Robert D. Rodriguez is the Chairman and Founder of the Security Innovation Network (SINET) www.security-innovation.org The mission of SINET is to enable innovation and collaboration between public and private entities to defeat global cyber security threats, promote small business growth, innovation and enhanced awareness of available technologies into the Federal Government and industry cyber security critical infrastructures. SINET is supported by the Department of Homeland Security - Science & Technology and corporate and public sponsorships.  Mr. Rodriguez retired after twenty-two years as a Special Agent with the United States Secret Service. His executive protection experience spanned 11 years at the White House serving Presidents Ronald W. Reagan, George H. Bush, William J. Clinton, George W. Bush, Vice President Dan Quayle and numerous Heads of State.

For the last two and a half years of his career Mr. Rodriguez managed Secret Service operations for the Northern District of California and spearheaded the development of the Secret Service’s first public-private partnership cyber initiative in the Bay Area. Since 2005 he has been coordinating the public private partnership outreach for the DHS SRI International Cyber Security R & D Center and is an advisor to Stanford University CS Department and TRUST, a NSF trusted computing grant program that includes seven of our nation’s top universities. Mr. Rodriguez served on an Advisory Board that helped design a public private construct relative to cyber security for the United States Air Force.

As an advisor to these programs Mr. Rodriguez brings together representatives from disparate groups (academia, science, private industry, investment banking, government, system integrators, intelligence communities, entrepreneurs, policy makers, innovators, DoD, law enforcement and venture capital) to collaborate on IT security challenges and needs. He presently serves on the Board of Directors for the San Francisco Emerald Bowl and is a certified graduate of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service Program.