Mikayla Cox is a Senior Risk Consultant at Control Risks ONE Global Risk and Operations Centre (Americas). Mikayla has extensive experience leading intelligence management, collection, and analysis. She is focused on adapting and applying her experience in human intelligence, open-source, and counterintelligence to corporate risk management.
Recent tasks that Mikayla has worked on include:
Mikayla previously worked as an intelligence officer for the US Marine Corps with experience operating overseas in the Indo-pacific region, leading intelligence teams, open-source collection, all-source fusion and intelligence operational planning with allied forces. After separating from active duty, she started at Control Risks as a consultant on the Digital Risks team (Americas). She applied her military experience to cyber threat intelligence and analysis conducting in-depth maturity assessments, developing tailored cyber crisis scenarios, and supporting client investigations and compliance strategy.
Mikayla holds a bachelor's degree in international studies with East Asian concentration from Spelman College in Atlanta, during which she studied abroad at Fudan and Jiao Tong universities in Shanghai, China. Mikayla is conversationally fluent in Mandarin Chinese.