{"id":52942,"date":"2023-08-11T21:07:53","date_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:07:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/former-u-s-under-secretary-of-defense-joins-rivada-networks-board\/"},"modified":"2023-08-11T21:07:53","modified_gmt":"2023-08-11T13:07:53","slug":"former-u-s-under-secretary-of-defense-joins-rivada-networks-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/former-u-s-under-secretary-of-defense-joins-rivada-networks-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense Joins Rivada Networks Board"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Mich\u00e8le Flournoy, the former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense who served during President Obama\u2019s first term in office, has joined <strong>Rivada Networks\u2019<\/strong> Board of Directors, the company announced Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Flournoy served as principle adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and in National Security Council deliberations. In 2017, she co-founded WestExec Advisors, a strategic advisory firm in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRivada\u2019s OuterNET [low-Earth orbit satellite-communications constellation] is an exciting opportunity to transform the global communications landscape,\u201d Flournoy said in a statement. \u201cHigh-resiliency networks have never been more important, both economically and geostrategically. I look forward to helping the Rivada team accomplish its mission.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m honored that Mich\u00e8le has agreed to join Rivada\u2019s board,\u201d said Rivada CEO Declan Ganley. \u201cMich\u00e8le is one of America\u2019s foremost thinkers on geopolitics. Her insights and advice will be invaluable as we roll out the OuterNET globally, alongside other initiatives.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mich\u00e8le Flournoy, the former U.S. Under Secretary of Defense who served during President Obama\u2019s first term in office, has joined Rivada Networks\u2019 Board of Directors, the company announced Thursday. Flournoy served as principle adviser to the Secretary of Defense in the formulation of national security and defense policy, oversight of military plans and operations, and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":52943,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=52942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52942\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}