Gerard P. Burke, Chairman, Board of Advisors

Gerard Burke, former Executive Director of the President’s Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, senior White House Staff adviser on foreign intelligence, and Assistant Director of the National Security Agency, served in the US and abroad for 25 years in a wide range of top posts in the American intelligence community.

After entering the private sector as an attorney, he soon returned to his first love and in 1984 established the Parvus Group, which quickly earned the reputation as one of the country’s foremost investigative and security consulting organizations. Its clients included many Fortune 500 companies, major law, banking, insurance, and financial services institutions. He went on to establish subsidiaries throughout Europe and Latin America and in 1992 founded the first major foreign-owned business intelligence firm in Russia, as well as Information Security International Inc. and Jerico Ltd. Parvus was merged with Armor Holdings in 1999.

More recently, Mr. Burke chaired the private-public sector Russian Organized Crime Task Force at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. He is a graduate of Holy Cross College and Georgetown University Law School and served on active duty in the Navy for five years.