Dan McGroarty has consulted for more than a decade with firms ranging from Fortune 50 companies to start-up ventures in industries ranging from the resource sector and defense, telecommunications and airlines to travel, pharmaceuticals and financial services. As principal of the non-profit American Resource Policy Network, an experts-led resource development think tank, Dan provided testimony on critical metals issues to the U.S. House Sub-Committee on Energy & Mineral Resources in 2011 and 2013, and to the U.S. House Sub-Committee on Science, Space & Technology in 2013. Dan has been asked to participate in the 2015 National Defense Stockpile Requirements Report, which by statute is delivered to the Secretary of Defense and the House and Senate Armed Services Committees. Dan serves as Senior Advisor to the U.S. Chamber of Commerce/International Division. He served as Director of publicly-traded U.S. Rare Earths and its predecessor company from December 2010 to June 2013, and as president of the company from December 2011 through July 2013. He is a frequent speaker on Rare Earths and strategic and critical metals issues, at conferences across the U.S., Canada and in China, and in television, radio and print interviews. Prior to establishing his consultancy, Dan served at senior levels in the U.S. Government, as Special Assistant to the President in the White House and as presidential appointee to two Secretaries of Defense.