OUR TEAM
Founders
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
Ambassador Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley
Senior Advisor
Former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer for the Department of State and Former U.S. Ambassador to the Republic of Malta
Lincoln Bloomfield
Senior Advisor
Former State Department Special Envoy and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs
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
Paul Farley
Senior Advisor
Former Assistant Director for South and Central Asia for the Central Intelligence Agency
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
Senior Associate
Adam M. Golodner
Senior Advisor
Former Chief of Staff for the Department of Justice Antitrust Division
Emily Harding
Principal
Former Deputy Staff Director for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence
Christian Healion
Senior Associate
Kevin Higgins
Senior Advisor
Former Chief of Staff to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency
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
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
Nicholas Monaco
Senior 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
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
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
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
Michael Thadani
Project Coordinator
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
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