Blake Hall is the Founder and CEO of Troop ID, the first authentication platform that verifies military affiliation online. An Airborne-Ranger qualified officer, Blake led a battalion reconnaissance platoon in Iraq for fifteen months during 2006 – 2007. He has written for The Washington Post, Foreign Policy, Forbes and Vanderbilt Magazine. Thanks to The Economist, he is also the first Google result for the phrase "muscly entrepreneur." Blake attained a Bachelor of Science magna cum laude from Vanderbilt University and an MBA from Harvard Business School."