Nashville Security Summit 2026

Mr. McMahon has over 20 years of experience in the intelligence, national security, and law enforcement communities. As the Senior Supervisory Intelligence Analyst for FBI Boston, Mr. McMahon led one of the FBI’s largest field intelligence programs comprised of analysts, linguists, and data specialists. Mr. McMahon led teams, and interagency task forces covering the criminal, counterterrorism, counterintelligence, and cyber programs. Mr. McMahon has extensive experience managing crises and special events. In the FBI’s Counterterrorism Division, Mr. McMahon advanced international terrorism investigations as an operations specialist, collaborating with domestic and international partners. As a tactical specialist on FBI Boston’s Joint Terrorism Task Force, Mr. McMahon conducted communications, network, and threat analysis. As a strategic analyst, Mr. McMahon authored analyses of current and emerging trends, with a focus on emerging technologies. Mr. McMahon is the recipient of two Office of the Director of National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citation awards for his contributions to the 2006 US/UK Aviation Threat Task Force, and the 2013 Boston Marathon Bombing team. Mr. McMahon was a Recanati-Kaplan Fellow with the Harvard Kennedy School of Government’s Intelligence Project, where his research focused on the use of AI in intelligence analysis.