Trans Pacific Partners

Our Team

  • Ambassador (ret.) Al La Porta

    Managing Partner

    Ambassador La Porta is currently serving under TPP auspices as consultant to the widely respected military-security contractor, MPRI (a division of L3 Communications), to develop a “whole of government” approach to civil...

  • Don Eirich

    Managing Partner

    Don Eirich has been involved with Southeast Asian affairs for the past 40 years.  As a U.S. Marine Corps Officer, he served two tours in the Vietnam War and traveled extensively in the region as a member of a ready Marine...

  • Katy Goring

    Managing Partner

    Goring has been actively involved in the Southeast Asia region for the past 12 years and currently serves on the Board of Directors of the U.S. Library of Congress Asian Division Friends Society. From 2004-2008, Goring served...

  • Mike Figge

    Managing Partner

    Figge has worked on critical issues related to the United States- Indonesia relationship since 1993. He began his career as a student in 1991 while conducting an ethnographic field study on the Angkola Batak in Tapanuli...