Roniel Aledo

Expertise

Senior Intelligence Analyst and Advisor, International business development; counterintelligence; counterterrorism; military planning.

Bio

Roniel serves as Senior Intelligence Advisor to Future Space, a Big Data Corporation in Madrid, where he advises on intelligence and defense, liaises with large corporations and government clients, leads the economic intelligence unit, and develops tools for corporative intelligence. Also, he served as a Senior Intelligence Advisor to the Afghan National Police, in the NATO Mission in Afghanistan. His focus is counterinsurgency, counterterrorism, trends and strategic level analysis.

From 2011-14, he worked as a Policy and Intelligence Analyst-Operations Officer at the Department of Defense, where he participated in military detainee review processes and represented the Pentagon policy positions during contacts with Congressional staff, and the National Security Staff. From 2009-11, Roniel served as Senior and Supervisory program manager coordinating a major Department of Homeland Security strategy and plan in order to secure Mexico’s southern border with Guatemala and Belize. He coordinated many intelligence and Law Enforcement initiatives with the Mexican Government to include the Mexican Federal Police and the main intelligence agency, CISEN.

From 2007-09, Roniel worked as a Senior Counterintelligence Analyst (ctr) at the Defense Intelligence Agency where he wrote intelligence products for the White House Intelligence Committee and U.S Congress. Previously, he worked as an Intelligence Analyst (ctr) for both the Central Intelligence Agency and the Department of Defense, and as an Investigator for the FBI.

From 2001-04, he served as a Captain in the US Army, being a key member at Tactical Operations Center and CORPS level staff member during IRAQUI FREEDOM operation. He wrote the cultural and political guide for Iraq formerly in use by the US Army in Baghdad and served as resident expert and advisor in international affairs, Middle Eastern and Latin American politics. As a Captain in the US Army, he acted as Deputy Chief Logistics in the U.S Embassy in Bogotá, Colombia and as Counter Terrorism Officer in Germany, where he wrote the force protection and counterterrorism plan and managed the security.

Roniel holds a MA in International Relations from the University of Oklahoma and a BA in Political Science from the University of Puerto Rico. He speaks Spanish, German, Italian and Portuguese.