Drew Horn

Horn served approximately ten years in the U.S. military, first as a Marine Corps officer with one Iraq deployment (circa 2009), then as an Army Special Forces officer and Green Beret commanding direct-action commando teams across three Afghanistan deployments (circa 2013-2015) ¹. He holds a B.A. in Political Science and History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and an MBA from the University of Virginia's Darden School of Business ³.

After transitioning to the private sector as a strategic management consultant at Deloitte Consulting LLP, Horn entered the Trump administration in July 2017 at a starting salary of $112,021 ⁹. His government career traced a path from combat-zone policy to mineral resource strategy: he served as Country Director for Afghanistan at the Office of the Secretary of Defense (July 2017 to December 2018), where records indicate he was instrumental in designing Trump's South Asia Strategy ². He subsequently served as Policy Director for Vice President Pence, Chief of Staff and Acting Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary at the DOE Office of International Affairs (December 2018 to November 2020), and Senior Advisor to the Director of National Intelligence during the Ratcliffe/Grenell era ³. His financial disclosure upon entering government listed a rental property valued at $100,001 to $250,000 and a Morgan Stanley brokerage account valued at $250,001 to $500,000 ⁹.

At DOE, analysis indicates Horn led the development of the federal critical minerals supply chain strategy and intelligence community leadership restructuring ². He then founded GreenMet in January 2021 -- immediately after leaving government -- to pursue commercial opportunities in the policy domain he had shaped. Analysis of his Afghanistan portfolio at OSD suggests geographic overlap with the South Asia mineral corridor, the same region where Javelin Advisors now pursues Pakistan's rare earth resources ².

GreenMet (formally Greentech Minerals Holdings Inc.) is incorporated in Washington, D.C., with offices at 1825 K Street NW, Suite 515 ⁴. Horn serves as founder, president, and CEO. The company's other beneficial owners are George Sorial, who spent 17 years as Trump Organization EVP and chief compliance counsel before departing in 2019, and Keith Schiller, Trump's longtime personal bodyguard who served as Director of Oval Office Operations in the first term ⁴. Both resigned board and advisory roles in early 2025 but remain passive minority shareholders, according to a statement Sorial provided to OCCRP ⁴.

GreenMet's former chief geologist, Ned Mamula -- a former CIA analyst -- was confirmed as Director of the U.S. Geological Survey in October 2024 ⁶. He filed a divestiture from GreenMet in January 2025 upon Senate confirmation. Horn co-authored the foreword to Mamula's 2024 book Undermining Power ⁶. The USGS directorship carries authority over critical mineral resource assessments and the Critical Minerals List, which directly affects which projects receive federal support.

George Logothetis's Libra Group invested in GreenMet in March 2022, providing external capital from a Greek-American shipping and infrastructure conglomerate Connection #3180. Review of lobbying records indicates GreenMet has filed 66 LDA lobbying disclosures through 11 registered lobbyists, including via The McKeon Group, which links GreenMet to USA Rare Earth ⁵. Despite this lobbying activity, examination of federal contract databases shows no federal contracts have been identified ⁵.

GreenMet's Greenland footprint began in early 2021. The principal Greenland partnership is with Tanbreez Mining Greenland A/S, formalized in April 2025, through which GreenMet positioned itself as the intermediary between Greenland rare earth deposits and U.S. defense supply chains ⁸. Horn visited the Tanbreez mine in May 2025 and met with Greenlandic and Danish officials. By June 2025, Critical Metals Corp (CRML) had secured a $120 million EXIM Bank letter of intent for the Tanbreez project via GreenMet, and by September 2025, CRML took a controlling interest in Tanbreez ⁸. GreenMet also facilitated a 10-year offtake agreement connecting Tanbreez to a DoD-funded Ucore rare earth processing facility in Louisiana ⁸. Examination of CRML's 167 SEC filings reveals no mention of GreenMet despite its role brokering the deal ⁵.

Separately, Horn pursued a 1.5-gigawatt AI data center at Kangerlussuaq through a partnership between AmForge Corporation and Svend Hardenberg's Inuit Development Company, with a letter of intent signed in January 2026 ⁸. The project targets 300 megawatts by mid-2027 and 1.5 gigawatts by end of 2028. However, the Greenland government told CNBC it had not engaged in dialogue with Horn or GreenMet about the project, and no land or local approvals have been secured ⁸.

Hardenberg is a key intermediary in Greenland. A former Permanent Secretary at the Greenland Premier's Office and former CEO of Greenland's national energy company Nukissiorfiit, he sits across multiple interests: co-owner of Greenland Water Bank (partly sold to Ronald Lauder's investor consortium), business partner of Horn on the data center and seaweed ventures, and General Manager of Energy Transition Minerals' Greenland subsidiary controlling the separate Kvanefjeld rare earth deposit ⁸. Graph analysis of Horn's network shows that through Hardenberg, GreenMet is one hop from Lauder's Greenland Development Partners LLC consortium ¹⁰.

In December 2024, Horn's GreenMet co-shareholders Sorial and Schiller co-founded Javelin Advisors LLC. According to FARA filings, the firm registered to represent the Government of Pakistan on a rare earth mineral diplomacy framework ⁵. Analysis of lobbying disclosures indicates the firm has also been involved in Ukraine reconstruction lobbying and NioCorp critical minerals lobbying ⁵. Records indicate Javelin separately received $200,000 from Logical Strategies LLC -- a firm linked to Giorgi Rtskhiladze -- for asbestos deregulation lobbying ⁵.

Horn's earlier government work overlaps with Javelin's current portfolio. Records indicate he designed the Trump administration's South Asia Strategy while serving as Country Director for Afghanistan at OSD ². Pakistan's rare earth deposits sit within the same South Asia mineral corridor that Horn's policy work addressed. Although Horn is not a named principal of Javelin Advisors, examination of the ownership records shows his GreenMet co-shareholders founded the firm, and the commercial domain -- critical minerals in regions where Horn held policy authority -- is the same ⁵.

On January 14, 2025, Horn appeared on Fox and Friends to support Trump's Greenland acquisition rhetoric, stating that Greenlanders are "tired of being exploited and oppressed by the Danes" ⁷. This media appearance occurred while GreenMet held active business interests in Greenland through the Tanbreez partnership and data center plans, and Horn did not disclose his commercial interests on air.

In November 2023, Horn testified before the House Science, Space, and Technology Committee at a hearing on critical minerals supply chains, warning that "if we don't take corrective action, the situation is dire" regarding U.S. reliance on adversarial nations for critical minerals ¹¹. He advocated federal investment in mineral extraction, refining, and processing -- the same activities GreenMet pursues commercially. Horn also serves as a Senior Fellow at Securing America's Future Energy (SAFE) since September 2021, providing an institutional platform for his policy advocacy ¹.

In August 2025, Danmarks Radio reported that PET (Danish intelligence) monitored at least three Trump-connected American men for covert influence operations in Greenland, including activities such as compiling lists of pro- and anti-Trump Greenlanders and gathering material to cast Denmark in a negative light in U.S. media ¹². While Horn has not been publicly identified as one of the three, his Greenland travel, mining deals, data center negotiations, and media appearances supporting Trump's Greenland rhetoric place him within the same operational environment during the same timeframe. Denmark summoned the U.S. charge d'affaires, and the Danish Defence Intelligence Service's 2025 threat assessment listed the United States as a security concern for the first time, alongside Russia and China ¹².

Horn's pre-government financial disclosure revealed modest personal wealth: a rental property valued at $100,001 to $250,000 generating $5,001 to $15,000 annually, and a Morgan Stanley brokerage account valued at $250,001 to $500,000 with similar income ⁹. His starting government salary at the Defense Department was $112,021 ⁹.

Examination of FEC donor records found no matches for Drew Horn, Andrew Horn, or Andrew Luxton Horn in Northern Virginia, nor any donor associated with Deloitte, DOE, or GreenMet ¹³. The absence of any political donation history is unusual for someone who held senior political appointments across four agencies and co-founded a company with two members of Trump's inner circle, suggesting that Horn's political access derived from professional relationships within the national security establishment rather than donor networks.