Brian Carbaugh spent years living and traveling abroad in a variety of alias personas as a CIA officer. Now he’s fronting investor meetings and raising capital as CEO of Andesite, a Virginia-based data analytics startup, one of several recently retired spies taking their field experience from the CIA to the C-suite.
Brian Carbaugh, Co-Founder and CEO of Andesite.
Photographer: Leigh Vogel/Bloomberg
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