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Our Team

We support clients with our diverse people who…

• Create the art and the science in their field
• Have advanced degrees and many years of industry experience
• Collaborate as a virtual company to quickly and flexibly meet client needs
• Value information, ideas and innovative methods from non-traditional sources
• Continue to learn and develop their craft through training and writing programs

Meet Our Management Team:

Kevin O'Connell, Owner, President and CEO
Kevin O'Connell has over 26 years of experience in topics such as national security decision-making, intelligence and intelligence policy issues, and the policy, security and market issues related to commercial remote sensing.

O'Connell has served on a number of senior government panels, including the DHS Information Policy Board and a DARPA-NGA panel. He is the former chairman of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's Federal Advisory Committee on Commercial Remote Sensing and was the staff director of the Independent Commission on the National Imagery and Mapping Agency. O'Connell also served as the founder and the first director of RAND's Intelligence Policy Center during almost a decade at RAND.

O'Connell previously served in the Department of Defense, the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research, the White House Situation Room, the National Security Council, as a special assistant to the vice president for National Security Affairs and on the community management staff of the Director of Central Intelligence.

O'Connell received a bachelor’s in international studies from the Ohio State University, graduate training in national security studies at The George Washington University and a master’s in public policy from the University of Maryland. He is an associate professor at Georgetown University and is published in a variety of journals.  He is the winner of the IBM Center for Business of Government Fellowship for a forthcoming monograph entitled: “Recasting Open Source Within U.S. Intelligence.”

 

John E. Brennan, V.P. for Operations
John Brennan has over 10 years experience in consulting and operations.

Prior to joining Innovative Analytics, Brennan was an executive in Booz Allen Hamilton’s intelligence and national security teams. There, he supported intelligence community senior executives with the planning and implementation of new collection and analysis programs. He previously worked as a strategy consultant to the professional publishing industry, where he provided strategic planning, product planning, and knowledge management services. Brennan was also an infantry officer in the U.S. Army.

Brennan received a bachelor’s in American legal studies from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, graduate training in international relations at American University’s School of International Service and a master’s in business administration from Johns Hopkins University’s Carey Business School.  His article "The Case for a National Intelligence Exercise Center" appeared in the ISR Journal and the Training and Simulation Journal.

Kate Massey, Director of Contracts and Operations
Kate Massey has over 18 years of experience in market research, grants and contracts management, subcontract development and international development fundraising.

Before joining Innovative Analytics, she supported USAID government contractors and nonprofit organizations through grants and contracts management consulting and private foundation fundraising. Massey supported the U.S. Department of State as a grants officer and contracts specialist after serving as grants and contracts director to a nonprofit public policy research organization. She has worked for several defense contractors as a management consultant providing federal procurement oversight support to the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.

Massey holds a bachelor’s in international studies and French, a master’s in international business and a procurement and grants management certificate.

 

Mary Clare Muhl, Director of Human Resources
Mary Clare Muhl has over 10 years of experience designing, delivering and evaluating customized human resource programs within defense contracting, intelligence and consulting environments.  

Before joining Innovative Analytics, she was the human resource manager for SRA International’s Adroit C4ISR Center where she had direct responsibility for all human resource functions including recruitment and retention, performance planning, training and development, compensation, employee relations, benefits administration and compliance reporting.  Previously, she worked as a human resource management consultant with PriceWaterhouseCoopers where she participated in several international recruitment and redeployment efforts. 

Muhl received a bachelor’s degree in clinical psychology from Colgate University and is certified as a Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) through the Society for Human Resource Management.

 

Kevin O'Brien, Senior Advisor
Kevin O’Brien, a leading authority on state and sub-state intelligence and security practices, has worked extensively for the last fifteen years as an advisor to governments on public security and intelligence matters.

Since 2003, he has been a leading advisor to the governments and critical infrastructures of the United States, U.K., Canada and Australia on improving protective and preventive security practices to counterterrorist and insurgent attack planning.  Most recently, he served as a senior advisor to the Australian government on aviation security and critical infrastructure protection, and to the British government on analytic transformation, counterterrorism intelligence and counter-radicalization.  Additionally, he served as an advisor to the U.K. and Canadian governments on the privatization of security.  O'Brien is the author of more than forty academic monographs, articles and chapters including most recently “The Changing Security and Intelligence Landscape in the 21st Century.”  In 2010, his books “The Terrorist Craft of Intelligence” and “The South African Intelligence Service: From Apartheid to Democracy” will be published.  

O’Brien studied at York University, Canada and received his doctorate in international politics (security studies) from the University of Hull, U.K.

 

Richard J. (Rick) Raftery, Executive Vice President
Rick Raftery has over 30 years of experience in intelligence, operations, planning, training and analysis from the national to the tactical level. 

Before joining Innovative Analytics, Raftery held a number of senior industry positions.  He was most recently vice president for operations for Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC).  Previously, he spent six years with SRA International Inc. as senior principal and the director of Defense and Space Intelligence Programs where he was responsible for business development, employee relations and financial management.

In addition to holding leadership roles supporting the White House and the Office of the Secretary of Defense, he provided guidance and advice on matters related to national and defense intelligence policy, plans and programs, as well as law enforcement intelligence, where he assisted in the integration of federal, state and local law enforcement requirements into the national intelligence apparatus.  A retired U.S. Marine Corps intelligence officer, he has extensive experience supporting contingency and combat operations with high quality intelligence analysis and policy development.

 

Clint Watts, Managing Director
Clint Watts has 14 years of experience serving military, law enforcement and private sector organizations around the country.

Before joining Innovative Analytics, he was a consultant at PJ Sage Inc. where he conducted training and research programs for both the military and law enforcement. After Watts spent more than seven years in the U.S. Army as an infantry officer, he served as a FBI special agent on the Portland, Oregon Joint Terrorism Task Force. Following his time with the FBI, he served as the executive officer for the Combating Terrorism Center at West Point (CTC). In addition to teaching cadets while at CTC, he designed counter terrorism curricula for the FBI-CTC Collaborative and provided training for the FBI Joint Terrorism Task Forces and the FBI Academy.  He also conducted primary research on al-Qa’ida’s internal documents captured on the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq for the CTC Harmony Project.

Watts holds a bachelor’s in political science from the U.S. Military Academy and a master’s in international policy studies from Monterey Institute of International Studies.

 

Robert Allen Weber, Senior Research Analyst
Robert Weber is a former intelligence community executive with 35 years of experience as an analyst, staff officer, manager and negotiator of foreign agreements.  

Weber is an expert in the use of commercial and classified satellite imagery to achieve U.S. intelligence, defense and policy goals.  He began work in 1975 as an imagery analyst at the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).  After 25 years with the CIA, he spent ten years at the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.  Some of his accomplishments include advancing geospatial intelligence cooperation with key U.S. allies, and forging geospatial intelligence classification, control and sharing policies such as national rules that govern use of commercial imagery.

Weber has a bachelor’s degree in geography from the University of Minnesota and a master’s degree in government from Georgetown University.  In 2007, he received the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, the U.S. Intelligence Community’s highest award.

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