Kelly Smith is a Managing Director and head of the Government and Education segment for the Americas region at Moody’s Analytics.  She has been with Moody’s for 20 years in various sales management roles within the organization such as Senior Director of Credit Solutions and Senior Director of Relationship Management.  She started her career at Moody’s as part of the Structured Finance team.  Before joining Moody’s Analytics, Kelly worked at Thomson Financial and Bloomberg.

Mr. McCool is one of the top executives in the CIA’s prestigious Directorate of Analysis (formerly Directorate of Intelligence).  His service with the Agency spans 21 years and running.  From 1989 to 2000, Wayne served as a full time Naval Officer, graduating from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1993 with a Bachelors of Science, and later a Masters of Science from the University of Washington.   

Andrew Leach is a data strategist and technologist working at the intersection of national security, open-source intelligence, and commercial data. He advises U.S. government agencies on how to harness complex datasets to drive mission-critical insights and has led efforts to build interoperable data ecosystems for defense and intelligence operations.

Jamie Foss leads Data Provider Partnerships at Senzing, the first AI built specifically for Entity Resolution. In this role, he works with data providers to help make their datasets easier to integrate and operationalize in solutions supporting national security, compliance, and investigative missions—such as identifying foreign ownership, uncovering complex entity relationships, and improving risk visibility.

Jamie’s background spans technology, government, and defense. Prior to Senzing, he helped scale strategic partnerships at Couchbase (NASDAQ: BASE) in the lead-up to its IPO and began his private-sector career with workforce software leader UKG. He holds an MBA from the Georgia Institute of Technology and previously served as an officer in the U.S. Marine Corps.

 Dr. Rick Muller serves as the Director of the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA). As IARPA's sixth full-time director, he is responsible for implementing high-risk, high-payoff, technically viable research programs to address the Intelligence Community's most challenging intelligence gaps and provide our nation with an overwhelming intelligence advantage. Prior to joining IARPA, Dr. Muller was senior manager of Quantum and Advanced Microsystems at Sandia National Laboratories and led the Quantum Information Science program there. He also served as the director of the Department of Energy's (DOE) Quantum Systems Accelerator, one of the five centers DOE created under the National Quantum Initiative. From 2016 to 2017, Dr. Muller led the drive for advanced computational capabilities for national security as part of the Joint Program Office for the National Strategic Computing Initiative. Before taking on management roles, his research interests focused on developing computational methods to predict the behavior and applications of novel materials, molecules, and devices. Dr. Muller holds a bachelor's degree from Rice University and a doctorate from the California Institute of Technology in chemistry. Dr. Muller was raised outside of Chicago and enjoys baking bread, drinking coffee, and spending time with his wife Tess and their son Alex.

Josh Kerbel is a member of the research faculty at the National Intelligence University where he explores the increasingly complex security environment and the associated intelligence challenges. Prior to joining NIU, he held senior analytical positions at DIA, ODNI (including the NIC), the Navy staff, CIA, and ONI. His writings on the intersections of government (especially intelligence) and complexity have been published in Foreign Policy, The Washington Post, Studies in Intelligence, Slate, The National Interest, The Hill, War on the Rocks, Defense One, Parameters, and other outlets. Mr. Kerbel has degrees from the George Washington University and the London School of Economics as well as professional certifications from the Naval War College and the Naval Postgraduate School. More recently he was a post-graduate fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. 

Robert Sampson serves in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy (OSD Policy), as the Director for Global Threats in the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics and Stabilization Policy. In this position, he oversees the Global Threats team, which provides policy advice and oversight for DoD’s support of U.S. and international efforts to counter drug trafficking and transnational organized crime, to include illicit financial flows, illegal trade in natural resources and wildlife, weapons trafficking, maritime piracy, and other criminal activities.  Mr. Sampson also develops and coordinates policy guidance on DoD counter-threat finance priorities, requirements, resources and activities.  He represents the Department in a number of interagency fora related to transnational organized crime and threat finance issues.

Mr. Sampson previously served as the Deputy Director for Global Force Posture in the office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Plans, where he helped develop policies and priorities for DoD’s “forces, footprints, and agreements” and ran the Global Posture Executive Council.  Prior to joining the Plans office, Mr. Sampson spent 15 years working in the Nuclear and Missile Defense Policy office in OSD Policy, first as a contractor, then as a federal employee.  During his time in this office, he was the lead analyst and senior action officer responsible for U.S. nuclear weapons employment policy and plans.

Mr. Sampson holds a Bachelor of Arts (1995) in International Relations from the James Madison College at Michigan State University and a Master of Arts (1997) in Public Management from the School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland.  Mr. Sampson is also a Distinguished Graduate of the Eisenhower School (formerly Industrial College of the Armed Forces) at National Defense University, where he received a Master of Science in National Security and Resource Strategy in July 2015.

Stephen T. Maloney was appointed Executive Director (XD), National Targeting Center (NTC), for U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in March of 2024 and is a career member of the Senior Executive Service. As Executive Director, he leads over 800 personnel tasked to sustain the highest level of performance in targeting and counter network operations. The NTC is responsible for overseeing advanced targeting, research, analysis, and counter-network collaboration efforts with federal, state, local, and international partners, to obtain, operationalize, and act upon vital information to protect our nation against emerging threats.

Mr. Maloney oversees a diverse staff employing multi-layered, risk-based approaches to securing our Nation’s borders, to include collecting and analyzing advance traveler and cargo information, enhanced law enforcement technical collection capabilities and providing timely analysis of intelligence and data/information. XD Maloney directs and oversees NTC’s efforts at establishing liaisons, data, and intelligence-sharing relationships with federal, state, local, foreign, and private sector partners. Mr. Maloney and his NTC team are the leading edge in implementing intelligence and targeting capabilities that support CBP’s primary mission to secure America’s borders while facilitating legitimate trade and travel.

XD Maloney assumed command of the NTC after serving as Director, Field Operations (DFO) for the Baltimore Field Office (BFO) from 2021 to 2024. As DFO, he led over 1,000 employees across six states in the Mid-Atlantic region. The BFO has 26 ports of entry, including three major airports and thirteen seaports. Annually, the BFO processes the admission of more than 6 million international aviation and maritime passengers and crew and clears over $300 billion worth of commercial imports and exports.

Prior to the BFO, Mr. Maloney served as Director of CBP’s Field Transformation Team (FT2) for the Office of Field Operations (OFO) from 2019 to 2021. The FT2 enforcement strategy modernized the training, capabilities, and performance metrics of frontline officers conducting passenger and cargo inspections at our nation’s ports of entry.

XD Maloney served in various leadership positions, including as Director of the Counterterrorism Division at the NTC, Acting Port Director, CBP Area Port of New York/Newark; Acting Deputy Executive Director, Admissibility and Passenger Programs, OFO; Acting Assistant Port Director, Miami International Airport; and Supervisory Program Manager for Border Security at CBP’s Miami/Tampa Field Office. He has also represented CBP internationally as an instructor, team leader, and short-term advisor in Ghana, Morocco, Nigeria, and Israel.

XD Maloney began his career as an immigration inspector in Miami in 2002, where he served inspection duty in both the passenger and cargo environments.

XD Maloney has always had a keen interest in public service. Prior to joining CBP, he served as a high school teacher in Baltimore and in Hollywood, Florida. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology from Georgetown University and is a 2017 graduate of the CBP Leadership Institute. He and his wife of 25 years have two children.

Kelly Smith is a Managing Director and head of the Government and Education segment for the Americas region at Moody’s Analytics.  She has been with Moody’s for 20 years in various sales management roles within the organization such as Senior Director of Credit Solutions and Senior Director of Relationship Management.  She started her career at Moody’s as part of the Structured Finance team.  Before joining Moody’s Analytics, Kelly worked at Thomson Financial and Bloomberg.