Dr. (and Colonel, U.S. Army, Retired) James (Jim) D. McDonough, Jr. is the Vice President for Corporate & Foundation Relations and Government Grants for the Huntsman Mental Health Foundation located in the University of Utah. Prior to assuming these responsibilities in early 2023, Jim served as Chief Executive Officer of Headstrong, a leading, national nonprofit providing mental health treatment for military connected individuals and their families. After a distinguished 26-year career as an Army Air Defense Artillery officer, Jim continued serving through a number of key leadership assignments in the veterans’ sector, including two stints as Director of the New York State Division of Veterans’ Services, as Senior Fellow for Veterans Affairs within the New York State Health Foundation, as Managing Director of the Institute for Veterans and Military Families (IVMF) at Syracuse University, where he was responsible for all aspects of fundraising and the global deployment of the Institute’s widely recognized programs and services, and as Chief Executive Officer for Veterans Outreach Center in New York, where he led the nation’s oldest continuing serving nonprofit dedicated to the needs of military connected individuals and families.

Jim is married to his lovely wife, Donna, and he completed his doctorate in law and policy from Northeastern University in June 2022.