Ambassador Sobel is presently Managing Partner of Valor Capital Group, a growth equity and venture capital investment firm focused on US and Brazil cross-border opportunities. He is also a partner in Related Brazil, a mixed use developer in Brazil. Ambassador Clifford Sobel served as United States Ambassador to the Netherlands and Ambassador to Brazil. Presently he serves on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), the Secretary of State's Foreign Affairs Policy Board (FAPB), the Advisory Board for SOUTHCOM, the Military Commander for Central and South America, and is a Commissioner on the Federal Commission on Drug Policy for the Western Hemisphere. He also serves on the Board of the Council of the Americas, Council of American Ambassadors, Christie's Advisory Board for the Americas and the NJ Performing Arts Center, a Member of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Co-Chairs the Big Barn Dialogues Conference at Yellowstone, Montana, focus of which is the evolving relations between China and the US.