Mark Woodward supports Gryphon as a Senior Advisor while continuing to serve as BIA’s Chief Operating Officer. Mark is focused on supporting Gryphon’s clients and new team throughout the integration of BIA’s Investment Intelligence group into Gryphon.
Mark’s career spans 35 years encompassing criminal justice research with the U.S. Department of Justice and the U.S. Sentencing Commission; clandestine HUMINT and counterterrorist operations in numerous high-risk environments worldwide; the physical, technical, and operational security of overt and covert facilities worldwide; the conduct of risk analyses and the largest insider threat investigation in its history to that point for the National Reconnaissance Office; and designing and providing risk management training for the U.S. Intelligence Community and military.
After serving as both a U.S. Government employee and contractor, Mark joined Business Intelligence Advisors where he first led the Firm’s Risk Management Group and then its Investment Intelligence Team. In the former role, he was responsible for the conduct of protective intelligence operations and augmented a client’s protective detail in sub-Saharan Africa as well as the conduct of risk analyses for Forbes 100 members, the protection of priceless works of art owned by clients, operational security of clients and family members, and similar. Subsequently, Mark built and led BIA’s HUMINT- and OSINT-focused Intelligence business line, applying the tradecraft he had learned throughout his prior career to complex intelligence collection operations for BIA’s hedge fund, private equity, and other investor clients. Mark was promoted to COO in October 2022
Mark received an M.A. in Political Science, specializing in International Relations and Latin American Studies, from U.C. Santa Barbara and a B.A. in Political Science from U.C. Riverside. Mark has lived and served in more than 25 countries worldwide.
Areas of Expertise: Primary Source Intelligence Collection; Complex Due Diligence Investigations; Security Risk Management; Operational Tradecraft; Counterterrorism; Training; Insider Threats; and Protective Intelligence.
