Biography

Eliot Pence is a builder of frontier defense and industrial companies. He is the founder of Dominion Dynamics, a defense product company working to establish sovereign capability in aerospace, autonomy, and command-and-control, and serves as a board director of Xanadu (XNDU), a leading quantum company. From 2018 to 2022, Eliot led global growth at Anduril Industries, joining as one of the company’s earliest business development hires and playing a central role in building it into one of America’s most consequential defense technology companies. He later served as Chief Business Officer at Osmo and Cambium Biomaterials, where he led government and enterprise go-to-market efforts to translate frontier R&D into deployable platforms. Previously, he was a Senior Director at McLarty Associates, the Washington, DC-based advisory firm. In 2026, Eliot was appointed to Prime Minister Mark Carney's Advisory Committee on Canada-U.S. Economic Relations. Eliot is a graduate of the University of Victoria and Yale.