About :: Board of Advisors
Ergo's Board of Advisors are esteemed individuals from across the globe who are leaders in the fields of business, government, diplomacy, and academia. Members of the Board of Advisors offer Ergo strategic guidance and expert counsel to help us provide the most valuable services to our clients.
Rafael Bardaji is Senior Advisor for international security to former Spanish president Jose Maria Aznar. He served in Spain's government as National Security Advisor from 1996-04. Mr. Bardaji is the Director of Foreign Policy at FAES, a think tank in Madrid.
Richard A. Clarke served the last three U.S. presidents as a senior White House Advisor. Over the course of 11 years of White House service, he held the titles of Special Assistant to the President for Global Affairs; National Coordinator for Security and Counterterrorism; and Special Advisor to the President for Cyber Security. He is presently a Partner in Good Harbor Consulting.
Admiral Sir Ian Forbes KCB CBE retired from the Royal Navy in 2004. He commanded four warships: Kingfisher, Diomede, Chatham, and Invincible, and was engaged in conflict and crisis operations off Iceland, the Falklands, in the Gulf and in the Adriatic. He previously served as the NATO Deputy Supreme Allied Commander Atlantic, and acted as NATO Supreme Allied Commander.
Jonathan Glick was most recently the Director of Research Operations at Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG), the world's leading primary research platform, where he was responsible for strategic oversight of GLG product offerings and research services. Mr. Glick was previously CEO of OuterForce, a software platform provider for the management and compensation of expert networks, and Head of Product Development and Technology for the New York Times Electronic Media Company.
Neal Goldman was the founder, Chairman and CEO of Capital IQ until its sale to the Standard & Poor's division of McGraw-Hill in 2004. He is currently the Managing Director for Uhuru Capital Management LLC (formerly Goode Holdings LLC), an investment firm focused on information service and middle market consumer businesses. Mr. Goldman was previously an investment banker at Lehman Brothers. He is a term member at the Council on Foreign Relations and in 2007 was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
Parag Khanna is the Director of the Global Governance Initiative and Senior Research Fellow in the American Strategy Program at the New America Foundation. During 2007 he was a senior geopolitical advisor to United States Special Operations Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan. His previous experience includes scenario and risk planning in emerging markets for Forum of Geneva member companies. Mr. Khanna served in the foreign policy advisory group to the Barack Obama presidential campaign.
Major General James A. "Spider Marks" is the CEO of InVisM, a firm that develops training, simulation, and visualization products for industry and government. Previously, he was a Managing Partner at Ergo. He served in the U.S. Army for over 30 years, including as a senior intelligence officer in multiple theaters of operation to include the Balkans, Korea, and Iraq. He concluded his service as the senior intelligence officer for the coalition land forces during the liberation of Iraq and as the Commanding General of the United States Army Intelligence Center. Before joining Ergo, he was President and CEO of Global Linguist Solutions, a private company which provides linguistics services to the U.S. military in Iraq. He was a military and intelligence analyst for CNN from 2004-2007 and currently contributes to Fox News. He is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University's Center for Peace and Security Studies. He holds degrees from West Point and the University of Virginia.
Todd Morley is co-founder of Guggenheim Partners, LLC, and a member of its board of directors and executive committee. Guggenheim is a private investment firm that manages more than $100 billion of assets. With 13 offices in the US, Europe and the Middle East, Guggenheim engages in wealth management, investment management, capital markets, and merchant banking. In 1997, Mr. Morley founded Mortgages PLC, a London-based lender. In 1996, he founded Links Holdings, owner and operator of Links Securities. He has spent more than 20 years on Wall Street and was a Managing Director at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and a VP at Lehman Brothers.
Brian O'Neill was the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Western Hemisphere Affairs at the U.S. Department of the Treasury until January 2009. He was previously the Chairman of Investment Banking for Canada and Latin America at JP Morgan Chase. He is currently a member of the Supervisory Board of Erste Bank in Vienna, a director of the Council of the Americas, and a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations.
Roger Pardo-Maurer served from 2001 to 2006 as U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Western Hemisphere affairs, the senior Defense Department official responsible for Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada. A reservist in U.S. Army Special Forces, he left the Defense Department to serve with his unit in Afghanistan and Iraq. In 2006 he was awarded the Distinguished Public Service Medal of the Department of Defense, the department's highest civilian honor. Prior to his public service he was managing partner of a trade and investment consulting firm with offices in Mexico City and Washington, D.C.
Jim Reese is the CEO of TigerSwan which provides risk mitigation and crisis management expertise to governments and the private sector. He is a retired Delta Force officer and has extensive experience in key military command and staff leadership roles around the world. Mr. Reese served as an advisor to the Director of Central Intelligence.