Adrian Martinez

Adrian Martinez is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of the EKS Group, LLC - a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business based in Tampa, Florida. Since 2006, EKS Group is one of the premier Human Intelligence (HUMINT) tradecraft training companies currently supporting the Department of Defense, Department of Justice, Department of Homeland Security and other US Intelligence Community agencies. Mr. Martinez’s 20-year US Army career included 10 years of Foreign Area Officer and Military Attaché assignments in Central America, South America and Africa. After retiring from the US Army in 2001, Mr. Martinez served as a defense contractor for the US Central Command Intelligence Directorate in Tampa, with multiple deployments to Cuba, Afghanistan, Iraq, Djibouti, Qatar, Uganda and Romania. Mr. Martinez is a graduate of the 2013 Leadership Tampa program and active member of the Leadership Tampa Alumni Community Outreach Committee and the Knights of Columbus. Originally from Mayaguez, Puerto Rico, Mr. Martinez received his B.S. in Aeronautical Studies from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University and a M.A. in Latin American Studies from the University of Florida where he currently serves as a member of the Alumni Board.