Mark Rosenker was unanimously confirmed by the United States Senate and appointed by President George W. Bush as the 11th Chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board from August 2006 through August 2008. He served as acting chair starting in March 2005 to August 2006 and then again from August 2008 until his resignation from the Board in August 2009 when he returned to private life..[1]
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Rosenker was a member of the NTSB beginning March, 2003 and was designated Vice Chairman the following month. He began his second term after unanimous confirmation by the US Senate as a member in January 2005. That term expired December 31, 2010.[1]
From January 20, 2001 to March 2003 Rosenker served as Deputy Assistant to the President of the United States and Director of the White House Military Office.[1] Rosenker was traveling with President Bush on September 11, 2001.
Rosenker has also served in the Department of Interior, the Federal Trade Commission and the Commodity Futures Trading Commission. In 1990, Rosenker was appointed by George H. W. Bush to serve on the American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC).[1]
Before joining the Bush White House Staff, Rosenker was Managing Director of the Washington, D.C. office for the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS). Prior to working for UNOS, Rosenker was for 23 years the Vice President, Public Affairs for the Electronic Industries Alliance.[1]
Rosenker was named to the Sequa Corporation Board of Directors in August 2009.[2] Sequa is the parent organization to Chromalloy. He also is a member of the Board of the Lattice Corporation. He is the Transportation Safety Analyst for the CBS television and radio network and prior to that was a contributor to [[NBC|NBC News] in the same role.[2] Since retiring from the NTSB, he has appeared as a guest speaker at numerous aviation and other transportation industry events, and was a Senior Advisor to the National Coalition for Safer Roads, a photo enforcement advocacy group supported by camera vendor American Traffic Solutions.[3]
Today Mr. Rosenker is the President of the Transportation Safety Group LLC located in McLean VA, a specialized consulting firm focused on transportation issues both in the US and around the world.
Rosenker is a retired Air Force Reserve Major General. During his 37 year career, Rosenker received numerous awards and decorations including the Air Force Distinguished Service Medal with One Oak Leaf Cluster and the Legion of Merit.[1]
He entered the Air Force in 1969 via the University of Maryland ROTC program. Rosenker graduated from the Air Command and Staff College and the Air War College.[1]
As NTSB Chairman, Rosenker was involved in the 2006/2007 re-opening of the controversial 1967 investigation of Piedmont Airlines Flight 22. In the official Petition for Reconsideration, Paul Houle (an amateur historian who asked for the investigation to be reopened) suggested that numerous important facts were missing from the original investigation, as well as apparent potential conflicts of interest which should have been found at the time. Despite the cockpit voice recorder (the only truly unbiased source in existence) conflicting with the original NTSB report, the NTSB's Office of Aviation Safety found no compelling reason to make any changes to the report. Rosenker subsequently wrote to Mr. Houle sharing the Board's findings upholding the probable cause and contributing factors as presented in the original NTSB report.