Rodney Faraon Email & Phone Number

Washington Dc-Baltimore Area

I lead teams that deliver expert-level advice to clients on geopolitical risk, strategic planning, and on designing and building corporate intelligence programs.My work has been instrumental in helping CEOs and senior executives make better decisions, faster and with more confidence.Selected accomplishments include:• Designing and optimizing the intelligence function of a multibillion dollar global energy company to better align with business objectives. The function now reports directly to the CEO.- Assessing and advising a worldwide commodities firm on how to navigate Chinese Government opposition to an M&A transaction that potentially harmed Chinese national security interests.- Helped protect the business interests of a major entertainment company in the midst of its acquisition by an international partner.- Provided decisive, real-time advice to a client negotiating a multi-million dollar deal with a foreign interlocutor.

Washington, District Of Columbia, United States

The Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP) is a non-partisan, non-profit initiative with a clear mission: to make recommendations to strengthen America’s long-term competitiveness as artificial intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies reshape our national security, economy, and society. We want to ensure that America is positioned and organized to win the techno-economic competition between now and 2030, the critical window for shaping the future.https://www.scsp.ai

Austin, Texas, United States

- Crumpton Ventures seeks technology investments with applications in the defense, intelligence, and commercial sectors. We invest at venture or series A levels.- In this role I assess the viability of new technologies, quality of company leadership, and use-cases for products and services.Some selected accomplishments from this role include:• Helped in raising $100 million in capital from various sources.• Our first investment received a 4X return by incubating then selling a cybersecurity firm to a Fortune Global 500 strategy, services, and consulting corporation.

Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Washington D.C. Metro Area

- Founded a company to create and incubate stories on national security and intelligence issues for TV/film adaptation.- On first effort, executive produced a television show that was bought and aired on primetime by a one of the big four broadcast networks and studios.- Established first-look deal with mid-major film studio- Developed close working relationships with the top talent agencies in Hollywood

Arlington, Virginia, United States

I founded Crumpton Group LLC's business intelligence practice, the core of our consulting business, and innovating new methods of producing effective advice for Fortune 500 companies. We merged to create Martin+Crumpton Group in 2020.

Our first ever idea, STATE OF AFFAIRS, became a major prime time television show for NBCUniversal. -The main characters portrayed roles and experiences I had during my 15 years of service with the Central Intelligence Agency.- I conceived the idea for the show and helped attract big league talent including Emmy winners Katherine Heigl, Alfre Woodard, and Courtney Vance.- I advised the writers room on plot and story arc, to increase authenticity and verisimilitude.- I advised set designers, scouts, and other production staff to make the look and feel of the show more genuine than other fictional spy shows.- Was on set and on location whenever possible, to provide real-time consulting to directors and actors. - We achieved average Nielsen ratings of 1.7, equivalent to 7 million viewers per week, for our 13-episode limited series run.

Burbank, Ca

- I founded an innovative program to collect and analyze intelligence in support of global security operations for The Walt Disney Company.- I transformed and diversified the program to go beyond security to produce intelligence on political risk and other issues that assisted the company profit centers in expanding globally.- I developed close relationships with US and foreign intelligence services and law enforcement organizations, to ensure the exchange of relevant intelligence and obtain cooperation on security operations.- Founded an organization that brought together similar intelligence teams from other Fortune 500 companies to discuss solutions to common challenges, exchange geopolitical intelligence, and set standards and ethics for private sector intelligence.

Langley, Va

- I served the nation as an expert-level intelligence analyst, focusing primarily on China issues.- In addition, I served overseas in an East Asian station for three years, collecting intelligence, assessing it in near real time, liaising with foreign intelligence services, and building a counterterrorism capability.- I was a briefer on the President's Daily Briefing teams for Clinton and Bush (43), where I had global remit.- I coordinated and drafted three annual worldwide threat testimonies, delivered by the CIA director to Congress; this was our most public flagship intelligence report that integrated expertise from all over the intelligence community- I led a team of analysts that assessed relations between China and Taiwan and the implications for US policy.- I was deputy director and lead analyst of a DCI task force to analyze allegations of interference in US elections by a foreign power in the mid 1990s.