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Brian Boetig has 35 years of distinguished national security, public safety, corporate security, and consulting experience, including as an FBI Assistant Director, United States Diplomat, CIA Liaison Officer, state, municipal, and university police officer, partner with an international business advisory firm, and corporate security leader. He is the Principal Advisor at Global Trace, a bespoke advisory firm, advisor on business, product, and market strategy for several established and emerging companies, and board certified in security management.
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Principal Advisor
Global Trace is a bespoke advisory firm offering leadership and communications training, security advisory, independent investigations, and creative content development and expert analysis for broadcast and print news outlets.
Starbucks
Global Security & Resiliency
Drives crisis management and business continuity efforts across 20,000+ locations, protecting partner and customer safety while safeguarding supply chain, property, and brand integrity. [NYSE: SBUX, 2025 126 Ranking, US500]
Datum Point Services
Advisor
DPS provides expert life safety system services for system owners, evaluations and recommendations for M&A transactions, insurance underwriting, and litigation expertise.
Precision Cellular Analysis
Advisor
PCA specializes in the analysis of all cell phone records and by-products, expert witnesses, cell analysis training/certification and case consultation.
FTI Consulting
Senior Managing Director
As a member of a global team of dedicated business advisory and security experts, incident response consultants, developers and data scientists with extensive investigative backgrounds, he brought decades of experience at the highest levels of law enforcement, intelligence agencies, and global private-sector institutions. Brian tackled large-scale analytic challenges that require complex, customized technical solutions. As a result, organizations better understood their own environments, their cyber readiness and their incident response capabilities. FTI is a multinational business advisory firm, equipped to support all needs and challenges related to cybersecurity, such as global investigations, forensic accounting and technology, data and analytics, data privacy and protection, crisis management, strategic communications and anti-money laundering. [NYSE: FCN]
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Assistant Director
Special Agent in Charge
Legal Attaché | US Diplomat
NCIJTF Director
Liaison Officer at CIA
Supervisory Special Agent
FBI Academy Instructor
Special Agent
9/11 First Responder | Pentagon
Over the course of a twenty-four year career, he continuously rose through the ranks of the FBI serving in the most challenging and dynamic assignments across the globe. As a member of the Senior Executive Service, he served as the Assistant Director of the FBI National Security Branch's Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate and the International Operations Division, led the strategic expansion of the Presidentially-mandated National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force in Washington, DC, ran all FBI operations and community engagement in Western New York as the Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo Division and forged lasting international partnerships in diplomatic posts as the Legal Attaché for the FBI's most crucial and senior overseas assignments in the United Kingdom, Ireland, and Canada. Other supervisory roles included assignments as an award winning instructor at the prestigious FBI Academy, as a Senior Liaison Officer to the Central Intelligence Agency, a cyber crimes supervisor in the heart of Silicon Valley and as the second in command of the Oklahoma City Division. His Bureau adventure began in Washington, DC with an assignment to investigate crimes within the U.S. Government's extraterritorial jurisdiction (murder and kidnapping of US persons) outside of the U.S. borders and as a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force, where he was an initial responder to the 9/11 attack on the Pentagon, anthrax attacks, and the DC sniper incidents. Select international deployments as a member of the Rapid Deployment and Evidence Response Teams include as a forensic investigator in Kosovo assigned to the United Nations' War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Republic of Yugoslavia, assisting the Ghana Police Service with the investigation of serial killer responsible for the murder of 40+ women in the 1990s, and throughout Europe, Asia, and Brazil in furtherance of the US prosecution of a terrorist responsible for the 1982 bombing of Pan Flight 830.
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Special Agent
As a special agent with this premier state investigative agency, Brian's investigative curiosity, ability to communicate with people from all walks of life, and unwavering commitment to crime victims led to his receipt of the Optimists Club's Respect for Law Award in 1998. Assigned to the Statesboro, Georgia Field Office, he investigated major crimes ranging from murder and child abuse to political corruption and embezzlement. His success was directly attributable to his genuine collaborative efforts, always partnering with other law enforcement and social service agencies to address cases and share responsibility for the solutions. He also served in Atlanta on the State Olympic Law Enforcement Command and was a responder to the 1996 Olympic Park bombing.
City of Auburn Police
Police Officer
Brian's service as a patrolman with this progressive university city in Alabama left him with no mysteries about being a police officer. He experienced every imaginable aspect of uniform policing from traffic enforcement and preventative patrols to teamwork and community relations.
Auburn University Police
Auxiliary Police Officer
Getting his initial, first hand experience in the criminal justice field while earning his undergraduate degree, Brian began working parking enforcement and security patrols before being selected to serve as an auxiliary police officer. In this assignment, he provided security at some of the largest sporting events in the state as well as on patrol with other members of the force ensuring the university could offer its faculty, students and visitors the safest educational, research, and recreational environment in the least intrusive manner.
University of Alaska Fairbanks
Master of Arts
Administration of Justice
The UAF Justice Department Master's Degree in Justice Administration is focused on areas determined to be critical for the modern criminal justice administrator. The degree enhances the management skills of managers and administrators in justice agencies. He was the recipient of his second American Criminal Justice Association's Scholastic Honors Award for academic achievement in this program. He authored his thesis on an application of the Routine Activity Theory to develop preventative measures to protect children while online. The paper was formally presented in October 2007 in San Francisco at the national conference of the American Academy of Pediatrics.
Florida State University
Master of Science
Criminology
At FSU’s College of Criminology and Criminal Justice, the top priority is to turn out graduates who possess critical, independent thinking skills. He graduated from the top ranked program in 2004 and was a recipient of the American Criminal Justice Association's Scholastic Honors Award for his academic performance. His thesis, which was a qualitative comparison of terrorist organizations' structure, was later published on a secure law enforcement portal.
Auburn University
Bachelor of Science
Business Administration
Accounting
AU's highly acclaimed accountancy program is where he completed his undergraduate course work, setting the foundation for his aptitude for audit principles and controls, government procurement, financial management and fiscal responsibility.
National Executive Institute
The NEI is the FBI’s premier executive leadership training initiative. For more than three decades, NEI has provided leadership development for Bureau executives and for the heads of the largest law enforcement agencies in the U.S. and overseas. NEI is also a conduit for building domestic, international, governmental, and private sector relationships. NEI works collaboratively with the Major Cities Chiefs, the Major County Sheriffs Association, the NEI Associates, the FBI-Law Enforcement Executive Development Association and the National Academy Associates.
Senior Management Institute
for Police
SMIP is a program of the Police Executive Research Forum that provides senior police executives with intensive training in the latest management concepts and practices used in business and government, as well as discussions of the most challenging issues facing law enforcement executives today.
FBI National Academy
Instructor
University of Virginia
Adjunct Faculty
Brian served as an instructor in the world's most recognized law enforcement command college, the FBI NA. The FBI NA's courses are accredited by the UVA for both undergraduate and gradate credit, therefore, as an instructor at the FBI NA, he was also dually recognized as a UVA adjunct faculty member. He served on the curriculum committee, developed new undergraduate courses for the FBI NA to meet the needs of the executive participants and was the recipient of UVA's 2006 Jefferson Award for his research contributions to the FBI NA.
IN THE MEDIA
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AWARDS AND RECOGNTION
Federal Bureau of Investigation 9/11 Honoree Pin | 2023
Department of Justice Senior Executive Service Performance Award | 2012, 2013, 2016 thru 2021
Recognized by the Director General of the British Security Service (MI5) for contributions to US-UK intelligence liaison efforts | 2018
Recognized by Homeland Security Investigations Ottawa Attaché for partnership in national security efforts | 2021
Recognized by the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), FBI Cyber Division, Australian & British counterparts for dedication, vision and leadership of the NCIJTF | 2013
Recognized by the FBI Counterterrorism Division’s Communication Exploitation Section for exceptional service | 2010
Recognized by the FBI San Francisco Division and the Silicon Valley Regional Computer Forensics Laboratory for outstanding support and dedication to the cyber program | 2008
Recipient of Los Gatos Police Certificate of Excellence for professionalism and teamwork in the Mark Achilli homicide investigation | 2008
Recipient of the FBI Human Resources Division’s Award for Excellence for contributions in the development of the supervisory special agent GS-14/15 promotion training curriculum | 2008
Received the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Award to recognize outstanding academic research and contributions to the law enforcement community by an FBI National Academy faculty member | 2006
Recipient of eight FBI Director’s Citations:
- Support of the International War Crimes Tribunal for the Former Republic of Yugoslavia | 2 awards in 2000
- Capture of a serial rapist and murderer in Accra, Ghana at the request of the Ghana National Police | 2001
- Investigation of the 2001 Anthrax Hoaxes and the capture of Top Ten Fugitive | 2002
- Sustained performance on the FBI’s Evidence Response Team | 2002
- Investigative efforts as a member of the Joint Terrorism Task Force | 2002
- Prosecution of an international terrorist for the 1982 bombing of Pan American Airlines Flight 830 | 2003
- Outstanding supervisory performance of the Washington Field Office’s Joint Terrorism Task Force | 2004
Recipient of seven Superior Service Rendered to the FBI commendations | 2004 thru 2008
Rappahannock Area (Virginia) Knights of Columbus Promoting Religious Freedom commendation | 2006
Recipient of two American Criminal Justice Association’s Scholastic Honors Awards in recognition of outstanding scholastic achievement in the administration of criminal justice | 2004, 2007
Recognized by the FBI’s Joint Terrorism Task Force members for outstanding leadership as the supervisor of the task force | 2003
503d Military Police Battalion’s Certificate of Appreciation in support of Operation Noble Eagle - Force Protection Operations at the Pentagon | 2002
Commended by Ghana President John Kufor for exceptional assistance in the investigation and capture of a serial rapist and murderer responsible for over 30 deaths between 1998 and 2001 | 2001
Recognized by the FBI’s International Terrorism Extraterritorial Squad for dedication to the squad | 2001
Recipient of the Director of the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department’s International Criminal Investigation Division’s International Assistance Appreciation award | 2001
Recognized by the South African Police Service (SAPS) for outstanding presentation of an Evidence Collection and Preservation course at the SAPS Detective Academy in Pretoria, SA | 2001
Federal Bar Association - District of Columbia Chapter’s Award for Outstanding Law Enforcement Service Above and Beyond the Call of Duty | 2000
Optimist Club of Statesboro, Georgia’s Respect For Law commendation | 1998
Georgia Secretary of State’s Certificate of Appreciation for service at the Olympic Games in Atlanta | 1996
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