Stony Run Advisory
Sitting at the nexus of politics, policy, and investing, Stony Run helps clients make high stakes decisions and supports investments that are good for the country and good for the world
A proven record identifying opportunities for impact and solving hard problems in politicized spaces
Stony Run is a strategic advisory firm focused on political risk and national security. We offer a range of services for clients, including:
Recent U.S. investments at home and abroad are derisking and opening up capital markets in novel ways. Our expertise in U.S. industrial and foreign policy lets us identify opportunities across sectors and regions, especially for those wanting to catalyze impact.
The team gets the investment business and knows how government works, so we are ideally situated to help investors understand regulation, legislation, diplomacy, and their intersection.
We have been called on to navigate the most polarizing national security debates of the last 15 years. Stony Run manages crises with a steady hand and armed with deep experience.
We are wonks at heart. We love developing policy recommendations that make real impact and are set up for success when they slam into the realities of politics.
About Rebecca Brocato
Rebecca Brocato is Founder and Principal at Stony Run Advisory. She launched Stony Run after serving as Chief of Staff of the Development Finance Corporation (DFC). With $34B assets under management, the DFC functions like a bank, providing equity investments, loans, and political risk insurance to private sector-led projects in the U.S. national security and economic interest.
Rebecca served previously as Special Assistant to the President and NSC Senior Director for Legislative Affairs. In that role, she was the principal advisor to the National Security Council on Congress and legislation. Rebecca oversaw Biden Administration engagement with Congress on sensitive intelligence matters, China policy, the Afghanistan withdrawal, and nuclear deterrence policy, among other issues. She advised the President on managing congressional efforts to impose new sanctions and export controls, and prepared Cabinet members, including the Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Treasury, for congressional briefings and hearings. She was a lead White House negotiator on bills, including the annual defense authorization bill and the CHIPS and Science Law.
In the Obama Administration, Rebecca was the President’s chief liaison to the House Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence Committees and managed the Administration’s engagements with the Hill around the Iran Nuclear Deal. She also served at the State Department, where she focused on foreign military sales and Middle East policy.
From 2017 – 2020, Rebecca was on the leadership team of the foreign policy advocacy organization National Security Action. In this role, Rebecca helped pass landmark anti-corruption legislation that had been languishing for more than a decade.
A native of Baltimore, Rebecca is a graduate of Harvard and Oxford. She began her career as an aide to Senator Ben Cardin (D-MD).
