Professionally, I run a private intelligence agency (Strategic Insight Group, or SIG) which primarily serves investors and operating companies, including some of the world's largest investors. We provide pre- and post-transactional intelligence to help mitigate strategic, operational, and tactical risk for our clients, and help them make better decisions. SIG works in more than 90 countries, and is celebrating its 20th anniversary in 2015.

On this site, however, I am focusing on my other interests, which include:

Foreign Policy:I am a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations in NYC, a member of the Advisory Council of the Houston Committee on Foreign Relations, and a member of the Advisory Council of the Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies of the University of Texas at Austin, in addition to being president of the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations.

Visual Arts: I serve on the Advisory Board of the Plains Indian Museum at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, WY, and was co-founder and president of an international museum exhibition organization, InterCultura (1982-1992), which organized international traveling exhibitions--from the ancient Maya to contemporary Japanese art--and worked in 14 countries.

Music: Trained as a classical composer, I have a degree in music theory, but have wide-ranging musical tastes, and am interested in cross-polliniation between cultures and between styles and genres, as well as Western and non-Western classical and popular music, and early music. I left music composition for a long time but am now actively composing music again--on my iPad. I'm on the board of the Van Cliburn Foundation, which presents 3 international piano competitions and several concert series in Texas.

Anthropology: My father was a student of and collector of American Indian art and culture and was inducted into the Oglala Sioux tribe, as well as a classically-trained artist, so from childhood I was surrounded by both cultures. His collection is now in the Houston Museum of Natural Science, and I'm on the museum's Anthropology Committee. My background includes working with Linda Schele, the woman who led the team that deciphered the ancient Maya hieroglyphs in the 1980s.

Global Change: This ties together almost all my interests. I speak publicly on a trend I call "Hyperconnectivity", which I believe is one of the drivers of big change in the world.