John Lash, Ph.D. is a geo-economic and national security strategist focusing on global capital markets. An expert in national security strategy, he founded Darkhorse Global to provide businesses with the key insights necessary to make the right strategic decisions to proactively manage geopolitical, geo-economic, and regulatory risk. He assists executive stakeholders and functional teams in designing and implementing innovative approaches to maximize opportunity value from M&A, transactions and post-merger integration.
Dr. Lash has advised on national security strategy, integration, and enforcement for M&A assignments totaling over USD 100 billion in transaction value. His work focuses on compliance strategy, mergers and acquisitions and performance transformation across a variety of high-tech and advanced-industrial subsectors, including semiconductors, telecommunications and renewable energy. He earned his Ph.D. from Robert Morris University, with his dissertation, The Feasibility of Game Theory Approaches: An Investigative Study of Threats to U.S. National Security from Foreign Investment.