Reeve Wolford

REEVE WOLFORD

Reeve Wolford serves as a Senior Advisor at HillStaffer, bringing decades of experience in international trade, corporate strategy and foreign affairs, with particular expertise in Brazil and the Latin American region.

In addition to his role with HillStaffer, currently Reeve serves as President of Pinima, Inc., a US-based company that provides monitoring services based on fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology in multiple market verticals including government intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); crop mapping and analytics; carbon content measurement and monitoring; mineral surveying and others.

Previously, Reeve was a partner in Jaguar Consulting Ltda, a Brazilian government affairs and corporate strategy consulting firm. Reeve provided advisory services to many defense and space companies including Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Rocket Lab, Microcosm, OneWeb, Firefly Aerospace, ABL Space Systems, Astra Space, GEOshare, KBR, SAIC, Theia Group, TriSept and others, on their pursuits in the Brazilian and regional markets.  Notably, Reeve and Jaguar CEO Eduardo Almeida were selected by SpaceX to be its first consultants outside the United States, assisting SpaceX in preparing their bid for the Amazona-1 satellite launch services contract.  Mr. Wolford also was architect of two winning bids for the right to operate inside launch areas at the Alcântara Launch Center.

Reeve has also worked closely with a clientele of Brazilian space and defense sector companies such as Orbital Engenharia, Fibraforte, A2C, Cotecmar, and helped establishe a collaboration with Stella Tecnologia, a Rio de Janeiro-based engineering company developing large, fixed-wing UAVs, where his responsibilities included development of redundant supply chains featuring ITAR and non-ITAR producers; business modeling and strategy; and international business and partnership development.

Previously, assumed responsibility for marketing at the Brazil-U.S. Business Council, a policy advocacy association under the administrative umbrella of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.  He oversaw a doubling of the Brazil Council’s membership during his tenure, working closely with the Council’s policy team to craft advocacy strategies to achieve policy objectives in Washington and Brasília for the over 100 U.S. member companies of the association.

As an advisor to the Brazil Council, Mr. Wolford conceived and launched a Defense and Security Task Force focused on bringing the defense industries of both countries together with their governments to promote policies and activities to facilitate trade, investment and cooperation between the two countries.  This work resulted in significant advances, such as the establishment of a formal U.S.-Brazil Defense Industry Dialogue the signature of a US-Brazil Technology Safeguards Agreement (TSA, 2019) to allow launch of U.S. space technology from Brazilian territory, and a Research, Development, Testing and Evaluation (RDT&E, 2020) to allow collaboration between the Dept. of Defense and the Brazilian Ministry of Defense on defense technology research and development initiatives.

Mr. Wolford is a graduate of Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service and lives in Rio de Janeiro.  He is fluent in English, Portuguese and Spanish.