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People

The principals who assembled the Greenbrier Group are some of the most accomplished individuals in business.  Meet our leadership team. 

Scott Blanchette

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

Scott serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the Greenbrier Group. A 2022 CIO Hall of Fame inductee, Scott is the former Chief Information Officer for five organizations, including three public and two private equity-backed companies over the course of 20 years. He is also an active investor in early-stage tech startups with a focus on analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, robotic process automation, and security. He is a recipient of the MIT Sloan School of Business “CIO of the Year” award.
Earlier in his career, Scott served in the US military, serving in special operations and intelligence assignments, and served in both US Army and US Navy special operations units (US Army First Special Forces and US Navy SEAL Team Three). He also served for seven years on the staff of the National Infrastructure Advisory Council to President George W. Bush.

Mike Walters

Managing Director

Mike Walters is a career operations, technology, and services executive, having been responsible for global operations and service delivery management for nearly three decades. After completing undergraduate and graduate degrees from Iowa State and Iowa, respectively, he began his career in PC manufacturing. He eventually rose to lead what became the largest PC production line in the world at the time.

Mike went on to lead global technology service delivery over the past 20 years, most recently serving as the Vice President of Healthcare at Accolite Digital. During the last two decades, Mike led technology delivery services originating from more than two dozen countries delivered to more than five dozen countries.

At Greenbrier, Mike provides clients with operational support, including service delivery, site and supplier optimization, and process and performance improvement solutions. He is both the operating lead for the firm and also provides a select group of clients with operational and performance improvement advisory services, including the adoption of globalized service delivery, robotic process automation, lean performance improvement, and portfolio optimization and governance solutions.

Ralph Worthington

Chairman Emeritus

Ralph serves as the President of the Greenbrier Group, Federal, the government arm of international consultancy the Greenbrier Group, Inc, the Greenbrier Group Canada, Ltd, and the Greenbrier Group UK, Ltd.
Ralph founded the Genysis portfolio of companies. The Genysis Group provided systems architecture, development, implementation, and operational support to government agencies, including the National Security Agency, the Defense Information Systems Agency, the Naval Research Lab, Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command, and others. Genysis, in its entirety, was acquired by AT&T Federal (now part of NYSE: T, AT&T Public Sector Solutions).
Prior to founding Genysis, Ralph served for 20+ years at the National Security Agency as a cryptographer, linguist, mathematician, and information systems warfare officer. He is trained in several eastern European languages, including Russian. In the earliest part of his career, he served as a surface warfare officer, navigator, and gunnery officer aboard two Navy destroyers and served one tour of duty in Vietnam