K i m . T a i p a l e . I n f o

Kim Taipale is the managing partner of Stilwell Holding LLC, a private investment firm, a founding partner of Parkview TMB, a technology focused merchant banking firm, and the founder and executive director of the Stilwell Center, a private, non-partisan research and advisory organization focused on information, technology, and national security policy. He is also a director of the Stilwell Charitable Fund.

Mr. Taipale is a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute and serves on the Markle Task Force on National Security in the Information Age. He has served on the board or advisory board of several companies and non-profit organizations.

Previously, Mr. Taipale was a senior fellow at Columbia University, an investment banker at Lazard Frères & Company, a corporate executive at The Pullman Company, and, earlier, a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell.

Mr. Taipale is a frequent invited speaker (selected appearances), has appeared before Congressional and other national committees (selected testimony), and is the author of numerous academic papers, journal articles, and book chapters on information, technology, and national security issues (selected publications).

In recent years, he has presented at the Aspen Institute, the Highlands Forum (OSD), the National Academies, the National Science Foundation, the Woodrow Wilson Center, the AAAS Policy Forum, the ABA Standing Committee on Law and National Security, the Brookings Institute, the Atlantic Council, the Yale Law School, the Texas Law School, the Duke Law School, the Berkman Center at Harvard Law School, the Kennedy School at Harvard University, the National Defense University, the Naval War College, the National Strategy Forum and the Global Creative Leadership Forum, among others; and, has testified before the United States Senate Intelligence Committee, the Senate Judiciary Committee, and the House Intelligence Committee, among others.

Mr. Taipale has been quoted on technology and national security policy issues in The Wall Street Journal, the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Washington Times, the Boston Globe, Wired News, MIT Technology Review, Business Week, Newsweek and The Economist, among others, and has appeared on NPR, PBS, and ABC News, among others.

Mr. Taipale has extensive professional experience in a wide variety of diverse endeavors and with many kinds of complex issues and transactions. He has worked with international and national corporations, government agencies and other public institutions, as well as start-up companies and not-for-profit organizations. He has also helped develop, secure funding for, and implement a number of non-profit information technology related projects, including the Harlem Environmental Access Project, the Advanced Media in Education Project, and others.

Mr. Taipale received his B.A. in psychology from New York University and his J.D. from the New York University School of Law. He also received his M.A. and his Ed.M. in communications from Columbia University and his LL.M. from the Columbia Law School.

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