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Robert J. Green is the founder and principal analyst of Industrial Spine Research. He is the author of seven SSRN papers establishing and extending the Mutual Threshold Saturation framework, including the policy white paper shared with the National Economic Council, Senate Armed Services Committee staff, and the Small Business Administration Administrator.
His policy commentary has been submitted to The Hill, EconoFact, Modern War Institute, Foreign Affairs, and the Wall Street Journal. He has previously contributed comments to the U.S. Treasury on CFIUS rulemaking (TREASDO20260067).
He developed and operates CFIUSCheck.com, an analytical service for U.S. agricultural foreign-investment due diligence used by law firms, family offices, and state-level investment compliance teams.
He is the author of The Better Exit (2025), the exit-planning framework for business owners drawn from his work at Melbourne Business Advisors. The framework's principles — entity structure, value-driver mapping, due-diligence preparation, owner extraction — inform the exit-architecture sections of every Industrial Spine Research thesis. Prior works include The Simple P&L System, How to Get Started in Government Contracting: The AI Advantage, The AI Enabled Nonprofit, and Main Street Retail Rescue.
Prior service: Air Defense Artillery Officer, Florida Army National Guard.
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