Mike Clauser is Founder & Managing Director of Ark, an Adjunct Senior Policy Advisor at the Institute for Security & Technology, and scout for Alumni Ventures. He held top roles in government affairs at Okta, Access Partnership, Analog Devices, and Fujitsu, and board seats on the Enterprise Cloud Coalition, Information Technology Industry Council, and the U.S. Information Technology Office. Earlier in this career, Mike served as a national security aide to a U.S. congressman, was twice a presidential appointee in the Pentagon, and spent a decade as an Intelligence Officer in the U.S. Navy’s Information Warfare Corps.