Our Team

Josh  is the Managing Director, for Gray Ghost Solutions with  expertise in  crisis planning, emergency/disaster response, consequence  management,  risk management, training and exercise design. Josh has  learned to  translate complex problems to create simple, intuitive plans  that are  flexible in dynamic environments and easily understood in the  chaos of  the moment.

In  his over twenty-year career with the military and Department of  State,  Josh has conducted diverse planning efforts including the US   Government’s medical plan for the Rio Olympics; the diplomatic reentry   of the embassies in Libya, Yemen, and Syria; and the largest   bio-containment evacuation exercise ever conducted by any organization   or government. For the latter, he controlled the operation from Africa   to seven hospitals across the United States. Josh has direct experience   with emergency management and crisis response— most prominently   responding to seven overlapping hurricane landfalls (three  catastrophic)  over two seasons, coordinating relief to the US embassy  in South Sudan  with the resumption of their civil war, and coordinating  US government  response during the 2015 Mali Hotel Shooting.

Josh  holds a master’s degree in International Relations and graduated  with  distinction from the University of North Georgia, earning a BS in   Biology. An avid lifelong learner, Josh studies geopolitics and   routinely attends courses across multiple domains including Harvard’s   Leadership in Crisis program, the Army War College’s Defense Strategy   Course, Columbia University’s National Center for Disaster Preparedness   courses, Combined Humanitarian Assistance and Response Team training,   and the United Nation’s Humanitarian Civil-Military Coordination  course.

Christopher Frueh, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist, Professor of Psychology at the University of Hawaii, and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry, Trauma and Resilience Center, University of Texas Health Science Center, Houston, TX.  

Chris has thirty years of professional experience working with military veterans and active-duty personnel, and has conducted clinical trials, epidemiology, historical, and neuroscience research, primarily with psychiatric patients, prisoners, and combat veterans.  He has co-authored over 300 scientific publications (h-Index = 79; total scientific citations > 18, 000), including a historical analyses of U.S. Army suicides dating back to 1819 and a current graduate textbook on adult psychopathology. 

Professionally, Chris worked with combat veterans since 1991 – and his earliest interview was with a veteran of the Spanish American War and the Battle of San Juan Hill.  More recently he has devoted much of his time to the military special operations community.  He has consulted extensively to US Congress, Department of Defense, Veterans Affairs, and the National Board of Medical Examiners.   

Chris has published commentaries in the National Review, Huffington Post, New York Times, Time and Washington Post; and has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, The Economist, Washington Post, Scientific American, Stars and Stripes, USA Today, Men’s Health, and Los Angeles Times, among others.  Under the pen name Christopher Bartley, he has also published nine novels, including “THEY DIE ALONE” and most recently “A SEASON PAST.”