Colonel (Ret.) Bradley Boyd has served as a director since November 2023. Since August 2025, Colonel Boyd has been a founder and Senior Advisor of Stanford University s research project on the Future of Decision-making at the Center for International Security and Cooperation; and since July 2025, Colonel Boyd has been a co-founder and Chief Strategy Officer of OpenDefense, a venture-backed software startup in Silicon Valley. From November 2021 to August 2025, Colonel Boyd served as a Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University where his work focused on automation and autonomy in warfare, as well as emergent technology in National Security, and he continues to be a lecturer in Stanford s Public Policy and Masters in International Policy programs. Colonel Boyd has also served as a Senior Advisor to The Roosevelt Group since 2021. Upon his retirement in November 2021 as a U.S. Army Colonel, Colonel Boyd completed his 31-year military career with 19 years in the U.S. Army after an initial 12 years in the U.S. Marine Corps.Colonel Boyd has also served as Defense and Foreign Policy Advisor to Senator Angus King, as Director of Chief of Staff of the Army General Mark Milley s Coordination Group, and as the lead for AI-enabled warfighting development at the Department of Defense s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. He also served as the U.S. Army s liaison to the British Army for Capability Development at British Army Headquarters in the United Kingdom. Colonel Boyd s operational experience includes deployments throughout Central Asia, the Middle East, the Western Pacific, Europe, and South America. Colonel Boyd was a Seminar XXI Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the Senior Military Fellow at the Center for International Security and Cooperation at Stanford University where he published works on cyber and AI-enabled information operations. Colonel Boyd holds a master s degree in International Politics from Cambridge, a master s degree in Strategic Cyber Operations from the Army s Command and General Staff College, and a bachelor s degree in Anthropology from the University of California, Irvine. Colonel Boyd brings to the Board extensive experience as a military officer, with a focus on security and autonomous technology. Colonel Boyd holds a Top Secret security clearance.