R. James Woolsey

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Biography

Mr. R. James Woolsey served as a Venture Partner at Lux Capital. He serves as an Advisor at Genesis Systems. He serves as an Advisor at Brilliant Light Power. He also served as a Strategic Advisor at Paladin Capital Group. He is also Chairman of Woolsey Partners and before joining Lux a Venture Partner and Senior Advisor to VantagePoint Venture Partners. Previously, he served in the U.S. Government on five different occasions, where he held Presidential appointments in two Republican and two Democratic administrations, most recently as Director of Central Intelligence from 1993 to 1995. He has also been a Vice President and officer of Booz Allen Hamilton and a partner at the law firm of Shea & Gardner in Washington, DC, now Goodwin Procter, where he practiced for 22 years in the fields of civil litigation, arbitration, and mediation. Woolsey currently serves as Chair Of Counsel to the Washington, D.C. office of the Boston-based law firm, Goodwin Procter. In the above capacities, he specializes in a range of alternative energy and security issues. He also serves as an officer or advisor to a range of government, corporate, and non-profit groups, including the National Commission on Energy Policy, the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and the Clean Fuels Foundation. Previously, he was Chairman of the Executive Committee of the Board of Regents of The Smithsonian Institution and a trustee of Stanford University. He has also been a member of The National Commission on Terrorism, The Commission to Assess the Ballistic Missile Threat to the U.S. (Rumsfeld Commission), The President's Commission on Federal Ethics Law Reform, The President's Blue Ribbon Commission on Defense Management (Packard Commission), and The President's Commission on Strategic Forces (Scowcroft Commission). Mr. Woolsey was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, and attended Tulsa public schools. He received his B.A. degree from Stanford University, an M.A. from Oxford University, and an LL.B. from Yale Law School.