Robert (Rob) Marro Jr. is originally a native of Brooklyn, New York. Before his twenty-five-plus year Wall Street executive role fighting international financial crime, Rob began with a brief stint as a junior White House aide during the Carter/Reagan administrations. This transitioned into a career as a covert operations officer in the CIA. He has also consulted for US Special Operations Command’s Counter Threat Working Group. Rob graduated from the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, with a BA in Soviet/Russian Studies. Active in the motion picture industry, he was an executive producer and featured in the 2016 Netflix acclaimed motion picture Hostage to the Devil about the late Malachi Martin. He has many other major Hollywood studio projects currently in development. Rob has been happily married to his lovely artist wife, Wendy, for nineteen years; he enjoys nature photography with his trusty Nikon, amateur astronomy, writing, and military history.