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From 2005 to 2008 Black was Vice Chairman of Blackwater USA (later renamed Blackwater Worldwide, then Xe, and finally Academi), a US-based private security firm which was "the biggest of the State Department's three private security contractors".

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On April 26, 2007, Black was chosen by Mitt Romney to head a campaign counter-terrorism policy advisory group during the Republican's 2008 U.S. presidential campaign. In February 2017, the Ukrainian oil and gas corporation Burisma announced the addition of Black to the company's

board of directors, leading the company's security and strategic development efforts. In 2015, Burisma was one of the founders of the International Forum on Energy Security for the Future and partnered the Electric Marathon.[22] In 2017, it signed a partnership agreement with the

Atlantic Council to promote anti-corruption measures. David Harold McCormick (born August 17, 1965) is an American business executive. He is the CEO[2][3] and a member of the Management Committee at Bridgewater Associates, McCormick is a Trustee of the Aspen Institute and

Carnegie Mellon University,[23][24] and he is the Chairman of the International Advisory Board of the Atlantic Council.[25]He is a member of the Trilateral Commission,[26] the Council on Foreign Relations,[27] the Aspen Strategy Group,[28] and the Defense Policy Board.[29] As a

veteran, McCormick is an active supporter of military service members, serving on the board of the United Service Organizations (USO).[30] Additionally, he serves on the board of the Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS)[31] and is the Chairman of the Atlantic Council's.

International Advisory Board. In August 2005, Comey left the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) to become a senior vice president of Lockheed Martin as general counsel.[5] In 2010, he became general counsel at Bridgewater Associates. In early 2013, he left Bridgewater to

become a senior research scholar and Hertog fellow on national security law at Columbia Law School. He served on the board of directors of HSBC Holdings until July 2013. In 1977 he and his brother were victims of a home invasion by a criminal called "The Ramsey Rapist".