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• Randy spent 28 years with the Central Intelligence Agency’s Directorate of Operations, most recently serving as the Chief CIA representative in China
• Randy previously spent more than a decade as Managing Partner for Asia of the Mintz Group, managing the Group’s activities across Asia

• 35+ years at the forefront of PRC media and sports reform, working across major rights holders, broadcasters, brands, and government regulators — from the 1990 Beijing Asian Games preparatory committee to advising on all three Beijing Olympic bids (2000, 2008, 2022)
• Founder of ClubFootball (2001), China’s first foreign-owned football club and now a leading grassroots network in Beijing, and author of the acclaimed book “Bamboo Goalposts” (2008, published in Chinese, French, and Portuguese)
• A rare foreign voice inside Chinese football reform for two decades, whose advocacy directly influenced the 2016 Football Reform Plan separating the Chinese FA from government control

• Served as the 12th Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
• Currently serves on the Board of Directors of Northrop Grumman and Domino Data Lab, and on the Board of Advisors for Spire Global and K2 Space
• He commanded at every level across four decades of service, from three ships and a destroyer squadron to a carrier strike group and two fleets

• Served commander Carrier Strike Group 8 embarked aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69), and as commander, U.S. Fleet Cyber Command and U.S 10th Fleet
• Served in joint positions as director of operations for NATO’s Joint Force Command Lisbon; as chief of staff for Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO; director of operations, J3, for U.S. Cyber Command; and as director of operations, J3, for the Joint Staff

• Served as the principal deputy national security advisor in the second Trump administration from January to May 2025
• Served as Deputy Special Representative for North Korea
• Prior to his North Korea work, Alex led the State Department’s efforts to craft and implement the Free & Open Indo-Pacific Strategy as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Regional & Security Affairs in the State Department’s East Asia bureau
• Prior to his time at the State Department, Alex was the Foreign Policy Advisor & General Counsel to Senator Tom Cotton (R- Ark.)

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• Co-Founder and CEO of AI for Education
• Through her work, Amanda has reached hundreds of schools and thousands of educators worldwide, committed to helping them maximize their potential through the responsible and equitable adoption of AI.

• Former U.S. Ambassador to Singapore
• Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution as well as a Trustee of the Asia Foundation and as a Director of the Asia Society of Northern California
• Served as Under Secretary for International Trade at the U.S. Department of Commerce in the Bush (43) Administration
• Author of Inside the Reagan White House (Post Hill Press 2025)

• Co-Founder and CEO of ADDO AI
• Futurist and Artificial Intelligence Expert
• Chairman of 21C GIRLS, a charity that delivers free coding classes to girls in Singapore
• Co-Author of Hybrid Reality: Thriving in the Emerging Human-Technology Civilization
• Served on the Singapore Ministry of Education’s ASPIRE Steering Committee that developed a blueprint for transforming the national higher education system towards innovative industries