Mr. Owen currently serves as the Branch Chief for Operational Readiness at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA).  Mr. Owen took on the roll at CISA after working his way up in the commercial sector to Vice President of a national data center corporation.  Prior to that he served in the Foreign Service at the US Department of State as a Diplomatic Security Service Special Agent where he was a founding member of the Ben Franklin Network within the Department.  As an agent, Mr. Owen conducted federal investigations, ran high threat security operations in places that included Libya, Pakistan, Syria, Niger, Tunisia, Kenya, Iraq, and Afghanistan, and provided executive protection for the Secretary of State, foreign dignitaries, Congressmen, and the President of the United States.  Mr. Owen’s last role before leaving State was as a lead case agent at the Department’s Counterintelligence Desk.  Preceding his service in the Foreign Service, Mr. Owen was a lead associate at Booz Allen Hamilton where he built a global portfolio conducting advanced analytical studies that included capabilities analysis and development for the Marine Corps, Navy, SOCOM, DARPA, and the Intelligence Community.  His work yielded various new weapons systems, break throughs with defeating anti-armor weapons, autonomous technology, and reorganizations of the Marine Corps’ Scout Sniper and Recon communities.

Mr. Owen holds national certifications as a federal criminal investigator and numerous instructor-instructor certifications ranging from firearms range officer and counterterrorism driving to BATFE Post-Blast Analysis.  He is a combat veteran of the United States Marine Corps having served in Afghanistan and multiple tours in Iraq as an infantry officer and later in the Marine Corps Reserve as an intelligence officer.  Mr. Owen holds a master’s degree in Security Studies from Georgetown University’s School of Foreign Service with concentrations in counterinsurgency (COIN) and international security policy.  Through these academic disciplines, he has authored several articles and publications on the war in Afghanistan such as “#Fail: Why the US Lost the War in Afghanistan,” provided COIN classes to the US Army Special Forces, and participated in numerous panel discussions.  In addition, he is a corporate technology and innovation board member, inventor, and creator/patent holder for the Owen Trauma Bandage.