James Reese
Lieutenant Colonel, (US Army Retired) James Reese’s 37-year career has spanned the fields of military, business, crisis management, entertainment, and international diplomacy. Colonel Reese is an avid entrepreneur as he has founded or co-founded, four global companies in the last 12 years in the energy, risk management, software development, and training sectors. Colonel Reese’s companies span 52 countries where he assists not only the commercial, but also government sectors in global affairs and international capacity building and thrives in semi and non-permissive risk and culturally diverse operating environments.
Colonel Reese is a cross-functional leader with remarkable achievements in leadership, problem solving, cultural advisement and operation/information fusion. His experience spans complex, multicultural, and fast-paced environments from startups to billion-dollar organizations. With respect to geo-political relationships and advisement, Colonel Reese has maintained himself as an independent and non-parochial advisor. His ability to remain A-Political and A-Religious has him sought out as trusted advisor in various sectors of politics, religion and culturally diverse engagements.
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Colonel Reese retired from the United States Army after 25 years as both a non-commissioned and commissioned officer, culminating his career as a Lieutenant Colonel. Colonel Reese spent 23 of 25 years in Special Operations. He served in two different battalions of the 75th Ranger Regiment and culminated his career as a senior leader and operator within the heralded “Delta Force.” Colonel Reese is a disabled veteran and decorated combat leader. He was involved with most of the critical manhunt operations in the 20th century. Colonel Reese has advised international leaders on 6 continents and served in both Operation Enduring Freedom (Afghanistan) and Operation Iraqi Freedom as well as classified contingency operations around the globe.
The Commander of Coalition Forces of Iraq and Afghanistan, General David McKiernan, called Colonel Reese one of the finest “special operators in the modern military,” and I depend on him as a trusted advisor.
Immediately following 9/11, Colonel Reese was selected by the U.S. Secretary of Defense and USSOCOM Commander to serve as the lead advisor for Special Operations to the White House and the Interagency Directors for planning and integration of the United States Elements of National Power for the initial spearhead for Operation Enduring Freedom, Afghanistan.
In 2003, During the preparation of US Forces for Operation Iraqi Freedom, Colonel Reese again was personally requested by the Combined Forces Coalition Commander to be his primary advisor for the integration of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) assets. His leadership and energy were instrumental within the “Delta Force,” JSOC and the U.S. Government interagency community for implementing, guiding and leading a complex counter- terrorism strategy that revolutionized interagency operations and developed the modern-day doctrine of U.S. man-hunting.
maverick warrior ..., who quite possibly would
have made General [Ulysses S.] Grant appear wanting when it came to working through
chaos, calming nerves, and demanding the best out of subordinates."

Upon his retirement in 2007, Colonel Reese jumped into the entrepreneur business world. He founded and led three companies and became a personal advisor to senior business leaders and government officials. In 2019 after 11 years, Colonel Reese sold his flagship service and software companies which attained start-up to a multi-million- dollar service business. In 2019 Colonel Reese’s vision and business acumen led him to be the founding partner for Delta Crescent Energy.
Colonel Reese is a sought-after speaker and advisor on geo-political and public private partnerships with respect crisis’s and leadership. Colonel Reese has been a global affairs contributor on FOX and CNN for several years and has been seen on CNBC, Dan Rather, the history and military channel and provided insight to major media publications such as the USA Today, NY Times, and the US News and World Report.
Colonel Reese holds philanthropic support as one of his greatest and modest achievements as an entrepreneur and business owner. He provides support to several military, wounded veteran and law enforcement organizations, a non-denominational church near one of his businesses that feeds hundreds of needy community members a month, a fund that supports orphans in worn torn lands in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria, and in 2019 was named the Chairman of the B-Cell Lymphoma Foundation which supports cancer research at the MD Anderson Cancer Research Center in Houston, Texas.
Colonel Reese received his Bachelor of Arts in Communications and Business Relations, from Mansfield University of Pennsylvania and holds a Fellowship degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Center for International Studies (CIS) in International security and foreign policy.