New York · Washington Est. Practice — Private Advisory

Positioning

Brought in to structure and execute complex opportunities at the intersection of critical infrastructure, capital formation, policy & national security.

You don't usually find him easily, but when you do, you understand quickly why he is in the room, and why you want to be in that room

PracticePrivate advisory

EngagementsBy introduction

StanceOperator & structurer

ProtocolOff the record by default

01 Practice

What the work actually is.

Five modes of engagement. The mandate defines which ones are in play, usually more than one, rarely all at once. Outcome-weighted. No retainers without substance behind them.

P. 01 Deal structuring Designing the shape of the transaction — how parties, capital, and covenants fit together so a complicated deal can actually close, and survive scrutiny afterward.

P. 02 Capital formation Bringing the right money into the right structure at the right stage — with attention to who sits next to whom on the cap table and why it matters three rounds from now.

P. 03 Regulatory navigation Translating between operators and the agencies, committees, and frameworks that decide whether the plan is allowed to exist. Remediation where it's already gone sideways.

P. 04 Operating partner roles Embedded with founders, boards, or sponsors through the window where execution risk is highest — typically six to eighteen months, with defined exits.

P. 05 Fractional C-suite CEO, COO, CCO, or equivalent senior seat for companies that need the judgment of that role without the full-time footprint.

02 Verticals

Where the pattern recognition lives.

Five sectors where infrastructure, capital, policy, and national security braid together. The work tends to live in the seams between them.

V.01 — Primary

Energy

Generation, transmission, fuels, and the cross-border regulatory surface around them.

V.02

Data Centers

Power-constrained compute buildout — where energy, land, and capital strategy converge.

V.03

Quantum

Early-stage sovereign-adjacent technologies with export-control and funding complexities.

V.04

Critical Minerals

Supply-chain resilience, offtake, and the capital formation behind non-Chinese sourcing.

V.05

Payments

Regulated financial infrastructure — stablecoin, settlement, and cross-jurisdiction compliance.

03 Method

How the engagements actually run.

Selective by design. The value is less about frameworks and more about timing, access, and the read of the room.

Brought in at inflection points
term-sheet to close, regulatory impasse, investor misalignment, the moment before a situation becomes a problem.

M.01 Across the capital stack. Equity, debt, structured, sovereign, strategic — the structure follows the problem, not the other way around.
M.02 Regulatory as design input. Policy and compliance enter the conversation at structuring, not after. Most deals that fail between term sheet and close fail here.
M.03 Execution to the ground. Work doesn't end at the memo. Operating partner roles exist because the hardest decisions come after the celebration.
M.04 Discretion as default. Most engagements are not announced. The public record is a deliberately thin slice of the practice.

04 Situations Solved

Not case studies. Situations.

Engagements stripped of identifying detail.
The shape of the problem and the shape of the resolution. Specifics on request under NDA.

S. 01

Cross-border infrastructure financing in a sovereign-sensitive jurisdiction.

Re-structured the capital path so the deal could close without tripping sovereign or counter-party review. Moved from stalled to signed in under a quarter.

ClosedInfrastructure
Data Center

S. 02

Regulatory remediation behind a paused capital raise.

Worked with counsel and the relevant agency to convert an open finding into a documented remediation path, clearing the block on a growth-stage round.

StructuredEnergy

S. 03

Critical-minerals financing where capital and policy had to move together.

Aligned offtake, equity, and federal-program eligibility in parallel so the financing closed on a commercial timeline rather than a policy one.

RealignedTech·Quantum

S. 04

Sale of a regulated financial business. then the operator seat to run it.

Closed change-of-control sale; held the COO seat through license migration, systems build-out, and board reconstitution; exited on defined runway.

ClosedPayments·M&A

Further detail on request, under NDA.

05 Credibility

Where the signals sit.

Institutional affiliations and the operating seats behind them. Listed in the order that matters to the current practice.

A · Associations

The Stimson Center

Independent nonpartisan policy research center — security, economic prosperity, governance.

Washington, DC

Delegation Lounge of the USA House · Davos

Convening platform at the World Economic Forum — U.S. policy, capital, and industry leadership.

Davos, Switzerland

HDIAC

Homeland Defense & Security Information Analysis Center — DoD-sponsored technical authority.

US DoD

UNCITRAL · 45th Plenary Session

Member of Delegation — United Nations Commission on International Trade Law.

United Nations

B · Operating Seats

Chief Executive Officer

American Electrodynamics

Senior Strategic Advisor

Anne Martina

Operations & Risk Consultant

Quantum Unity

Advisor

Voltscape

06 — Access

Introductions through existing relationships.

The practice is small, deliberate, and engaged primarily through people already in the work. If an introduction is warranted, the path is usually obvious to the person making it.

If it isn't, a short, specific note to the office is acknowledged, though not always answered. Outreach is weighed on fit, not volume.

Preferred path Warm introduction by a mutual party.

Direct note

LinkedIn Available on request; not used for inbound.

Press & panels Selective. Pre-arranged engagements only.

Jurisdictions Primaries: U.S. · U.K. · EU · MENA · Indo-Pacific