Intelligence & Investigations

As a certified Case Officer, one of the few Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) civilians to be trained at CIA’s iconic training facility, Shawnee spent nearly a decade with the DIA conducting clandestine Human Intelligence (HUMINT) operations all over the world. She served as a Supervisory Branch Chief supporting EUCOM, CENTCOM, PACOM and AFRICOM requirements. Shawnee has truly global experience as a human intelligence officer operating in Africa, Asia, Southeast Asia, the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, and the U.S.. She served four combat zone tours in Iraq and Afghanistan as a Case Officer and Detachment Chief. She additionally worked for the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) coordinating and managing intelligence community relationships and partnerships in the protection of U.S. critical infrastructure and industrial control systems for the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT).
In Shawnee's ten-plus years in the private sector, she helped create a robust Insider Threat program for a major pharmaceutical company and spent several years building the first Insider Threat program for a prominent Silicon Valley tech company. Shawnee has led complex corporate investigations all over the globe involving fraud, platform abuse, internal data access abuse, counter intelligence, data exfiltration, and attribution of unauthorized disclosures. She holds an A.A. in Intelligence Operations, B.A. in Political Science, M.A. in International Policy Studies with a Specialization in Counter Terrorism and Counter Proliferation, and a M.S. in Cyber Security.

Daniel Hoffman had a distinguished career with the Central Intelligence Agency, where he was a three- time station chief and a senior executive Clandestine Services officer.
Hoffman also led large-scale HUMINT (human intelligence gathering) and technical programs and his assignments included tours of duty in the former Soviet Union, Europe, and war zones in the Middle East and South Asia. In addition, Hoffman served as director of the CIA Middle East and North Africa Division. He specialized in counterintelligence, cyber and counterterrorism operations.
During his 30 years of government service, Hoffman also served with the U.S. military including as an associate professor at the Army Command General Staff College.
Hoffman graduated from Bates College with a B.A. in History. He has a Master of Science from the London School of Economics and a Master of Public Administration from Harvard's Kennedy School of Government (2006).

Rainer Saks has worked for more than 30 years in various government offices shaping Estonia's security and foreign policy. He has played a key role in building and managing these institutions. During these years, he has been the Secretary General of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, he also headed the Estonian Foreign Intelligence Service, he was the head of the office of the President of Estonia. He was also the National Security Coordinator of the Government office.

Krister Salomonsson has served in the Swedish police in various positions for over 30 years. Among other things, in Swedish National Police, intelligence, investigation, border policing and management units. Also served as Nordic Police Liaison Officer in Estonia. He was Vice President at EU migration working group in Brussels. Member of the first reaction team at Tsunami, Thailand.
He has served at the intelligence desk of the European Union police mission in the Balkan countries. Former Police attaché on illegal migration at the Swedish Consulate in Istanbul in 2015. He has served at OSCE HQ as Police expert on police reforms at SPMU (Special Police Matters Unit).
Later, Krister worked as a contractor for the Swedish police at National Operation Department, National Corruption Group, as civilian investigator.

Bruce P. Jackson served in the United States Army as a Military Intelligence Officer. He served in the Office of the Secretary of Defense in a variety of policy positions pertaining to nuclear forces and arms control. Upon leaving the Department of Defense Jackson joined Lehman Brothers, an investment bank in New York, where he was a strategist in the firm's proprietary trading operations. Later Jackson was Vice President for Strategy and Planning at Lockheed Martin Corporation. Bruce Jackson was also the President of the US Committee on NATO to promote the expansion of NATO and the strengthening of ties between the United States and Europe. He has been recognized for his work on democratic change and European integration by the Governments of Poland,the CzechRepublic, Hungary, Slovakia, Romania, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia.

Mr Sten Reimann has had a 30-year career in the international defense sector. He has served as the Former Estonian Contingent Commander in Iraq and Afghanistan, as well as the Chief of Operations in the HQ of EDF. Additionally, he held the position of Commander of the Defense Intelligence Center and Chief of the Operations Division at HQ Estonian Defense Forces. In these roles, he was responsible for operational planning, command, and coordination of defense units on national and international levels (NATO, EU, UN, Bilateral). He has also worked as a member of the Government Crisis Committee and served as a security advisor to the government and parliament. Moreover, he served as the commander of the Military Intelligence Center, where he played a crucial role in intelligence collection, fusion, and dissemination for senior leaders. He was in charge of the development of special operations capabilities and actively involved in the decision support process at the government and international levels (NATO, EU). He has been involved in unmanned technology and cyber security industry for 10 years and has been active in the Ukraine defense industry sector since 2014.