Advanced technology companies are building across borders inside an alliance system that is shifting faster than their partnerships were designed to handle. I help them navigate that gap — structurally, strategically, and before the stress event exposes it.
I began my career as an air navigator in the Royal Canadian Air Force — tracking submarines over the open ocean and managing sensors inside Cheyenne Mountain as deputy sensor manager of the U.S. Space Surveillance Network. The discipline I built there was not technical fluency alone; it was the ability to read systems under stress and act before the failure point. That is the discipline I bring to cross-border technology strategy.
As Canada's Air and Space Operations Attaché at the Embassy in Washington, I led military space-to-space engagements between Canada and its allies — building the relationship architecture that underpins allied space cooperation today. At Astroscale U.S., I designed and executed a coordinated global policy strategy across the United States, Europe, and Asia-Pacific, shaping early regulatory norms for in-orbit servicing across four nations at a time when no framework existed. As NASA's Associate Administrator for Technology, Policy, and Strategy, I led the agency's applied research and policy office — converting geopolitical complexity, emerging technology risk, and economic strategy into decision-grade analysis for senior agency, White House, and interagency leadership.
Few people have operated at every level of the systems my clients are now navigating. I bring that experience to bear directly.
"Advanced technology companies are already making decisions with geopolitical consequences. The question is whether those decisions are made by avoidance — or by design."
Export controls, investment screening, and procurement nationalism are decoupling allied industrial bases — even when no party intends it. I help companies identify where their cross-border partnerships are structurally exposed, what it will cost them, and how to build resilience before the stress point becomes a liability.
The alliance environment is shifting faster than most partnership structures were designed to handle. I identify where your cross-border exposure is, what it is costing you, and what you can do to mitigate geopolitical realities before they land on the balance sheet.
Entering an allied market is rarely just a regulatory problem — it is a relationship problem, a timing problem, and a sovereignty problem simultaneously. I help companies build a credible, durable presence in partner nations where shared strategic interests create the conditions for deep industrial cooperation.
Geopolitics is now a material business variable. I translate a complex and fast-moving policy environment into decision-grade analysis for leadership teams — so the boardroom is ahead of the risk, not reacting to it.
The companies that shape their operating environment outperform those that merely monitor it. I develop the strategic positioning and coalition architecture that enables your leadership to engage government stakeholders with clarity, credibility, and a coherent long-term narrative.
The governance frameworks shaping strategic technologies — space, AI, quantum, and beyond — are being written right now — across governments, international bodies, and industry standards organizations simultaneously. I bring an industry, government, NGO, and international lens to help companies understand where those frameworks are heading, where the gaps are, and how to position themselves as credible voices in the conversations that will set the rules of the road.
Sectors: Space · Artificial Intelligence · Quantum · Advanced Compute
The most consequential cross-border technology partnerships of the next decade will not be built by large primes alone. Advanced technology SMEs are the companies building the capabilities that nations depend on — and they deserve the same quality of strategic counsel.
Companies in space, AI, quantum, or advanced compute operating — or intending to operate — within allied markets. You are building something consequential and you need the analytical and strategic infrastructure to compete at the level your capability deserves.
Teams structuring cross-border JVs, supply chain partnerships, or program bids where geopolitical exposure is a material risk. You need someone who can read the regulatory environment and the relationship environment at the same time.
Companies navigating allied export control regimes, investment screening, and procurement requirements who need a structured path from assessment to action — not just a risk flag and a warning.
Officials and advisors assessing allied corridor durability, regulatory friction, or the structural conditions under which industrial cooperation between allies will — or will not — hold.
The old order is giving way — not catastrophically, not all at once, but structurally, and with compounding velocity. What is emerging in its place is still being defined. The moment is here, and the companies that understand this are already repositioning.
The gap between knowing that geopolitical risk is real and having the structured means to act on it has never been wider. I am building something to close it — designed specifically for the advanced technology companies that allied markets depend on most.
If you are working on allied trust corridors in advanced technology and want to understand what this means for your company before it launches — reach out directly.
I work with a small number of clients at any time. If you are building across borders in advanced technology and the geopolitical environment has moved from background noise to a boardroom variable — let's talk.
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