Played a key role in company growth by overseeing client engagements and day-to-day operations at the strategic and tactical levels for this cybersecurity risk quantification and advisory startup.Selected Highlights:• Initiated activities to target insurance companies due to increased industry emphasis on cybersecurity and fostered effective strategic partnerships with resellers, leading to a 60% YOY increase in sales in two years.• Collaborated with a global insurance firm to integrate cyber risk quantification into portfolio management and underwriting capabilities, including aligning product to meet NIST and ISO compliance standards, executing a successful pilot to satisfy client needs, and negotiating an exclusive three-year agreement.• Led the establishment of a post-insured risk remediation approach to improve client ability to identify, analyze and materially reduce risk exposure. Classified risks into eight categories in alignment with NIST 800.53 and quantified exposure in financial terms prioritized by economic impact and probability.• Saved and strengthened the company’s relationship with a large biopharma provider after a significant security incident, including transitioning the client to data-driven model to enable more objective and reasoned security investment decisions based on business needs, budget, and risk.• Consulted with AIG, Marsh, and AON to evaluate current cyber risk, provide data to improve the accuracy of risk profiles, analyze underwriting models to profile market strengths and weaknesses, identify benefits of new data-driven approach, and examine cyber-related data. • Contributed extensively to the company winning Gartner’s HypeCycle for new and emerging cyber technology to Watch in 2020, Pepperdine University’s “Most Fundable Company” in 2021, and Momentum Partners Top Cybersecurity Solution for 2021.

Advise companies and investors on how geopolitics and domestic US policy affect their interests. Conduct in-depth analysis and perform research focused on insight, implication, and impact of industry, economic and geopolitical trends. Selected Highlights:• Analyzed and reported on regulatory and political issues, including shifts in domestic and foreign policy for a $50 billion hedge fund; coached analysts on alternative futures planning frameworks to improve decision-making processes to manage uncertainty leading to better investment outcomes. • Advised commodity traders at two large U.S. banks on geopolitical, economic, and regulatory trends impacting oil and natural gas markets; persuaded clients to incorporate nontraditional risks in trading decisions through scenario planning to test assumptions and prepare for market and sentiment shifts. • Counseled large investors to short oil before 2019 price collapse; guided investment strategy to build cash reserves and hedge against inflation and uncertainty in 2022; provided forward-looking guidance on policy and regulatory environment; and analyzed cyber and patent risks on investment portfolio.• Collaborated with the CEO of a health company to anticipate and forecast increasing trade and supply chain issues in 2019 and to provide advice on ongoing FDA compliance issues, as well as dispensing a recommendation to transfer production from Southeast Asia to US.• Tracked biased reporting using sentiment analysis to anticipate political shifts leading to 2016 US presidential elections, including impact of social media, rise of populism, and distortions in public polling for $400 million hedge fund to help better position investments and portfolio management.• Consulted with a global Information Services firm to enhance benchmarking methods using open-source information to identify geopolitical trends; identified acquisition targets and emerging technologies to enhance advisory capacity and forecasting techniques

Hired to identify new business opportunities, develop a go-to-market strategy, and reposition company services to support clients’ navigating change through bespoke training, certification, and compliance programs validated in real-time.• Furnished recommendations and advice to CEO to focus business development efforts on insurance, energy, manufacturing, and hospitality, validated business use cases, researched workforce-related trends, conducted 45 interviews with Fortune 500 executives, and identified 25 qualified business opportunities.• Grew prospect engagement from 15% to 75% in six months, generated sales qualified leads while decreasing the cost of customer acquisition and lead response time, and shortened sales cycle from 18 to 6 months by crystalizing client’s unique needs and aligning sales and marketing efforts to address gaps identified.• Increased average deal size by repositioning software for knowledge management purposes and targeting C-suite executives and larger organizations. Positioned product as offering superior results for clients at lower price point, validating results in real-time, and providing more tailored, personalized learning than competitors.• Evaluated compliance training and inefficiencies in reporting methodology for mid-sized oil services company relating to Foreign Bribery and Corruption Act and OSHA requirements. Provided advice to the client on methods for improving compliance reporting and training through employment of data.

Led all research initiatives and provided actionable insight into company-specific issues, emerging trends, and key cross-sector themes impacting the global energy industry to support PwC business development and consulting activities.Selected Highlights:• Charted the creation of PwC Megatrends and Global Trends in Energy reports with an emphasis on the impact and implications of key trends and drivers shaping shale oil and gas, nuclear power, electricity, and renewable energy. • Spearheaded the development of the Global Energy Industry M&A Database, including real-time updates, enhanced insights on capital flows, deal volumes, and values for energy, utilities and mining industries cited in leading publications such as the Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, Economist, and Oil and Gas Journal.• Collaborated with PwC leadership to improve services through forward-looking assessments focused on the nexus between geopolitical, societal, environmental, and macroeconomic trends impacting the business landscape.• Led the creation and development of dashboards and metrics for C-Suite issue briefings and client engagements to maximize insights and awareness of issues from a PwC perspective.

Dispensed integrated analysis of economic, regulatory, and political drivers and analyzed industry trends to inform and support baseline expectations and pinpoint underappreciated risks and opportunities.Selected Highlights:• Furnished support in the creation of an LLC focused on critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, and physical risk assessment. Orchestrated the redesign of business plan with a focus on technology services, and assisted in acquiring proprietary rights to military-grade technology under a 5-year technology transfer agreement with DoD.• Administered in-depth competitive analysis to successfully raise $15M capital from private equity investors and to identify key market opportunities for early-stage gas to liquids company.• Prospected for and identified key investment opportunities for a $350M private equity fund under the Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program, and worked with firm’s legal counsel in the development of an effective strategy to secure a $60M federal grant for a compressed air energy storage facility.• For a $10B hedge fund, analyzed and reported on government legislation and political issues impacting the oil, natural gas, coal, nuclear power and renewables; identified the acceleration of fuel efficiency standards in the auto industry and shift in political support from oil and gas to renewable energy, causing firm to increase investments in technology companies needed to build energy-efficient vehicles and decrease exposure to traditional energy sources.

Principal advisor to the Secretary of Energy on energy, technology, and national security issues and senior leadership team member responsible for oversight of agency operations, strategic initiatives, and $28B budget. Security Clearance: Q/TS/SCISelected Highlights:• Spearheaded special projects to advance US energy security objectives in Middle East, Europe, Asia, Africa and Eurasian regions; negotiated with EU for diversification of European energy supply away from Russia including suspension of NordStream2 and participated in high-level strategic dialogues between US and China. • Led turnaround of troubled $1.5B public-private carbon capture demonstration project, including directing a team of 12 technical and legal experts to redefine project scope and improve contract and project management controls.• Conceptualized and oversaw creation of dedicated intelligence unit focused on merging open source and classified information analysis; directed 8 analysts and worked across the Intelligence Community to tailor recommendations focused on emerging national security risks and energy security issues.• Awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for management of strategic initiatives and leadership role in enhancing quality of analysis/recommendations to better inform key decision-makers within the Intelligence Community and advance US national security objectives.• Managed team to overhaul Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act. Persuaded stakeholders to transfer claims adjudication to the Department of Labor; negotiated with worker advocacy groups and congress; recognized for mitigating legal liabilities valued at $3 billion.• Developed first comprehensive health and safety policy for 115,000 DOE employees; led two-year review to evaluate program effectiveness for managing safety systems and operations. Recognized for addressing significant failures in training, reporting, and oversight and reducing injuries and fatalities.