OUR TEAM

Founders

Michèle Flournoy

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy

Sergio Aguirre

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations and Former White House National Security Council Director

Nitin Chadda

Co-Founder and Managing Partner

Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense and Former White House National Security Council Director

Team

Lincoln Bloomfield

Senior Advisor

Former State Department Special Envoy and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs

Major General Charlie Bolden, USMC (Ret.)

Principal

Former NASA Administrator

John Brennan

Principal

Former Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

Rebecca Brocato

Senior Advisor

Former Special Assistant to the President at the White House and Chief of Staff of the Development Finance Corporation

General Vincent K. Brooks, USA (Ret.)

Principal

Former Commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and United States Forces Korea

Ron Clark

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security and Former White House National Security Council Director and Acting Senior Director

John Conger

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy Comptroller and Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment

John Costello

Principal

Former Chief of Staff and Principal Architect of the Office of the National Cyber Director

Maeve Cuddy

Project Coordinator

Preston Dunlap

Senior Advisor

Former Chief Technology Officer and Chief Architect Officer, U.S. Space Force and Air Force

Wendy Edelberg

Principal

Former Chief Economist at the Congressional Budget Office

Marti Flacks

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy Director of the Office of Energy Programs at the U.S. State Department

Joe Gagnon

Principal

Former Associate Director, Division of Monetary Affairs and Former Associate Director, Division of International Finance at the US Federal Reserve Board

Michelle Gavin

Senior Advisor

Former U.S. Ambassador to Botswana and U.S. Representative to the Southern Africa Development Community (SADC)

David Gevarter

Associate

Adam M. Golodner

Senior Advisor

Former Chief of Staff for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division

Lawrence J. Gumbiner

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State

Janice Haith

Senior Advisor

Former Chief Information Officer for the U.S. Navy

Emily Harding

Principal

Former Deputy Staff Director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Emily Horne

Senior Advisor

Former Special Assistant to the President, Spokesperson, and Senior Director for Press at the National Security Council

Cordell Hull

Principal

Former Acting Under Secretary of Industry and Security at the U.S. Department of Commerce

Ambassador Jim Jeffrey

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy National Security Advisor and Former Special Envoy to the Coalition to Defeat ISIS

Andrea Kendall-Taylor

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy National Intelligence Officer for Russia and Eurasia at the National Intelligence Council and Former Senior Analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency

Vice Admiral Joe Kernan, USN (Ret.)

Principal

Former Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security

Kate Almquist Knopf

Senior Advisor

Former Director of DoD’s Africa Center for Strategic Studies and Former USAID Assistant Administrator for Africa

SK Lasseigne

Project Manager
Linda Lourie

Linda Lourie

Senior Advisor

Former Assistant Director for Research and Technology Security in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy

Vice Admiral Joe Maguire, USN (Ret.)

Principal

Former Acting Director of National Intelligence and Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center

Christian Marrone

Senior Advisor

Former Chief of Staff to the U.S. Department of Homeland Security

Nicholas Monaco

Associate

Admiral Bill Moran, USN (Ret.)

Principal

Former Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Former Chief of Naval Personnel

Merritt Ogle

Associate Director, Strategy and Operations

Mike O’Sullivan

Senior Advisor

Former Chief Investment Officer for Credit Suisse

Ambassador Dennis Ross

Senior Advisor

Former Special Assistant to the President and Former White House National Security Council Senior Director for the Central Region

Danny Russel

Principal

Former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs and Former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Asian Affairs

Arun A. Seraphin

Senior Advisor

Former Professional Staff Member, U.S. Senate Committee on Armed Services

Vice Admiral Bob Sharp

Principal

Former Director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

Ambassador Dana Shell Smith

Principal

Former U.S. Ambassador to the State of Qatar and Former Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs

Michael Singh

Senior Advisor

Former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Near East and North African Affairs

Vikram Singh

Senior Vice President

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia

David Skilling

Senior Advisor

Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade

Rebecca Skoryanc

Director of Operations

Hanscom Smith

Senior Advisor

Former Consul General in Hong Kong

Jamie Smith

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy White House Press Secretary and Former Director of Public Affairs for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Richard Stengel

Senior Advisor

Former Under Secretary of State for Public Diplomacy and Public Affairs

Jen Stewart

Counselor

Former Chief of Staff to the Secretary of Defense

Eric Traupe

Senior Advisor

Former Assistant Director for Near East, Central Intelligence Agency

Jim Townsend

Senior Advisor

Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for European and NATO Policy

Matthew Waxman

Senior Advisor

Former Principal Deputy Director and Acting Director of the Secretary of State’s Policy Planning Staff and Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense

Robert O. Work

Principal

Former Deputy Secretary of Defense and Former Under Secretary of the Navy

Alex Zerden

Senior Advisor

Former Financial Attache at the U.S. Treasury Department

Nick Zimmerman

Senior Advisor

Former White House National Security Council Director for Brazil and Southern Cone Affairs and Former Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations