Former FBI General Counsel Brad Brooker Joins Kodex Global

Brooker takes on the same role he held at the FBI, after nearly seventeen years advising the U.S. government's most senior national security leaders on lawful access, privacy, and the rules that govern how sensitive data moves.

Kodex Global, the company building the trusted rails for data exchange between government agencies and private companies, today announced that Brad Brooker has joined as General Counsel. Brooker previously served as General Counsel of the FBI and as Acting General Counsel of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.

Every day, legal demands for records move between investigators and the companies that hold the data, from tech platforms to financial institutions and hospitality companies. Kodex is where that exchange happens for 15,000 government agencies and 160,000 verified agents. The rails carry requests at the speed investigations require, and they check every demand on the way in: the requester is verified, the legal process is valid, and the scope is what the law allows. Companies on the network respond faster because they can trust what arrives.

Brooker spent his government career on exactly this ground. At the FBI and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, his job was making lawful access work while answering for the privacy and civil liberties questions it raises. At Kodex, he takes on that mandate for the network itself.

"Speed is critical to a law enforcement investigation. When lawful requests stall, crimes don't get solved," said Brooker. "The rails serve another purpose too: they help make sure legal demands are compliant on the front end, so companies aren't handing over data to invalid or overbroad requests. It's the right data, at the right time, under the right process. Having spent much of my career in the national security community, I see this as a natural extension of what I've long been committed to: protecting the integrity of the law enforcement process and the privacy and security of the sensitive data it depends on."

Before joining Kodex, Brooker was a partner at Holland & Knight in Washington, D.C., advising clients on data privacy, artificial intelligence, and national security. He came to private practice after nearly seventeen years in government. At the FBI, he served as General Counsel and, before that, as Deputy General Counsel leading the National Security and Cyber Law Branch, advising the FBI Director on intelligence operations, cybersecurity law, and privacy. At the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, he served as Principal Deputy General Counsel and spent three years as Acting General Counsel, coordinating legal and policy issues across the intelligence community. He clerked for the Honorable Reggie B. Walton of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and the Honorable Eric T. Washington of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

"Brad spent seventeen years on the hardest questions in this space: how the government gets the data it lawfully needs, and how everyone's privacy survives the process," said Matt Donahue, co-founder and CEO of Kodex. "Agencies trust the network because every requester is verified. Companies trust it because compliance is built into the rails. Nobody alive has spent more time earning trust on both sides of that line than Brad."