Our founder and Chief Intelligence Officer, Nikki Rutman, has over 20 years of intelligence experience in the public and private sectors. Much of her US Intelligence Community (USIC) experience was with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, where she built and grew intelligence programs as well as wrote and briefed intelligence products. She has previously worked for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence as an Adviser on Terrorism to a Mission Manager and as a counterintelligence analyst with the Defense Intelligence Agency.  She built the intelligence program at a pharmaceutical company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Nikki prides herself on providing intelligence management services and consultation to organizations in need.

She holds two Master of Arts degrees from the University of Connecticut (Political Science and Latin American Studies) and a Bachelor of Arts in Biology from the College of the Holy Cross.  She has served as adjunct faculty at Nichols College and Massachusetts Maritime Academy, where she taught courses on transnational organized crime, domestic violent extremism, and co-created an Intelligence Analysis for Professionals course. In addition to her role on the board of the FBI Association of Intelligence Analysts, she is also on the Nichols College Graduate School Advisory Board.