James Murray is retiring from his position as Director of the US Secret Service after 27 years working with the agency to take a position at Snap, Snapchat’s parent company, as Chief Security Officer.
Murray will join Snap after his Secret Service tenure ends on July 30, 2022. He will report directly to CEO and co-founder Evan Spiegel.
A Snap representative said in an emailed statement to diverse. “Jim will bring significant experience to this new role, which will help ensure the safety and security of the more than 5,000 Snap employees who live and work around the world.”
The Secret Service announced Murray’s retirement on Thursday. He has served as the agency’s CEO since May 1, 2019, and has since “successfully guided the agency through eight private national security events and nearly 20,000 international and domestic safeguard operations,” according to the Secret Service. During his tenure as director, the agency also recovered approximately $4.2 billion in fraud losses and prevented an estimated $8.1 billion in additional losses from criminal businesses.
Murray began his federal service in 1990 as an investigator with the US Department of Transportation, while simultaneously serving as an officer in the US Army Reserve. In 1995, he joined the Secret Service as a special agent in the New York field office where he investigated cyber-enabled financial crimes and served as the agency’s liaison with the FBI’s Joint Counterterrorism Task Force and New York.
A native of Point Pleasant, New Jersey, Murray holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Scranton and a master’s degree from Seton Hall University. He is also a graduate of the American University Key Executive Leadership Program and the 2016 FVEY Counterterrorism Fellowship Program (LinCT).
Snape’s appointment of Murray was the first mentioned by Washington Post.
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