Bob Flores, Former CTO of the CIA, Joins Brinker

According to CyberNewsWire, Brinker, the narrative intelligence company combating disinformation and influence campaigns, announced on 4 November 2025 that Bob Flores, former Chief Technology Officer of the CIA, has joined its advisory board in Delaware, United States. The company says the appointment strengthens Brinker’s mission to move from detection to real-time, technology-driven mitigation at global scale.

Flores described Brinker’s AI-native approach as enabling responses that were previously impossible, turning real-time analysis and large-scale mitigation into a reality. Brinker’s founders, Daniel Ravner and Oded Breiner, stated that Flores’s expertise in intelligence and technology will help accelerate Brinker’s global impact and operational capability.

Ravner, Brinker’s CEO, and Breiner, the CTO, added that Flores’s experience with mission-critical systems will take Brinker’s automated OSINT technology to the next level for government partners and other clients. Flores currently also serves as Founder and President of Applicology Inc., a Virginia-based security advisory firm, bringing decades of national security and enterprise technology leadership to the table.