Mark Hughes, former president of System and Network Solutions Group of Science Applications International Corporation, will address the graduates of the School of Engineering and Applied Science Saturday night.

Hughes is a member of GW’s Board of Trustees and also serves on the National Advisory Council of the engineering school. He is a board member of Amyx Corporation, a company that provides technical support to people working for the government. He is also on the board of the Elsie and Marvin Dekelboum Family Foundation, a philanthropic organization.

He earned a bachelor’s degree from GW in physics and a master’s degree in computer science. He lives in Potomac, Md. with his wife and four children.