Joshua Steinman
Mr. Joshua Steinman is a former Navy Officer turned entrepreneur and investor. A graduate of the University of Chicago, he attended Officer Candidate School and joined the fleet in 2008. He completed two operational tours in Iraq and then served on an asymmetric warfare task force answering to the Chief of Naval Operations tasked with identifying and demonstrating novel strategic technologies. While on that task force he worked on demonstrating technologies including augmented reality, 3D printing, offensive cyber, and unmanned vehicles, and wrote one of the formative memos creating the Defense Innovation Unit, before leaving active duty in 2015 to work in Silicon Valley.
From 2017-2021 he served at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Cyber on the National Security Council. In that role, he coordinated all cyber, telecommunications, cryptography, cryptocurrency, and national security supply chain policy across the United States Government, authoring multiple national strategies, executive orders, and classified directives in furtherance of President Trump’s strategic priorities.
He is now the co-founder of Galvanick, which protects the world’s most sensitive industrial facilities against cyber attacks. In his spare time, he serves on the board of trustees of In-Q-Tel and is an active venture investor in companies at the intersection of national security, reindustrialization, and critical supply chains.
Mr. Steinman holds an M.A. in Security Studies from Georgetown University and a B.A. in History from the University of Chicago.