Cipher Online Media Leadership Team & Executives

Suzanne Kelley

CEO

Suzanne Kelly is Founder, CEO & Publisher of The Cipher Brief, (www.thecipherbrief.com), a digital site providing expert analysis and insights on national and global security issues. Kelly also runs The Cyber Initiatives Group focused on cyber security with principals that include General Michael Hayden, General Keith Alexander, FireEye CEO Kevin Mandia, Rick Ledgett and Matt Olsen. In addition to TCB and CIG, Kelly also produces The Cipher Brief's Annual Threat Conference in Sea Island, GA. which has become the nation's premiere national security conference focused on the public and private sectors. Kelly is a former Intelligence Correspondent for CNN, where she co-founded and co-developed the Security Clearance Blog. Her first book, Master of War: Blackwater USA's Erik Prince and the Business of War, was published by (Harper) Collins in 2009, and offered the only inside look at the rise and fall of private security contractor Blackwater. Kelly also spent nine years working as a news anchor for CNN International based in Atlanta and Berlin. She is currently working on a second book.