Working for a mission that’s bigger than herself has always motivated Kimberly Cheatle. Toward the end of her college years, the dual mission of the U.S. Secret Service to investigate and protect resonated so strongly with Cheatle that she knew it was where she wanted to be. Once she set her sights on the federal agency, it took her two and a half years to get hired.
Before finding her way into corporate security, Cheatle would spend the next 27 years dedicating her skillset, experience and leadership to the U.S. Secret Service, becoming the first woman in the role of Assistant Director and developing, directing and implementing the agency’s global protective mission, which includes protective operations and countermeasures to create secure environments with acceptable risk for designated people, places and events.