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About Us

Our mission: to fix globalization

We are an ambitious team with a shared vision of global commerce rebuilt around collaborative, resilient, secure, and sustainable value chains.

Trusted value chains

Globalization 2.0

While this period of change and dislocation presents danger and insecurity, it also presents an opportunity to preserve many of the advantages created by Globalization 1.0 while addressing its most painful deficiencies. Through trusted value chains, Globalization 2.0 will deliver a more resilient, secure, inclusive, and sustainable globalization than the unbridled globalization of the last 75 years.

Altana Values

A vision of better global commerce

  • Altana values

    We embrace reality as we work to change it.

    We seek, surface, and communicate reality with our stakeholders, while working relentlessly to pull reality to our vision. Embracing this tension enables learning and adaptation; ignoring it results in failure. We constructively address the uncomfortable truths, and have the hard conversations, welcoming learning as necessary for growth.

  • Altana values

    We focus on value creation, not value capture.

    We develop positive-sum relationships with our customers, our partners, and our teammates. We convene and align stakeholders around meaningful, valuable opportunities, and always play the long game. We share credit, we partner well, and we focus on the mission.

  • Altana values

    We go on offense.

    We have the courage to imagine and build transformative, world-scale solutions. Incrementalism will not fix globalization. We value “first principles” thinking and “ownership” behaviors over process and hierarchy. We have a bias towards action, even amidst uncertainty.

  • Altana values

    We foster diversity and embrace differences.

    We believe that a diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives is essential to building a global, multi-stakeholder platform.

Careers at Altana

Help us build a world-scale platform for fixing globalization.

Altana advisory board

Leaders in trade, law enforcement, national security, logistics, financial services, business, and technology.

  • Alan Bersin

    Former Commissioner, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Former U.S. Department of Homeland Security and U.S. Department of Justice

  • Amy Chang

    Board Director: Disney, Procter & Gamble, Marqeta, Salesforce

  • Ana Hinojosa

    Former Executive Director, U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP); Former Director of Compliance & Facilitation, World Customs Organization

  • Andrew Petrisin

    Former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Multimodal Freight, U.S. Department of Transportation; Former Advisor, White House Supply Chain Disruptions Task Force

  • Anne Glover

    CEO and Co-Founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, Director, Bank of England

  • Benn Bekic

    Former Chief Strategy Officer, WiseTech Global

  • Cindy Allen

    Former Vice President of Regulatory Affairs and Compliance, FedEx Logistics; Former Executive Director of the ACE Business Office at U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP)

  • David Gauthier

    Former Director of Commercial Operations, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

  • Dawn Meyerriecks

    Former Deputy Director of CIA for Science and Technology

  • Eddie Fishman

    Author of Chokepoints: American Power in the Age of Economic Warfare; Former U.S. Department of State, U.S. Department of Treasury, and Joint Chiefs of Staff (Pentagon)

  • Enrique Colbert

    General Counsel, Wayfair

  • Greg White

    Former Senior Executive at INTTRA, Ports America, Maersk, and UASC

  • John Wissler

    Lieutenant General, United States Marine Corps (Retired)

  • Jonathan Pressman

    Founder & CEO, First Chair Partners

  • Jonathan Prince

    Former senior White House, State Department official; Altana CMO

  • Khoo Boon Hui

    Former President of Interpol

  • Lisa Robins

    Former Head of Global Transaction Banking at Standard Chartered Bank

  • Matthew Jackson

    William D. Eberle Professor of Economics, Stanford University

  • Michael Outram

    Former Commissioner of the Australian Border Force; Former Comptroller-General of Customs

  • Niloofar Razi Howe

    Senior Operating Partner, Energy Impact Partners

  • Noel Kinder

    SVP of Sustainability, lululemon; former Chief Sustainability Officer, Nike

  • Paul Robson

    CEO MYOB; Former President at Benchling; President International at Adobe

  • Sarah Rae Murphy

    Former Chief Procurement Officer & SVP Global Sourcing, United Airlines; Board of Directors, Cisco

  • Teresa Shea

    Former SIGINT Director, National Security Agency

  • Thomas Keane

    Senior Advisor for Insurance at Squire, Patton, Boggs LLP

  • Tobias Larsson

    Former CEO of Resilience360, later Everstream

  • Webb Stevens

    Former Head of Product at Carta, Qualtrics, and Avalara

  • Yannis Skoufalos

    Former Global Product Supply Officer, Procter & Gamble; Senior Advisor Supply Network Practice, Blackstone

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Industry awards and recognition

  • Built in Best Place to Work 2024 logo

    Built in Best Place to Work 2024

  • Fast Co World Changing Ideas 2024 logo

    Fast Co World Changing Ideas 2024

  • Fast Co Most Innovative Companies 2023 logo

    Fast Co Most Innovative Companies 2023

  • Fast Co World Changing Ideas 2023 logo

    Fast Co World Changing Ideas 2023

  • ProcureTech 100 2023 logo

    ProcureTech 100 2023

  • Supply & Demand Chain Exec Top Tech Startup 2023 logo

    Supply & Demand Chain Exec Top Tech Startup 2023

Backed by premier investors

  • Google Ventures logo
  • Generation logo
  • USIT logo
  • March Capital logo
  • Amadeus logo
  • Prologis  logo
  • Activate Capital logo
  • Omers logo
  • Floating Point logo
  • Salesforce Ventures logo

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