Team — Rule 1 Ventures

Leadership

Adm. Sandy Winnefeld

General Partner

Former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Navy Top-gun Instructor, former President's Intelligence Advisory Board Chair, nuclear engineer, former RTX Board member, Georgia Tech Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Tech Foundation Trustee.

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Gary Buxton

General Partner

Navy F/A-18F Naval Flight Officer, Founder Rule 1 Ventures, COO BAMFi, McKinsey & Company consultant, U.S. Naval Academy Weapons Systems Engineer, Harvard Business School MBA.

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Todd Ehrlich

General Partner

Navy SEAL, Founder Rule 1 Ventures, Triserv (sold), BAMFi (sold), TruckerCloud, FactorCloud, Kill Cliff, two-time Inc. 500 CEO (#103 & #121), Member of YPO & CEO, Northeastern University.

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Will Harbin

Venture Partner

4x exited, venture-backed Silicon Valley founder/CEO (KIXEYE, Affinity Labs), ex-Netscape & Yahoo, San Francisco Business Times and Business Insider's 40 under 40, YPO Member, Vanderbilt University.

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Advisory Board

Gen. Ellen Pawlikowski

Air Force Space & Laser Weapons Expert

Former Commander of AF Material Command, National Academy of Engineers, Cal PhD, Prof USC, RTX Board member, SRI Board Member.

Gilman Louie

Co-founder, CEO & President of In-Q-Tel

CEO of Americas Frontier Fund, Partner Alsop Louie, Defense Innovation Board, National Security Commission on AI, President's Intelligence Advisory Board member.

Kevin Hulbert

Former Senior CIA Official

Multiple tours as CIA Chief of Station, President's Intelligence Advisory Board Member.

Hon. Mike Garcia

Former Member US House — CA

NatSec SME, Appropriations, Intel and Science & Tech Committees, Raytheon Executive, F/A-18 E/F Aviator, RAND NatSec Board, USNA, Georgetown MA NatSec.

Adm. Wyman Howard

Navy SEAL

Former Commander of Naval Special Warfare Development Group, Special Operations Command, Naval Special Warfare Command.

Jim Trowhill

CEO of JTEC Consulting

Former Accenture Partner DoD Government Group Leader, University of Michigan, US Navy.