Mr. Rodgers Allen, Jr. is the Vice President for Pluribus Inc., a big data, geosocial & geospatial analytics company headquartered in McLean, Virginia.  Mr. Allen joined Pluribus to help lead the world in an entirely new industry: Identity-Based Navigation®.    

 

After graduating from the Academy of Mathematics and Science High School in St. Louis, Missouri Mr. Allen would join the United States Army where he served as a logistician while stationed at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Mr. Allen deployed to Desert Shield/Desert Storm where he provided logistics support to the 82nd Airborne and 7th Corps Infantry Divisions. Mr. Allen joined the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department where he would lead several investigation bureaus, to include Internal Affairs and Criminal Investigations bureau. Due to his excellent service Mr. Allen was recruited to join the Federal Bureau of Investigation where he served on the Joint Terrorism Task Force for eight years.

 

Mr. Allen would later be recruited by the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to serve as an imagery analyst. There, Mr. Allen would spend the next 10 years learning and deepening his knowledge, skill, ability and network as a geospatial expert in many different roles... culminating as the Deputy Director of NGA’s Office of Science and Technology!  In this capacity, Rodgers oversaw the various scientific disciplines within the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to include Imagery Science and Data Science.  As an additional duty in this position, he also managed his office’s Data Center and Cloud Portfolio.  

 

Previously, Mr. Allen was an Executive Account Manager at Amazon Web Services, where he earned his AWS Cloud Practitioner and AI certification. In this role, he led a team that generated $500 million in annual revenue for three consecutive years by driving cloud adoption across all 18 agencies of the U.S. Intelligence Community.

 

A Webster University graduate with a B.A. in Political Science, Mr. Allen has earned several high-level honors. His accolades include the National Security Initiative, the Department of Justice Distinguished Service Award, and the Army Achievement Medal, which was awarded for his actions during combat.   Mr. Allen is happily married to Marjorie Grace Allen.