Brian Bulatao

Brian Bulatao
Personal details
Born (1964-09-30) September 30, 1964[1]
Political party Republican
Education United States Military Academy (BS)
Harvard University (MBA)

Brian Joseph Bulatao[2] is an American businessman and government official. In 2017 he was named as Chief Operation Officer of the Central Intelligence Agency by then-agency director Mike Pompeo.[3] In June 2018, Bulatao was nominated to be Under Secretary of State for Management by President Donald Trump.[4]

Biography

Bulatao graduated in 1986 from the United States Military Academy at West Point,[2] serving as an Army Ranger. Later he earned an MBA from Harvard Business School.

In 1998 he was one of the founders of Thayer Aerospace together with a number of other West Point graduates. Among them was his former class mate Mike Pompeo. While two of the other founders left the company a short time later, Bulatao and Pompeo went on until 2006.

Bulatao later joined Chick Paging Inc. as its CEO, and after the company's acquisition by Nefab A/B in 2010 he became Executive Vice President, leading the combined operations in North and South America. Later he went into private equity, finally as a senior adviser at Highlander Partners, L.P., a Dallas-based investment firm that claims more than $1 billion in assets under management.

In 2017 when Pompeo became Director of the CIA, he named Bulatao as Chief Operation Officer, a position that earlier was named Executive Director. In this position his priorities are the streamlining of the hiring process, taking a systematic look at the alignment of strategy, staffing, funding, and other resources; making CIA’s contracting process more effective and efficient; ensuring that the Agency as a whole is positioned to invest in and lead in cutting-edge technologies; and finding innovative ways to protect CIA officers’ identities and operations in the digital age.

In July 2018 Bulatao was nominated for the position of Under Secretary of State for Management as successor to William E. Todd.

References

  1. ↑ 40 Under 40 — Brian Bulatao
  2. 1 2 "Brian Joseph Bulatao". West Point Association of Graduates. Retrieved 2018-06-19.
  3. ↑ "CIA's New "Mayor" Comes From Finance Firm, Not Intelligence World". NBC News. Retrieved 2018-03-15.
  4. ↑ "Seventeen Nominations and One Withdrawal Sent to the Senate Today". The White House. 18 June 2018. Retrieved 2018-06-19.

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