Ken Robinson is a Creator, Writer, and an Executive Producer of a Jerry Bruckheimer, Warner Brothers Television, and NBC series entitled E-Ring (2005), based on his experiences in Special Operations and the Global War on Terrorism. Additionally, he is Executive Producing, writing and developing feature films with Jerry Bruckheimer, Disney, and Sony Pictures.
He served a twenty-four year career in a variety of tactical, operational, and strategic assignments including Ranger, Special Forces, and clandestine special operations units. His experience includes service with the National Security Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency and the Central Intelligence Agency.
Ken's unique career included assignments in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Chief's of Staff, and Special Mission Units, as a commander and senior staff officer planning, and leading special operations forces (SOF) in such places as Somalia, Sarajevo, Bosnia (BiH), Colombia, Haiti, and Iraq.
After retirement from the military, Ken was a principal planner for the Interagency Terrorism Response and Awareness Program (ITRAP), working with the senior top officials of the US government, and ran a successful Middle east Kidnap and Ransom (K&R) business with Kroll, Incorporated.
Ken served for five years as a Senior Terrorism and National Security Analyst for CNN, and has been a combat embedded reporter in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was honored with a First Place - National Headliner Award for his reporting on the September 11th, 2001 Attacks on America. He is a current credentialed journalist in the Global War on Terror. In December 2007 he conducted a survey of the state of intelligence and the military in Iraq, and in May 2008 performed a similar survey of the insurgent war in Colombia. In July 2008 Ken returns to Afghanistan.
His recent national and international speaking engagements include; St. Andrews University, Scotland, Stanford University, US Army Senior Intelligence Officer Conference, General Dynamics World Wide Conference, CNN National Bureau Chief's Conference and the Joint Forces Land Component Commanders Conference at the United States Army War College.
Ken is a 2004 inductee of the National Military Intelligence Hall of Fame. He currently resides in Beverly Hills, California.
Speaking Engagements
In June 2008 Ken was called upon to brief the National Security advisors of both Presidential candidates (Senator’s McCain and Obama).
Ken is a unique voice in today’s debate on the Global War on Terror, Homeland Security, and the role of the national news media during war. His speaking style blends perfectly with large assemblies, or intimate dinners.
He engages his audience directly, rank ordering their high interest topics, and integrating them into his presentation, incorporating analysis from the day’s headlines, with focus on current US policy, and strategy. Drawing on decades of diverse life experiences, Ken speaks intelligently about leadership in crisis, war and the media, while serving as an undercover operative, and later as an award winning war correspondent.
Motivational, inspirational, and thought provoking - - Ken’s work is discussed in several books including “Black Hawk Down, and Killing Pablo,” by Mark Bowden, “Secret Warriors,” by Steven Emerson, and “Veil,” by Bob Woodward. Additionally, his life was fictionalized in the Jerry Bruckheimer/NBC Television Series E-Ring, starring Benjamin Bratt and Dennis Hopper.
Ken’s experience has been that of a hands-on practitioner at the tactical, operational and strategic level of war. He is a graduate of the Defense Intelligence College and a member of the National Military Intelligence Hall of Fame.
