Our Team
National security practitioners, AI engineers, and policy experts building the future of supply chain intelligence.
Dr. Meg Reiss
Founder and CEO
Dr. Meg Reiss is the Founder and CEO of SolidIntel. Before founding SolidIntel, she served as the National Security Policy Advisor to U.S. Senator Mitt Romney, where she worked on supply chain risk, sanctions policy, and the national security implications of foreign influence in critical technology sectors. That experience — seeing firsthand the data gaps and opaque tooling that compliance teams and policymakers relied on — became the founding insight for SolidIntel.
Dr. Reiss is a nonresident Senior Fellow at the Atlantic Council and a fellow at the National Security Institute at George Mason University. Her writing and commentary have appeared in the Washington Post, War on the Rocks, Business Insider, Politico, and other major publications. She speaks regularly on AI-driven supply chain risk, critical minerals, and the intersection of commercial technology and national security.
Hogan Kangas
Co-Founder and CTO
Hogan Kangas is the Co-Founder and CTO of SolidIntel, responsible for the architecture, AI infrastructure, and engineering execution of the platform. He brings expertise in artificial intelligence, neural networks, and full-stack software development, with a focus on building systems that can process and reason over large, heterogeneous datasets at scale.
At SolidIntel, Hogan leads the technical development of the generative AI and machine learning capabilities that power supply chain entity resolution, risk scoring, and compliance report generation. His work equips government and defense clients with the accuracy, auditability, and evidence traceability their missions demand.
Advisors
Dr. Ashlyn Hand
Advisor
Dr. Ashlyn Hand is a Lecturer in Political Science and Assistant Director of the Center for Presidential History at Southern Methodist University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the author of Prioritizing Faith: International Religious Freedom and U.S. Foreign Policy (NYU Press, 2025), which traces how presidential leadership and institutional dynamics have shaped America's approach to religious freedom as a national security priority.
Before joining SMU, Dr. Hand held postdoctoral fellowships at Duke University and Johns Hopkins SAIS, and was a Graduate Fellow at the Clements Center for National Security at the University of Texas at Austin, where she earned her PhD in Public Policy from the LBJ School of Public Affairs. She advises SolidIntel on the intersection of U.S. foreign policy, geopolitical risk, and the regulatory landscape that shapes supply chain compliance.
Nathan Nguyen
Advisor
Nathan Nguyen is a senior full-stack software engineer with deep experience across AI/ML, cloud infrastructure, and data pipeline architecture. At Centene, he serves as lead architect for flagship cloud applications built on Python, React, and Kubernetes, serving thousands of daily users across healthcare operations. Previously at Cisco Systems, he developed NLP-driven data processing pipelines and executive-facing data visualizations that contributed to $9.4M in cost avoidance. His earlier work includes embedded systems development for a Navy-funded fiber optic sensor instrument and building a patented synthetic database platform at Subsalt.
He holds a top-6% worldwide Kaggle ranking, achieved using ensemble CNN and Neural ODE architectures at 99.7% model accuracy. He advises SolidIntel on platform architecture, scalability strategy, and engineering best practices — drawing on hands-on experience shipping production systems across healthcare, defense, and enterprise AI domains.