Meet the Team
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Mareena is Insight's managing member and business administrator. She has a wealth of experience in federal government contract management, logistics and IT. Mareena directs Insight Strategies' daily operations to include planning, scheduling, contracting, finance and accounting, logistics, and information management.
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Dean is the co-owner of Insight Strategies, LLC. He has taught higher education courses in criminal justice, national security, intelligence, and political science and most recently led a team of 21 instructors in a college Administration of Justice Studies program.
Operationally, Dean was a CIA-trained undercover operative, trainer, and drug intercept operations officer. As an undercover operative, Dean ran confidential informant operations focused on drug organizations, insurgent activities, the development of weapons of mass destruction, and illegal arms transfers. As the counterdrug intercept operations officer, Dean led deploying F-15 and F-16 fighter aircraft units in drug transport intercept missions for two Joint Interagency Task Forces.
He later led a national-level military counterdrug planning and program evaluation section with responsibilities over 54 state and territory counterdrug programs. Dean finished his military career as a Lieutenant Colonel and policy advisor to the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Counternarcotics. In this role, he focused on military support to domestic law enforcement agencies.
Dean has a law degree and two masters degrees on National Security Affairs and Strategy, respectively. He has training in military intelligence, CIA informant operations, illicit drug familiarization (from FLETC), interrogation, Russian language, and in teaching and course development.