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Andrew Borene, a longtime national security and intelligence leader and author at HSToday, is the President and CEO of a newly formed combat robotics company created to acquire ReconRobotics, Inc., the maker of more than 7,000 fielded “Throwbot” systems used by military, law enforcement, and public safety agencies worldwide.

The new company will focus on the design, manufacture, and service of unmanned systems and robotics platforms for defense, homeland security, and critical infrastructure protection customers across the U.S. and allied forces around the globe.

Borene brings extensive experience in defense, intelligence, and private-sector leadership. He previously served as Executive Director for Global Security and International Markets at Flashpoint, the world’s largest privately held threat intelligence firm, where he led global expansion and helped build partnerships between government and industry to counter hybrid threats. He will remain a senior advisor to Flashpoint’s leadership team in a part-time capacity.

Before joining Flashpoint, Borene held senior positions at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) and the National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC), where he helped lead interagency planning for counterterrorism operations spanning multiple continents. He also has extensive corporate experience, including leadership roles with IBM, Symantec, and LexisNexis, and previously served as CEO of Cipherloc (now SideChannel).

A U.S. Marine Corps combat veteran, Borene’s public service and industry leadership have earned him recognition, including the FBI Director’s Award and the ODNI Exceptional Achievement Award. He serves as a Senior Fellow at George Mason University’s National Security Institute and advises several organizations, such as the Atlantic Council, the Partnership for Peace Consortium, and the Special Operations Association of America.

With decades of experience at the intersection of defense technology, intelligence, and national security, Borene’s move into the robotics space marks a full-circle return – he previously served as Director of Corporate Development and Assistant General Counsel at ReconRobotics more than a decade ago. Now, as CEO of the company set to acquire them, he will lead the company’s efforts to expand its legacy of tactical innovation into new areas of military and homeland defense robotics.

Brig. General (Res.) Yosef Kuperwasser is the head of the Jerusalem Institute for Strategy and Security (JISS). He is also the head of the Institute for the Research of the Methodology of Intelligence at the Israeli Intelligence Community Commemoration and Heritage Center, and the founder and chairman of the board of a company for the benefit of the public that supports Israel and the Jewish people fight against antisemitism and anti-Israel initiatives.

Brig. General Kuperwasser was formerly the Director General of the Ministry of International Affairs and Strategy (2009-2014). In his long career at the IDF, he served as Assistant Defense Attaché for Intelligence at the Israeli Embassy in Washington DC (1992-1994), Chief Intelligence Officer of the IDF Central Command (1998-2001), and Head of the Analysis and Production Division of the IDF Directorate of Military Intelligence (2001-2006). He had a significant role in determining Israel’s coping methods with terror as well as regional developments, and sharing such analysis with the US and other foreign entities.

Before joining JISS Kuperwasser was a senior project manager on regional affairs at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs and a research fellow at the Misgav Institute for Zionist Strategy.

Kuperwasser authored a wide variety of publications on the Middle East, terrorism and intelligence and he is an opinion contributor to various Israeli and international papers and other media outlets. In June 2023 he wrote a policy paper calling on Israel to disarm Hamas.

Brig. Gen. (Res.) Kuperwasser was the Andrea and Charles Bronfman Visiting Fellow at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at the Brookings Institution (2006-2007). Following his retirement, Brig. Gen. (Res.) Kuperwasser was VP of Global CST, a security consultancy firm.

Brig. General Kuperwasser has a B.A. in Arabic language and literature from the Haifa University and an M.A. in economics from the Tel Aviv University.

Suzanne Spaulding is a senior adviser for the Defense and Security Department at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where she established the Defending Democratic Institutions Project. 

She also served as a member of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission (CSC), and is part of CSC 2.0.  Prior to joining CSIS, she served as undersecretary for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), where she led the National Protection and Programs Directorate, now called the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), managing a $3 billion budget and a workforce of 18,000 that was charged with strengthening cybersecurity and protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure, including election infrastructure. 

Ms. Spaulding has worked in the executive branch in Republican and Democratic administrations and on both sides of the aisle in Congress. She was general counsel for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence and minority staff director for the House of Representatives Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. She also spent six years at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she was assistant general counsel and the legal adviser to the director’s Nonproliferation Center. She was executive director of two congressionally created commissions, on weapons of mass destruction and on terrorism. Following the attacks of 9/11, Ms. Spaulding worked with key critical infrastructure sectors as they reviewed their security posture and advised the CEOs of the Business Roundtable.

In 2002, she was appointed by Governor Mark Warner of Virginia to the Secure Commonwealth Panel to advise the governor and the legislature regarding preparedness issues. She was managing partner of the Harbour Group, a principal in the Bingham Consulting Group, and of counsel to Bingham McCutchen LLP.

In addition to her work at CSIS, Ms. Spaulding currently serves on a number of corporate and nonprofit boards and advisory boards and is a member of the Homeland Security Experts Group (HSEG).

Nicole Robinson brings more than 20 years of experience in the satellite communications industry to her role as DataPath’s President.  She has held senior management positions with Comtech Telecommunications Corp., Ursa Space Systems, SES Satellites, and General Dynamics. 

With a focus on driving growth and managing operational teams, she has the proven track record to lead DataPath in the rapidly evolving SATCOM market. 

Nicole holds a BS from Radford University, an MBA from Liberty University and has completed the Senior Executives in National and International Security program at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.