GlobalPOV’s Co-Founders have backgrounds in clinical psychology and information technology at the executive levels of both the private and public sectors.
Their experience offers a unique combination of skills for collaboration and creativity. The GlobalPOV approach balances a mix of qualitative analysis, inspiration and disruption.
Cynthia K. Hansen, PhD
CO-FOUNDER & PRESIDENT
Dr. Cynthia K. Hansen advises executives managing complex initiatives that require new forms of collaborations and high performing teams.
Dr. Hansen has over a decade of federal executive experience leading complex public health initiatives with senior officials in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and other Federal Agencies, as well as the White House and the National Security Council. She has engaged with leaders in over a dozen countries and hundreds of governmental and non-governmental organizations to achieve federal goals in the areas of behavioral health, suicide prevention, emergency preparedness, disaster response and recovery, and health promotion and prevention plans that address key national priorities such as the opioid crisis.
The cornerstone of her success in all of these efforts is reforming organizational silos into collaborative networks.
Dr. Hansen is also a licensed clinical psychologist with over 20 years of experience evaluating and treating people of all ages. She has provided training and consultation on topics such as organizational design and development, solution focused therapy, trauma, and disaster response throughout the United States and in over a dozen countries.
Her curiosity about multicultural life experiences and adventure has taken her around the globe, scuba diving in fifteen countries, climbing mountains such as Kilimanjaro and Hood and dancing the Argentine tango on three continents.
David H. Holtzman
CO-FOUNDER & CEO
David H. Holtzman provides strategic advice for visionary executives on M&A, technology development, board governance, and organizational dynamics.
Mr. Holtzman has spent much of the last ten years working with startups and entrepreneurs, most recently focusing on companies employing blockchain technology. He often consults on cybersecurity and privacy issues. He is certified as a Master Organizational and Individual Practitioner in Existential Consultation by the Washington Center for Phenomenological and Existential Consultation Studies.
Mr. Holtzman is recognized as a world-class technologist who ran the Domain Name system and designed its registration system. He was formerly Chief Scientist of the IBM Internet Information Group, CTO of Network Solutions and has been CEO, CTO, Director and advisor for dozens of global technology companies over his 35-year career.
He was CTO and cybersecurity advisor for two presidential campaigns, taught entrepreneurship and marketing strategy at American University and the University of Pittsburgh. He served in the US Navy as a cryptographic interpreter (Russian) and is qualified in submarines (SS). He worked at the National Security Agency (DEFSMAC) as a Soviet Manned Space Analyst.
He is the author of Privacy Lost (Jossey-Bass, 2006), and Surviving Identity Theft (Adams Media, 2008), has published numerous essays, and been interviewed by the NY Times, Washington Post, CNN, BBC, and Wired among others.
He is an inveterate global adventure traveler, who has horse trekked with Mongols and Kazakhs, climbed Mt Kilimanjaro, dog-sledded in Lapland and hiked Antarctica.