Seth Milstein

Seth Milstein is the Grand Pooh Bah (also known as a managing partner) of the Tan Rhino Investment Group, a Los Angeles-based private equity fund. He prepared, co-wrote, and taught US Navy Installation Command's Crisis Action Planning curriculum in affiliation with the US Navy Center for Asymmetric Warfare. He is also a Major in the US Marine Corps Reserve, and currently serves as the Commanding Officer of H&S Company, 4^th Tank Battalion. He has planned strategy and operations in times of peace, crisis, and war. He was recalled by name to active duty after the terrorist attacks of September 11th, 2001 to revise and lead the West Coast's Navy and Marine Corps expeditionary counter-terror intelligence, civil-military operation, and information operation training programs. This included graduate-level crisis management training for the US Department of State's Foreign Service Institute. A combat veteran, in Operation IRAQI FREEDOM he served as a Liaison Officer from the First Marine Expeditionary Force to the 1st (UK) Armoured Division during the invasion of Iraq, where he was involved in coalition strategic planning. During previous tours on active duty, he deployed twice with 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit to Southeast Asia and the Persian Gulf, where he was involved in responding to the US Embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania, humanitarian operations in East Timor, and the border war between Eritrea and Ethiopia. He helped formulate the strategy for the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on peacekeeping in the former Yugoslav republics. He is a graduate of McGill University, the business school conducted jointly by Boston University and Ben Gurion University, and the US Marine Corps Command and Staff College.

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