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The BECKSTROM team includes outstanding principal actors, from around the globe, in cybersecurity, geopolitics and technology who have deep experience in leadership, architecture, crisis management, policy and innovation.
Members of our team include a security expert known as the world’s number one hacker; a cryptographer with an Erdős number of 1; the former chief security architect for the world’s largest credit card company; the head of threat intelligence at a top financial services company; the former director of the U.S. National Cybersecurity Center; a member of the Senior Advisory Group to the Director of National Intelligence; one of the top 25 legal IP experts according to The American Lawyer magazine; experts in Internet and DNS operations around the world; and experts in cybersecurity risk management.
Our team members also include the former CISO of the world’s leading online payments platform; the CEO of one of the world’s primary Internet coordination organizations; the founder of BlackHat and DEFCON security conferences; the founder of a leading artificial intelligence company for network security; the founders of multiple successful technology companies: the leaders who managed the worldwide crisis response to the only credible threat to take down the global Internet; and Track II diplomacy practitioners who contributed to ending the 1999 Indo/Pak war, and contributed to peace processes in Lebanon, Israel/Palestine, Kashmir, Japan/Korea, U.S./China and U.S./Iran, among others.
BECKSTROM also includes a top derivatives trader and quant at Morgan Stanley; the father of the new gTLD program at ICANN and the steward of the root of the Internet; authors of more than two dozen security and technology patents; and a published expert in global risk management who was named one of Risk Magazine’s 50 pioneers in risk management.
These experts can add incalculable value to any business or technology challenge. They thrive on untying Gordian knots and supposedly impossible organizational conundrums.
BECKSTROM does not list our experts publicly. We have more than a dozen on board at any time to work on projects that are fascinating and challenging, warranting their extraordinary skills and expertise. We custom assemble one-of-a-kind teams made up of these unique, exceptional experts around specific projects for our clients.