CRITICAL MINERALS · DEFENSE · ENERGY INFRASTRUCTURE

Strategic Risk intelligence for the industries rebuilding America’s industrial base

Sturnella follows capital flows, government procurement, public policy, cyber requirements and supply-chain risk across critical minerals, defense and energy.

We translate those signals into board-ready decisions about what to govern, disclose, finance and protect.

Meet Sydnie

International operational risk leader.
Cybersecurity advisor.
Investor.
Speaker.
Host of the Core Sample podcast.
Helping leaders make better decisions in critical minerals and defense.

The Risks that Matter Rarely Stay in one Department

Industries We Serve

Critical Minerals

Defense Supply Chain

Energy Infrastructure

Antimony,
Rare earths,
Uranium,
Copper

Prime contractors,
Tier 1 suppliers,
Tier 2 suppliers,
Aerospace manufacturers

Utilities,
Pipelines,
Generation,
Transmission

Sturnella works with companies operating where cyber risk intersects with operational resilience, national security, capital markets, and public accountability.

Markets

Capital formation, transaction activity, investor expectations, commodity cycles and the difference between market price and strategic value.

What We Follow

Government investment can create new governance expectations.
A defense contract can introduce cybersecurity and supplier obligations.
A critical-material dependency can become a financing, production or national-security risk.

Sturnella connects the capital, policy, cyber and operational signals so leadership teams can see the full picture and decide what to do next.

A federal investment can create new reporting and governance expectations.

A defense contract can introduce cybersecurity and supplier obligations.

A cyber incident can become an operational disruption, disclosure event or transaction problem.

A critical-material dependency can affect production, financing, national-security scrutiny and enterprise value.

Sturnella helps leadership teams connect those risks before they become expensive problems.

From the Headlines to the Boardroom

Capital

Federal loans, grants, warrants, strategic equity, procurement contracts, price floors, offtake agreements and private investment moving into nationally important industries.

Policy

Defense budgets, critical-mineral policy, CMMC, SEC disclosure requirements, foreign investment concerns and changing government priorities.

Operations

Cybersecurity, operational technology, third-party access, supplier concentration, production resilience and incident preparedness.

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WHO YOU ARE WORKING WITH

Sydnie Beckman

Founder, Sturnella

Senior experience across Tier 1 global banks and regulated advisory environments. Background spans operational risk, cybersecurity governance, and board-level oversight across investment banking, private wealth, and SEC-regulated fund structures in the US.