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
Tyler Beckelman
Senior Advisor
Former National Security Council Director for African Affairs and Former Director of USAID/Somalia
Alisha Bi
Executive Assistant
Lincoln Bloomfield
Senior Advisor
Former State Department Special Envoy and Former Assistant Secretary of State for Political Military Affairs
General Vincent K. Brooks, USA (Ret.)
Principal
Former Commander of the United Nations Command, Combined Forces Command, and
United States Forces Korea
Ebony Carroll
Director
Ron Clark
Senior Advisor
Former Deputy Under Secretary of Homeland Security and Former White House National Security Council Director and Acting Senior Director
Elbridge Colby
Senior Advisor
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Strategy and Force Development
John Conger
Senior Advisor
Former Deputy Comptroller and Former Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Energy, Installations, and Environment
John Costello
Senior Advisor
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Intelligence and Security at the Department of Commerce
Rachel Ellehuus
Senior Advisor
Former Principal Director for European and NATO Policy in the Office of the Secretary of Defense
Joe Gagnon
Principal
Former Associate Director, Division of Monetary Affairs and Former Associate Director, Division of International Finance at the US Federal Reserve Board
Kim Gillies
Associate Director, Talent and Operations
Lawrence J. Gumbiner
Senior Advisor
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of State and Former Senior Foreign Service Officer
Josh Hochman
Senior Associate
Kazumi Hoshino-Macdonald
Senior Associate
Ambassador Jim Jeffrey
Senior Advisor
Former Deputy National Security Advisor and 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
Cristina Killingsworth
Vice President
Former Senior Advisor to the CEO of the Millennium Challenge Corporation and Former White House National Security Council Director for Strategic Planning
Vice Admiral Joe Maguire, USN (Ret.)
Principal
Former Acting Director of National Intelligence and Former Director of the National Counterterrorism Center
Admiral Bill Moran, USN (Ret.)
Principal
Former Vice Chief of Naval Operations and Former Chief of Naval Personnel
Meghan O’Sullivan
Senior Advisor
Former Special Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor for Iraq and Afghanistan
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
Ambassador Daniel B. Shapiro
Principal
Former U.S. Ambassador to Israel and Former White House National Security Council Senior Director
Ambassador Dana Shell Smith
Senior Advisor
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 Advisor
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for South and Southeast Asia
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
Celeste Wallander
Senior Advisor
Former Special Assistant to the President and Former White House National Security Council Senior Director for Russia/Eurasia
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