Operators, not observers.
Intermarium Group is not a traditional advisory firm. We are executive business leaders who have successfully built and scaled deep-tech startups ourselves. We are also former military operators with multiple U.S. and NATO deployments: operators who have run companies, and operators who have run missions.
Our specialty is helping venture capital and private equity firms accelerate their portfolio companies into the defense market: an affordable, private-equity-grade advisory model, typically reserved for the platform companies of the largest PE firms, brought to pre-seed and seed-stage companies entering dual-use defense markets.
Our offering spans strategic to tactical: we identify whether a company needs people, process, capital, or customers, then build the right approach for its unique position. Our solution is built for founders with strong technology but with gaps in their in-house business development, acquisition, compliance, or government-relations function.
Tom Jackson
Based primarily in Warsaw with deep, ongoing engagement across U.S., Polish and NATO defense and government circles. A C-suite executive in dual-use technologies, Tom served as President of Sarcos Defense and as GM of Aeryon Defense, where his segment's growth drove the exit to FLIR. He has been a leader in multiple international high-growth companies with a successful PE exit and IPO. With 30 years of business experience, his network spans both U.S. and NATO high-ranking military and senior political leadership.
Tom is a retired U.S. Marine Corps Lieutenant Colonel whose career spanned 25 active and reserve years as an AH-1W attack helicopter pilot, serving with NATO forces in the Balkans. A graduate of The Citadel, he holds an MBA in International Business from Regis University.
Matt Vogt
Based primarily in the U.S., Matt brings decades of executive leadership, technology innovation, and government-contracting expertise: nearly 20 years helping U.S. and Five Eyes companies establish and grow their government portfolios, including through M&A. His experience spans high tech, aerospace and defense, unmanned systems, robotics, communications, and artificial intelligence.
His early career was spent as a U.S. Marine Corps AV-8B Harrier attack pilot and MARSOC terminal attack controller, with combat deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, the latter as part of the NATO mission force. Matt holds an MBA from USC's Marshall School of Business and an AB in Politics from Princeton University.
Cece Siracuse
Founding principal of Atlantic Strategies Group, with over 30 years delivering trusted counsel in national security, defense community support, and military healthcare. Her career began with Senator Sam Nunn as Principal Legislative Assistant for Military Affairs; she later served as Director of Congressional and Intergovernmental Affairs for the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission and as Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense and Executive Director for House Affairs, the Department's chief civilian liaison to the U.S. House. She works with clients to secure increased federal appropriations and navigate Capitol Hill.
Kraig Siracuse
Principal of Hither Creek Strategies, a bipartisan government relations firm specializing in defense, aerospace, and revenue-focused policy campaigns. Previously Senior Vice President of Washington Operations at Bell (Textron), where he led legislative strategy behind the Army's Future Vertical Lift win with the V-280 Valor, following senior roles at Park Strategies and nearly two decades on the U.S. Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense and Senate Banking Committee. A Navy Commander, he serves as Commanding Officer, USCENTCOM J2 STL, with two combat deployments to Afghanistan as squadron intelligence officer and a tour as Defense Attaché covering former Soviet republics and NATO countries.
Steve Casazza
Two decades shaping defense trade and export strategy. President of Defense Trade Solutions, building global compliance programs across ITAR and EAR licensing, TSFD, and FMS/DCS export policy for mid-tier defense firms. Serving member of the Department of State's Defense Trade Advisory Group and Vice Chair of the NDIA International Division. Previously an ITAR Empowered Official, he helped secure export-policy approvals for critical technologies at General Atomics and Sierra Nevada Corporation, after serving on the Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army's Defense Exports & Cooperation policy staff. For the Group's portfolio, he leads the export-control pathway: licensing strategy, technology-transfer authorization, and compliance programs for dual-use technology moving across the Atlantic.