Mike has been running America's first and longest-running National Security investment strategy since June 2016.

Prior to founding Strider Capital in December 2020, Mike was a Managing Director and the top performing Portfolio Manager at American Capital Management (ACM). He co-managed the firm's largest portfolio ($1 billion+), was a partner on the institutional account investment team, and sole-managed the strategy that is now Strider Capital.

Prior to ACM, Mike served in Morgan Stanley's Technology Investment Banking and Equity Capital Markets groups. He holds a B.S. from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as an infantry platoon leader in Afghanistan's Kunar Valley, for which he was awarded the Bronze Star.

Mike has spent extensive time embedded with robotics teams on the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza Wars studying the effects of modern technologies on the battlefield and has 11 war-zone trips between Ukraine, Israel, and Afghanistan. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Airborne, Air Assault, and Ranger Schools, was the Fencing Team Captain at West Point, and is an Eagle Scout.

Before Strider Capital, DeVan was the lead Sensitive Activities Instructor at the Joint Special Operations University designing and teaching curriculum on the use of Sensitive Activities in campaigns against peer competitors in the gray zone.

He is a doctoral candidate in Military History at the National University of Singapore focusing on military observers in international conflict. DeVan is a retired U.S. Army Special Forces Lieutenant Colonel with 21 years of service, 17 in Special Forces where he held key leadership and staff roles from Detachment Commander through positions at each level up to Special Operations Command (SOCOM) Headquarters.

He served in numerous combat and advisor positions across Asia and the Middle East and has made multiple trips to the front lines of the Ukraine-Russia and Israel-Gaza Wars.

DeVan graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was the Fencing Team Captain. He earned an M.A. in History from the National University of Singapore and graduated from the Singapore Staff College. His military training includes Airborne, Air Assault, Jumpmaster, and Ranger Schools, the Special Forces Qualification Course, Special Forces Combat Diver Course, and Advanced Special Operations Techniques Course. He is also an Eagle Scout.

Jonathan Lavy has spent the last 25 years as an institutional investor. In his role at Strider Capital, Jonathan has travelled with the investment team to conduct due diligence on war zone technologies in Ukraine during the Ukraine-Russia War.

Most recently, he was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager in Glenmede's Endowments and Foundations group, overseeing manager selection and portfolio construction at a $10B OCIO and trustee to the Pew Charitable Trusts. At Glenmede, Jonathan underwrote over 25 new investments, including many seed and early stage commitments to managers.

Together with the CIO, he co-managed two OCIO model portfolios and two hedge fund-of-funds. Prior to Glenmede, Jonathan was Director of Investments at the American Red Cross for four years. At the ARC, he was responsible for sourcing and underwriting investments for a $1 billion endowment and a $2 billion defined benefit pension.

Jonathan began his career at General Motors Asset Management, rising to Portfolio Manager. As an early member of the Absolute Return Strategies group, he helped expand the hedge fund allocation from 1% to 7.5% of the Defined Benefit Plan, grew the team from 3 to 10, and outperformed the benchmark by over 3%. Additionally, he managed Broad Scope Mandates, utilizing derivatives overlays, defensive strategies, and risk parity frameworks to mitigate funded status volatility. He holds a B.A. in Economics from Harvard College, earned the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2006, and serves on the Investment Committee of his alma mater, Regis High School.

Command Sergeant Major Shorter enlisted in the Army in 1988 and attended Infantry Basic Training and Advanced Individual Training at Fort Benning, Georgia. He was subsequently assigned to 3rd Infantry Division in Kitzingen, Germany. CSM Shorter volunteered for Special Forces training and graduated the Special Forces Qualification Course in 1992. He was then assigned to 3rd Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group (A) at Fort Lewis, Washington.

During the following 23 years, he held the positions of Junior Medical NCO, Senior Medical NCO, Team Sergeant, and HSC First Sergeant. His Sergeant Major assignments with 1st Special Forces Group include OPSDET Sergeant Major, Company Sergeant Major for Charlie Company 3rd Battalion, Group Operations Sergeant Major, 1st Battalion Command Sergeant Major, and Group Command Sergeant Major.

Command Sergeant Major Shorter's nominative positions include the Command Senior Enlisted Leader of Special Operations Command Pacific, United States Indo-Pacific Command, Joint Special Operations University and United States Special Operations Command.

His military education includes every level of Non-Commissioned Officer Professional Development, including the Summit Course. He is a graduate of the Special Forces Qualification Course, Special Forces Operations and Intelligence Course, Static Line Jumpmaster Course, Dive Medical Technician's Course, and the Military Free Fall Parachutist Course. His awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, Defense Superior Service Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Army Commendation Medal with "V" device, and Army Achievement Medal. He has been awarded the Special Forces Tab, Combat Infantryman's Badge, Expert Infantryman's Badge, Expert Field Medic Badge, Master Parachutist Badge, Military Free Fall Parachutist Badge, and the Saint Phillip of Neri Award (Bronze Order).

Brent was formerly the Co-Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Tradewind Technologies, a cybersecurity training company that prepared members of the Special Operations and Intelligence Communities for deployment to hostile environments.

Previous to his 13 years with Tradewind, Brent was a Senior Client Services Manager at SNL Financial, where he managed a book of client relationships spanning large institutional and multinational financial services firms.

Brent began his professional career as an officer in the U.S. Navy SEALs. While on active duty, he served with Navy SEAL Team Two, Special Boat Unit 20, and is a plankowner of SEAL Team 10. Across three deployments to Europe and North Africa, he led operations in support of the NATO Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina and advised allied and partner forces.

Brent received his B.S. in Engineering Science and MBA from the University of Florida, where he participated in Navy Reserve Officer Training Corps. He serves as a Commander in the Florida State Guard Special Mission Unit.

Sally brings over 25 years of experience across global financial services and accounting to Strider. As the China-based CFO at Optiver, a leading global market maker with approximately $5 billion in trading revenue, she spent nearly a decade partnering with local CEOs to build the firm's China operations and scale its trading business.

Prior to Optiver, Sally was the Regional Head of Product Control in Emerging Markets, Credit, Structured Products, and Commodities for Credit Suisse in Singapore.

Earlier in her career, Sally held roles at Goldman Sachs across New York, Tokyo, and Shanghai, and Lehman Brothers in Tokyo.

She began her career in real estate consulting at Ernst & Young in Boston, where she earned her CPA. Sally holds a B.S. in Accounting from American International College.

Prior to Strider Capital, Matt was a public sector consultant at LMI, advising U.S. and international government clients on ground-based weapon systems and managing a $60B+ Foreign Military Sales portfolio.

He retired from the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant Colonel with 21 years of service. His recent roles were as a Foreign Area Officer in Thailand and Cambodia where he advised the U.S. Ambassador on Department of War matters.

He also managed the Defense Threat Reduction Agency's International Counterproliferation Program to counter the threat of the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, related materials and technologies through the independent states of the former Soviet Union, the Baltic region, Eastern Europe, and the Indo Pacific.

As an Infantry and Special Forces Officer, Matt served four combat tours in Afghanistan, Iraq, and the Philippines, earning three Bronze Star Medals. Matt is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds an MPP from Harvard Kennedy School. His military training includes Airborne, Air Assault, Jumpmaster, Military Free Fall, and Ranger Schools, and the Special Forces Qualification Course.

Before Strider Capital, Ted was a data scientist and value based analytics strategist for Bassett Healthcare. At Bassett, he leveraged AI and machine learning to transform complex electronic health records and claims data into actionable insights that improved patient outcomes and operational efficiency.

Prior to Bassett, Ted worked as a portfolio manager at General Motors pension fund where he managed an internal $6 billion systematic global macro hedge fund that traded equities, fixed income, and foreign currencies.

He also applied his modeling and derivatives trading expertise to optimize and implement an Asset Liability Matching strategy. Ted started his professional career working in radiation safety at the Department of Energy Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory. He still proudly displays his UC609 tritium shipping container certification.

Ted has a BS in Biology, concentrating in Genetics with a minor in Statistics from Cornell and an MBA from Carnegie Mellon with concentrations in Finance, Operations, and Strategy. Ted serves as an elected Town Supervisor in upstate New York.

Most recently Sean worked in cybersecurity at Fortinet Federal, supporting U.S. government customers. Before Fortinet, he served over a decade as a U.S. Navy SEAL.

Sean deployed three times as a sniper with SEAL Team 7 to Iraq and other countries in the Middle East and Asia. Sean was also the Lead Petty Officer with the Navy Leap Frogs, the U.S. Navy's parachute demonstration team.

Originally from Virginia, he earned his undergraduate degree from Old Dominion University and completed executive education through Harvard Business School's Program for Leadership Development. He is a graduate of Basic Underwater Demolition and SEAL Qualification Training, and Military Free Fall, Sniper, and Survival, Escape, Resistance, and Evasion schools.

Suzanne is a venture-backed founder with three companies and two exits, a high growth tech operator, and venture investor.

Prior to Strider, she was brought on as the first Investment Partner at Neo, a top-tier early stage venture firm backing highly technical founders. While there, she led over 100 investments in both early and growth stage companies and helped build out the Neo Accelerator. She was named to the Forbes Midas Brink List in 2025 in record time.

Suzanne was previously a business executive at Stripe, scaling their B2B payments and software business lines to billions in volume. Before that, she was a Director of Product at Twitter following its acquisition of her software startup, Lightwell.

Suzanne also founded Hullabalu, a collection of award-winning interactive story apps, and Weardrobe, a consumer startup acquired by Like.com and Google. As a founder, she is an alum of top accelerators including Y Combinator, Techstars, and Facebook Fund Accelerator. She began her career at Goldman Sachs and UBS Investment Banking, and graduated from the University of Chicago with a B.A. in Economics.

Prior to joining Strider, Peter was a partner at Andreessen Horowitz where he spent eight years co-leading the Capital Network group, and helped launch the firm's early stage investing program, Speedrun.

During his time at Andreessen Horowitz, he advised portfolio founders on strategy including equity and debt capital raising, M&A advisory, strategic partnerships, and overall operational execution.

Prior to that, Peter was an investment banker for 20 years, focused on capital markets and M&A advisory for clients across the technology sector. Peter started his career with SoundView, where he focused on corporate finance needs of the firm's technology clients. Peter later worked for Janney Montgomery Scott, where he served as Head of Technology investment banking, and Citizens JMP Securities, where he led the firm's Internet and Digital Media banking group.

Peter graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University with a B.A. in Political Science. Additionally, he brings a global perspective to his work, having spent over a decade living and working as an expatriate in Europe.

Sal brings over two decades of experience from U.S. Army Special Operations, where he most recently served as Chief of Operations managing sensitive activities portfolios across the Indo-Pacific and Middle East.

Leading interagency teams, he directed bilateral security assistance programs, including standing up the Mongolian Armed Forces' first master-trainer unit and aligning SOCOM, Department of State, and host-nation defense ministries to execute military objectives and theater campaign plans.

He began his career as a Special Forces Intelligence and Communications Sergeant, supporting counterterrorism operations and developing expertise in secure networks and real-time operational support. He later served in embassy-based assignments in the Philippines and Mongolia, where he established enduring Special Operations capabilities, built partner capacity, and bridged U.S. defense and diplomatic priorities.

As a senior leader, Sal directed multinational teams and sensitive programs across Asia and the Middle East, overseeing operational planning, talent development, and resource allocation in support of strategic competition objectives. Sal is a graduate of the Special Forces Qualification Course, Unconventional Warfare Operational Design Course, and is a multi-time and multi-level graduate of the Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape Course. He holds a B.S. in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis from Norwich University and is currently an Executive MBA candidate at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management.

Vincent has worked on the public markets and ventures teams at Strider Capital. Prior to Strider, he served over a decade as a Navy SEAL officer at SEAL Team EIGHT, SEAL Team TEN, and Naval Special Warfare Development Group.

On deployments, he led tactical teams during counter-terrorism missions in Africa and the Middle East, and advised partner special forces during counter-narcotic missions in Latin America. While at business school, he was a member of the Columbia Student Investment Management Association and worked at Goldman Sachs in Private Wealth Management.

Vincent holds a B.S. in Ocean Engineering from the United States Naval Academy and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is a graduate of Basic Underwater Demolition / SEAL training and was the Honor Graduate in his SEAL Qualification Training class.

Prior to joining Strider Capital, Paul served over 15 years in the U.S. military as a Navy Corpsman and an Air Force Pararescueman with the 23rd Special Tactics Squadron. He gained several years of operational experience alongside U.S. and partner nation special operations forces in Afghanistan, the African continent, and other theaters.

Following his military service, he served four years as a team leader for combat search and rescue operations across East Africa with AEVEX Aerospace.

He co-founded XPJ Global, an executive protection firm, where he leveraged his extensive special operations network to successfully extract individuals from high-risk environments and was a channel manager with Elastic where he led enablement, competitive intelligence, and accreditation strategy for over 10,000 global partners.

Born under Communist rule in Romania, Paul was raised in Italy as a refugee following the 1989 Romanian Revolution. He immigrated to the United States and began a life of service to his adopted nation. Paul is completing his Executive MBA at Northwestern University's Kellogg School of Management, graduating in December 2026.

Prior to joining Strider, Anthony spent over twenty years as a Marine Special Operator. Much of his early military career was spent as a sniper and special operator, conducting operations in the Middle East and Africa, before becoming a practitioner and manager of sensitive activities in the latter part of his career.

After retiring from the Marine Corps, Anthony took a position as a lead instructor for sensitive activities at the Joint Special Operations University, and, following that, he served as a Department of the Air Force Civilian supporting U.S. Special Operations Command as an Unconventional Warfare and Preparation of the Environment Subject Matter Expert.

He holds a B.S. in Strategic Studies and Defense Analysis and an MBA from Norwich University. Anthony's military training includes the Individual Training Course, Airborne, Scout Sniper Basic Course, and Advanced Special Operations Techniques Course. He is also an Eagle Scout.

Tom served over 20 years as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer, retiring at the rank of Lieutenant Colonel. He commanded 4th Battalion, 1st Special Forces Group, a 400-person battalion focused on sensitive operations in East Asia. He established the first multi-domain special operations company integrating emerging technologies including cyber, robotics, and deep sensing.

Tom served as Chief of Staff for a 3,000-person Special Forces Group, ensuring operational readiness across a global force. He served as an interagency operations officer, planning and overseeing complex operations addressing the nation's most critical national security challenges in direct support of national-level policy. Over the course of his career, Tom deployed to Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Libya, the Philippines, and across East Asia, working closely with interagency partners and allied forces.

Tom holds a B.S. in Civil Engineering from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.S. in Civil Engineering from the University of Missouri Science and Technology. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Special Forces Qualification Course, Military Free Fall Course, Ranger, Airborne, and Air Assault Schools.

Pov joined Strider after a 26-year career in the U.S. Army. From 2024 to 2026, he was the Ukraine Country Director for the Department of Defense, and from 2023 to 2024 was the Army Attache in the U.S. Embassy in Kyiv. In the latter half of his career, Pov served as a Eurasian Foreign Area Officer. He advised senior level leaders in the U.S. government and military on policy and military specific issues, provided country specific information to enable quality and timely decision making, and planned and implemented multi-million, multi-year, ministry-level capability development plans with allied and partner nations.

Pov served in this capacity throughout the former Soviet Union, in Estonia, Georgia, Latvia, Russia, Tajikistan, and Ukraine following Russia's invasion. Pov served as an Apache Attack Helicopter aviator. While an aviator, Pov was stationed in Germany and deployed to Kosovo and Iraq. Pov also served in Korea as the Operations and Aviation Officer at the Combined Forces Command level, assigned to the Third Republic of Korea Army, and at the company level with a forward deployed U.S. Apache battalion.

Pov holds a B.S. in German and Spanish from the United States Military Academy at West Point and an M.A. from Harvard University. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Initial Entry Rotary Wing Training, Advanced Qualification Course (AH64), Airborne School, and the U.S. Air Force's Joint Firepower Course.

Prior to joining Strider Capital, Kyle was the group commander of the U.S. Military Observer Group, with global responsibility for all DoD peacekeepers, a position he held after serving as the Africa Division Chief for the Defense Threat Reduction Agency. Retiring as a Special Forces and Foreign Area Officer, where he was the Defense Attache for the Republic of South Sudan, Kyle held multiple command and staff positions in joint special operations, intelligence, and airborne infantry units.

Kyle's operational experience spans multiple regions, with 10 combat deployments over more than 64 months overseas. His awards include three Valorous Unit Awards, the Silver Star, five Bronze Stars, and the 2025 USMA Nininger Award for Valor at Arms for his actions during the Battle of Shok Valley.

Kyle holds a bachelor's from the United States Military Academy in Arabic and Spanish, an associate's in French from the Defense Language Institute, a master's in conflict management from Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies, a master's of strategic studies from the Army War College, and a master's of divinity in biblical studies from Liberty University. He is a PhD candidate in biblical exposition at Liberty University. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Special Forces Qualification Course, Ranger, Airborne, Defense Attache, and Defense Security Cooperation University.

Prior to joining Strider Capital, Chris was an investment banking associate at Goldman Sachs. He advised corporate and institutional clients in the Global Industrials Group on M&A, equity offerings, debt offerings, and other financial processes ranging from $500M to $50B in transaction size.

Previously, Chris served as a U.S. Army Special Forces officer.

He led a Special Forces team forward deployed in Germany and postured for crisis response operations in Europe and abroad, including key deployments to Latvia, Serbia, and other parts of Eastern Europe while working closely with numerous U.S. Embassy teams and NATO partners. Before his Special Forces time, Chris served as an airborne infantry officer and deployed to Iraq where he was the Chief of Staff of a 100-soldier infantry company.

Chris holds a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from West Point and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He is a graduate of the U.S. Army's Special Forces Qualification Course, Reconnaissance Course, Ranger, Jumpmaster, and Airborne Schools.