How Security Teams Enable Decision-Making in Times of Crisis

Major General Richard Lake works as an independent consultant focusing on global and corporate security issues. Prior to his retirement from active duty in 2013, Lake served for over 36 years in the U.S. Marine Corps as an intelligence, foreign area, and infantry officer. He also served for four years with the CIA as one of the deputy directors of Community Human Intelligence for the National Clandestine Service (now Directorate of Operations). After his retirement, he entered the private sector working as the Chief Security Officer of Booz Allen Hamilton and as the Director of Global Security for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation.