Chris Oates, PhD.

CEO and Founder

Chris Oates, PhD, founded Two Lanterns Advisory, a political risk consultancy, where clients include the Department of Defense and financial institutions.

He has also served as a Senior Advisor to Voter Choice 2020 and has worked at Oxford Analytica. Chris has a PhD in International Relations from the University of Oxford and a BA from Brown University.

He is a Lecturer at the Pardee School of Global Studies at Boston University.

Peter Dolch

Advisor

Peter Dolch is the President and co-Founder of Thaumaturgix, Inc. (Tgix), a pioneering web development and infrastructure company, which was twice ranked in the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Private Companies list. He is also the Founder and Managing Partner at AEON Foundry. He has completed academic work at Harvard University and MIT.

Jeffrey Sánchez

Advisor

Jeffrey Sánchez is a Senior Advisor at Rasky Partners. He was previously the Chair of the Ways & Means Committee in the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where he served for 16 years. Prior to his work in the State House, he worked for the Mayor of Boston and as an investment banker. He has a BA from UMass-Boston and an MPA from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.

R. David Edelman, PhD

Advisor

R. David Edelman, PhD, was Special Assistant to President Barack Obama for Economic and Technology Policy, where he managed the US National Economic Council's team responsible for innovation, consumer cybersecurity, and data privacy. He was previously the first Director for International Cyber Policy at the National Security Council. He has a BA from Yale University and an MPhil and DPhil from Oxford University.

Matt MacDonald

Advisor

Matt MacDonald is the President of the Simoni Companies, a property management, brokerage, and development firm based in Massachusetts. He was an Associate at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in mergers and acquisitions, and worked as an analyst at Bain Capital and Fidelity Business Consulting. He has a JD/MBA from the University of Pennsylvania and a BA from Princeton University.

Jessica Ashooh, PhD

Advisor

Jessica Ashooh, PhD, is the Director of Policy at Reddit where she leads their public policy and government relations work. She was previously the Deputy Director of the Middle East Strategy Task Force at the Atlantic Council and was on the Syria portfolio at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the United Arab Emirates. She has a BA from Brown University and an MPhil and DPhil in International Relations from Oxford University.