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Rodney Faraon is a former CIA senior intelligence officer. [1]
Faraon is also a partner and Chief Creative Officer at Crumpton Global LLC, a business intelligence, political risk, and public strategy firm, [2] founded by Hank Crumpton. [3] [4] [5] He was a briefer and speechwriter for the Director of Central Intelligence, George J. Tenet [6] [7] during both the President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush administrations [8] and was awarded the Director's Medal for his work. [9] He is also the President of Aardwolf Creative, [10] a company that produces CIA-themed shows and movies. [11] He was the executive producer of and inspiration for State of Affairs, [12] [13] a 13-episode NBC series about a CIA analyst starring Katherine Heigl and Alfre Woodard. [14] As of 2019, Faraon became a partner with private equity firm Crumpton Ventures. [15] [16]
In July 2021, Faraon appeared as a contestant on the inaugural season of BravoTV show "Top Chef Amateurs." [17]
Faraon was born in Kansas City, KS, then later relocated to Iowa for his teen years. [18] After graduating from Valley High School (West Des Moines, Iowa) in 1988 he moved to Washington, DC to attend Georgetown University's Walsh School of Foreign Service. [19]