Kathryn Coulter Mitchell Joins Academy Securities’ Advisory Board and Geopolitical Intelligence Group

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Academy Securities, the nation’s first Post-9/11 veteran owned and operated investment bank, today announced the addition of Kathryn Coulter Mitchell to its Geopolitical Intelligence Group. The Academy GIG consists of 45 US and UK Admirals & Generals, former NASA Astronauts, and former CIA/FBI Leadership. Academy has been advising clients for over a decade and is the preeminent Advisory on geostrategic risk to the markets.

Kathryn Coulter Mitchell joins Academy after a career at the most senior levels of the U.S. government. Most recently, she served as Chief of Staff of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), where she directed strategy, compliance, and resourcing in support of the agency’s mission to protect the nation’s critical infrastructure. Before CISA, she served as Acting Under Secretary for the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate, overseeing a $1 billion, 1,000-person organization and leading the Department’s technology gap assessment. Earlier, she spent five years on Capitol Hill leading legislative efforts in both the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate and served as Director of Policy for an association representing more than 350 federal contracting companies.

“We are pleased to welcome Kathryn to the firm’s Advisory Board,” said Academy’s Chairman and CEO Chance Mims. “Her leadership at CISA and the DHS Science and Technology Directorate gives our clients a rare view into how the government assesses cyber and infrastructure risk and which technologies it will actually adopt.”

Ms. Mitchell commented on joining the firm: “I am honored to join veteran-led Academy Securities’ Geopolitical Intelligence Group. Decisions made in Washington increasingly move markets, and I look forward to helping Academy's clients navigate government-driven risk and opportunity, including the growing demand for homeland security innovation.”

Ms. Mitchell holds a master’s degree in communications from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland, College Park.

“Kathryn has worked on Capitol Hill, inside the agencies, and alongside the contractors competing for federal business,” said Academy’s Vice Chairman Phil McConkey. “That full view of how policy becomes program will be a strong addition to our Advisory Board.”

About Academy Securities

Academy Securities is a FINRA registered Broker Dealer and a preeminent veteran owned investment bank with strengths in capital markets, asset management, public finance, geopolitical intel, fixed income, and equity trading. Leadership and staff have had intensive military training prior to entering and gaining in-depth financial services experience in global capital markets. We are mission driven with a high ethical code, a solid sense of accountability and strive for excellence in the pursuit of our clients’ success. Academy is our nation’s first post-9/11 veteran owned and operated investment bank and is certified as a DVBE, SDVOB, and MBE. The firm has a strong top and middle tier client base served by a national platform with offices in New York, Chicago, San Diego, Chapel Hill, Louisville, Austin, Dallas, Sacramento, and West Palm Beach. Information about Academy Securities is available at www.academysecurities.com.