Leader of McKinsey Technology; the 2013 drill-downs, the New Jersey summit, and the June 2026 reintroduction on Hare's birthday
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James Kaplan — partner and leader of McKinsey Technology — enters the record in 2013, introduced by Thomas Dohrmann: a couple of technical drill-down sessions, and then the meeting that mattered, when Kaplan had Jonathan Hare present the Privacy and Trust Network to the CISOs of forty McKinsey clients and prospects at a two-day cybersecurity session in the firm's New Jersey office. Jim Routh of Aetna was in that room, and everything the record holds about the Aetna arc — the sponsorship, the Bertolini air-cover, the multi-year funded deployments with Experian Health, LexisNexis and the IRS — descends from it. Their last in-person meeting of that era was a FireEye executive briefing in Palo Alto hosted by Kevin Mandia, discussing Kaplan's own whitepaper on risk in a hyperconnected world.
The thread resumed in June 2026, when Marc Singer re-introduced them — neither Singer nor Kaplan, by Hare's account, recalling the 2008–2014 history until Hare restated it from the contemporaneous record now published as S-074. The meeting was set for June 15th, Hare's birthday, at ninety minutes rather than McKinsey's customary thirty — a scheduling doctrine with a track record, since the same birthday ask in 2017 produced the Sandell meeting that became the NEA investment.
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Never Hare's client, always in the corridor: Dohrmann, Kaplan, Singer, Mendonca — and the 2026 reintroduction
Open →the summit where Hare metAetna's CISO, primary executive sponsor of the Privacy Network deployments; founding board member of the EP3 Foundation; a CSO Hall of Famer
Open →introduced to Hare byMcKinsey's public sector lead — met in one decade, reconnected by accident in the next
Open →re-introduced in 2026 byProspective fund manager — and the Hedera conversation
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