Brandon Karpf is the Leader of International Security Partnerships at NTT (a Fortune 100 telecom and technology company), a Venture Partner at Fulcrum Venture Group (a dual-use defense technology investor), an Adjunct Professor at the US Naval Academy (where he teaches advanced cybersecurity to undergraduates), and the founder of Bombadil (his independent risk advisory practice). His prior roles include cofounder and CTO/CPO of a startup building next-generation computer networks for US special operations; Vice President and General Manager at N2K Networks and Executive Editor of N2K CyberWire (a cybersecurity media and intelligence network); Cryptologic Warfare Officer in the US Navy with assignments at the NSA, Cyber Command, and aboard USS Boxer; Research Engineer at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory under Dr. David Clark; Data Systems Engineer at the National Reconnaissance Office; and Systems Engineer at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. Karpf holds an Executive MBA from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business, a Master of Science in Technology and Policy from MIT, and a Bachelor of Science in robotics and controls engineering from the US Naval Academy. He writes under the banner "A Discipline of Seeing," examining how the structural architectures that organized postwar power are breaking under pressure and what their replacements can do to manage risk.