Federal Bureau of Investigation

Brian Boetig served 24 years in the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the last ten in the Senior Executive Service (SES)*. These SES roles in the FBI include serving as the Assistant Director of the Weapons of Mass Destruction Directorate, responsible for strategic leadership of efforts to eliminate adversaries’ acquisition and use of chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear weapons worldwide. He was the Director of the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force, the U.S. government, multi-agency cyber center that has the primary responsibility to coordinate, integrate and share information to support cyber threat investigations and intelligence production for government decision-makers, critical infrastructure partners and private stakeholders in pursuit of counterintelligence defense, cyber risk mitigation and incident response. His senior field position was as the Special Agent in Charge of the Buffalo, NY Division.

Brian has the distinction of being the first FBI leader to serve in two SES Legal Attaché posts during his career. He was the Legal Attaché in Canada, with offices in Ottawa, Toronto and Vancouver, responsible for all FBI collaboration and capacity building with Canadian law enforcement and intelligence community partners. He also served as the Legal Attaché in the United Kingdom during a period (2015-2018) that experienced a spate of terrorist attacks, and the unprecedented use of a nerve agent in an assassination attempt of a former double agent. His Legal Attaché territory was also responsible for Ireland, where he assisted in a capacity building role with the Irish National Cyber Security Center. As a result of his international experience in the senior diplomatic positions, he has been requested to serve intermittently (2015-2022) as the Assistant Director of the FBI’s International Operations Division, leading personnel at the FBI’s 90+ offices around the globe and stationed at the U.S. military’s combatant commands domestically and overseas.

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He joined the FBI as a special agent in 1998 and was assigned to the Washington, DC Field Office where he deployed internationally to investigate murders and kidnappings of U.S. citizens overseas and served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. He was promoted to an instructor position at the FBI Academy where he taught leadership and communication skills and was the 2006 recipient of the University of Virginia’s Jefferson Award for his scholarly contributions to the prestigious FBI National Academy. He transferred to the San Francisco Division as the cyber program coordinator and led a robust cyber squad in the heart of Silicon Valley at the San José Resident Agency addressing cybercrime, intellectual property rights violations and national security cyber intrusions. He accepted a U.S. Intelligence Community Joint Duty Assignment as a senior liaison officer at the Central Intelligence Agency and directed interagency counterterrorism efforts. He was later promoted to Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the Oklahoma City Division and led the FBI’s national security and cyber programs throughout the state.

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Throughout his career, he has immersed himself in the leadership maturation of the workforce by spotting, developing and mentoring the next generation of leaders through formal mentoring programs and vibrant, peer-led leadership development networks.

* SES roles represent the top leadership in the FBI comprise less than 1% of the FBI's 36,000+ overall workforce.