Member Profile

Mr. Odom joined The Ackerman Group in 1990, following a 15-year career in the CIA's Clandestine Services. At the CIA, he had specialized in foreign intelligence operations and counterterrorism and garnered extensive experience in technical surveillance. He had tours in Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, and served as an instructor in the Agency's operational training program. Fluent in Spanish, he holds a B.A. and M.A. from the University of West Florida and served with a U.S. Navy Seabee battalion in Vietnam. Mr. Odom currently serves as Executive Vice President, Operations at The Ackerman Group and manages the company’s Salt Lake City office. The company is headquartered in Miami and also has overseas offices in Paris and Bangkok. It specializes in counterterrorism – analyzing risks, protecting personnel and property, planning for contingencies and recovering hostages. They provide clients with intelligence, negotiating, communications and protective expertise when facing a wide range of emergencies – from extortions, to wrongful detentions, to evacuations, to intractable problems with violence-prone labor and fringe groups.