Tony Koren, Partner

Tony Koren, a founding partner of NorthStone Group, specializes in leadership development, strategic decision making, executive coaching, community development, and media relations for the firm and its clients. He is also an on-air analyst for NBC News and, in the last several years, has spent considerable time in the Middle East and East Asia, reporting on the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan for NBC News.

In addition to his client work, Koren is currently chair of the Colorado Defense Mission Coalition whose purpose is to coordinate and support Colorado's response to a significant increase in military personnel in the coming years. The community-based group comprises representatives from city and county governments, the Colorado Congressional delegation, school districts, higher education, public and private health organizations, public utilities, and a number of both private and nonprofit organizations.

Prior to NorthStone Group, Koren was vice president for programs at El Pomar Foundation. Among his many responsibilities there, he served for two years as co-chair of the Commission on Homelessness in Southern Colorado, a broad-based community effort to bring together a number of disparate organizations to produce a unified vision and action plan to address the region's homeless issues. This effort resulted in a nationally recognized program that has reduced overlap, enhanced effectiveness, and unified the community. Prior to joining El Pomar, Koren was chief of staff at Ft. Carson where he initiated the housing privatization program, a $3 billion effort that became the first of its kind in the country and the model program for the Defense Department. He was a career Army officer who spent the majority of his service in the Special Forces, including multiple combat tours in Vietnam and elsewhere.