Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Adam Karcher is assigned to the FBI Cyber Division Asia Cyber Operations Section and has more than 20 years of experience working national security cyber matters, focusing on China-based cyber and counterintelligence threats. SSA Karcher joined the FBI in 2003 and has worked on a range of intrusion investigations, operations and enterprise strategy, and collaborative efforts with foreign partners. SSA Karcher was previously the Deputy Director and Chief over the National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force (NCIJTF) Office of Data Exploitation and received the FBI Director’s Award in 2014 for the development of a multi-agency threat intelligence and cyber investigative platform. Prior to joining the FBI, SSA Karcher worked in the biotech industry.