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Kevin J. Scheid is General Manager of the NATO Communications and Information Agency, effective 1 July 2017. Scheid is an American from Lock Haven, Pennsylvania.

Career
Upon taking up his post at the Agency – NATO’s tech and cyber hub which employs nearly 3,000 people - Mr Scheid oversaw the installation of the information technology infrastructure in the new NATO headquarters.

Aside from his current role at NCI Agency, Scheid has also served the federal government of the United States for more than 30 years. Scheid worked for ten years at the White House Office of Management and Budget, ten years in the U.S. intelligence community, and about ten years at the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD). While at the DOD he served as the Deputy Comptroller, among other roles. For the two years before joining the Agency, Mr Scheid was on assignment from the DOD to the MITRE Corporation as the special advisor to the CEO and President.

Prior to joining the DOD, Scheid served in the Office of the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) and the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He performed oversight and made recommendations to the DCI on a variety of intelligence agencies, including the National Reconnaissance Office and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency.

From 2003 to 2005, Scheid was the Senior Advisor to the independent 9/11 Commission. Scheid led a team of investigators in a review of the performance of United States intelligence in the years prior to the terrorist attacks, and worked with the Commission on reforms of United States intelligence as a whole.

Education
Scheid earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Economics and European Studies and a Master’s Degree in Public Affairs; both from the University of Texas at Austin.