Mr. Teyema is a Section Chief at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) where he oversees all aspects of operational readiness for the Cyber Division.  Mr. Teyema most recently served as the Special Agent in Charge of Counterintelligence and Cyber for the Los Angeles Field Office. Prior to this, he was a Supervisory Inspector in the Inspection Division at FBI Headquarters.

Mr. Teyema’s previous assignments at the Bureau include serving as the first Cyber Assistant Special Agent in Charge (ASAC) at the Washington Field Office (WFO). In this role, he established WFO’s Cyber Branch, which was responsible for all cyber, intellectual property rights, crimes against children, and digital forensics investigations in Washington, D.C. and Northern Virginia.

Mr. Teyema has served as the Director of Cybersecurity Policy on the National Security Council, where he was responsible for the formulation and execution of cybersecurity policy. He also established the FBI’s National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF), which coordinates and investigates some of the most serious cyber threats to the national and economic security of the United States.

Mr. Teyema joined the FBI in 1995 and was first assigned to the Los Angeles Field Office, where he worked on cyber and national security matters.  He received the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence in Technology Innovation in 2010, and was nominated for the award a second time in 2013.

Mr. Teyema has taught and lectured extensively on information security, infrastructure protection, and digital forensics. He has a Master of Forensic Science (MFS) from The George Washington University and is an adjunct faculty for the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia.  He is a Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), is certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC), and is an ethics and compliance officer certified by ECI as a Leading Professional in Ethics & Compliance (LPEC).