Drew is Co-Founder and Executive Director for the National Security Innovation Council, a Texas-based not for profit designed to ensure Texas is the partner of choice to accelerate national security decision making. Drew was instrumental in attracting and securing the USDOD’s Defense Innovation Unit Experimental in 2016 and the Army Futures Command in 2018 to Texas. Additionally, through NSIC, Drew has worked on a range of projects at the intersection of national security innovation, to include the Governor’s Semiconductor Task Force and the location of tech scouts from multiple federal innovation units. Additionally, Drew serves as Senior Advisor and head of the Texas Chamber of Commerce Executives network at the Texas Association of Business. 

Drew has more than two decades of experience at senior levels in the nexus between economic/talent and community development. Drew served as Sr Vice President at the Austin Chamber of Commerce, leading regional talent development efforts, secured transcontinental air service, passed major road mobility bonds, community college and school district facility bonds, state legislation to lower property taxes and improve Texas’ economic, human and physical capital competitiveness.

Prior to the Austin Chamber, Drew ran the National Center for State Scholars, an initiative of President George W. Bush, which worked with 12 state Chambers of Commerce, Governors and higher education leaders to ensure state policies supported widespread completion of a well-rounded academic course of study.