Sean Roche

Mr. Roche was the Associate Deputy Director of CIA for Digital Innovation serving as the second-in-command of CIA’s first new directorate in more than 50 years. The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) was created to accelerate the integration of advanced digital capability across all of CIA’s mission areas and is responsible for a wide range of espionage missions including cyber intelligence, open source collection, secure global communications, worldwide mission information systems, data curation, and data science. He successfully built the annual budget to more than $3B while overhauling the legacy personnel systems and practices to create CIA’s first digital workforce. Prior to this position, Mr. Roche served as the ADD of CIA for Science and Technology. During his career within the S&T Directorate he had held senior executive roles across a wide range of missions, technical disciplines, and tradecraft, ranging from research and development to clandestine operations. He led teams that developed, del