of the 2020 Senate Intelligence Committee report on Russian interference in the 2016 presidential elections produced following the investigation by special prosecutor Robert Mueller. Joel Zamel, executive at Psy-Group, an Israeli private intelligence agency specializing in honey traps and perception manipulation campaigns, testified that apart from their pitch to the Trump Campaign, the firm had proposed projects to three other clients: Russian oligarchs Oleg Deripaska and Dmitri Rybolovlev, and Blackwater founder Erik Prince, whom Black had introduced to Zamel in 2016. Other roles In January 2016 Black became an independent director of publicly traded biotechnology company Northwest Biotherapeutics (NWBO), a Maryland-based development-stage biopharmaceutical company developing cancer immunotherapies. Awards In addition to numerous performance awards and meritorious citations, while at CIA Black received the Distinguished Intelligence Medal, the George H. Bush Medal for Excellence, and the Exceptional Collector Award for 1994. References Citations General and cited references Dana Priest, "Wrongful Imprisonment: Anatomy of a CIA Mistake: German Citizen Released After Months in 'Rendition, The Washington Post'', December 4, 2005 External links 1950 births American chief executives American spies Blackwater (company) people Canterbury School (Connecticut) alumni Living people People from Stamford, Connecticut People of the Central Intelligence Agency Recipients of the Distinguished Intelligence Medal Recipients of the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal USC School of International Relations alumni United States Ambassadors-at-Large University of Southern California alumni