Who We Are

Eitan Danon

Eitan Danon has worked across intelligence, financial diplomacy, and the fintech space. He is a content marketing manager at Chainalysis, where he leads efforts to highlight the geopolitical implications of how a range of actors are leveraging digital assets. He has driven efforts to grow the company's global public sector business in strategic markets. Eitan has also overseen international teams of technical investigators focused on research, analysis, and advisory at the intersection of national security and the blockchain.

Before Chainalysis, Eitan was a senior policy advisor at the U.S. Department of the Treasury, where he focused on a range of high-priority illicit finance and macroeconomic issues across the Middle East, and represented Treasury before the U.S. interagency, financial institutions, foreign central banks, and the Federal Reserve. Prior to that, he worked for over a decade in the intelligence community in several analytic and operational assignments, focusing heavily on the Middle East and counterterrorism. In his various national security roles in the US and throughout the region, he has built, navigated, and implemented a broad array of strategic initiatives with U.S. and allied stakeholders.

Eitan is fluent in Arabic, Hebrew, French, and Spanish, and conversational in several other languages. He has traveled extensively throughout the Middle East and Europe. He is an adjunct senior fellow with the Center for a New American Security’s Middle East Security Program, and his writings on technology, national security, and economic statecraft have been published by Foreign Policy, The Atlantic Council, and the Royal United Services Institute.

Eitan earned his MA with high honors in international security from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service, and earned his BA in history from the University of Pennsylvania

Josh Kram

Josh Kram has worked across business, government, and international affairs, with a focus in the Middle East. He currently leads Westbrook Global Advisory, a boutique consultancy where he works with companies on public-private strategy and international policy.

He previously served as Senior Advisor at the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), where he led cross-functional teams and initiatives across policy, investment, external affairs, and strategy to support a $60 billion investment portfolio, with a particular focus on the Middle East. Earlier, as Vice President of International Affairs at the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, he led programs to advance U.S. commercial interests overseas and managed Middle East platforms such as the Middle East Commercial Center, U.S.-Israel Business Council, Iran Working Group, Levant Program, and helped launch new initiatives in the Gulf and Türkiye. His background also includes leadership roles with NGOs, advocacy groups, and consulting firms based in the region, where he worked on policy, partnerships, and economic development.

Josh’s writing and commentary have appeared in The New York Observer, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, NPR, The Hill, and Free Enterprise Magazine. He contributed research and editorial support for Start-Up Nation: The Story of Israel’s Economic Miracle and The Great Entrepreneurial Divide: Winning Tactics of Successful Entrepreneurs.

Josh graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Florida and holds an MBA from Emory University, where he was a Goizueta Leadership Fellow.