Past Speakers
ACI’s CFIUS Conference has featured a distinguished faculty of senior government officials, leading outside counsel and in-house executives. Past speakers have included:
Government Representatives

Dr. Bastian Alm
Counselor
Embassy of the Federal Republic of Germany

Ian Beckett
Minister Counsellor and Senior Treasury Representative
Embassy of Australia

Irmie “Ike” Blanton
Deputy Director, International and Strategic Engagement Office of Foreign Investment Review
U.S. Department of Defense

Matthew S. Borman
Deputy Assistant Secretary of Commerce for Export Administration
U.S. Department of Commerce

Ty Brown
Deputy Chief
National Security Division, Foreign Investment and Review
U.S. Department of Justice

Dan Burke
Director, Foreign Investment Risk Review
U.S. Department of the Air Force

Katherine Burke
Director, Investment Review Division
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada (ISED)

Michael Considine
Deputy Assistant Secretary
Office of Foreign Investment and National Security
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE)

Andrew Fair
Acting CFIUS Staff Chair and Acting Director of the Office of Investment Review & Investigation
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jess Henson
Deputy Director, Office of Investment Security
Investment Review & Investigation
U.S. Department of Treasury

Adam Hickey
Deputy Assistant Attorney General of the National Security Division
U.S. Department of Justice

John Isbell
Director of Strategic Analysis Division Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security
U.S. Department of Commerce

David D. Jividen, Esq
CFIUS/TT Senior National Security Advisor
White and Case LLP
Former Deputy Director, Office of Global Investments and Economic Security, U.S. Department of Defense

Eric S. Johnson
Principal Deputy Chief, National Security Division, Foreign Investment Review Section
U.S. Department of Justice

Brandon Kealiher
Special Agent, Unit Chief of Foreign Investment Unit
Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI)

Eileen Keenan
Attorney Advisor, National Security Division, Foreign Investment Review Section
U.S. Department of Justice

Thomas Liu*
Deputy Director, Monitoring and Compliance
Office of Global Investments and Economic Security (GIES)
Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Industrial Base Policy (OASD (IBP)
Office of the Undersecretary of Defense, Acquisition & Sustainment (OUSD (A&S)

Eric Longnecker
Director, Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security, Bureau of Industry and Security
U.S. Department of Commerce

J. Philip Ludvigson
Partner
King & Spalding LLP
Former Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary/Director, Office of Investment Security (CFIUS),
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Sarah Montgomery
Counsellor of Trade and Economic Policy
U.K. Department of International Trade (DIT)

Andrew J. Pahutski
Director, Foreign Investment Review
U.S Department of Defense

Brian Reissaus
Senior Advisor, National Security
Freshfields LLP
Former Deputy Assistant Secretary for Investment Security Operations
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Jennifer Danner Riccardi
Senior Advisor
Delegation of the European Union in Washington DC

Brian Rohde*
Deputy Director, Mitigation
U.S. Department of Defense CFIUS

Amy Schultz
Senior Trade and Industry Analyst Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security Bureau of Industry and Security
U.S. Department of Commerce

Meena Sharma
Director, Office of Investment Security Policy and International Relations
U.S. Department of Treasury

David Shogren
Director, Office of Global Transactions
U.S. Department of Treasury

Sarah Sullivan
Deputy Director, Office of Investment Security, Investment Review & Investigation
U.S. Department of Treasury

Captain Colin Supko
Director
U.S. Department of Defense Trusted Capital
Distinguished Faculty

Scott Boylan
Partner
StoneTurn

Dr. Harry G. Broadman
Partner, Managing Director and Chair of Emerging Markets and CFIUS Practices
Berkeley Research Group LLC (BRG)
Faculty Member
Johns Hopkins University

Charles L. Capito
Partner
Morrison & Foerster LLP

Damara Chambers
Partner
Vinson & Elkins LLP

Randall Cook
Managing Director
Alvarez & Marsal

Shawn B. Cooley
Partner
Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP

Doreen M. Edelman
Partner
Chair, Global Trade & Policy
Lowenstein Sandler LLP

Heather L. Finstuen
Partner
Covington & Burling LLP

Nancy A. Fischer
Partner
Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP

Chris Griner
Partner
Stroock & Stroock & Lavan LLP

Stephenie Gosnell Handler
Partner
Gibson Dunn

David R. Hanke
Partner
ArentFox Schiff LLP

Benjamin Heywood
General Partner - SkyRiver Ventures
Co-Founder - PatientsLikeMe

Samuel P. Jacobs
Managing Director, Cyber Risk
Kroll

Steven Klemencic
Managing Director
Berkeley Research Group LLC (BRG)

Josh Larocca
Senior Managing Director
Stroz Friedberg, an Aon company

Renée Latour
Partner
Clifford Chance LLP

John Medel
Vice President, International Government Affairs
Goldman Sachs

Aimen Mir
Partner
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP

Laura J. Molinari
Director, Global Trade Policy
Boeing

Karen Plonty
Security Officer & Director of National Security Compliance
HCL Technologies

Benjamin Powell
Partner
WilmerHale

Bridget R. Reineking
Special Counsel
Cooley LLP
Former Senior Counsel and Co-Lead CFIUS Counsel, Office of the General Counsel
US Department of the Treasury

Ambassador Miriam Sapiro
Vice Chair, SVC Public Affairs
Former Acting and Deputy U.S. Trade Representative
Sard Verbinnen & Co.

Keith Schomig
Partner
Paul Hastings LLP

Anne Salladin
Partner
Hogan Lovells US LLP
Former Senior Counsel
U.S. Department of the Treasury

Waqas Shahid
Vice President
Charles River Associates

Brandon L. Van Grack
Partner
Morrison & Foerster LLP
