Advisory Board
Our advisors are the embodiment of our ethos. Highly respected professionals in their own fields, they have devoted much of their lives to the defense of democracy.
The advisory board is not a board of directors or supervisory board. They have no fiduciary responsibility to the company, and do not exercise business or financial oversight. Instead, they offer their expertise to ensure we remain true to our public benefit – to defend democratic values in an era when they are under threat by developing exceptional content for film and television.
Chris Jasin
Doowan Lee
Thor A. Stensrud
Chris Jasin
Founding Partner
Chris retired as a Senior Operations Officer with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in 2017. During his time at CIA, he executed operations globally to collect vital national security information, leading experienced teams of intelligence officers, analysts, and security teams in multi-national environments. A certified core collector and counterintelligence referent, he frequently briefed senior political leadership on complex national security matters. Chris also served in uniform before retiring as a Lieutenant Commander in the U.S. Navy.
In all, he brings a combined quarter century of experience in intelligence and information security to his role. Chris specializes in HUMINT, cybersecurity threat intelligence and insider threat program development, and since his retirement from active service has consulted for the U.S. federal government, intelligence community, law enforcement and major U.S. corporations.
Doowan Lee
Doowan is a national security expert specializing in analytic methods and international security. As a faculty member at the Naval Postgraduate School for over ten years, he worked on projects to support deterrence efforts with democratic governments against Chinese and Russian influence.
Central to this work was a focus on how China and Russia exploit social media and communications information to undermine political processes. His interest is in strengthening civil society and democracy by leveraging our strengths in emerging technology.
Thor A. Stensrud
Thor served as an officer in the United States Marine Corps on active duty and in the reserves for seven years. His undergraduate and post-graduate studies were in economics and philosophy at Wagner College, San Diego State University and UCLA Graduate School of Philosophy, where he studied under Fredrick Von Hayek.
His business career started in 1964 as a Financial Engineer at First National City Bank of New York. He then spent ten years at Salomon Brothers (Ltd. Partner), 15 years at Bear Stearns (Managing Director), and culminated with running his own boutique financial services firm, TAS & Associates Inc., until retiring in 2002.
Subsequently, he formed a new Life Science Company, and established and continues to administer the annual Great Teachers of Medicine Lecture and Scholarship at UCLA. You might find him contemplating the current state of affairs while fly fishing the great rivers of the world.