
“Experience is a cruel teacher – it gives the exam first, then the lesson.” – Leslie Odom Jr.
OODA helps our clients identify, manage, and respond to global risks and uncertainties while exploring emerging opportunities and developing robust and adaptive strategies for the future.
OODA is comprised of a unique team of international experts lead by co-founders Matt Devost and Bob Gourley. Matt and Bob have been collaborating for two decades on advanced technology, intelligence, and security issues. Our team is capable of providing advanced intelligence and analysis, strategy and planning support, investment and due diligence, risk and threat management, training, decision support, crisis response, and security services to global corporations and governments.

Matt is a technologist, entrepreneur, and international security expert specializing in counterterrorism, critical infrastructure protection, intelligence, risk management and cyber-security issues. Matt co-founded the cyber security consultancy FusionX from 2010-2017. Matt was President and CEO of the Terrorism Research Center/Total Intel from 1996-2009. (LinkedIn | Twitter | Instagram)
OODA Advisory Board

Brian Michael Jenkins is the world’s leading authority on terrorism & sophisticated crime, and serves as the Senior Advisor to the President of the RAND Corporation. He is also the Director of the National Transportation Security Center at the Mineta Transportation Institute. From 1989 to 1998, Mr. Jenkins was the Deputy Chairman of Kroll Associates, an international investigative and consulting firm. Responsible for the firm’s crisis management practice, he directed the responses to kidnapping and extortion cases worldwide. Before that, he was Chairman of RAND’s Political Science Department where, from 1972 to 1989, he also directed RAND’s research on political violence.

Jeff Jonas, founder and CEO of Senzing, is an acclaimed data scientist and the leading creator of Entity Resolution systems. For more than three decades, he has been at the forefront of solving complex big data problems for companies and governments. National Geographic recognized him as the Wizard of Big Data. A three-time entrepreneur, Jonas sold his last company to IBM in 2005. Prior to founding Senzing, Jonas served as an IBM Fellow and Chief Scientist of Context Computing at IBM. He led a team focused on creating next-generation AI for Entity Resolution technology, code-named G2. Jonas is a highly sought-after speaker. He regularly meets with government leaders, industry executives and think tanks around the globe about innovation, national security and privacy. For a full bio, please visit Senzing.com.

Scott McNealy Co-Founded Sun Microsystems in 1982 and served as CEO and Chairman of the Board for 22 years during which he piloted the company from startup to legendary Silicon Valley giant in computing infrastructure, network computing, and open source software. Under his watch, Sun Microsystems employed approximately 235,000 worldwide. Sun was sold to Oracle in 2010 for $7.4 billion. McNealy is committed to innovation in technology and education and is an outspoken advocate for personal liberty and responsibility, small government, and free-market competition. McNealy founded WayIn in 2011 where he serves as Chairman of the Board. Wayin is a social intelligence and visualization company that makes tools for businesses to easily search, analyze, and display user generated social content to drive brand awareness and revenue growth.

Bobbie Stempfley is a director of the CERT division at the Software Engineering Institute, as well as a leader in the field of the security and use of technology to support the public’s interests. In her 20-plus years of public service, she has focused on strategy and driving transformation in organizations. Previously, at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, she led efforts to increase the public sector’s security and resilience against cyber threats. Engaging with critical infrastructure and industry, she led efforts to raise awareness, reduce risks, and prepare and respond to cyber events as the acting assistant secretary and as the deputy assistant secretary in the Office of Cyber Security and Communication. She served as chief information officer (CIO) of the Defense Information Systems Agency, where her work spanned the internal technology used in the agency and the capabilities put in the hands of war fighters and their mission support organizations. And was the founding leader of the DOD-CERT. Ms. Stempfley has been recognized as a top federal CIO two years in a row by Information Week, named one of the top 50 Women in Technology in D.C., and awarded the F. Lynne McNulty Award as a leader in cybersecurity by (ISC)2. She holds a B.S. in engineering mathematics from the University of Arizona and an M.S. in computer science from James Madison University and is a doctoral student at Georgetown University.

Nick Lantuh is President and CEO of Fidelis. Nick has more than two decades of proven start-up, sales and go to market leadership experience. Most recently, he served as Executive Chairman of eSentire, where he provided both strategic and operational leadership to support the company’s growth and market expansion, culminating in the sale of eSentire to Warburg Pincus. Prior to eSentire, Mr. Lantuh was the founder and President of NetWitness (acquired by EMC in 2011). As President, he secured funding, built the management team and ran day-to-day operations from inception through sale, culminating in a #21 overall ranking on the 2010 Inc. 500 List of Fastest Growing Private Companies in the US and a #1 ranking as the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Software Company in the US.

Dr. James N. Miller is President and CEO of Adaptive Strategies LLC, which advises private sector clients on technology trends and strategy. He is a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s Applied Physics Lab and at Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science & International Affairs, and serves on the Board of Advisors for the Center for a New American Security. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, the International Institute for Strategic Studies, and the Defense Science Board, where he co-chaired a recent study on cyber deterrence. Dr. Miller served as Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2012 to 2014, and Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy from 2009 to 2012. Dr. Miller received a B.A. with honors in economics from Stanford University, and a Ph.D. in public policy from the Kennedy School at Harvard University.
