Dr Eric Haseltine is Chairman of the US Technology Leadership Council and CEO of the tech startup MagneticWave. After 9/11, Eric left his post of Executive Vice President at Disney Imagineering to become Director of Research at NSA then Associate Director of National Intelligence and CTO of the Intelligence Community where he founded IARPA, the Intelligence version of DARPA

He is the author of numerous books on innovation as well as the true spy thriller, The Spy in Moscow Station