Ken Robinson(IX)
- Writer
- Producer
- Actor
Ken Robinson
Executive Chairman of the Board
Oppida Global, International
Ken is the CEO, and Executive Producer of Oppida Global Media, a Television, & Motion Picture production company in Beverly Hills, California - where he has written and Produced for NBC, Universal and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, producing "Inside the War Room, for CNN, and the critically acclaimed "Hornet's Nest" based on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. His first television series, E- Ring, starred Dennis Hopper and Benjamin Bratt. He received the First-Place National Headliner Award for the 2001 reporting on Al Qaeda & the Attacks on America. He has written and sold a feature screenplay to Disney, a CIA thriller, "Interns". In 2018 he co-created, and developed for television a ten-part series titled "Condor" to air on the AT&T Audience Network, a new conspiracy thriller series produced by MGM, and Skydance Television, based on the hit feature film "Three Days of the Condor."
Oppida Global International is a multinational corporation of professional services staffed by specially selected executives who enable their clients to anticipate, identify, validate, and then resolve their most complex challenges - utilizing everything from facilitated analytical processes, complex investigations, on the ground specialist, all while leveraging the power of optimization, artificial intelligence, blockchain security, and real-time monitoring of data-in-motion.
Ken is an internationally recognized expert in intelligence, counter-terrorism, and national security - with 30 years of experience in Special Forces, Special Mission Units, and the US Intelligence Community. He helped design the nations National Exercise Program, with detailed experience in crisis and consequence management, including reconstituting a government after a national emergency. Heavily invested in media, cyber, all-source intelligence, science and technology, with a focus on sustainability, survivability, and cutting-edge innovation.
Ken maintains unique access to global markets, senior leaders, and best in class solution providers. He possesses on-the-ground management experience in solving complex issues for governments, multinational corporations, and high net worth individuals in the most dangerous places on earth.
Ken created and executive produced industrial distance learning training tools, and Serious Gaming, which supported the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). This support included battlefield visualization, as well as creating, writing, and executive producing virtual reality (VR) based interactive software solutions for the Military Intelligence community, the Army 360 series. Ken was nominated by five of the most senior officials in government to serve on the United States President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), which exercises oversight responsibilities of the United States Intelligence Community.
He provides objective advice, and liaison to solve some of the most complex international problems. His approach is to remain technology and vendor agnostic - providing objective solutions for the world's challenges. Ken does not "predict," rather he "anticipates," the possibilities of any given challenge and then sets measurable goals and objectives accordingly. His professional services have a single standard of excellence, which is offered equally to clients, vendors, stakeholders, and investors alike - accomplishing the mission, legally, morally, ethically, on time, and on budget.
Ken enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1975, was a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, served in the 1st Battalion (Ranger) 75th Infantry, where he earned the Ranger Tab. He later received an Army ROTC commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate, and attended the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses, and the Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced Courses. He is a graduate of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course, Special Forces Qualification Course, the U.S. Army Ranger Course, Special Forces Jump-master Course, a Master Parachutist, numerous foreign courses to include the Israeli Productive Interrogation Course, and the United States Marine Corps Command and General Staff College.
His previous assignments include: Infantry Rifle Platoon Leader, Detachment Commander for a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha (SFODA), Assistant S3 (Operations), Operations and Intelligence Officer, Joint Task Force Middle East, Commander, Long Range Surveillance Company, XVIII Airborne Corps, Company Commander, and Battalion S-3, Tactical Exploitation Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, FSC Commander, Squadron Executive Officer, and Detachment Commander, United States Army Office of Military Support, Intelligence Requirements officer to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Action Officer, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J-3, Special Operations Division, Operational Support Branch, and Special Assistant for Intelligence to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense.
Ken holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Auburn University, and a degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.
His diversity of international experience includes leading a successful hostage rescue - kidnap and ransom company, ten years of combat reporting experience as the Senior Terrorism and National Security Analyst, and Senior Producer for CNN, embedded with US and allied special operations forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa for the past eighteen years.
Ken's business locations include the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Austria, and the Russian Federation.
Ken's home base is Beverly Hills, California.
Ken is the CEO, and Executive Producer of Oppida Global Media, a Television, & Motion Picture production company in Beverly Hills, California - where he has written and Produced for NBC, Universal and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, producing "Inside the War Room, for CNN, and the critically acclaimed "Hornet's Nest" based on the war in Afghanistan and Iraq. His first television series, E- Ring, starred Dennis Hopper and Benjamin Bratt. He received the First-Place National Headliner Award for the 2001 reporting on Al Qaeda & the Attacks on America. He has written and sold a feature screenplay to Disney, a CIA thriller, "Interns". In 2018 he co-created, and developed for television a ten-part series titled "Condor" to air on the AT&T Audience Network, a new conspiracy thriller series produced by MGM, and Skydance Television, based on the hit feature film "Three Days of the Condor."
Oppida Global International is a multinational corporation of professional services staffed by specially selected executives who enable their clients to anticipate, identify, validate, and then resolve their most complex challenges - utilizing everything from facilitated analytical processes, complex investigations, on the ground specialist, all while leveraging the power of optimization, artificial intelligence, blockchain security, and real-time monitoring of data-in-motion.
Ken is an internationally recognized expert in intelligence, counter-terrorism, and national security - with 30 years of experience in Special Forces, Special Mission Units, and the US Intelligence Community. He helped design the nations National Exercise Program, with detailed experience in crisis and consequence management, including reconstituting a government after a national emergency. Heavily invested in media, cyber, all-source intelligence, science and technology, with a focus on sustainability, survivability, and cutting-edge innovation.
Ken maintains unique access to global markets, senior leaders, and best in class solution providers. He possesses on-the-ground management experience in solving complex issues for governments, multinational corporations, and high net worth individuals in the most dangerous places on earth.
Ken created and executive produced industrial distance learning training tools, and Serious Gaming, which supported the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). This support included battlefield visualization, as well as creating, writing, and executive producing virtual reality (VR) based interactive software solutions for the Military Intelligence community, the Army 360 series. Ken was nominated by five of the most senior officials in government to serve on the United States President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB), which exercises oversight responsibilities of the United States Intelligence Community.
He provides objective advice, and liaison to solve some of the most complex international problems. His approach is to remain technology and vendor agnostic - providing objective solutions for the world's challenges. Ken does not "predict," rather he "anticipates," the possibilities of any given challenge and then sets measurable goals and objectives accordingly. His professional services have a single standard of excellence, which is offered equally to clients, vendors, stakeholders, and investors alike - accomplishing the mission, legally, morally, ethically, on time, and on budget.
Ken enlisted in the U.S. Army in 1975, was a Distinguished Honor Graduate from the Non-Commissioned Officer Academy, served in the 1st Battalion (Ranger) 75th Infantry, where he earned the Ranger Tab. He later received an Army ROTC commission as a Distinguished Military Graduate, and attended the Infantry Officer Basic and Advanced courses, and the Military Intelligence Officer Basic and Advanced Courses. He is a graduate of the Special Forces Assessment and Selection Course, Special Forces Qualification Course, the U.S. Army Ranger Course, Special Forces Jump-master Course, a Master Parachutist, numerous foreign courses to include the Israeli Productive Interrogation Course, and the United States Marine Corps Command and General Staff College.
His previous assignments include: Infantry Rifle Platoon Leader, Detachment Commander for a Special Forces Operational Detachment-Alpha (SFODA), Assistant S3 (Operations), Operations and Intelligence Officer, Joint Task Force Middle East, Commander, Long Range Surveillance Company, XVIII Airborne Corps, Company Commander, and Battalion S-3, Tactical Exploitation Battalion, XVIII Airborne Corps, FSC Commander, Squadron Executive Officer, and Detachment Commander, United States Army Office of Military Support, Intelligence Requirements officer to the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, Action Officer, Joint Chiefs of Staff, J-3, Special Operations Division, Operational Support Branch, and Special Assistant for Intelligence to the Deputy Secretary of Defense, Department of Defense.
Ken holds a Bachelor's degree in International Relations from Auburn University, and a degree in Strategic Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence College, Defense Intelligence Agency, Washington, D.C.
His diversity of international experience includes leading a successful hostage rescue - kidnap and ransom company, ten years of combat reporting experience as the Senior Terrorism and National Security Analyst, and Senior Producer for CNN, embedded with US and allied special operations forces in Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Horn of Africa for the past eighteen years.
Ken's business locations include the United Arab Emirates, Indonesia, Austria, and the Russian Federation.
Ken's home base is Beverly Hills, California.
