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Transition Tips Panel - Meet Panelist Michael Orlando

Meet our panelist Michael Orlando who will be sharing his insights during our discussion on September 27th, 2024. Register here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qzqk4kKlTfaVDatUgi9ZDg


More about Michael below.


Michael Orlando is the Senior Director of Global Physical Security, Internal Trust and Protection, and Threat Intelligence for Micron Technology. Michael is a member of Micron’s corporate security leadership team, leads global security operations and provides enterprise-wide strategic risk and security guidance.

 

From 2020 – 2023, he served as the Acting Director of the National Counterintelligence and Security Center (NCSC) and was the FBI's senior executive detailed to the Director of National Intelligence. In this role, he led counterintelligence for the U.S. government and led national-level programs for insider threat, supply chain risk management, and security. He also advised and oversaw counterintelligence and security consulting engagements with Fortune-ranked companies.


Prior to his detailed assignment to NCSC, Mr. Orlando served as a senior executive with the FBI working counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations. Mr. Orlando rose to the position of Deputy Assistant Director for the Counterterrorism Division. He also served as the acting head of counterterrorism and successfully managed several interagency crisis incident responses, including the attack at Pensacola Naval Air Station; Manda Airstrip, Kenya; as well as domestic terrorism attacks in Jersey City, NJ, and Monsey, NY.  Mr. Orlando joined the FBI in 2003 as an FBI Special Agent assigned to the Pittsburgh Division where he investigated counterintelligence matters. In his follow-on field assignment to the Washington Field Office, he worked on high priority counterintelligence special projects with multiple deployments to the People’s Republic of China. In 2009, Mr. Orlando was the program manager assigned to an FBI task force where he coordinated counterintelligence operations in the Western Pacific and East Asia and led an interagency and foreign partner effort to disrupt foreign influence in the region. In 2011, Mr. Orlando returned to the field and was assigned to the Honolulu Field Office where he oversaw the successful espionage investigation and conviction of a DoD contractor for passing national defense secrets to China. In 2013, Mr. Orlando served as the principal deputy for the East Asia Section in the Counterintelligence Division, and in 2017 he served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Washington Field Office, where he oversaw the successful disruption of Russian clandestine foreign agent Maria Butina. In 2018, he helped create the Counterterrorism Division’s Iran Threat Task Force. Mr. Orlando has received the FBI Director’s Award for Outstanding Counterintelligence Investigation and has been awarded three Director of National Intelligence awards for Counterintelligence Operations. A native of New York, Mr. Orlando received his bachelor’s degree in Economics and Management from the State University of New York at Cortland. In 2017, he attended Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business and earned a master’s in leadership. Prior to working for the FBI, he was an officer in the U.S. Army and was employed by the Central Intelligence Agency.

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