U.S. Navy SEAL

Erik Prince

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Erik Prince

American businessman, former U.S. Navy SEAL

Erik Prince is an American businessman and former U.S. Navy SEAL officer best known for founding the government services and security company Blackwater USA, now known as Academi. He served as its CEO until 2009 and later as chairman, until Blackwater Worldwide was sold in 2010 to a group of investors. Prince currently heads the private equity firm Frontier Resource Group and is chairman of Hong Kong-listed Frontier Services Group Ltd. He lives in both Middleburg, Virginia and Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

Prince spoke at The Common Good in 2017: Rethinking the Afghanistan War with Erik Prince.

The Honorable Bob Kerrey

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the honorable Bob Kerrey

American politician

Bob Kerrey is a former member of the elite Navy SEAL Team and a highly decorated Vietnam veteran who earned the Congressional Medal of Honor, America’s highest military honor. Kerrey served one four-year term as Governor of the State of Nebraska from 1983 to 1987, then won election to the Senate in 1988, defeating an incumbent senator. He ended his congressional tenure in 2001.

Kerrey is a self-made businessman who, upon returning from the war and starting from scratch in 1972, built a chain of highly successful restaurants and health clubs that now employ more than 900 people.

Twitter: @KerreyBob