Ronald A. Marks

Ronald Anthony Marks FRSA is a former senior Central Intelligence Agency official and Capitol Hill Staffer.

[5] During that time he occupied a number of increasingly senior positions including serving as Senate Liaison for 5 Directors of Central Intelligence.

[6] Since leaving government in 1999, Mr. Marks has been a senior executive and owner in several Defense and Intelligence industry companies focused on managed IT services, software, and open source analysis.

[7] From 2005–10, Marks served as Senior Vice President and Director of Washington, D.C. operations for Oxford Analytica, a leading international risk analysis firm focused on geopolitics and economics, based in Oxford, U.K.[8][9] In 2011, Marks was appointed and served for three years as Director of Battelle Memorial Institute's Cyber Doctrine Program.

He led a series of seminars and produced papers focused on deriving a United States Government Cyber Doctrine that applied to its both domestically and internationally recognizing there is no true separation between the two in the 21st century.

[17] Since 1999, Marks has also been a Senior Steering Committee member of the Center for Strategic and International Studies Transnational Threats Project.

[28] And in 2008, he testified as an expert witness before the Senate Government Affairs and Homeland Security Committee on needed reform of the Intelligence Community structure and purpose.

[29][30] In addition to op-ed contributions to newspapers and on-line blogs such as The Hill,[31] War on the Rocks[32] and Cipher Brief,[33] Marks has been a featured commentator on intelligence and cyber related issues on CNN, Fox News Channel, MSNBC, E.W.