Strategic Council
The Silverado Policy Accelerator’s Strategic Council comprises distinguished leaders and experts from various backgrounds and political affiliations, all united in their commitment to sustaining American prosperity and leadership on the global stage. The Council offers Silverado invaluable advice, guidance, and support, helping to drive its mission and enhance its programs and activities.
honorary chairs
General David Petraeus (US Army, Ret.)
Partner, KKR and Chairman KKR Global Institute
The Hon. Malcolm Turnbull
Australia’s 29th Prime Minister
strategic advisors
Michael Allen
Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
Heather Adkins
Senior Director of Information Security at Google
Robert D. Atkinson
Founder and President, the Information Technology and Innovation Foundation
George David Banks
Senior Fellow, Atlantic Council; Fellow, Bipartisan Policy Center
Thomas P. Bossert
President, TrinityCyber, Inc.
Jeremy Bash
Founder and Managing Director, Beacon Global Strategies
Nicholas Consonery
Executive Director, The Eurasia Group
Eliot Cohen
Professor, Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Wendy Cutler
Vice President, the Asia Society Policy Institute
Richard Danzig
Former Secretary of the Navy; Senior Fellow, Johns Hopkins Applied Physics Laboratory
Ivo Daalder
President, the Chicago Council on Global Affairs
John Demers
Former Assistant Attorney General
Mark Galeotti
Principal Director, Mayak Intelligence
Steve Glickman
Founder and CEO, Develop LLC
Jamieson Greer
Partner, King & Spalding
Robert Ghilduta
President of Nuand LLC
Jane Harman
Distinguished Scholar & President Emerita, Wilson International Center for Scholars
Jason Healey
Senior Research Scholar, Columbia University’s School for International and Public Affairs
Jennifer Hillman
Professor of Practice, Georgetown Law Center
Jamil Jaffer
Founder and Executive Director, the National Security Institute; Vice President, IronNet Cybersecurity
Sarah Marie Jordaan
Associate Professor, McGill University
Sandra Joyce
Executive Vice President, Mandiant Intelligence
Richard H. Ledgett, Jr.
CEO, The Ledgett Group
Kate Kalutkiewicz
Senior Managing Director, McLarty Associates
Sean Kanuck
Founder and CEO of EXEDEC
Mark Linscott
Senior Advisor, The Asia Group; Senior Fellow, the Atlantic Council’s South Asia Center
Ken Levinson
Chief Executive Officer, Washington International Trade Association (WITA)
Robin Millican
Innovation Initiative, Duke University
Jeanette Manfra
Director for Risk and Compliance, Google Cloud
Keith Mularksi
Managing Director, Ernst & Young LLP
Nazak Nikakhtar
Partner, Wiley Rein LLP
Katharina Kummer Peiry
Owner and Principal, Kummer EcoConsult
Scott N. Paul
President, the Alliance for American Manufacturing
Jennifer Prescott
Director, Amazon Web Services
Matthew Rojansky
President and Chief Executive Officer, The U.S. Russia Foundation.
Matthew Reisman
Director, Director of Privacy and Data Policy, Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
Catrina Rorke
Senior Vice President for Policy and Research, the Climate Leadership Council
Kristi M. Rogers
Managing Partner & Co-Founder of Principal to Principal (P2P)
Terence P. Stewart
Former Managing Partner, Law Offices of Stewart and Stewart
Matthew Spence
Managing Director and Global Head of Venture Capital Banking, Barclays
Nadia Schadlow
Founder, Scout Strategy Group LLC
Marie O’Neill Sciarrone
Chief Executive Officer, Tribal Tech
Chad Sweet
Co-Founder & CEO, The Chertoff Group
Michael R. Wessel
President, The Wessel Group Incorporated
Dr. Jonathan Ward
Founder, Altas Organization
Amy Zegart
Morris Arnold and Nona Jean Cox Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution; Senior Fellow, the Freeman Spogli Institute of International Studies