Theresa Campobasso

"My IC dreams started my freshman year of high school when I got to take a school trip to East Asia. I was fascinated with the region’s history and culture and knew I wanted to learn more about that part of the world. Years later when I met with a representative from Marine Corps Intelligence Activity (MCIA) during my junior year of college, I decided to apply and was lucky enough to spend a summer in Quantico working on intelligence analysis on Asia-Pacific issues...Once I graduated, I commissioned as an Intelligence Officer in the Marine Corps, and went to spend three years on mainland Japan.

"After leaving active duty, I stayed in the IC as a contract employee at DIA while I completed my graduate degree...I worked as an analyst on the China team for Research, Development, and Acquisition counterintelligence, a counterespionage embedded agent for Asia-Pacific, and the lead analyst for the Acquisition Risk Task Force focused on protecting technology acquisitions as part of supply chain risk management.

"After finishing grad school in 2017, I started work with the KPMG federal practice to continue to help defense and IC clients, particularly around supply chain security and predictive analytics."

"The best thing about my job is that I can be involved with different intelligence missions and organizations all within the same day.  My day to day responsibilities are helping IC clients make better trust determinations when it comes to entities, people, or products, so the range of activities under that heading is pretty broad. I might be demonstrating new technology solutions to one organization around supply chain security in the morning, and reviewing requirements around personnel security or insider threat with another organization in the afternoon."

Favorite Book: Billion Dollar Whale by Bradley Hope and Tom Wright