Eric Maddox

Eric attended the University of Oklahoma enlisted in the United States military in 1994, just months prior to graduation. Four weeks after graduation, Eric left for the U.S. Army as an infantry paratrooper for the 82nd Airborne Division where he became a jump master and entered Ranger School. After 3 years as a paratrooper with a Ranger tab, Eric reenlisted as an interrogator and Chinese Mandarin linguist. In 2003, 3 months after U.S. forces invaded Iraq, SSG Maddox received unexpected orders to report to the Baghdad International Airport. There he was assigned to a Delta Force Special Operations team in Tikrit. The team was a part of the Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) responsible for tracking down the most wanted men in the world, or the infamous Deck of Cards. During his 6 month tour with this Delta Force team, he conducted over 300 interrogations and collected the intelligence which directly led to the capture of Saddam Hussein. For his accomplishments, Eric was awarded the Legion of Merit, the National Intelligence Medal of Achievement, the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Director’s Award and the Bronze Star. Following the capture of Saddam Hussein, Eric was hired as the first civilian interrogator for the Defense Intelligence Agency where he continued to work with Joint Special Operations Command in tracking down the U.S. military’s most wanted radical extremists. Since 2003, Eric has conducted over 2,700 interrogations of prisoners from 25 different countries while deploying eight times including: 2 tours to Iraq, 3 tours to Afghanistan; and tours to The Philippines, Bosnia and Herzegovina as well as undisclosed locations in Eastern Europe. Eric served in the U.S. Army and the Defense Intelligence Agency for over 20 years before retiring in 2014. Maddox continues to help corporations, organization, universities, CEO’s, and audiences worldwide, in the art of questioning, negotiations, and information gathering, to use for their advantage.