August Virtual Speaker Series

MODERATOR:

VADM (Ret) Bob Sharp
NIP Chair

GUEST SPEAKERS:

Truett "Aaron" Tooke
Intelligence Mission Manager, USMC and Colonel USMC Reserves

Scott Stalker
MGySgt, USMC (Ret.) and CEO Stalker Solutions LLC

Guest Speaker's Background

Aaron Tooke is the Deputy Commandant for Information–Intelligence Division’s Intelligence Mission Manager. As the USMC Intelligence Mission Manager, he advises the DCI, the DIRINT, and the Marine Corps Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Enterprise (MCISRE) on all aspects of strategic, operational, and tactical intelligence, including current and future programs. Aaron has served in the Intelligence Community for 25 years and has managed and led at the division and office levels in the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency influencing overhead collections, cross-community coordination and integration, and most recently GEOINT foundation productions by providing operational advantage to the USN submarine forces.

Aaron is also a colonel in the Marine Corps Reserves where he currently serves as the Reserve Assistant Chief of Staff, G2 to the Commanding General Marine Forces Pacific, Camp Smith, Hawaii. He augments MARFORPAC, extends the G2’s reach, and adds leadership and diversity to the Commanding General’s Senior Staff. He bridges national level intelligence capabilities to Marine Corps warfighting needs and he connects Headquarters Marine Corps to INDOPACOM through his strong working relationships across the MARFORPAC Staff.

Aaron joined the Marine Corps in 1994 and transitioned to the Reserves in 2004. He is an Operation Iraqi Freedom (OIF) veteran where he served as the senior intelligence watch officer with 2nd Intelligence Battalion, leading the MEF’s Tactical Fusion Center in Camp Blue Diamond, Ramadi, Iraq. He has applied his Intelligence Community and Marine Corps experience by serving in support of the Office Undersecretary Defense Intelligence (OUSDI) as the National Geospatial-Intelligence Liaison Officer to the Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance Task Force (ISR-TF).

Aaron earned his undergraduate in business administration at the University of Texas and his master’s degree in business administration at Johns Hopkins University. He has completed Marine Corps Command & Staff School and the U.S Air Force Air War College. Aaron is married and has two children.

Scott Stalker served on active duty in the United States Marine Corps for 31 years, retiring in August 2023. While on active duty, Stalker served as the Command Senior Enlisted Leader for the Defense Intelligence Agency, United States Cyber Command, National Security Agency, and in his final assignment with United States Space Command. He served in a multitude of locations during his distinguished military career to include combat operations in Somalia, Bosnia, & Iraq and a Non-Combatant Evacuation Operation in Tirana, Albania.

In addition to his strategic leadership assignments, Scott served with HMM-365, 26th MEU (SOC), Joint Intelligence Center Pacific, 1st Bn 7th Marines, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 2nd Marine Division, Marine Corps Intelligence Activity, 3rd Marine Division, the Joint POW/MIA Accounting Command, Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command and the Joint Staff J-2.

Stalker has a bachelor’s degree in intelligence studies and a master’s degree in cybersecurity, as well as an organizational leadership certificate from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. He completed studies at John Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, where he became a SECDEF Strategic Thinkers Program CAPSTONE graduate.

Stalker currently serves as a senior consultant and executive advisor for several different corporations and is the founder and CEO of S2 – Stalker Solutions LLC.  He is a keynote speaker for high-profile events within the federal government, intelligence community and national security sector and serves on the boards of several businesses and nonprofits. He serves on the Board of Directors for the Wounded Warrior Project® (WWP), Marine Raider Foundation, JCTM, and others focused on intelligence, space, and cyberspace.  Additionally, he leads the DoD & Intelligence Community Business Development efforts for Clarity Innovations.

Stalker lives in Wilmington, NC, with his wife Malerie, who is a Gold Star Sister, their three daughters, and English Bulldog Charlie.