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A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, he began his career as an Army infantry officer before earning his medical degree and returning to service as an emergency physician. He later served as a flight surgeon with the Army's 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment, the Night Stalkers, planning and flying some of the War on Terror's most covert operations across Afghanistan and Iraq.

On 13 December 2003 he participated in Operation Red Dawn, the mission that captured Saddam Hussein, and interrogated Saddam for six hours that night. He published the account as A Night with Saddam. For his service he was awarded the Bronze Star, the Air Medal with Valor Device and the Combat Medical Badge.

After two decades of military service he founded and built an emergency medicine management company that grew to more than $200 million in annual revenue, serving 52 hospitals across 11 states, before selling the business into a physician-services platform backed by Goldman Sachs. He also founded clinics providing free medical care to underserved communities.

He entered public service in 2012, serving in the Tennessee Senate before representing Tennessee's Seventh Congressional District in the United States House of Representatives from 2019 to 2025. As Chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security he worked at the centre of national debates over cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, supply chains, border security and strategic competition with China.

At Bifrost he connects decisions made in Washington with their consequences across compute, power, infrastructure, critical materials and capital markets: understanding the entire system, identifying where its constraints are moving, and investing where national priority becomes economic reality.

He has been active in hard assets since 1987, holding executive positions at several rare coin and precious metals companies before founding Hard Asset Management. The firm specialises in the procurement and placement of rare United States and world coinage for wealth preservation, and works on explicit recommendations of what to buy, when to buy it and when to sell. Its principals have transacted close to $500 million in rare coins and precious metals worldwide and participate actively at the major auction houses. In the late 1980s and 1990s Briggs was a substantial buyer of early Russian gold and platinum rouble coinage. He is a Life Member of the American Numismatic Association and the Florida United Numismatists.

He founded Briggs Digital Media in 2007 and filed the provisional application underlying the business in January 2008, almost three years before Instagram launched. The technology placed a working storefront inside the video player itself, allowing a viewer to buy without leaving what they were watching. The company was renamed Cinsay and later AiBUY, growing to more than 120 employees across Austin, Dallas and Los Angeles, and was named by Forbes to America's Most Promising Companies. The patent estate runs to 100 U.S. filings, 43 of them granted, across nine separate inventions.

Cinsay sued Brightcove, Joyus and Liveclicker for patent infringement in the Northern District of Texas in 2013, settling with Brightcove, then a publicly traded company, under a confidential patent licence the following year. Parallel families were published in China, Russia, Europe, Mexico and through the PCT system, including granted patents at both CNIPA and Rospatent, offices that treat business methods as unpatentable subject matter. A 2012 application describes two shoppers on separate devices sharing a single cart and a live chat window. The Smart Store™ technology detects the viewer's device, adjusts its rendering and geography, and copies itself across social networks while carrying affiliate attribution down the chain. An application filed in February 2014 claims a sensor that measures interest through eye movement without requiring a click, together with the use of a blockchain ledger for advertising attribution.

He hosts On the Record with Christian Briggs, which airs Wednesdays on America Out Loud Talk Radio and is carried on podcast networks worldwide. He has interviewed Senator Bill Hagerty of the Senate Banking Committee on central bank digital currency and Thomas Fuentes, former Assistant Director of the FBI, on global escalation, and appeared on a FreedomWorks panel in Washington with Congressman Mark Green and former Treasury Assistant Secretary Monica Crowley. His three-part policy series examines China's pressure on dollar hegemony through banking infrastructure, critical mineral supply and the mechanics of de-dollarization. He has also produced three feature films, as executive producer on The Acquirer and Dan's Detour of Life and as producer on One Nation Under God, and raced the Ferrari Challenge series to its North American championship in 2000.

At Bifrost he applies four decades of pricing scarce physical assets to the constraints beneath the artificial-intelligence buildout. The work is the same in structure: establishing what a limited supply is genuinely worth against the demand placed on it, identifying where that gap is widest, and holding a position until the market reprices it. He holds final portfolio authority and will invest his own capital alongside the firm's investors.

He writes the firm's work on physical supply and the constraints running underneath the buildout. Read his papers.

He served on the staff of Tennessee Governor Bill Lee as Senior Advisor and Director of Communications, a cabinet-level appointment, overseeing communications strategy for the governor and his administration across 23 cabinet departments. He was also a Senior Communications Advisor on Governor Lee's gubernatorial campaign, helping plan and execute its strategy, messaging and strategic communications.

A veteran of three presidential campaigns, most recently as a communications consultant and advisor during President Donald Trump's re-election and the Republican National Committee in 2020.

His experience also includes Tennessee SCORE, the non-partisan K–12 and higher education advocacy organisation founded by former U.S. Senator Bill Frist. He served as Press Secretary for U.S. Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina, and in the George W. Bush administration as a Public Affairs officer at the Department of the Treasury and as a Defense Fellow at the Department of Defense.

He began in public accounting in 1983 as a staff accountant at Dee, Gosling & Co. in Iowa City, working in audit and tax compliance, then moved to Candy & Schonwald in Dallas, where he rose from staff accountant to tax supervisor and tax manager, running the tax staff across a client base of small and mid-range retail, wholesale and medical businesses.

In 1993 he crossed into industry, spending a decade as Chief Financial Officer of a midsize Dallas hospitality company, responsible for year-end audits, investor reports, financial projections, operating budgets and securing capital financing, and closely involved in the operating business itself, from planning and construction to equipment purchases and the hiring and training of staff.

He returned to practice in 2002 as a partner at Lain, Faulkner & Co., where he spent ten years in forensic accounting: uncovering fraudulent transfers, tracing cash and assets, and searching for hidden assets on behalf of clients and bankruptcy trustees. He testified repeatedly as an expert witness in state and federal courts, including at the request of the Federal Bankruptcy Court. He was in-charge accountant for a multi-billion-dollar asbestos trust and lead accountant for the successful bankruptcy reorganisation of the NHL's Dallas Stars.

Since 2012 he has served as Chief Financial Officer of a family office controlling a limited partnership invested in real estate and hard assets, and as Chief Financial Officer, Secretary and Treasurer of a mid-size rare coin and precious metals company, alongside related business interests and non-profit entities, handling taxation, tax compliance, legal structure and banking and finance transactions.

He is a Certified Public Accountant and a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Texas Society of Certified Public Accountants, and graduated from Simpson College in Indianola, Iowa with a degree in accounting.