MICHAEL - MANAGING PARTNER

Michael designs operational approaches to solve strategic problems,

finding the specific points of leverage that will achieve disproportionate
results. He builds upon 10 years of intelligence experience to craft
discreet solutions that bridge the public and private sectors.
He most recently worked for US Special Operations Command, where he
crafted innovative engagement strategies with nontraditional partners. He
previously worked for the consulting firm Booz Allen Hamilton providing
strategic guidance and analysis to intelligence agency clients with global
operations to protect strategic plans and operations, and Fortune 500
companies with key technology and intellectual property at risk abroad.
As a military counterintelligence and human intelligence specialist, he
lived and worked in the Middle East and Asia, working with governments,
military and police, and community leaders to facilitate US engagement.
Michael holds a Master of International Policy and Practice from the Elliott
School of International Affairs at The George Washington University, where
he studied Asian security and Chinese foreign policy. He holds a Bachelor
of Science in Global Business and Public Policy from the University of
Maryland and an Associate of Arts in Mandarin Chinese from the Defense
Language Institute in Monterey, CA. He has presented on topics related to
Chinese intelligence and foreign policy to the Defense Intelligence Agency
Joint Counterintelligence Training Academy, National Intelligence
University, Intelligence Community inter-agency working groups, and
written on Chinese foreign policy formulation in the Yale Journal of
International Affairs. Mr. Morrison is a Foundation for Defense of
Democracies National Security Fellow, has been recognized multiple times
by the National Counterintelligence Executive for excellence in
counterintelligence operations, and is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
Devilishly handsome, with a wit more arid than Mars, he excels at ordinary
feats of logic and reason.
DR. CHARASH - SECTOR SPECIALIST
Dr. Bruce Charash is a graduate of Cornell University (1977), Cornell
Medical School (1981) and is currently an Associate Professor of Clinical
Medicine at NYU Medical School, and a Fellow of the American College of
Cardiology. Dr. Charash is Board Certified in both the fields of Internal
Medicine and Cardiology, and was an inaugural member of the Clinton
Global Initiative.
Following his initial involvement in CGI in 2005, Dr. Charash founded a
non-profit medical foundation to address equipment and supply shortfalls
in underserved public health systems across the developing world. He has
engaged in on-the-ground public health system reform in a dozen subSaharan African countries, and remains a source of knowledge on matters
of sovereign development for senior policymakers in many African
governments, as well as with industrial executives and non-governmental
stakeholders in emerging markets. He remains actively involved in CGIs
efforts, and currently provides advice and counsel to a number of senior
US lawmakers on campaign and policy matters at the state and federal

levels. He also consults regularly for major law firms on complex technical
matters related to pharmaceutical development and medical practices.
Dr. Charash was inducted into the Caring Institutes Hall of Fame as
Caring Person of the Year for 2013, was featured on CNNs Heroesfor his
philanthropic work in Africa, and was New York States Outstanding
Physician of the Year in 2008. He has an enduring obsession with
presidential trivia and a nearly photographic memory.
SELINA - REGIONAL SPECIALIST
Ms. Selina Hayes brings over twenty years in development, diplomacy and
defense expertise to Waterline. She adds a blended perspective on
security and economic development to our team, with an extensive
background in field research and analysis on womens issues, political
processes, economic, public health and socio-cultural issues coupled with
management experience in designing and implementing information
technology and government service delivery programs in Africa. Prior to
joining us, Selina was the Director for International Business Development
for a large defense firm, working in Europe, Africa and the Middle East, and
worked for the Australian Embassy and Hong Kong Economic And Trade
Office in Washington. Originally from Australia, she holds a BA in
International Relations from George Washington University, an
International MBA and an MA in International Relations from University of
San Diego. Her most recent development work included field studies of
community-based development projects in Northern Nigeria and Western
Kenya focused on gender-based violence and womens healthcare. Our
only boss Aussie, she is an anchor for our teams work on continent, where
she spends much of her time.
JARED - SECTOR SPECIALIST
Jared Bourkard is our in-house authority on professional training and
education support programs: an area in which he has a proven track
record from more than a decade of experience in training and improving
the capabilities of military, intelligence and law enforcement agencies both
at home and abroad. His contributions to training doctrine for the US
Government helped re-write how critical and time-sensitive information is
managed in the field, improving the decision making capabilities of leaders
at all levels. He is most recently occupied with efforts related to identity
assurance and anonymity denial - two critical aspects of due diligence and
asset recovery that are evolving constantly as new technologies emerge
and are adopted by both legitimate and illegitimate actors alike. Jared
holds a BA in Intelligence Studies and Counterterrorism Policy and is
currently completing an MBA. Between his overseas federal service and his
current focus areas, he managed to pick up French, Russian, Spanish,
Korean, and a mutt named Waffles.
DR. MURPHY - SECTOR SPECIALIST
From her perch at Chapman Universitys Department of Political Science,
Dr. Crystal Murphy provides our staff with field research and policy

expertise on economic systems in emerging markets and developing

nations. With niche experience in bridging the gap between private sector,
institutional and philanthropic parties to encourage joint investments in
developing economies, she often finds herself the only person in the room
able to speak the language of the many public and private contributors
needed to create conditions for sustainable growth. Over the past decade,
her academic and consulting activities have covered economic
development, poverty alleviation, environmental policy and trade policy
reform, with a focus on central and east Africa.
Dr. Murphy holds a PhD in Planning, Policy and Design and an MA in Urban
Planning from UC Irvine, where she worked with the Center for
Unconventional Security Affairs, and is currently consulting for the United
Nations on financial transfer systems in South Sudan. With a strong
background in economic anthropology, she is the first to help us map out
the subtle, but important cultural obstacles to avoid in our clients
prospective markets. She speaks Lango, Lugandan, Luo and Spanish,
prefers Easterly to Sachs, and on any given day would rather be in a dusty
market in the bush.
DR. WALLER - SECTOR SPECIALIST
For more than 30 years, Dr J. Michael Waller has worked at the crossroads
where private initiatives intersect and intertwine with national security,
defense and intelligence. From driving truckloads of humanitarian aid to
impoverished civilians in combat zones, to successfully negotiating with
and training opposition movements to demobilize and join political peace
processes, his grassroots view of political transition and conflict gives him
unique perspectives about how to accelerate market conditions toward
stability and prosperity. His role as a scholar-practitioner in the field of
political and economic transition put him backstage for dozens of
watershed moments in recent history - whether living and working with
communities in conflict in Central America in the 1980s, managing a
reason to be in the Kremlin the day it fell in 1990s, finding time to author
or edit nine books, or contributing to Forbes, Investors Business Daily,
the Los Angeles Times, the New York Post, the New York Times, Readers
Digest, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.
He holds a PhD in international security affairs from Boston University,
makes a hobby out of unearthing and preserving Viking artifacts from
remote parts of northern Europe, and looks great wearing a pakol.
DR. DILLENBURG - SECTOR SPECIALIST
Dr. Margie Dillenburg started her career in education in San Diego as a
teacher and administrator with Americorps, co-founding a school in a
border neighborhood. Her life changed abruptly when she was recruited as
the first Chief Operating Officer of Invisible Children, a human-rights
advocacy organization that she guided from startup to its zenith as one of
the most successful issue-based advocacy campaigns in modern history.
During her tenure there, Invisible Children's student supporters and staff
launched national-level lobbying campaigns, international rallies and film

tours, wrote bipartisan legislation, sustained regional programs in Central

Africa to combat child soldiery, and produced over 100 different films and
countless media products, one of which was the viral video, Kony 2012.
Margie has a BA in Peace Studies and Computer Science from the
University of Notre Dame, an MA in Educational Leadership from University
of San Diego, and is now a 3rd year doctoral fellow studying global civic
engagement and empathy. Her recent engagements in consultancy cover
brand advocacy and development, grassroots mobilization, and education
reform, where she is involved with activist filmmakers, international
organizations, and charities to generate action campaigns and educational
experiences that encourage in-depth audience engagement. When not
marshaling a new grassroots base for one of our clients or designing new
approaches to brand advocacy, you will find her on her 1978 Vespa riding
around Cambridge, or on the organic farm where she works part time.
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ENERGY
OIL AND GAS