JOSEPH L CHAVES

Strategic intelligence leader with 20+ years in OSINT, risk mitigation, and threat assessment. Skilled in integrating intelligence into decision-making, enhancing security operations, and driving digital transformation. Adept at cross-functional collaboration to align intelligence strategies with business goals, improving community engagement and operational effectiveness.

• Intelligence Leadership, Led teams of up to 18 intelligence professionals conducting predictive threat analysis for high-visibility global operations. Created procedures to fuse OSINT, social media, and other intelligence, reducing risk across 100+ operations - from executive travel to hostage rescue missions. Briefed executives to drive informed, data-backed decisions.
• Risk Mitigation, Developed a risk assessment framework for high-exposure strategic intelligence activities to standardize how threats were measured, analyzed, and communicated to senior leadership. Reduced organizational vulnerabilities by increasing accuracy and consistency of risk assessments leading to the approval of numerous high-risk, politically sensitive missions.
• Crisis Management & Incident Response, Maintained 24/7 crisis response readiness, ensuring special operation elements had real-time access to NSA decision-makers during critical operations. Led a team providing continuous intelligence support, delivering immediate threat intelligence that enabled tactical adaptation in five nationally directed crisis response operations.
• Executive Stakeholder Engagement, Routinely briefed high-level executives to include Deputy Ambassadors, Foreign Intelligence Executives, and multi-star General Officers to educate them on geopolitical risk, prepare them for risk decisions, and gain support for sensitive intelligence operations.

Strategic Planning Professional, International Association of Strategic Planners