Board of Advisors
The Board of Advisors to Jetr Global Sports + Entertainment comprises leading international policy experts, former senior government officials, and industry executives. These esteemed advisors provide Jetr Global with strategic guidance to pursue its mission to streamline and expedite global mobility processes, advocate for greater utilization of sports and culture in policy and diplomacy, and build bridges between sports and governments around the world.
Gen. Martin Dempsey (Ret.)
Current Chairman of USA Basketball; 18th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; 37th Chief of Staff to the U.S. Army; TIME magazine's "100 Most Influential People;" Honorary Knight of the British Empire. Currently serves as an adjunct professor of leadership and public policy at Duke University. Co-author of the bestselling book Radical Inclusion: What the Post-9/11 World Should Have Taught Us About Leadership and No Time for Spectators: The Lessons That Mattered Most From West Point To The West Wing. B.S. from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, M.A. from Duke University, M.M.A.S. from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College, M.A. from the National War College.
Todd Jacobson
Adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs and former head of Social Responsibility for the National Basketball Association (NBA). More than two decades of corporate, government, and nonprofit leadership. Member of Board of Directors for Maccabi USA, the U.S. Fund for UNICEF New York Regional Board, the Beyond Sport Advisory Panel, and the UJA Sports for Youth Executive Committee; B.A. and four-year college soccer player at Cornell University. 
Dr. Lindsay Sarah Krasnoff
Globally-recognized sports diplomacy expert specializing in Franco-United States relations through sports. Author of Basketball Empire: France and the Making of a Global NBA and WNBA and The Making of Les Bleus: Sport in France, 1958-2010. Currently serves as adjunct instructor of global sports at New York University. Former Historian for the Office of the Historian, U.S. Department of State; B.A. from George Washington University; M.A. from NYU; PhD from The Graduate Center, City University of New York. 
Alan Sobba
Owner of Sobba Public, LLC and Chief Public Policy Officer for the Universal DeFi Holding Company (UDHC). Former Director of External Affairs for the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) and former Director of Government Relations for the Commissioner of Major League Baseball. B.A. from Kansas State University; M.B.A. from Arizona State University; J.D. from the University of Kansas.
Charles Yu
Author of four books, including Interior Chinatown, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. Current creator, showrunner, and executive producer at Hulu on the television adaptation of the eponymously named Interior Chinatown. Also has film and television projects at Searchlight Pictures, Warner Bros., and FX. His fiction and non-fiction have appeared in the New York Times, Atlantic, Harper’s Magazine, The New Yorker, The Wall Street Journal, and Wired, among other publications. B.A. from the University of California Berkeley; J.D. from Columbia University.