Robert Marro

Robert (Rob) Marro Jr. is a native of Brooklyn, New York. Prior to his twenty-five-plus-year Wall Street career combatting international financial crime and money laundering, Rob started with a brief stint at the White House: the Executive Office of the President. This was followed by over twelve years as a covert operations officer in the CIA Clandestine Service, focusing on classified programs in pursuit of US national security policy and Presidential Decision Directives. He has also served as a standing member of the US Department of Defense Special Operations Command’s (SOCOM) J-36 Counter-Threat Working Group at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, Florida. Rob is a graduate of the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC, with a BA in Soviet/Russian Studies and is also active in the film industry. Along with major Hollywood studio projects currently in development, he was an executive producer and featured in the 2016 Netflix film Hostage to the Devil about the acclaimed author and controversial Vatican exorcist, the late Father Malachi Martin. Ebenezer Scrooge and the Ghost of Christmas Love is his debut novel. Although medical issues preclude certain activities, Rob still enjoys photography, writing, and World War II history.