Mason Drew

Mason Drew is an accomplished cybersecurity and law enforcement veteran, whose expertise includes cybersecurity incident response, prevention, readiness, remediation, recovery, and complex investigations.

Prior to joining FTI Consulting, Mr. Drew was a Supervisory Special Agent with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). He has worked extensively with both government and private industry subject matter experts to design, develop, and deploy solutions for threat intelligence sharing and incident response. He is well-versed in criminal and national security threat sets

Mr. Drew has personally designed and deployed custom network intrusion solutions at Fortune 500 companies. He has led teams to develop novel network signatures and conduct malware reverse engineering and network traffic capture and analysis resulting in the identification and attribution of Advanced Persistent Threat groups.

Mr. Drew was the deputy head of the FBI office in Beijing. In 2016, he was the first ever FBI Cyber Assistant Legal Attaché deployed to the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and represented the FBI during the historic bilateral engagement following the 2015 US-China Cyber Agreement. Mr. Drew was then posted to the U.S. Embassy in Beijing and represented the FBI in engagement with the PRC government on all relevant matters, including cybersecurity, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, and criminal investigations.

Mr. Drew has also served as the FBI Cyber representative to the National Security Agency (NSA) in Honolulu, Hawaii, covering all matters involving cybersecurity threats in the Asia-Pacific region. In this role, Mr. Drew represented FBI cybersecurity interests to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command, and managed intelligence sharing on all cybersecurity threat sets, defending U.S. networks, and engaging with government and private sector stakeholders in the region.

Before deploying to the NSA, Mr. Drew spent seven years in the field as an FBI Special Agent conducting cybersecurity investigations involving theft of trade secrets, cyber espionage, and cyber crimes perpetrated against Fortune 500 companies. As a result of his groundbreaking work, he was awarded the U.S. Attorney General’s Award for Distinguished Service, as well as the FBI Director’s Award for Excellence in Outstanding Cyber Investigations.

Mr. Drew has a B.S. in Computer Engineering and an MBA from Texas A&M University. He is a fluent speaker of Mandarin Chinese.