Mark Gembickï is an American businessman with a 40-year track record of identifying and growing successful technology and defense companies. He appreciates early-stage and international ventures and leverages skills in GTM strategy and execution, growth capital and M&A, technology and performance, risk and resilience, and geopolitics.Career highlights include:• Recruited by the National Security Agency (NSA) at age 16 with subsequent roles at Alphabet/Google, Amazon, Apple/NeXT, BlackRock, Broadcom/CA/Symantec, Cisco/Splunk, DARPA, Deloitte, DHS, DoD, FedEx, FEMA, FinCEN, Ford, Google, HP/Cray, IBM, IQT, Motorola, Northrop Grumman, NVIDIA, Palantir, Resilient Lab, Sequoia, SSA, State Dept., Verizon, and Westinghouse S&T.• Honors include a White House post as Director of the historic Manhattan Cyber Project, testimony at the Senate’s Security in Cyberspace Hearings, and peer group awards such as the Israeli National Security Council’s “World Player in Homeland Security” and Computerworld’s “Top 20 IT Visionary for the Next Decade.”• Highly adept in discovering accretive opportunities, creating cogent GTM strategies, building effective teams, managing risk and resilience, supporting legal and public affairs, transforming workflows, gathering competitive intelligence, interpreting buyer values, capturing M&A opportunities, and securing growth capital.• CEO and management performance in achieving financial, operational, technology, and strategic goals using a situational leadership style, observational and interpersonal skills, evidence-based research, abstract modeling, war room command structures, and interdisciplinary thinking.• CTO and CISO technology strengths in rapid product development, innovation lifecycles, dual-use solutions, AI and AGI, data and decision analytics, content curation, IoT mobility, quantum computing, cybersecurity, fintech, UAV/UAS, sustainability and ESG, critical infrastructure protect, and resilience metrics.• Marketing, branding, sentiment, and communications expertise as a tech industry spokesperson, media surrogate, and political pundit in B2G/B2B/B2C messaging and political campaigns.• Published author and public speaker with ~1,500 media appearances, keynote speeches, and academic lectures on topics ranging from market and technology forecasting to national security.