Beacon Global Strategies | Pentagon Revolving Door

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"Drawing on our decades of service in the international security arena, we develop strategies and provide services that enable companies to achieve their business objectives," their website says. The group, made up of former Republican and Democratic national security officials, was founded in 2013. According to a 2013 Defense News article, their clients are "primarily defense contractors" but not listed "because of nondisclosure agreements." According to The Intercept, "Beacon Global Strategies' seed funding came from Claude Fontheim, a former Clinton adviser who now serves as a lobbyist to the U.S.-China Exchange Foundation, a nonprofit reportedly used by Chinese government officials and Hong Kong tycoons to shape American policy toward China."

Letter to Beacon Global Strategies sent 10/19/2018.

Senior Officials Hired

Rank	First	Last	Former Office/Employer	Date of Resignation/Retirement	Start Date at Beacon Global Strategies
	Mark	Simakovsky	Office of the Secretary of Defense for Policy	02/01/2015	02/01/2015
	Leon E.	Panetta	Department of Defense	02/01/2013	05/27/2014
General	John F.	Kelly	U.S. Southern Command (SOUTHCOM)	01/01/2016	08/01/2016
	Jeremy	Bash	Office of the Secretary of Defense	04/19/2013	04/30/2013
Admiral	James A.	Winnefeld	Joint Chiefs of Staff	07/31/2015	12/08/2015
	Derek	Chollet	Office of the Secretary of Defense	01/01/2015	03/16/2015
	Deborah Lee	James	U.S. Air Force	01/20/2017	07/01/2017
	David R.	Shedd	Defense Intelligence Agency	01/01/2015	06/03/2015

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