How is espionage evolving between China, Russia and the United States? What should a board director ask corporate management about AI, state-sponsored cyberattacks, and political risk in making strategic decisions? Host Allan Marks sits down with former FBI Special Agent Holden Triplett for a candid, wide-ranging and practical conversation about how companies and policymakers can better manage national security risks in a world of shifting geopolitics and disruptive technologies. While at the FBI, Holden was posted to Moscow and Beijing and acted as the Director for Counterintelligence at the National Security Council. From boardroom to intelligence briefing, his experience makes for a lively and insightful discussion.
About the Speakers
Holden Triplettis a founder of Trenchcoat Advisors, a firm that helps businesses protect themselves from nation-state threats. From 2017 to 2018, Holden was the Director for Counterintelligence at the National Security Council. He led the FBI office in Beijing from 2014 to 2017 and was deputy head of the FBI office in Moscow from 2012 to 2014. Holden was also the FBI Faculty Chair at the National Intelligence University, where he taught courses in Counterintelligence, National Security Law, and Intelligence, and Chinese Intelligence and Information Warfare. He is currently an adjunct professor at Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.
Podcast host Allan Marks is one of the world's leading project finance lawyers. He advises developers, investors, lenders, and underwriters around the world in the development and financing of complex energy and infrastructure projects, as well as related acquisitions, restructurings and capital markets transactions. Many of his transactions relate to ESG and sustainability, innovative clean technologies, and sophisticated contractual risk allocation. Allan serves as an Adjunct Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley at the Law School and previously at the Haas School of Business.
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