Robert Haddick is a former U.S. Marine Corps officer who deployed operationally in Asia and Africa and spent 18+ years as Director of Research at the Fremont Group, where he founded and led a proprietary trading unit running global long/short and arbitrage strategies. He combines this front-line defense experience with deep public markets background as Director of Research and Partner at Champion Hill Ventures, while also serving as a contractor to U.S. Special Operations Command and authoring "Fire on the Water: China, America, and the Future of the Pacific."