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STRADA Team<\/h1>\n\n\n\n
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Christos Linardakis<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Advisory Board Member<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As an international trade attorney,  Christos has held numerous corporate positions for Fortune 100 companies, including Associate General Counsel. His business savvy approach to both small and large companies has brought savings to companies, in both competing in global markets and using compliance as a competitive advantage. His practical, honest and expert knowledge in the area of ITAR, Exports, Trade and Corporate Compliance has been invaluable to clients throughout North America. He is a current instructor for the U.S Air Force’s APEX\/Parallax Advanced Research teaching 2 courses on Export & ITAR Controls<\/em>, along with CMMC\/CUI\/Cybersecurity<\/em>. He is a frequent speaker on numerous topics, including SBIR and University export controls, a speaker for the Ohio Aerospace Institute and NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory on ITAR Controls, CMMC\/NIST800 and other areas. He is also the Defense Industrial Base Sector Chief for InfraGard Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Amanda Christensen<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Business Advisor and Sr. Consultant<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Dr. Amanda Christensen has a PhD in Business Management (Organizational Behavior) and an MBA in Business Finance\/Strategy. She has 20+ years\u2019 experience in the design and delivery of teaching\/training programs (including international experience) and leading teams and conducting research. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda has held senior research, teaching, and consulting roles in the private sector, academia, and government, with experience leading Department of Defense (DoD) programs (with Top Secret [TS] clearance), as a business school professor, and in metals manufacturing. She has spoken at numerous events and has advised CEOs, top management teams, and boards of directors. She has 24 peer-reviewed publications and 2,300+ Google Scholar citations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Amanda\u2019s work has spanned fields including AI, cognitive psychology, human-machine teaming, aerospace, and education. Other capabilities include understanding of federal funding programs (including DARPA specialization) and congressional funding opportunities with preparation of contracts and pricing, managing funding for DoD programs, bid and proposal compliance, and leading and bridging diverse teams of engineers, scientists, and contracts specialists. Additional skills include proposal management, making sense of large quantities of complex information and data, creating online and in-person training programs, and psychometrics and data modeling.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Amanda Christensen
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Amanda\u2019s work is translatable across many fields, including technology, R&D, financial markets, engineering and science, data management and analysis, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Knowles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Sr. Associate, U.S. Export Controls & Compliance<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

As a former U.S. Department of State Senior Defense Trade Control Analyst, a U.S. Air Force retired combat veteran, a U.S. Air Force Weapons Officer and Joint warfighter, combined with his experiences as an U.S. Export Controls and Compliance consultant and advisor across multiple industries, Jason brings an uncommon depth of ITAR and EAR understanding, awareness of related U.S. government operations, military background, attention to detail, and an ability to span, connect, and implement strategy to task and back across business operations related to U.S. regulatory export control and compliance.
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While with the State Department, Jason reviewed and audited ITAR export applications with a combined value of over $42.5 Billion for approval and\/or compliance. He renovated ITAR Agreement analyst training, dramatically improved ITAR Agreement analyst review processes and associated tools. <\/p>\n\n\n\n


In addition, Jason frequently spoke on behalf of the U.S. government to U.S. and foreign government officials and industry groups and individuals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Jason Knowles
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Since departing the State department, and in addition to providing highly effective ITAR control, compliance, Agreement, and licensing advice and services, Jason has developed EAR expertise to expert levels so to support multi-jurisdictional control, compliance, and licensing strategy development, assisting with implementing those strategies, and in the development and implementation of related compliance programs. Jason\u2019s experiences and expertise include the ITAR, EAR, OFAC and export related elements of U.S. Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) processes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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James Holbein<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Of Counsel<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Jim Holbein has decades of experience in government procurement, international trade transactions and contracting, trade policy and negotiating, customs policy and enforcement, tariff nomenclature and administration, dispute settlement, import compliance and risk management.  He has a wealth of experience advising government agencies and private sector trading firms about importing and exporting issues.  He has also trained foreign government officials on U.S. trade policy and taught as an Adjunct Professor of Law for 15 years. 
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Jim is a former Federal Executive with more than 30 years of government experience, who most recently was responsible for supervising a professional staff maintaining the Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the U.S. at the International Trade Commission (USITC).  He worked as a COTR at the USITC, helping with several large procurement actions.  He was on the U.S. negotiating team for the US-Canada Free Trade Agreement and drafted the Government Procurement chapter. Jim managed the NAFTA trade dispute settlement process while at the U.S. Department of Commerce.  He was a diplomat and trade negotiator for the U.S. Department of State, serving in Seoul, Korea and Oslo, Norway.  He also has substantial experience working in the private sector with small and medium-sized businesses on risk management and compliance matters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He is the author of more than 30 books, articles and conference papers dealing with international trade. Jim is licensed to practice law in the District of Columbia. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Foyo<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Business Advisor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

A senior executive and entrepreneur with experience in domestic and international business, Peter Foyo is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Principal Standard Group. In his leadership role with the financial firm, he develops and implements projects in sectors such as real estate, health care, energy, and communications. In recent years, Peter Foyo won a \u20ac1.5 billion bid to partner with Serbia Telecom on a communications project. In addition to building the first solar facility in Mexico, Principal Standard Group oversaw a $700 million health care project in Cancun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Peter is a highly sought out speaker and advisor for numerous private and public board of directors globally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Peter Foyo
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Before founding Principal Standard Group, Peter Foyo spent 15 years as chief executive officer and chairman of Nextel de Mexico. His responsibilities at the Mexican telecommunications company included oversight of the NII Holding Mexican mobile division, which included over 4 million premium customers and revenues of more than $3 billion. During his time with Nextel de Mexico, he captured 30 percent of the postpaid market share in Mexico and created a team of more than 6,000 direct employees.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Laszlo Gonc<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Consultant & Cyber Advisor<\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Laszlo has more than thirty years\u2019 experience as a recognized senior leader providing thought leadership and strategic execution in cybersecurity, digital risk management, and information technology systems. His experience spans across multiple industries, including healthcare, manufacturing, supply chain, legal, insurance, marketing\/ advertising, banking and nonprofits. He is responsible for advising and helping organizations \u2013 corporate and nonprofits alike \u2013 secure their businesses and supply chains, mitigate digital risk, and implement technology strategies that drive both performance and business value.
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He is a nationally recognized keynote speaker, writer, and serves as Advisory Board Member for the national Cybersecurity Collaborative, the Illinois Institute of Technology\u2019s C2SAFE Program, and Senior Fellow & Founder for DivIHN\u2019s Center of Excellence for Digital, Security & Risk. He is a member of the Forbes Technology Council, and co-founder of SIM National\u2019s DigiRisk SIG. He is Chair Emeritus of the Project Management Institute (PMI) Chicagoland Executive Council, served as Executive Vice President for the Chicago Association of Information Technology Professionals (AITP), and is a Board Member for the Society for Information Management (SIM) Chicago and ISACA Chicago (ISACA). He is also a member of Chicago\u2019s FBI Infragard, and Information Systems Security Association (ISSA).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Testimonials<\/h1>\n\n\n\n

ISD is a small player in a huge minefield of the world\u2019s largest Aerospace and Defense Companies mixed with highly specific and varied U.S. and international regulations, related to the sale and transfer of controlled technologies to international governments. Finding timely, applicable expertise and advice in all of these areas is rare.<\/p>

Over the past five plus years, your candor, relevant legal and operational experience, personal engagement, ITAR, NIST & FCPA audits and recommendations, and preemptive strategies have been golden. When there is any doubt or question, and there are many, the rejoinder is “check with Christos”. Without question, your services have been invaluable to our success.<\/p>Wayne Emroe, CFO, www.isr-def.com<\/a><\/cite><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

I worked with Strategic Aerospace & Defense Advisors  over the past 18 months. Their expert level of technical and regulatory compliance in the areas of ITAR, DFAR and FAR, are second to none. More importantly, their ability to communicate complex legal principals to the business, gave myself and our teams, the skills and tools to collaborate with both defense customers and government agencies; it was not uncommon to have a representative of STRADA support us in sales calls to customers.<\/p>VP Sales – Defense Automation Company<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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