Col. Stuart Bradin (U.S. Army, Ret.)

Stu Bradin is president and CEO of the Global SOF Foundation, a nonprofit organization that aims to build and grow an international special operation forces network. He retired as a colonel in the U.S. Army Special Forces after over 32 years of service. His Special Forces assignments included service with elements of Joint Special Operations Command, as deputy director of operations at Special Operations Command Europe, and extensive service with the 7th and 10th Special Forces Groups (Airborne). He participated in Operation Just Cause, served tours as an adviser in El Salvador and Peru, and is a veteran of multiple unconventional and other special operations in the Balkans and numerous locations in northern and central Africa.