Grant Vermeer is the founder of Academy Insider and the host of The Academy Insider podcast. He was a recruited athlete, which brought him to Annapolis, where he was a four-year member of the varsity basketball team. He was a cyber operations major and commissioned into the Cryptologic Warfare Community. He was stationed at Fort Meade and supported the Subsurface Direct Support mission. He separated from the Navy in 2023 and now owns The Vermeer Group, a residential real estate company that specializes in serving the United States Naval Academy community with nationwide consulting and connections.