JW Strategic Advisors LLC

About

     I am an experienced board member, strategic advisor, and investor who has spent my career helping organizations navigate complex decisions involving growth, governance, capital, transactions, and risk in highly technical and mission-critical sectors. Across more than 70 M&A and investment transactions totaling over $6.4 billion, and through service with public, private, and emerging companies, I have developed a board-level perspective grounded in independent judgment, disciplined oversight, and long-term value creation.

     My background is especially relevant to organizations operating across national security, defense, cybersecurity, advanced technologies, and dual-use innovation. I have advised CEOs, investors, and boards on strategic growth, acquisitions, capital formation, and governance matters involving cybersecurity and cyber operations, applied AI, secure communications and networking, advanced computing and cloud, semiconductors and microelectronics, quantum and quantum-enabled systems, autonomous and uncrewed systems, space technologies, and other critical and emerging national security technologies.

     In the boardroom, I bring practical experience overseeing strategy in environments where technology risk, cybersecurity, operational resilience, regulatory expectations, and stakeholder alignment must be managed together rather than in isolation. My approach is collaborative but candid: helping management refine strategic priorities, challenge assumptions constructively, strengthen risk awareness, and evaluate growth, partnership, and transaction opportunities with rigor and perspective. This includes a strong appreciation for how boards should oversee cyber risk, escalation, response planning, and management accountability as part of enterprise governance.

    I also bring a broad network across investors, operators, and innovation ecosystems relevant to defense and national security, including relationships that support visibility into emerging technologies, commercialization pathways, and strategic partnership opportunities. In addition, I can provide immediate value by supporting boards and management with disciplined due diligence on potential investments and acquisitions, helping test assumptions, assess strategic fit, and identify value creation opportunities and key risks before decisions are made.