Simone brings nearly two decades of government service, culminating in her appointment as the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for the Middle East at the U.S. Department of Defense. Her distinguished career includes work at the both strategic and tactical level. Outside of her policy and think tank work, she served on multiple overseas deployments with extensive experience in international counterterrorism efforts, including in intelligence collection and analysis. She has worked on and led irregular warfare strategy development and execution and has specialized knowledge and experience in personnel recovery and hostage situations. Hypergiant is excited to officially welcome Simone Ledeen to our advisory board!