Alongside my security executive career, I co-founded a venture building greenfield manufacturing capability for rare-earth and critical-mineral components used across EV, clean-energy, aerospace, and defense supply chains. My focus has been the operational technology, industrial security, and execution planning a build like this depends on.
Authored technical bid documentation and vendor qualification frameworks for specialized industrial engineering, procurement, and construction contractors.
Defined the operational-technology and industrial cybersecurity approach for a greenfield facility, including software bill of materials, source-code escrow, digital-twin considerations, and export-control compliance.
Built the master execution roadmap and program-governance structure coordinating multiple specialized contracts across design, civil works, and process technology.
Conducted the market, technical, and vendor research underpinning site, program, and partnership strategy.
This is the same conviction that shaped my security career, applied to physical infrastructure from day one. A manufacturing plant, like a core banking platform or a hospital network, only stays secure if security is part of how it gets designed, not layered on after commissioning. Co-founding this venture let me put that thinking into an industrial build from the ground up: process equipment, controls, physical security, and supply-chain risk, together.
I co-founded this venture and led its security, operational-technology, and execution-planning work; the documentation, research, and frameworks referenced here are mine. Day-to-day operating control of the venture sits with my co-founder and the broader team.
Site, capacity, and commercial details are confidential and intentionally omitted.