(Kim) Taipale is a Finnish-American investor and legal scholar specializing in information, technology, and national security policy.
He is a partner in Stilwell Holding, a private investment firm, a director of the Stilwell Charitable Fund, and the former chairman of the executive committee of Kobra International Ltd. Taipale received a BA and JD from New York University and an MA, EdM, and LLM from Columbia University.
Taipale serves on the advisory board of The Common Good,[1] and previously served on the Markle Foundation Task Force on National Security in the Information Age,[2] the advisory council at the World Policy Institute,[3] the Science and Engineering for National Security Advisory Board of The Heritage Foundation, the LexisNexis Information Policy Forum; and the Steering Committee of the American Law Institute's digital information privacy project.
Taipale is a frequent speaker and has written extensively on the intersection of information and technology policy with national and global security interests.
He has advised senior policy makers in government and the private sector, and testified before Congressional and other national committees, including on issues relating to foreign intelligence surveillance,[5][6] data mining,[7][8] biometrics,[9] and information warfare.