Keith Bristow provides leadership at a strategic level and acts as a key decision-maker within the organization, contributing to the development and implementation of the vision for the future of Arcanum.

Mr. Bristow joined Arcanum immediately after his tenure with the U.K. government as the first Director General of the National Crime Agency (NCA), the body charged with leading the U.K.’s fight to cut serious and organized crime.

In addition to his role with Arcanum, Mr. Bristow holds a number of advisory and non-executive positions with large corporations and international law enforcement agencies.

From 2006 to 2015, Mr. Bristow chaired the G8 Law Enforcement Group, improving international coordination and cooperation. In 2014 and 2015, he chaired the Five Eyes Law Enforcement Group, a partnership between the U.K., U.S., Australia, Canada and New Zealand, which seeks to reduce the international threat and impact of organized crime.

As an influential voice on contemporary law enforcement issues, Mr. Bristow has a substantial record of keynote addresses both domestically and internationally. Of special note, in 2012, he delivered the James Smart lecture “Joined up public protection” and in 2014 the Police Foundation lecture “Policing with consent in the digital age”.

Mr. Bristow graduated from the European Top Senior Police Officer Programmeand holds a Masters Degree in Organizational Development, a postgraduate diploma in Management Studies and a diploma in Applied Criminology from the University of Cambridge.

Mr. Bristow has been commended on several occasions for bravery, leadership and investigative skill, and has received a number of professional awards including most recently the FBI Director’s Medallion. In June 2008, Her Majesty the Queen honored Mr. Bristow with the Queen’s Police Medal for distinguished police service in her Birthday HonoursList.

He is based in the Company’s London offices.

John David Baycroft (MBE, CGC) is responsible for designing and delivering strategic risk management solutions and critical intelligence operations. He also plays a key leadership role in the Integrated Solutions group, which provides integrated and customized solutions to sovereign nations and large multinational companies.

Mr.Baycroftcame to Arcanum with a wealth of risk management experience as a chartered professional, and over 24 years of military service with extensive experience in the United Kingdom Special Forces (UKSF) Group. He served with distinction within the 22nd Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment becoming one of its most decorated servicemen to date. At the 22nd SAS Regiment he planned, coordinated and conducted the full spectrum of operations, which included War Fighting, Hostage Negotiation, Hostage Rescue, Counter Terrorism, Counter Narcotics, Covert Surveillance, Covert Interdiction, Intelligence Gathering and Peace Making operations in some of the world’s most austere environments. He received a Member of British Empire (MBE), a Conspicuous Gallantry Cross (CGC) and the Queens Commendation for Bravery (QCB) from Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in recognition of gallantry and distinguished specialist services whilst at the 22nd SAS Regiment.

After leaving the 22nd SAS Regiment, Mr. Baycroftheld a Senior Partner position within a large U.K. Financial Services Group for a subsidiary of a U.K. private security company, where he developed business opportunities across Europe, the Middle and Far East, Africa, Central and Latin America. In addition, he held the responsibility and accountability of supporting trade, investment, merger and acquisitions opportunities for the wider Group.

Mr.Baycroftwas also the Global Security Manager of Talisman Energy Inc., where he lead on all aspects of above surface risk management, and managed issues such as new market entry processes, liaison with the public security forces, emergency response, post-incident action and investigation in 18 separate countries, 10 of which were high threat environments.

Mr.Baycroftprovided strategic business solutions and designed policies to manage identified business risks across the Americas, the Middle and Far East, Central Asia and Africa for both the public sector and multinational companies. He also led high value asset recovery and fraud investigations to support global litigation processes.

He is based in the Company’s London offices.

Admiral Dennis Blair comes to Arcanum having overseen 16 intelligence agencies as the senior-most U.S. Intelligence official, the Director of National Intelligence. He has had a long and distinguished career in the U.S. Military, including as the Commander in Chief U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC). He is a renowned expert on Asia Pacific policy and issues.

Admiral Blair spent 34 years in the Navy, culminating in his position as Commander in Chief of the U.S. Pacific Command (CINCPAC), the largest of the combatant commands. Previously, Admiral Blair was Director of the Joint Staff in the Office of the Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff, and was seconded to the National Security Council, under Presidents Carter and Reagan.

Admiral Blair was the first Associate Director for Military Support at the Central Intelligence Agency.

After retiring from the Navy in 2002, Admiral Blair became president and CEO of the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA), a Pentagon-funded research and development center which supports the Department of Defense, the Department of Homeland Security and the Intelligence Community.

Admiral Blair has served as director of both public and private corporations, including Tyco International, EDO Corporation (now incorporated into L-3 Inc.) and Iridium LLC (now a public corporation).

He currently presides on the boards of Freedom House, the National Bureau of Asian Research and the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.

Admiral Blair has been awarded four Defense Distinguished Service Medals, three National Intelligence Distinguished Service medals, and has received decorations from the governments of Japan, Thailand, Korea, Australia, the Philippines and Taiwan.

James Clad is a former U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, and in addition to his role at Arcanum, he currently also serves as Senior Advisor for Asia at the Center for Naval Analysis.

Mr. Clad comes to Arcanum with 25 years of senior defense and foreign policy formulation and implementation experience, as well as energy consulting, from broad policy to specific outcomes. He was previously with the National Defense University in Washington, DC, where he mentored defense and security officials from the Maghreb to the Near East, Turkey, the Gulf and South Asia.

During the course of his career, Mr. Clad has held various advisory positions in the U.S. Intelligence Community. As U.S. Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Asian and Pacific Security Affairs from 2007 to 2009, Mr. Clad crafted defense and security policy in Asia and Australasia, coordinating combatant command relationships for over 25 Asian countries. He negotiated armed services support and logistic agreements with India, Indonesia and Sri Lanka and led Ballistic Missile Defense (BMD) negotiations with several major countries.

From 2003 to 2004, Mr. Clad was a National Security Detaileein Iraq. Prior to that he was Senior Counselor at the U.S. Agency for International Development, developing foreign assistance policy for a $15 billion annual aid budget and working to harmonize this with Australian, British, German and Japanese funding for Afghanistan, Indonesia, Iraq, Pakistan and Sudan. From 1997 to 2002, Mr. Clad was Director for Asia-Pacific Energy at Cambridge Research Associates, where he briefed clientele on Asia Pacific energy and risk issues including evolution, personnel and direction of national oil companies. This coincided with a LuceFoundation professorship of South and Southeast Asian Studies, at Georgetown University in Washington, DC.

Brigadier General Joseph DiBartolomeo advises Arcanum’s clients on counter-terrorism, counter-insurgency, military security, planning and development, military doctrine development and special operations training. He brings a wealth of knowledge and experience from his distinguished career in the military.

Priorto joining Arcanum in 2012, he was the Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army’s Special Forces Command.

Brigadier General DiBartolomeohas 36 years of experience in the military, where he served in several high-level positions, including Commander of the Combined Joint Special Operations Task Force in Bosnia-Herzegovina and Deputy for the Office of the DefenseRepresentative for Pakistan. Following his departure from the military, he served as the special advisor to the Director of CTTSO (Countering Terrorism Technology Support Office) of ASD/SOLIC (Assistant Secretary of Defense/Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict).

He has also been the recipient of a number of awards and decorations in recognition of his outstanding service to the U.S. Army, including the Legion of Merit, the Armed Forces Expeditionary Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal and the Humanitarian Service Medal.

He is based in the Company’s Washington, DC offices.

Field Marshal Charles Ronald Llewelyn Guthrie, Baron Guthrie of Craigiebank, GCB, LVO, OBE, DL, former Chief of the DefenceStaff, comes to Arcanum having served as the leading figure in the U.K.’s military. Field Marshal Guthrie provided leadership and direction to the U.K.’s Armed Forces over his long and distinguished career, first with the Welsh Guards in Germany and Northern Ireland, and then with the SAS in the Middle East, Malaysia and East Africa. He was also involved in the NATO Partnership for Peace after the fall of the Berlin Wall, which advised former Soviet satellites such as Poland, Hungary and the Baltic States how to restructure their forces to cooperate with NATO. This culminated in his appointment as Chief of General Staff, and later, his appointment as Chief of DefenceStaff.

Lord Guthrie has held a number of senior staff appointments in the Army, including as Commander of the 1st British Corps, the Northern Army Group and the British Army of the Rhine (from 1992 to 1994), before becoming the Chief of the General Staff (from 1994 to 1997) and Chief of the Defense Staff (from 1997 to 2001). He served for ten years as Colonel Commandant of the Intelligence Corps and he was Colonel Commandant of the SAS from 2001 to 2010. He is currently Colonel of the Life Guards, Gold Stick to Her Majesty the Queen.

Since he left the Active List, he has been a Director of NM Rothschild and Sons from 2001 to 2011 and a Director of SciensCapital, Colt Defense, Petropavlovsk and Gulf Keystone Petroleum in Kurdistan; a Council Member of the International Institute of Strategic Studies; a Visiting Professor and Honorary Fellow of King’s College London University; and Chairman of the Trustees of the Liddell Hart Centre for Military Archives at King’s College London.

He is Chairman of the Hospital of St. John and St. Elizabeth and St. John’s Hospice, Action Medical Research and the Federation of London Youth Clubs. He is Chancellor of Liverpool Hope University. Lord Guthrie is a Crossbench Peer.

Honorable John Hannah was Vice President Cheney’s National Security Advisor and headed his Office of National Security Affairs. During President Bush’s first term, he served as the Vice President’s Deputy National Security Advisor for Middle East Affairs.

During the Presidency of William J. Clinton, Mr. Hannah served as Senior Advisor to Secretary of State Warren Christopher, focusing on the Middle East, the Balkans and Russia, as well as the former Soviet Union. He also served in the administration of George H. W. Bush as a member of Secretary of State James A. Baker’s Policy Planning Staff, where he worked extensively on the collapse of the former Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact.

Outside of government, Mr. Hannah has also practiced law, specializing in international dispute resolution. He was also Deputy Director at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.

Mr. Hannah, a Senior Fellow at The Foundation for Defenseof Democracies, often writes and speaks on U.S. foreign policy. His articles have been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal and Foreign Policy Magazine.

Calvin Humphrey has the primary responsibility of overseeing large international projects and implementing strategy at Arcanum. Mr. Humphrey also provides executive oversight on staffing, program details and communications during projects, thus bringing effectiveness to the flow of work. He joined Arcanum’s sister company RJI Capital in 2004, and has held senior management positions within the Company since then.

Prior to joining the Company, Mr. Humphrey had a distinguished career in the U.S. Intelligence Community culminating in several senior leadership functions. He was the Staff Director of the Committee on Homeland Security in the U.S. House of Representatives where he was responsible for developing strategies and policies to protect the U.S. against terrorist attacks, prioritizing risks through cost benefit analysis and managing investments in critical infrastructure protection across all sectors, including both domestic and international land, air and sea transportation.

In 1998, Mr. Humphrey was appointed by President Bill Clinton to serve as the Acting Assistant Secretary and Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Office of International Affairs. In this role, Mr. Humphrey developed and led the Department’s efforts to establish energy partnerships with Africa, South Asia and Southeast Asia. He was also charged with the responsibility of developing and implementing the DOE’s international programs, policies and activities relating to international energy security issues and international technology cooperation.

Prior to his service at the DOE, Mr. Humphrey was the Senior Counsel for the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, U.S. House of Representatives, for 13 years. Mr. Humphrey distinguished himself on the Committee through his focus on counter-terrorism, counter-narcotics and the enhancement of human intelligence capabilities.

In recognition of his distinguished service for the U.S. Intelligence Community, Mr. Humphrey was awarded the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Agency Seal Medallion and the National Security Agency’s (NSA) Trailblazer Award.

He is based in the Company’s London and Washington, DC offices.

Adam Irwin is responsible for managing Arcanum’s Global Investigations Group, including all areas of intelligence collection and analysis as well as supporting executive leadership in client engagement and establishing operational best practices within the organization, including project management and quality assurance of deliverables.

Mr. Irwin brings a wealth of expertise and experience, which he has gained throughout his twelve-year career in law enforcement, having worked at both strategic and tactical levels. Prior to joining Arcanum, Mr. Irwin was a Senior Manager with the U.K.’s lead law enforcement agency, the National Crime Agency (NCA), where he provided strategic leadership to projects and operations using an in-depth knowledge of threats and opportunities in the NCA’s domestic and international operating environment. He was also responsible for leading the design and delivery of new intelligence and operations capabilities as part of the Agency’s intelligence-led, digitally-driven Transformation Program. In addition, he was responsible for liaising with foreign law enforcement agencies on behalf of the British government.

Mr. Irwin’s work included establishing a new intelligence operating model for the NCA to optimize the exploitation and sharing of all-source intelligence, to drive effective operational interventions, to better understand tactical activity and consequent strategic impact as well as to close the gap between information and intelligence gathered in the field, central exploitation and analysis. He also worked on a national law enforcement campaign, where he fielded a Concept Capability Demonstrator to realize previously unseen intelligence insights.  Mr. Irwin has particular expertise in digital intelligence and has previously led work in the NCA to transform intelligence practices and to deliver capabilities, training and tradecraft, as well as working practices to maximize the value of internet-related information and other data-rich collection sources in the fight against serious and organized crime. In 2017, he was appointed to the judging panel of the U.K.'s inaugural National Digital Intelligence and Investigation Awards.

Mr. Irwin holds a Master of Science (MSc) degree in Police Leadership and Management, awarded with Merit by the University of Leicester and a Certificate in Legal Studies (Cert. Leg. Stud.) from the Open University. He is a Fellow of the Westminster Abbey Institute having previously been selected for enrollment in the Institute's 2015 – 2016 “Fellows Programme” – a unique personal development initiative for aspiring senior leaders in public service with the potential to achieve high office. Mr. Irwin was mentored throughout the program by former Head of the British army, General Lord Richard Dannatt.

He is based in the Company’s London offices.

Bradford Laughlin is responsible for all legal affairs, corporate governance and compliance matters at the Group level. In addition, he provides support to the litigation team and assists in all transactions. He is also responsible for company-wide human resources, office and facilities management across all offices, and the management and implementation of the IT infrastructure.

Mr. Laughlin joined the Company in 2009 as Senior Counsel and has since been a valuable member of the Company’s legal team.Prior to that, Mr. Laughlin was an attorney at Magister & Partners in the firm’s Astana, Kazakhstan office. He was part of a team that represented the Government of the Republic of Kazakhstan in a number of complex litigation matters involving BTA Bank, and advised private sector clients on in-country corporate and regulatory compliance.

Prior to his position at Magister & Partners, Mr. Laughlin served as Senior Policy Advisor to the U.S. Assistant Secretary of Energy for Policy and International Affairs. In this capacity, he was responsible for monitoring international political, economic, and strategic developments as well as advising senior leadership before international summits.Earlier in his career, Mr. Laughlin worked at the Committee on Oversight and Investigations at the U.S. House of Representatives. He reported directly to the Committee’s Chief Counsel and assisted in conducting legal research, document review and deposition preparation.

He is based in the Company’s Washington, DC offices.

Christopher M. Sanders and his team are responsible for the design and delivery of key projects within the Integrated Solutions Group, and play an active role in client development and project origination. As a senior executive, he works closely with the rest of the Executive Leadership team to drive operational excellence and business development across the full spectrum of Arcanum service propositions. He reports directly to the Chairman.

Prior to joining Arcanum, Mr. Sanders was a Principal Executive Consultant serving US Government clients at the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and Department of Defense (DoD), where he provided management, technical and operational expertise to international, federal, state, and local programs and deployable assets that support counter-nuclear terrorism, counter-smuggling and emergency response capability to enhance national security through collaboration with inter-agency and international partners.

His other private sector experience includes management-level roles at Dyncorp and SAIC. He was Deputy Director and a Senior Strategic Advisor to the Senior Advisor Group to the Commanding General (CG), Joint Headquarters-Advisor Team (JHQ-AT), Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq (MNSTC-I). In this role, he advised the CG and Senior Military and Civilian Advisors on all matters involving current and future operational and organizational planning in the CENTCOM Area of Responsibility, including staff actions, strategic and operational planning, scheduling, force management, and coordination of daily operations.

At SAIC, he served as a Security Management Consultant supporting the US Customs and Border Patrol, where he led efforts to evaluate and make recommendation for improvement to government security policies and operational plans and evaluated the significance of intelligence reports regarding terrorist and transnational criminal organizational threats to USG personnel and organizations. Prior to that, he worked as a Senior Policy Analyst on Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) for the US Department of Defense and the Intelligence Community.

His career started at the Metropolitan Police Department, of Washington, DC, where he held the positions of Lieutenant, Special Operations Division and of Sergeant, Special Emphasis Violent Crime Unit. As Lieutenant, he commanded the unit providing counter-terrorism and CBRNE support to senior government officials including the executive branch and senior foreign officials on domestic and international operations. He led units during tactical operations, special events, mass demonstrations, and exercises. He developed field training exercises, directed comprehensive training of officers, and provided counter-terrorism, field operations, and tactics training to local and international law enforcement and security forces both domestically and internationally.

He currently holds active US Government security clearances.

He is based in the Company’s Washington, DC offices.

Tarek Sherazee is responsible for all areas of operational management for the company on a worldwide basis. He reports directly to the Chairman, and develops and implements quality management and capability building processes with a results-oriented approach. He is a key member of the Executive Leadership team responsible for developing overall strategy and implementation to ensure that the vision of executive leadership is underpinned by robust business plans and supporting infrastructure. In addition, he plays a key role in client development, generating new and sustainable streams of income and identifying business development opportunities.

A management and strategy consultant by background, Mr. Sherazeehas over 20 years of experience working for leading consulting firms and multinationals. His professional experience has spanned across Europe, North America, Latin America, Middle East and Asia/Pacific.

Prior to joining Arcanum, he was Managing Consultant at PA Consulting where he specialized in business transformation, developing new propositions (M&A, Corporate Strategy, Innovation Strategy) and growth strategy implementation for multinational corporations.  His clients included GSK, Unilever, Merck and Hershey, amongst others.

Previously, he gained operational experience as Head of Strategy for The Co-operative Group and as Global Strategy Director for Costa Coffee, developing and implementing strategies and target operating models that increased growth and profitability for both organizations.

He has held a number of high-level positions in other financial institutions, including at VIA International and European Bank for Reconstruction and Development where he managed the Strategic Planning Department. He started his consulting career at Coopers & Lybrand as a Senior Consultant.

From 1985 to 1995, he was an Officer in the Royal Marines and Royal Marines Reserves.

He is based in the Company’s London offices.

Petra Sipe is responsible for leading, developing and managing client work relating to financial crimes, and analysis with a particular focus on forensic investigations, anti-money laundering, terrorist financing, asset tracing and recovery operations, sanctions, enhanced due diligence and business intelligence. She reports directly to the Chairman.

She has nearly 20 years of experience in the financial sector, with a particular specialization in financial crime. She has extensive experience in the areas of international and domestic financial systems, financial compliance, as well as business development and management.

Prior to joining the Company, Ms. Sipe was Assistant Director of Forensic, Business Intelligence Services at Deloitte, based out of Dubai, United Arab Emirates. In that capacity, she managed both government and commercial clients on a wide array of matters related to anti-corruption, anti-money laundering, sanctions, enhanced due diligence, business intelligence, asset tracing and forensic data mining on issues related to the MENA region. She was previously situated in Deloitte’s Washington DC office, most recently serving as Senior Manager of Forensic, Anti-Money Laundering Practice. During that time she managed a staff of 30, focusing on AML, forensic investigations, forensic data mining and cross-border asset tracing investigations. She was responsible for researching and utilizing analytical tools to provide finished products on commercial due diligence, money laundering, proliferation schemes, and terrorist financing schemes in the U.S., the UAE and other jurisdictions.

Previously, she was an Investment Analyst at Sol Capital Management Company, an international financial advisory firm, where she managed the firm’s relationship with investment companies and conducted all of the firm’s domestic and offshore securities trading ($1.4 billion assets under management). She led business transformation efforts that promoted a greater flow of information between team members and resulted in improved efficiency and accuracy of the investment process.

She is based in the Company’s Dubai, UAE offices.