Red Teaming for Smarter Decision-Making: An Executive Briefing by UC Berkeley

Steve Rotkoff, COL USA Ret.

Steve Rotkoff is the former director of the U.S. Army’s University of Foreign Military and Cultural Studies at Fort Leavenworth, also known as “Red Team University.” After serving as a senior intelligence officer during the invasion of Iraq, Rotkoff led the “lessons learned” team at the Pentagon that first developed the idea of decision-support red teams for the Army and went on to help create the Army’s red team training curriculum. A graduate of West Point, Rotkoff had a distinguished 26-year career as an Army intelligence officer and has led multiple red teams for the Joint Chiefs of Staff as well as for governments and military around the globe.

Whitney Hischier

Whitney Hischier is a lecturer at Haas in strategy and entrepreneurship and an instructor in the NSF’s I-Corps program on rapid commercialization. She leads the International Business Development program for the business school at UC Berkeley which has MBA students work on international consulting projects. She previously served as Assistant Dean of Executive Education at UC Berkeley. Prior to coming to Berkeley, Hischier served as a management consultant at ABN Amro, KPMG UK, and Deloitte. She has taught business courses around the world and helped a number of major global corporations develop in-house executive education programs. She holds a BA from Stanford University, an MBA from UC Berkeley and an MSc from University of Edinburgh.