Biosketch
Jack Hammond is a retired U.S. Army Brigadier General with multiple combat commands who currently serves as chief executive for the Home Base National Center of Excellence for Mental Health and Brain Injuries. He is a decorated combat leader and private sector innovator who has served on advisory groups for presidents, governors and businesses. Hammond has presented on his innovative programs and leadership at the White House, Parliament of the United Kingdom, presidential libraries and with national companies working in defense, construction, biotechnology, marketing and more.
Hammond has led U.S. and NATO forces in combat and counterterrorism operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. This includes simultaneously commanding two separate battalion-level task forces on more than 100 successful intelligence-fused counterterrorist operations in Iraq, responding to weapons of mass destruction events and mass casualty suicide bombings and the 2011 attack on the U.S. Embassy in Kabul.
In 2012, Hammond was invited to lead Home Base, which is a unique partnership between the Boston Red Sox and Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). Over the past decade Hammond and his team have established the nation’s first private sector Center of Excellence for the Invisible Wounds, developed innovative solutions for mental health and brain injuries and leveraged the faculty and clinical resources of MGH and Harvard Medical School to reimagine veteran mental health and brain injury care. All of these treatments are provided at no cost to the veterans, military service members and families in the organization’s care.
Hammond earned degrees from the University of Massachusetts Boston and Boston University, and he completed a National Security Fellowship at Harvard University. His military awards and decorations include the Distinguished Service Medal, Legion of Merit Medal for combat service, Bronze Star Medal, the Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal for Valor, two Valorous Unit Awards, the Combat Action Badge, French Medal of National Defense and the Bulgarian Medal of Mission Support.