Bio

Drew Horn is a trailblazer in securing critical minerals supply chain resources to serve business and national security needs. With this vision in mind, he founded GreenMet, the world’s premier project finance company focused on building a sustainable and responsible green energy supply chain. GreenMet specializes in matching public and private capital in order to build advanced materials growth in a manner that supports the energy and technological needs of the future. Mr. Horn’s time in the federal government, private sector, and active-duty military service gave him extensive leadership experience in business management and national security. During his time in the US federal government, he served as a senior policy executive at the Departments of Defense and Energy, Offices of the Vice President, and the Director of National Intelligence. Mr. Horn led government-wide efforts in economic security and intelligence. This entailed creating and implementing a new US strategy for building the national critical minerals supply chain, as well as a new international energy plan focused on optimization of renewable energy efforts worldwide. These efforts were supported by his work to optimize related national intelligence operations and accelerate the establishment of public-private partnerships between government and business leaders in the energy, commercial, and manufacturing security space. Prior to his federal service, Mr. Horn worked as a strategic management consultant at one of the Big Four consulting firms. There he managed teams that provided intelligence and risk analysis for clients in the national security space. Mr. Horn also spent ten years in uniform as a commissioned officer in the US military, first as a United States Marine and then as a Special Forces Officer in the United States Army. He has extensive combat experience in Afghanistan as a commander of a direct-action commando team and successfully completed three combat deployments to Afghanistan, and one to Iraq as a Marine. Mr. Horn is originally from Northern Virginia and has a Master of Business Administration from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, and an undergraduate degree in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin. He currently resides in Northern Virginia and West Virginia.