Mark Alan Clouse (born c. 1968) is an American businessman who is the president of the Washington Commanders of the National Football League (NFL). He attended the United States Military Academy (USMA) from 1986 to 1990, playing two seasons of college basketball as a guard for the Army Black Knights before becoming a helicopter pilot and reaching the rank of captain before retiring from service in 1996.
Clouse joined the marketing department of Kraft Foods upon leaving the military, later working as an executive at Mondelez International prior to serving as CEO of Pinnacle Foods in the late 2010s and the Campbell Soup Company in the early 2020s. He retired from the food industry in 2025 and became the team president of the Commanders. Clouse has also been a board member of Brown-Forman since 2022.
Early life and military career
Clouse was born c. 1968 in Cincinnati, Ohio,[1]