Jeff Starr

Presidential Innovation Fellow, Department of Transportation

Washington, D.C.

Jeff is an architect of solutions who seeks to understand and act on the deep structure of events, and a strategist who operates tactically, mostly in the security space. He co-founded Neo Prime Solutions, a cyber security and risk modeling firm, which uses its patented method to quantify cyber risks and forecast cyber losses both to hedge financial losses from cyber-attacks and to prioritize security control modernization reflecting actual sources of loss in networks.

e was the senior DoD representative in Russia and Central Asia after 9/11, and the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Eurasia. Previously, he served as the operational team leader for a pre-emptive acquisition program to remove WMD materials from the marketplace and served on the American delegation at the U.S.-Soviet Nuclear and Space Negotiations in Geneva. He was educated at MIT and the University of Illinois.