Brett Coffee is Computer Systems Center Incorporated’s General Counsel and Vice President of Business and Corporate Affairs for the Springfield, Va. based defense contractor. CSCI focuses on defense and intelligence matters for the federal government, with a special emphasis on secure technology and information sharing. Mr. Coffee founded and worked as General Counsel for the SemperComm Foundation that provided morale and communications solutions to remote overseas military bases. Mr. Coffee’s recent works have included successful efforts to develop new military policies for charitable organizations, develop new business technologies, and leading award-winning business teams. For his great success and contribution to the legal community, Mr. Coffee was recognized as Washington Business Journal’s 2009 Top Washington Lawyer for General Counsel.
Before these positions, Mr. Coffee worked in-house in California’s technology industry and in private practice in New York City, working with innovative companies and significant global corporations in the area of international transactions and securities matters.
Mr. Coffee has received a B.A. in Political Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, a J.D. from Fordham University School of Law and an LL.M in Corporate and Business Law and a Diploma in Taxation from the University of San Diego School of Law. He is a member of the state bars of New York, California, DC, Virginia, Illinois (inactive) and the United States Supreme Court.
An Eagle Scout who trained at the Olympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, CO, Mr. Coffee is a member of Leadership Fairfax’ Emerging Leadership Institute Class of 2007 (where he was elected class representative), a member of the 2008 Sorensen Institute Political Leaders Program, a former Board Member of Leadership Fairfax, Inc.; Springfield District Representative to the Fairfax County Small Business Commission; member of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Corporate Leadership Advisory Council; and member of the University of Illinois Alumni Association, the largest in the world, and Chair Elect of the Urbana Campus Alumni Advisory Board. He was recently honored as a Community Champion by Volunteer Fairfax and as a 2009 Rising Star by Virginia Super Lawyers, and is a 2009 winner and three-time finalist for Washington Business Journal’s Top Washington Lawyer award in the General Counsel category.