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Paul Goldstein
President/CEO
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Takaaki Nakajima
Advising Partner
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Joseph Saunders
Advising Partner
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Jeffrey Steinberg
Executive Vice President
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Rear Admiral Paul Becker (ret.)
Senior Advisor
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Alberto Castelvecchi
Senior Advisor for Italy and European Affairs
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Dave Confair
Senior Advisor for Science and Technology
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Dr. Andrew Capistrano
Director of Research
Andrew Capistrano is a Tokyo-based expert in international relations and political economy. He is currently Visiting Research Fellow in Economic Security at the Institute for Geoeconomics, International House of Japan. A historian by training, he holds a PhD from the London School of Economics, an MA from Waseda University, and a BA from the University of California, Berkeley.
Takaaki Nakajima served as a Principal at PricewaterhouseCoopers in New York and as General Manager of the Planning Division for the Americas at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. He holds an MBA from MIT, and a BA from the University of Tokyo.
President/CEO Paul Goldstein has been a private intelligence professional for the past 50 years, with deep connections to the U.S. national security system and major corporations.
Dave Confair served for 30 years as a Manager/Engineer, designing, integrating and testing of RF and electrical/optical systems for applications on military and commercial satellites. An experienced systems integrator of Electronic Warfare, Radar, LIDAR, GPS, Space Shuttle payloads, and anti-missile systems, he specializes in satellite communication anomalies before launch and in orbit. He previously worked as a NASA engineer and did classified contract work for SAIC and other national security companies.
Alberto Castelvecchi is a journalist and a professor of strategic communications at the Luiss Business School in Rome and is on the Executive Committee at veDro, an Italian think tank. He owns a media company, advises Italian political and business figures, and conducts training sessions for Italy’s national security system.
Paul Becker served for 30 years as a US naval intelligence officer. In 2016-17, he led the Intelligence Community Landing Team for the Trump Administration’s transition. He is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and holds an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School.
Jeffrey Steinberg has spent five decades behind the scenes analyzing national security and political-economic issues. He is a college lecturer in US political history and has extensive publications as a journalist covering international affairs on six continents. He holds an MA from Montclair State University and a BA from Rutgers University.
Joe Saunders is Founder and CEO of RunSafe Security, a cybersecurity firm, and has more than 25 years of leadership, business-building, and startup experience. He holds an MBA from George Mason University, an MS in predictive analytics from Northwestern University, and a BA from the University of Michigan.
