Timothy Bloechl

Oshkosh North High School

Class of 1975

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Timothy Bloechl - Class of 1975 - Oshkosh North High School

First Name	Timothy
Last Name	Bloechl
Graduation Year	Class of 1975
Gender	Male
Current Location	Rutherfordton, NC
Relationship Status	Married
About Me	LTC Timothy D. Bloechl (U.S. Army, Retired) Cyber Security Business Leader Tim Bloechl has 46 years of combined experience across the Defense/Government, Information Technology, and Cyber Security industries. Tim currently serves as a Senior Cyber Security Advisor to HC Sons & Co., LLC supporting business opportunities in the Republic of Korea (ROK). Before this venture, he joined Quantum Research International in February 2014 and for ten years led its government cyber security business development and commercial cyber security services business. Prior to joining Quantum, Tim was a Senior Vice President for WISeKey SA in Geneva, Switzerland developing partnerships and joint ventures centered on encryption technologies including Public Key Infrastructure, Identity Management, and Data Loss Protection. Before joining WISeKey, Tim was Microsoft Corporation’s first Worldwide Public Safety and National Security business leader. For almost six years, starting in August 2005, he led efforts to build the Microsoft vision, strategy and field sales force for defense, intelligence, homeland security, justice and first responder markets resulting in approximately 218% revenue growth to almost $1.7 Billion per year and a CAGR of over 15% during his tenure. Tim also played a significant role in expanding the company’s focus on cyber security on behalf of his global clients experiencing increasing levels of cyber-attack. Before Microsoft, Tim served as the Director, International Cyber Security Program for the United States Department of Defense (DOD) as an NSA senior officer (GG-15) based in the Pentagon. He led international military cyber defense outreach, policy, and program development, and served as the department’s representative for interagency, international, and operational cybersecurity coordination. Additionally, Tim was co-chair with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) colleague of the National Cyber Response Coordination Group under the U.S. National Response Plan. In this role he also negotiated the first cyber security information sharing agreement with the Korean Combined Forces Command. Before this Pentagon assignment, Tim was a Senior Associate with Booz Allen Hamilton, providing international affairs, foreign disclosure, intelligence, policy development, and cyber defense operational consulting support to the Joint Task Force-Computer Network Defense (JTF-CND) and successor organizations in Arlington VA, as well as building and leading the large Booz Allen team supporting the command. Before joining Booz Allen Hamilton, Tim served a 20-year career in the U.S. Army retiring as a Lieutenant Colonel. Tim was commissioned into the U.S. Army Military Intelligence branch in 1979 following graduation from the United States Military Academy, West Point, New York. He served in several command and staff assignments while on active duty. These assignments included command of a field artillery battery; deputy command/chief of staff of an intelligence brigade; serving as lead intelligence officer at battalion, brigade, and U.S. Army Berlin levels; assistant chief of staff at battalion, brigade, division, and corps levels; leading ground and air intelligence collection operations during the Cold War out of West Berlin; and leading corps-level intelligence planning efforts focused on the ROK and Asia-Pacific region. While with 1st U.S. Army Corps (1993-1996) he led intelligence planning efforts supporting Third ROK Army (TROKA), participated in an Ulchi Focus Lens exercise, and served as Deputy Commander of an intelligence brigade focused on support to South Korea. He also served as operations officer for the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Military Intelligence Support Team (NMIST); and was the1992 top graduate of his 1,113-officer class at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. Additionally, he was the first intelligence officer in the school’s history to win the annual Master Tactician competition. His final military assignment was Director, J2 Plans, for United States Central Command. He coordinated intelligence planning support to 1996 coalition attacks to relieve Iraqi pressure on Kurdish enclaves in northern Iraq (Operation DESERT STRIKE); 1998 military force deployments reinforcing UN sanctions against Iraq (Operation DESERT THUNDER); a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December of that year (Operation DESERT FOX); and August 20, 1998 cruise missile attacks against terrorist camps and facilities in Afghanistan and Sudan responding to Al Qaeda terrorist attacks against U.S. Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania (Operation INFINITE REACH). He also led the command’s Intelligence Exchange Program with several Middle Eastern, African, and European countries and was actively engaged with Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries in improving intelligence operations. Tim’s combat tours include serving as NMIST Team Chief in Panama supporting United States Southern Command during the U.S. invasion in December 1989 (Operation JUST CAUSE), and as NMIST Team Chief in Saudi Arabia supporting XVIII Airborne Corps for Operations DESERT SHIELD/DESERT STORM (August 1990-March 1991). He holds a Master of Science in Strategic Intelligence degree from the Defense Intelligence College and a Master of Military Arts and Sciences degree from the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College. His 22 awards and decorations include the Legion of Merit and Bronze Star. He is also a 1993 graduate of the U.S. Army School for Advanced Military Studies. In 2010, Tim was inducted into the Oshkosh North High School Hall of Fame at a ceremony in his hometown of Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Tim served on the Board of Directors and the Audit Committee for Global Impact (www.charity.org) for fifteen years, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping the world’s most vulnerable people, and on the Board of Directors for Global Impact - Australia. Tim also served on the Board of Officers for the U.S. Military Academy Class of 1979 and was the Historian for his class and served on the Board of Advisors for the Cent...(read more)
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