Susan Aarons

Unit Chief, National Security Investigations Division, Homeland Security Investigations, Immigration and Customs Enforcement

Susan Aarons is a retired member of the U.S. Government Senior Leadership with over 26 years law enforcement experience serving as a Special Agent in the second-largest Federal criminal investigative agency in the United States. She had a successful career characterized by building and leading organizations through dedicated collaboration and coordination throughout the Federal Government. She is an expert in counterterrorism, national security, financial investigations, congressional affairs, and strategic networking to enhance mutual consensus and achieve results.Susan has spent the last 15 years in Washington, D.C. standing up the Department of Homeland Security, and directing the integration of national security investigations and counterterrorism efforts across the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. She had direct oversight of more than 100 Joint Terrorism Task Forces, the National Joint Terrorism Task Force, and the National Targeting Center. Susan has spent her career building partnerships with interagency members and foreign counterparts to address transnational organized crime and improve interagency training, capacity building, and increase foreign counterpart coordination. She has a passion for strategic networking and building professional relationships to achieve results.

After retiring from the U.S. Government, Aarons became the newly created Director of Federal Operations for the Wynyard Group. Susan joined their executive team to align product vision and strategy with the U.S. Government and build partnerships on a global scale in coordination with operations in the United Kingdom, Canada, Middle East, Australia and New Zealand.