CRDF Global and APTelecom Sign Strategic Agreement

CRDF Global, a leading provider of capacity-building programming across the intersection of security and development missions around the world, along with APTelecom LLC, a global connectivity and digital infrastructure consultancy firm, today announced the formalization of a strategic agreement to support each organization’s respective efforts and business activities. Over the last three decades, CRDF Global has expanded and evolved to address ever- changing global concerns, with a commitment to strengthening individuals, building relationships, and improving the world. In recent years, CRDF Global has made investments to significantly expand its digital resilience expertise and programming in order to integrate its cross-cutting information security capabilities into customer missions around the globe, ranging from hosting cybersecurity clusters in Eastern Europe, to training conferences in Southeast Asia.

From its beginnings in counter-proliferation work to its more recent expansion into international development, CRDF Global strives to advance global security, health, and economic progress by leveraging science, innovation, and collaboration. As APTelecom celebrates its fifteenth year in business, partnering with an organization such as CRDF Global enables a ‘step change’ in capability in terms of scale. This partnership will allow for expanded relationship to pursue new opportunities in global
cybersecurity, emerging technologies, information technology and telecommunications, and digital infrastructure resilience.

Speaking today, Tina Dolph, President and COO at CRDF Global said “We are pleased to have formalized the relationship with APTelecom at this juncture of our development. CRDF Global is constantly seeking new opportunities to support our core mission of building resiliency against global threats, and collaborating with APTelecom enables us to broaden our service offerings.”

Sean Bergin, President & Co-Founder of APTelecom and also residing member of the Board of Governors, Pacific Telecommunications Council, said “We are excited to be working with such an experienced partner as CRDF Global. Through its international footprint, the CRDF Global team brings capability on a global scale to APTelecom, which supports our ambitions to service larger, multi-regional and global business opportunities.”

About CRDF Global 

CRDF Global is an independent, nonprofit organization dedicated to building a safer, healthier, and more secure world. A trusted government partner for nearly 30 years, CRDF Global works in over 120 countries to mitigate shared global challenges in the areas of in the areas of international security cooperation, nonproliferation, cybersecurity and digital resilience, global health, food security, economic development, and professional exchanges. CRDF Global operates regional hubs in Arlington, Virginia; Amman, Jordan; Kyiv, Ukraine; Warsaw, Poland; Almaty; Kazakhstan; and Manila, Philippines.

For more information, visit www.crdfglobal.org.

For media inquiries, please contact Meg LaBumbard at mlabumbard@crdfglobal.org.

About APTelecom LLC

APTelecom LLC is an award-winning consulting firm, founded in 2009. APTelecom’s reach and expertise spans a wide range of established and emerging global markets. Among the company’s core offerings, underpinned by close relationships with submarine cable operators, are fiber sales, due diligence, data center and strategic telecommunications consulting services as well as project management services.

For more information, please visit aptelecom.com.

For media inquiries, please contact Jeff Fraser at jeff@aptelecom.com.