Eric Weinberg

Eric J. Weinberg is a managing director at Kroll, Inc., and a member of the company’s senior management group. With almost 20 years of experience in senior executive government service, the military and intelligence communities, and business, he brings extensive, diverse expertise and strategic insight to each client engagement.

Mr. Weinberg began his career in public service, serving for seven years as a senior budget and policy analyst to the Pennsylvania Senate Appropriations Committee. In 1997 he was appointed to the senior executive staff of the Auditor General, where he was responsible for improving operations within the Auditor General’s office and initiating the department’s transition from compliance-based to performance-based auditing. In 1999, Mr. Weinberg
co-founded Hill Solutions, LLC, a full-service government relations and lobbying firm in Washington, D.C. (recently acquired by Buchanan Ingersoll Rooney, where Mr. Weinberg served until late 2006 as Director and Chairman of the Government Relations practice, advising clients on complex legislative matters).

Mr. Weinberg also founded Homeland Solutions in 2003, a management consulting and training company that supported the National Intelligence Community and law enforcement agencies in counterterrorism mission areas. Mr. Weinberg sold the company to Kroll, the world’s leading risk management company, in the summer of 2006, where he now serves as managing director of Kroll Security Group.

Mr. Weinberg has served as a counterterrorism and counter-narcotics intelligence officer with the U.S. Navy and the Defense Intelligence Agency. Requested by name after the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, Mr. Weinberg served as Executive Officer of the Homeland Defense Division at the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Joint Intelligence Task Force-Combating Terrorism. In that capacity he assisted in the creation, development, and implementation of the preeminent national counterterrorism information-sharing initiative (known as the Joint Regional Information Exchange System). This system is now used by the US Department of Homeland Security and other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies as well as by national intelligence professionals throughout the United States. Mr. Weinberg has also served with the Naval Criminal Investigative Service as a foreign counter-intelligence agent. Mr. Weinberg still serves in the Naval Reserve and is presently assigned to the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Mr. Weinberg is a graduate of Temple University and holds a Master in Governmental Administration from the Fels Institute of Government at the University of Pennsylvania. He is currently pursuing his doctorate in diplomatic history at Temple University.

Course: GAFL 761 Government Relations