W. Michael Susong is a Senior Vice President for WorldAware®. One of the largest private risk intelligence companies in the world; spanning the globe with operations center in Singapore, London, Cape Town, and Annapolis, providing a full spectrum of security & risk consultancy to the largest, most complex corporations and organizations in the world. Mike has an unrivaled breadth of international experience as a senior intelligence professional across the United States government service and the private sector.
Mike was a Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) operations officer and awarded the CIA’s Intelligence Star for Heroism in the field.
Serving with distinction in the US Army Major Susong completed multiple combat tours around the global. As a Special Operations Force officer Mike was a special operations war planner and director of the US Department of Defense Information Warfare program at the United States Army J.F.Kennedy Special Warfare Center and School, Fort Bragg North Carolina.
He holds a master’s degree in Strategic Intelligence from the National Intelligence University, Washington DC with a specialization in irregular warfare.
In the private sector, Mike created competitive intelligence programs for Fujitsu Limited (Tokyo) and Ernst&Young LLP. He cofounded one of the first cyber intelligence company, iSIGHT Partners (acquired by FireEye). He went on to establish the industry’s first cyber threat intelligence programs at Pacific Gas and Electric Company in California, and at Visa Incorporated.
Mr. Susong is on the United States Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Intelligence University Foundation Board of Directors and the ASIS International™ Strategic Planning Commission, is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM™) and Certified Protection Professional (CPP™). Mike served on multiple professional boards, as Chairman of the Competitive Intelligence Council of The Conference Board™, and the Board of Directors of Strategic and Competitive Intelligence Professionals SCIP™.
