Christopher Cavoli came to Valor after serving as NATO's Supreme Allied Commander Europe, where he ran the alliance's operations and worked directly with Ukraine's military, building on a background that includes studying biology at Princeton and Russian studies at Yale, speaking Italian, Russian, and French, and holding fellowships at places like the National Defense University and the Marshall Center. He still sits on the boards of the Munich Security Council and the Atlantic Council, and at Valor his focus centers on modernizing Europe's defense industry, from procurement to co-production, rather than general investing.