Who We Are
OUR TEAM HAS EXTENSIVE EXPERIENCE WITH MULTINATIONALS IN NAVIGATING THE FAST-PACED POLICY ENVIRONMENT AND DYNAMIC INDO-PACIFIC MARKETS
Dan Blumenthal
Dan Blumenthal is a partner and Founder of Pacific Solutions. Dan has over 20 years of experience on Indo-Pacific policy, working in government, think tanks, and business. Dan served in and advised the US government on Asia issues for over a decade. From 2002 to 2004, he served as senior director for China, Taiwan, and Mongolia at the Department of Defense. Additionally, he served as a commissioner on the congressionally-mandated US-China Economic and Security Review Commission since 2006-2012, and held the position of vice chairman in 2007. Dan has also taught classes on Chinese strategy at the Naval War College and the Hertog Foundation, and has written hundreds of articles on Asian policy in publications such as The New York Times, The Washington Post, the Wall Street Journal and The Atlantic.
Dan has a Bachelors Degree from Washington University in St. Louis, a Masters Degree from Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and a JD from Duke Law School. He is a member of the New York Bar. He serves on the board of directors of the US-Taiwan Business Council and is a Founder and Board Member of the Alexander Hamilton Society.
Dan is the author of the
“The China Nighmare: The Grand Ambitions of a Decaying State” (AEI Press, November 2020).
Randall Schriver
Randall Schriver is a partner at Pacific Solution and concurrently serves as Chairman of the Board of the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security (IIPS, formerly known as the Project 2049 Institute), a non-profit research organization dedicated to the study of security trend lines in Asia. Randy most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Indo-Pacific Security Affairs from January 2018-December 2019. In that role, for nearly two years he was the senior most official at the Department of Defense responsible for managing Asia policy and the broader Indo-Pacific. Prior to his role as ASD, Randy was one of five founding partners of Armitage International LLC, a consulting firm that specializes in international business development and strategies. Randy was also CEO and President of the Project 2049 Institute.
Previous government experience include Randy's service as Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs (2003-05), Chief of Staff and Senior Policy Advisor to the Deputy Secretary of State (2001-03), and Senior Country Director for China, Taiwan and Mongolia in the Office of the Secretary of Defense (1994-98). Prior to his civilian service, he served as an active duty Navy Intelligence Officer from 1989 to 1991, including a deployment in support of Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm. After active duty, he served in the Navy Reserves for nine years, including as Special Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and an attaché at U.S. Embassy Beijing and U.S. Embassy Ulaanbaatar. Randy serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S.-Taiwan Business Council, the Board of Advisors of the Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and teaches U.S. Foreign Policy at Stanford University's "Stanford-in-Washington" program.
Randy hails from Oregon, holds a bachelor degree from Williams College and a Master Degree from Harvard University.
Jennifer Hong
Jennifer Hong is the Managing Director at Pacific Solutions. She has over 10 years of federal government experience, working on human rights and anti-trafficking issues across Asia and Pacific Islands and leading strategic communications in the fields of foreign policy, law enforcement, and science and engineering. During her time at the U.S. Department of State, she worked with foreign governments and non-government partners to combat labor and sex trafficking in their countries – prosecuting traffickers, protecting victims, and preventing crimes of trafficking through training and partnerships across key stakeholders. She also led communication efforts for the Department in various capacities, including establishing a foreign language translation hub for key Department communiques and overseeing the internal and external communications for the law enforcement arm of the Department. At the National Science Foundation, she led the agency’s public affairs team, communicating sciences and reaching key audiences through traditional and new age platforms. She is currently serving as Senior Director at the Institute for Indo-Pacific Security (IIPS, formerly known as the Project 2049 Institute)
Jen received a Bachelor of Arts degree from University of California, Berkeley and a Master in Public Policy degree from University of Michigan, Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy. She was a Presidential Management Fellow and is fluent in Korean.