High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! K. A. (Kim) Taipale is a lawyer, scholar, and social theorist specializing in information, technology, and national security policy. He is a partner in Stilwell Holding, a private investment firm and in Parkview Ventures, a technology merchant bank. He is the founder and executive director of the Stilwell Center for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology Policy, a private, nonpartisan research organization, a director of the Stilwell Charitable Fund, and a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute. He was previously an investment banker at Lazard Freres & Co. and a lawyer at Davis Polk & Wardwell.