Louis Tucker, Navy SEAL, CIA, Founder of the FINND

Louis B. Tucker is the CEO of Mission Sync, a national security sector consulting firm focusing on the intelligence and special operations communities. He serves on George Washington University’s Counterterrorism Task Force, on the advisory board of multiple technology companies and on the advisory board of Mission Link - an executive level forum designed to foster collaboration and innovation among CEOs, decision makers, critical thinkers and pacesetters from the most promising companies dedicated to the mission of defense, intelligence and national security. Within the federal government, Louis advises several intelligence/defense principals. From 2007 - early 2011 Louis served as the Republican Staff Director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence (SSCI). As staff director, he led a team of legal, policy and intelligence professionals overseeing the $80B+ operations of the Intelligence Community and crafting landmark legislation like the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Amendments Act of 2008. Louis is a Navy Reserve Sea, Air, Land (SEAL) Commander who mobilized on active duty from June-December 2009 at the request of General Stanley McChrystal to serve on his Strategic Advisory Group and in Ambassador Karl Eichenberry’s Interagency Provincial Affairs Office in Kabul, Afghanistan. Louis served from 1996-2003 on active duty as a Navy SEAL, from 2003-2004 as a Central Intelligence Agency officer overseas, and in 2005 as U.S. Senator Richard Shelby’s Chief of Staff on Capitol Hill. He graduated from Dartmouth College in 1995 with a B.A. in History and earned a Master’s of Science in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University in 2006. Louis learned the importance of timing when he formed an internet start-up company in 1995-6 and unsuccessfully tried to convince businesses that the Internet could be used to sell their products (most businesses caught on in 1997).