Kennard Nash is the Executive Director of the Evergreen Foundation and the current head of the Tabula. Born in 1947, he attended West Point, then served as a military intelligence officer in the army during the Vietnam War. From 1972-1974, he was US Military Attaché to Chile.

In 1975,  Nash returned to the United States and received a PhD. in International Relations from Harvard University. His dissertation thesis was transformed into the book Fire and Sword: Responding to the Threat of Global Terrorism. The book became a bestseller and the increased public profile helped push Nash up the promotion ladder (he became a Brigadier General in 1981). General Nash was Director of Special Projects for the Department of Defense for five years. He then resigned from the army and served in the White House for two administrations as the Deputy National Security Advisor.

Nash began Executive director of the Evergreen Foundation in the early 1990s. It is not known how long he had previously been a member of the Tabula. Nash has a wife (Clara Kennedy Nash) and two children. His son, Henry, is the head of "Love Will Conquer" a gay-marriage advocacy group. His daughter, Leonora, is one of the organizers of the "Burning Man Festival."