Matthew Pines

Chief Executive Officer

Physical Superintelligence

Aug 2025 - Current (1 year 1 month)

https://www.psi.inc

Executive Director

Bitcoin Policy Institute

Feb 2025 - Oct 2025 (9 months)

• Spearheaded the expansion of the Bitcoin Policy Institute, enhancing its influence in the national discourse on digital assets. • Fostered strategic relationships with U.S. political leaders and national security stakeholders to drive policy discussions. • Played a pivotal role in shaping the U.S. government's approach to digital asset regulation, ensuring alignment with emerging trends.

Director, Security Advisory

SentinelOne

Nov 2023 - Feb 2025 (1 year 4 months)

• Led the geopolitical and cyber intelligence practice for SentinelOne's PinnacleOne risk advisory group. • Established an in-house think tank focused on disruptive technology, U.S.-China competition and enterprise security insights. • Advised Fortune 50 C-suites and frontier AI labs on insider threats, economic espionage, regulatory shifts, and AI integration. • Developed successful products for AI-powered threat modeling and executive decision support.

Director for Security Intelligence

Krebs Stamos Group LLC

Apr 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 8 months)

• Built and expanded successful strategic intelligence practice at a boutique geopolitical and cyber risk consultancy. • Trusted by executives at disruptive technology and critical infrastructure firms to tackle their most sensitive and no-fail challenges, including the outbreak of geopolitical conflict, cybersecurity crises, and threats to crown jewel IP. • Sought after for technical insights on AI, quantum computing/sensing, space tech (LEO, GEO, and cislunar), C-UAS, and cyber threats as well as expertise spanning international political economy, China's economic espionage and intelligence tradecraft, and U.S. national security strategy.

Senior Associate

The Cadmus Group

Feb 2016 - Apr 2022 (6 years 3 months)

Systems Resilience practice area lead for The Cadmus Group, responsible for overall strategy, market positioning, business development, client relations, project management, and solution delivery. - Applied subject matter expertise in national preparedeness, strategic foresight, technology assessment, operational experimentation, and senior leader facilitation. - Designed and conducted dozens of field experiments and operational assessments to test and evaluate emerging technology in critical national security mission areas. - Managed multi-disciplinary teams to address some of the most pressing strategic challenges facing the U.S. Government, including nuclear terrorism, biological warfare, and nation-state cyber and missile threats. -

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Associate

Obsidian Analysis

Mar 2012 - Feb 2016 (4 years)

As Task and Team Lead, advised the government and the private sector on critical preparedness, security, and technology challenges. Designed and led strategic assessments of organizational resilience, emerging technology, and cybersecurity programs to drive risk-informed decision making. - Lead Evaluator for Capstone 2016, a highly classified national-level exercise that fundamentally shifted the U.S. Government approach to strategic security programs. - Lead Planner and Facilitator for dozens of national and homeland security exercises including the White Houselevel Senior Officials Exercise Program and the National Exercise Program. - Conducted groundbreaking assessment of classified U.S. Government continuity of government programs

Science Assistant

National Science Foundation

Dec 2010 - Mar 2012 (1 year 4 months)

- Responsible for supporting $34 million in grants across a cluster of programs: Decision, Risk, and Management Sciences; Economics; Science of Organizations; and Secure and Trustworthy Cyberspace. - Leveraged strong scientific, political science, and economics background to provide summary portfolio analyses, develop solicitations, draft review analyses, and disseminate highlights of key research results. - Represented NSF component at interagency fora on hurricane threats, risk perception, and disaster response.

Congressional Intern for Rep. Rush Holt (NJ-12th)

United States House of Representatives

May 2008 - Aug 2008 (4 months)

Worked for Rep. Rush Holt a physicist and Member of Congress.

Independent Student Researcher

Condensed Matter Group JHU Department of Physics and Astronomy

May 2007 - Jan 2008 (9 months)

- Worked with a three-person team in the construction, calibration, optimization, and testing of a novel time-domain Terahertz spectroscopy system to investigate the real-time electronic properties of systems ranging from semi-conductors, quantum wells, to DNA. - Authored the primary computer control program using the LabView programming application. - Acquired and refined advanced experimental laser techniques in optical and condensed matter physics and materials science.

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Research Assistant

Naval Surface Warfare Center Carderock Division USNavy

May 2003 - Aug 2006 (3 years 4 months)

- Worked with Navy and civilian engineers to develop and test munitions battery systems for performance and safety under a variety of temperature, environmental, and load conditions. - Worked with suppliers of battery systems to coordinate their fulfillment of contract specifications. - Performed sophisticated statistical analyses of large datasets from dozens of power system experiments. - Published two technical reports: “Performance Test Report for the EAP-12160 Thermal Battery”, internal NSWC-C, DOD dissemination; “Performance Evaluation of the Li-ion/Zn-air Hybrid Battery”, internal NSWC-C, DOD dissemination.

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