Our Team
Aric Gray
Christopher Frueh
Christopher Frueh
CEO
Christopher Frueh
Christopher Frueh
Christopher Frueh
Medical Intelligence
Team Biographies
Aric Gray, CEO
Aric Gray founded Gray Ghost Solutions in 2019 and currently serves as the CEO. Inspired by his 30-year career in government, including executive roles at the State Department and as a Special Forces Green Beret, Aric wanted to offer his expertise and lessons learned to commercial markets.
Aric is an expert in crisis management, government relations and medical contingency operations, and has conducted sensitive operations around the world for decades. He has been recognized as a leader in frontier medicine providing crucial insight to corporate entities, government institutions and non-profits. He has deployed operationally to over 50 countries.
Before founding Gray Ghost, Aric spent two years at Banyan Risk Group serving as Managing Director, leading the global headquarters in Houston Texas. Prior to joining Banyan, Aric held the executive role of Director for Protective Medicine at the State Department where he was responsible for all medical components serving the Foreign Service, Consulates and Embassies worldwide. Before his time with the State Department, Aric served within the United States Army Special Forces as a Green Beret. In the Special Forces, Aric served as a counter terrorism and direct-action expert completing the Special Forces Advanced Reconnaissance, Target Analysis and Exploitation Techniques, Special Operations Sniper and Ranger schools.
Aric holds a master’s degree from George Washington University and a BA from Campbell University.
B. Christopher Frueh, Psychologist
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.”
