Robert Wallace
Robert Wallace founded Artemus Consulting Group in 2004 following combat service in Vietnam and a thirty-three year career with the Central Intelligence Agency. His assignments including field case officer, chief of station and senior executive in two directorates. He is a dynamic public speaker and co-author of five books on intelligence including Spycraft: The Secret History of the CIA’s Spytechs from Communism to Al-Qaeda and The Official CIA Manual of Trickery and Deception. Wallace has appeared on all major broadcast networks, Discovery Channel, and streaming platforms. He is co-executive producer of SPYCRAFT, an eight episode Netflix documentary on espionage tradecraft.
Charles J. (Chuck) Miller, Jr.
Served 28 years in the Central Intelligence Agency and National Reconnaissance Office (NRO). At CIA, Mr.Miller’s assignments included Technical Operations Officer, Program Manager, Systems Engineer and Technical Counterintelligence Officer. At the NRO, he served as Mission Director, Project Manager and Senior Systems Engineer. Upon retirement, Mr. Miller was awarded the CIA Career Intelligence Medal and the NRO Silver Medal for Achievement. He then supported National Security Programs through TASC, Inc. and GCI, Inc. Now as an independent consultant, Mr. Miller is a Principal Associate of the Artemus Consulting Group and oral historian at the CIA Center for the Study of Intelligence.
Emanuel T. (Manny) Simantiras
Manny Simantiras is a multimedia developer, instructional systems designer and retiree of the Central Intelligence Agency where he served as a senior manager in the Directorate of Operations for 33 years. He is the owner and creative director of E. T. Simantiras Design and consults with government and private-sector organizations who seek his instructional design and multimedia design expertise. As Artemus Consulting Group’s Webmaster, Manny collaborates with Robert Wallace to produce the Company’s website and bi-weekly newsletter highlighting current issues of cybersecurity,technology, and related areas.
Jack Rich
Jack Rich served in the Central Intelligence Agency for 38 years and subsequentlyas a program manager and foreign affairs analyst in the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research. He has extensive analytical, operational, and managerial experiences in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and Europe. His career covered diverse national security and diplomatic issues and work with academia, think tanks, and private industry.
Jim Cotsana
Following his Marine Corps service, Jim Cotsana joined the CIA as an Operations Officer and rose to become a senior executive in the Agency’s Directorate of Operations and Directorate of Science and Technology. As Department Chief of CIA Counterterrorist Center, Mr. Cotsana directed the Department’s mission to identify and disrupt terrorist plans, methods of operation and plots. A member of the CIA’s Senior Intelligence Service, he managed covert communications capabilities and coordinated counterintelligence programs to protect personnel and facilities.