GMF Technology

Pamela Park is a visiting senior fellow in GMF’s Technology Program. She specializes in tech C-suite leader development and has worked extensively with founders, CEOs, and other senior executives of venture-backed startups to accelerate their leadership.  

Park is an award-winning lecturer on technology firm leadership at the University of California Berkeley’s College of Engineering and an industry fellow at Berkeley’s Sutardja Center for Entrepreneurship and Technology. 

Previously, Park taught entrepreneurship and leadership courses at Harvard and served in the US Department of State directing the US-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue. Prior to her government service, she completed global technology, media, and telecommunications merger and acquisitions deals at Goldman Sachs. Throughout the course of her career, Park has advised leaders in the public, private, and academic sectors on geoeconomic and geopolitical issues.   

Park earned her doctorate from Harvard Business School, her master’s degree from Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and her bachelor’s degree from Harvard College.

Heli Tiirmaa-Klaar is a Visiting Distinguished Fellow with GMF Technology. She is the chair of the Steering Group of the Ukraine Defence Contact Group IT Coalition, a multinational IT and cyber defense assistance format. She also chairs the board of directors at the Global Cyber Alliance. Previously, she was the director of the Digital Society Institute at the European School of Management and Technology in Berlin. From 2018 to 2021, she served as ambassador for cyber diplomacy and director general of the Department of Cyber Diplomacy at the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she led Estonia's efforts to promote norms and international law to guide the  behavior of states in their cyber activities. She also contributed to several UN working groups on cybersecurity. Prior to that, she worked as head of the Cyber Policy Coordination Unit at the European External Action Service, where she led and coordinated EU external relations on cyber issues and co-led the preparation of European Cybersecurity Strategies. She established EU strategic cyber dialogues with the US, India, Brazil, Japan, South Korea, and a number of international organizations. She also launched the EU's global cyber capacity-building programs and led the development of the EU Cyber Diplomacy Toolbox to strengthen the EU's response to malicious cyber activity. In 2011, she was assigned to the NATO International Staff to prepare NATO's Cyber Defence Policy.