Ronald Drabkin

Ronald Drabkin is a son and grandson of spies. He is a master researcher and writer who works in technology in Silicon Valley and has raised over $70m in venture capital startup financing. He works frequently with Japanese companies acquiring Silicon Valley technology especially related to artificial intelligence and while this is not espionage (it is now called open innovation or tech scouting), it would have been pre-WWII. His first book, BEVERLY HILLS SPY: The True Story of How a British War Hero Helped the Japanese Navy ahead of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by Infiltrating Golden Age Hollywood- and How the FBI, MI5 and the US Navy Missed It by William Morrow Publishers in 2024.