He is an independent director of Cognizant Technology Solutions. He is also a director of the Federal Savings Bank of USAA and a strategic advisor of Pegasus Capital Advisors. He was U.S. Black Engineer magazine's 2012 Black Engineer of the Year Awardee for Career Achievement, and the 2014 Lincoln-Douglass Award winner from the Republican National Committee. He is a member of the Board of Regents of Concordia Theological Seminary.
Previously, Mackay chaired the Board of Visitors at the Graduate School of Public Affairs of the University of Maryland (2008–14). He was a board member, and chair of the Audit Committee, of the Center for a New American Security in Washington, DC (2007–15), and continues on its Board of Advisors. He was Chair of the Lutheran Housing Support Corporation (2006-2011); Chair of the Secretary of Health and Human Services' Advisory Committee on Minority Health (2004–2005); and a board member of Cook’s Children’s Hospital in Fort Worth, Texas (1998–2001).
Mackay was Deputy Secretary of Veterans Affairs from May 2001 to October 2003. As the department's second in command and designated chief operating officer, he had operational authority over the department's three major agencies: the Veterans Health Administration (VHA), the nation's largest integrated healthcare system; the Veterans Benefits Administration (VBA); and the National Cemetery Administration. He concentrated on departmental management initiating a Strategic Management Council, reformulating the departmental budget process, and changing the internal merit system for GS/SES personnel. He was concentrated on the CARES project, a capital asset realignment of VHA; enhanced use leasing; lowering the backlog of pending veterans' claims; achievement and maintenance of a clean audit; the National Shrine Commitment, an effort to raise, and make standard, the condition of the national cemeteries; and VetFran, a program for transitioning veterans to aid them in starting franchise businesses. He was also, with David Chu, a founding co-chair of the VA-DoD Joint Executive Council to increase interdepartmental collaboration and sharing. Upon his departure, then-Secretary Anthony Principi stated, "Dr. Mackay brought to VA the discipline of the business world and the compassion of a man who cares deeply for America's veterans. His legacy is a more-focused VA better able to meet the needs of veterans."
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