Emissary Partners Hires Ex-CIA Analyst Among Four Senior Advisors

Editorial Staff

14 October 2026

, a London-based advisory firm that works with family offices on complex cross-border matters, has appointed Guy Hudson, Kristen Katulis, Brian Katulis and Hyuktae Kwon as senior advisors.

They will work with the firm’s executive team on client work and strategic development. Emissary Partners is expanding its work with family offices and sovereigns across the UK, Europe, the Middle East, Asia and the US.

Founded in 2019 by Matthew McGrath, the firm advises family offices and family-linked sovereigns on cross-border legacy and stranded assets, commercial diplomacy for market access, governance and resilience.

Hudson was most recently a partner at Stonehage Fleming, the multi-family office now part of Corient, where he was responsible for global brand, strategic communications and stakeholder engagement.

Kristen Katulis spent more than 25 years at the Central Intelligence Agency, where she led the agency’s analytic programme on China as chief of analysis, and was managing editor of the President’s Daily Brief. She also served as senior advisor to the director of intelligence at the National Counterterrorism Center.

Katulis co-founded North Star Global Strategies, a Washington, DC-based strategic advisory firm, with Brian Katulis. He is a senior fellow for US foreign policy at the Middle East Institute and has served in roles at the US Department of State, the White House National Security Council and the Department of Defense. Former UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed him to the UN Panel of Experts on Libya.

Kwon is founder and chief executive of Pine Capital Management, a Singapore-based asset manager and multi-family office platform licensed by the Monetary Authority of Singapore. He previously managed liquidity and funding across Japan, Korea, Taiwan and Indonesia at Goldman Sachs, before building and selling a consumer products business in Hong Kong and mainland China.