Gordon Dee Smith, Principal and Chief Executive Officer of Strategic Insight Group (SIG), a private intelligence agency based in North Texas, has over 35 years experience in multiple deep research and analytical disciplines including business, geopolitical, and military intelligence; archaeological linguistic decipherment; geology and geophysics; economics; and musicology. For the last twelve years he has led SIG (and its predecessor company, Development Group) in thousands of intelligence and research projects in dozens of industries for clients ranging from hedge funds and private equity groups, to Fortune 500 corporations, to the U.S. Department of Defense/Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), in areas including investment intelligence, risk analysis, market intelligence, fraud and litigation intelligence, workplace and consumer ethnography, computer forensics, geopolitical forecasting, military intelligence and counter-terrorism, and others. He has led projects conducting research in over 65 countries in Western and Eastern Europe, Latin America, South Asia, East Asia, the Middle East, the South Pacific, and Africa, as well as extensive work throughout the United States. Prior to SIG, Smith was president of Cima International (1992-1995), a European/Latin American venture capital group primarily engaged in infrastructure and media projects in Mexico, and prior to that, president of InterCultura (1982-1992), an international cultural exchange organization that conducted art exhibition exchanges in many countries on five continents, including nations as diverse as the then-Soviet Union, Japan, Mexico, Ethiopia, Italy, the UK, and others. His academic background includes a degree in music theory from TCU (1977), and graduate study in business at the University of Texas at Arlington (1979). From 1982 to 1984 also studied archaeological decipherment and deep research techniques at the graduate level with Linda Schele of the University of Texas at Austin, who was a leader of the team that deciphered the ancient Maya hieroglyphic language in the 1970s and 1980s, work which grounded him in deep research techniques and also led him to found InterCultura in 1982.Smith has spoken publicly on many subjects including intelligence, foreign relations, international business, security issues, archaeology, art history, music history, and cultural diplomacy before groups around the world, including the National Arts Club of New York City, the Rufino Tamayo Museum in Mexico City, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) and other civic, professional, and cultural groups. He was featured in an RKV-TV documentary special shown in Japan on international activities in Texas and appeared in the book Irony Towers by Andrew Solomon. Smith is an occasional contributor to the Op-Ed page of The Business, a news magazine published in London, England, and has written for a number of other publications. Smith has served as an advisor, board member, or committee member to numerous non-profit organizations regionally, nationally, and internationally.
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