John McConnell

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Mr. Mike McConnell serves as Advisor at 1Kosmos. He serves as Board Member at Two Six Technologies. He was a Senior Executive Advisor and Vice Chairman of Booz Allen Hamilton. He was chosen by President Obama to serve on the President's Intelligence Advisory Board to continue his service to the U.S. Government in the areas of national security and international issues following his service from 2007-2009 as U.S. Director of National Intelligence (DNI), a position of Cabinet rank under Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama. As DNI, Mr. McConnell served as the principal intelligence advisor to the President and as a member of the U.S. National Security Council. Mr. McConnell's career has spanned over 40 years focusing on international developments and foreign intelligence issues, first as a career intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, as the Senior Intelligence Officer on the Joint Chiefs of Staff, as Director of the National Security Agency and later as Senior Vice President with Booz Allen Hamilton after retiring from the U.S. Navy as Vice Admiral after 29 years of service. Over the past few years, Mr. McConnell's area of focus has been counter-terrorism, cyber security, counter-proliferation and foreign intelligence. While managing the U.S. Intelligence Community, an organization of 100,000 people, he had responsibility for a global enterprise and a budget of over $47B. In this capacity, Mr. McConnell had extensive interactions with the White House, the President's Cabinet, the Congress, International Leaders and the U.S. Business Community. Serving first under President George H. W. Bush and later President Clinton, Mr. McConnell served as Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) from 1992-1996. He led NSA as it adapted to the multi-polar threats brought about by the end of the Cold War. Under his leadership, NSA routinely provided global Intelligence and Information Security Services to the White House, Cabinet officials and Congress in addition to a broad array of military and civil intelligence customers.