Mr. Homan was appointed by President Trump On January 30, 2017, as the Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) until his retirement in June 2018. ICE is the largest investigative arm within the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the second largest investigative agency in the federal government with more than 20,000 Special Agents, Officers, and other employees and an annual budget of more than $8 billion. ICE is charged with protecting the homeland through criminal and civil enforcement of federal laws governing border control, customs trade, and immigration. ICE Agents are located in more than 400 offices in the United States and 46 foreign countries.

Prior to that, Mr. Homan served as the Executive Associate Director of ICE Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) since 2013. In this capacity, he led ICE’s efforts to identify, arrest, detain, and remove illegal aliens, including those who present a danger to national security, a risk to public safety, or who enter the country illegally. During this time, Mr. Homan oversaw the removal of more than one million illegal aliens from the United States.

Mr. Homan is a 34-year veteran of law enforcement and has nearly 33 years of immigration enforcement experience. He has served as a police officer in New York; a U.S. Border Patrol Agent; a Special Agent with the former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service; as well as Supervisory Special Agent and Deputy Assistant Director for Investigations. In 1999, Mr. Homan became the Assistant District Director for Investigations (ADDI) in San Antonio, Texas, and three years later transferred to the ADDI position in Dallas, Texas.

Upon the creation of ICE, Mr. Homan was named as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Dallas and later to the Deputy Special Agent in Charge. In March 2009, he accepted the position of Assistant Director for Enforcement at ICE Headquarters in Washington, D.C. and was subsequently promoted to Deputy Executive Associate Director.

Mr. Homan holds a bachelor’s degree in criminal justice and has received numerous awards and special recognition for his achievements and the impact he has made to secure our nation and promote public safety as a federal law enforcement officer and leader. He received the Distinguished Presidential Rank Award in 2015 for his exemplary leadership and extensive accomplishments in the area of immigration enforcement. He also received the Distinguished Service Medal in June 2018 in recognition of exceptionally distinguished and transformational service to strengthen homeland security for the country. In 2018, he also received the Law Enforcement Person of the Year Award from the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association that represents over 26,000 federal law enforcement officers. In November 2019, Mr. Homan was awarded the Man of the Year Award by Blue Magazine, a law enforcement publication created by and managed by law enforcement career professionals. He has also had the honor of being awarded the National Security Medal by President Trump for his distinguished achievement in the field of national security, through his exceptional, meritorious service.

Ron is an executive leader with over 30 years of law enforcement experience to include 24 years as a special agent with U.S. Immigration and Custom Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI). Ron serves as a Vice President with Harmonia providing subject matter expertise in law enforcement and cyber, helping craft solutions for Harmonia’s Federal customers. Ron most recently was the acting Deputy Assistant Director for HSI’s Cyber and Operational Technology division serving as the senior executive managing a $170M discretionary budget with 330 direct reports. Prior to that assignment, Ron was the Division Chief for the DHS Cyber Crimes Center which provided a wide range of digital forensic, cyber intelligence and support in cybercrimes and child exploitation investigations to agencies across the Department. Ron has received numerous awards to include a DHS Secretary’s Commendation, Team of the Year, and Exceptional Duty Medal.

In his role, Derrick leads the operational personnel, missions and functions of NCMEC to include services provided to families, child-serving professionals and law enforcement. He also supervises the Center’s federal grant awards, which provide critical funds to NCMEC’s mission of finding missing children, stopping child sexual exploitation and assisting law enforcement while managing relationships with critical public, private and industry partners.
Derrick is a highly accomplished member of the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service with 27 years of law enforcement experience and leadership at the U.S. Department of Justice. Derrick served as the Deputy Director, Chief Operating Officer and Chief Risk Officer of the United States Marshals Service (USMS), where he was responsible for leading USMS employees and supervising global security, investigative and intelligence functions. During his 23-year career at the USMS, Derrick held numerous executive leadership roles to include being appointed by the Attorney General to serve on both the Law Enforcement Advisory Council and Executive Advisory Board for the National Domestic Communications Assistance Center (NDCAC). He also developed and led the agency’s Sex Offender Investigations Branch and National Sex Offender Targeting Center while establishing the Agency’s missing child recovery mission. During his time at the USMS, he was the recipient of four Director’s Awards.
Prior to joining NCMEC, Derrick served as a Principal for Peraton, a national security technology company dedicated to protecting and promoting freedom around the world. As part of the Diplomacy and Justice leadership team, Derrick advised the sector and its clients on security and risk management, planning and performance execution, and assisted law enforcement with data-driven decision making.
Derrick received a graduate fellowship from the University of New Haven, earning his Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a concentration in Security Management.

This Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF) member is an Intelligence Research Specialist with the ATFs Emerging Threats Center (ETC). They specialize in Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT) and Open-Source Intelligence (OSINT), to include investigative methods related to the Dark Web. The ETC member conducts and coordinates multi-jurisdictional operations and provides investigative direction to disrupt and dismantle online criminal activity within the enforcement and regulatory jurisdiction of ATF. They use investigative and analytic techniques to identify domestic and international offenders and the associations among them.

Prior to their current assignment, they were a Criminal Analyst with the Washington/Baltimore HIDTA (High Intensity Drug Trafficking Group). With the HIDTA group they focused on different aspects of interdiction for drug trafficking. They hold degrees in “Telecommunication Forensics and Security”, “Criminology and Criminal Justice”, and “Cybercrime”.

As the Assistant Inspector General for Investigations, Mr. Richmond is responsible for leading a comprehensive nationwide program for the prevention, deterrence, detection, and investigation of criminal, civil, and administrative misconduct impacting FDIC programs and operations, and the U.S. banking sector.  Accordingly, his office conducts criminal investigations and law enforcement operations throughout the United States and internationally. The matters investigated by OIG’s Special Agents involve complex multi-million-dollar schemes of bank fraud, obstruction of bank examinations, theft, embezzlement, money laundering, cybercrime, and other crimes. 

Before joining the FDIC OIG, Mr. Richmond was appointed to the Federal Government’s Senior Executive Service as an Assistant Inspector General for Investigations for the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office of Inspector General (OIG).  In that role, Mr. Richmond provided executive leadership and nationwide oversight to criminal investigators, analysts, IT forensic examiners, and staff who carried out the mission of protecting the integrity of HHS programs as well as the health and welfare of program beneficiaries. 
Mr. Richmond previously served as the Special Agent in Charge of HHS OIG’s Miami Region, as a headquarters supervisor with coordination and oversight responsibilities for HHS OIG’s investigative operations, as a supervisor in the National Training & Emergency Operations Branch, and as a member of the Department of Justice’s Medicare Fraud Strike Force.  Before joining HHS OIG, Mr. Richmond worked for the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration and as a police officer.   

Mr. Richmond is a Senior Fellow with the Partnership for Public Service’s Excellence in Government Fellows program, is a Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist, and holds several other certifications.  He has received numerous awards during his career, including a Department of Justice leadership award.  He is a graduate of Champlain College and the ABA Stonier Graduate School of Banking at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he also received a Wharton Leadership Certificate.

Jim Schrant serves as the CACI International Director of Strategy and Growth for the Operations Support and Services Sector.  His area of responsibility within CACI includes direction of CACI DarkBlue Intelligence Group, CACI law enforcement solutions, along with sector growth and strategy.  At CACI, Jim directs the DarkBlue Intelligence Group, a CACI cutting edge Darkweb exploitation solution.

Prior to this position Jim was the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Director of the Special Intelligence Division. (SES) Mr. Schrant’s portfolio included transnational crime issues/coordination, DEA collection programs, direction of the Special Operations Division intelligence components, intelligence-based targeting sections, data exploitation innovation, operational liaison to the Intelligence community and leader on lawful access issues.  Jim led DEA’s efforts on lawful access, open-source exploitation and the intersection of data and enforcement operations.  

Mr. Schrant was promoted to the Senior Executive Service and appointed as the Chief of DEA’s Office of Congressional and Public Affairs on February 12, 2018.  As the Division Chief, Mr. Schrant oversaw all of DEA’s Congressional and Legislative Affairs.  Mr. Schrant led Congressional engagement on complex opioid, appropriations, regulatory and enforcement matters.  Jim devised innovative liaison strategies and built Hill relationships that benefit DEA and DOJ to this day.  

In 2016, Mr. Schrant served as the Assistant Special Agent in Charge of DEA’s Special Operations Division (SOD).  In that role, he was a leader and driver in the SOD’s lawful access initiatives, served as the leadership liaison to the Intelligence Community and led development of innovative DEA interception techniques and communications solutions for the 21st century.  He oversaw and directed large complex multinational investigations and capture operations in Mexico and Central America including senior Sinaloa Cartel figures.

Jim began his career with DEA in 1997 as a Special Agent where he held several positions and supervisory roles in Florida, Colorado and Virginia.  Jim began a career in law enforcement as a police officer with the Aurora, Colorado Police Department in 1995.  Mr. Schrant attended the University of Colorado and Colorado College where he received his Bachelor of Arts degree in 1995 in Political Science.