Professional Experience

• Currently providing research services and strategic communications counsel to clients ranging from global PR agencies and major tech companies to small businesses and startups.

• Working with one of the world’s largest tech firms to provide research and analysis informing the strategy behind a highly-complex and sensitive international communications campaign. 

• Working with a political risk-focused tech firm to improve its marketing products, including white papers and email newsletters. Increased readership of the latter by more than 10-percent in three months and achieved a nearly 60-percent average open rate.

• Worked with a national NGO on a communications strategy that has increased major news outlets’ coverage of a humanitarian crisis in Eurasia in 2023.

• Stood up the communications function of a global renewable energy organization in 2023.

• Produce in-depth research and analysis materials as well as executive communications strategies, website content, op-eds, blog posts, media talking points, videos, corporate governance reports, white papers, and other content for businesses and global tech nonprofits.

• Provide strategic PR counsel and media training to executives and other business leaders.

2020 – 2022

OCCRP is an international investigative news outlet and  journalism development NGO. It is the hub in a global network of journalists, technologists, and researchers who use data science and investigative reporting to hold governments accountable and support democracy.

Rebuilt the financial management, HR, and grant administration operations of an NGO that has more than quadrupled in size over the past four years to more than 170 employees worldwide and a $15 million budget.

Built OCCRP’s first-ever organization-wide budget and created its annual planning process, allowing leadership to strategically manage resources, growth, and risk. 

Streamlined key business workflows and replaced OCCRP’s paper-based financial, HR, and grant management systems with a scalable, cloud-based tech stack.

Created finance, accounting, and compliance teams that are organized according to best practices for global nonprofits.

2018 – 2019

Led Slate magazine’s coverage of the Robert Mueller investigation in the fall and winter of 2018–19.

2014 – 2018

Just Security (at NYU School of Law) is the premier online publication for expert commentary on the ways U.S. national security law and policy impacts human rights and international law worldwide.

Ran Just Security’s daily operations and transformed it from an academic blog into a publication read by high-level government officials, prominent journalists, NGO staff, academics, and the general public.  

Created Just Security’s audience development strategy and its editorial standards, workflows, new website, and staffing structure––this resulted in Just Security’s readership increasing from roughly 100,000 page views per-month to a median of 700,000 page views per-month. 

Dramatically expanded Just Security’s coverage of technology, privacy, and security by recruiting dozens of expert authors from across the global tech policy, tech freedom, and cybersecurity communities.

Introduced or expanded the use of additional content channels, such as podcasts, video livestreams, email newsletters, and social media to bring Just Security’s messages to new audiences.

Created small, off-the-record roundtables where Just Security’s experts briefed journalists, executive branch officials, and legislative staff on policy and legal issues related to technology and security.

Introduced the use of digital analytics to monitor audience engagement and make data-driven content decisions.

Developed content-distribution partnerships with The Atlantic and Slate magazine.

2012 – 2013

Created and authored Killer Apps, a daily column covering technology and conflict, with a focus on cybersecurity and espionage. 

Increased Killer Apps’ readership to more than 400,000 monthly page views within one year of its 9/12 launch.

Represented the publication on major network & cable news outlets to discuss national security issues. Also spoke on expert panels discussing cybersecurity at think tanks, universities, and industry conferences.

Helped develop Foreign Policy’s digital National Security Channel, content strategy, and email newsletters. 

Work was routinely cited by publications including The New York Times, The Atlantic, The Boston Globe, Wired, and HuffPost.

2010 – 2012

Recruited by Military.com to reinvigorate its premiere blog, Defense Tech, covering technology and conflict. 

Increased monthly page views from 380,000 to more than one million within seven months and set a company record for readership.

2009 – 2010

Covered U.S. Defense Department policy and budgets, Congressional oversight of the U.S. military, and the global defense industry, with a special focus on military aviation.

2007 – 2009

Covered U.S. Air Force policy and budgets, Congressional oversight of the U.S. Air Force, and the global defense industry.

2006 – 2007

Launched the U.S. operations of a Scandinavian Software as a Service (SaaS) company. Met or exceeded sales quotas.