Thaddeus M. Bingel

Thad Bingel is a founding partner of Command Group. At Command, Mr. Bingel currently oversees all current client operations and engagements across the Group’s business lines and practice areas. In this capacity he has P&L responsibilities for projects, business lines, and the overall Group.

Bingel also oversees recruitment, hiring, training and deployment of project teams, provides supervision to most of the Group’s personnel and managers, and helps manage the Group’s subsidiary and joint venture entities.

Mr. Bingel is also a subject matter expert in border security, immigration enforcement, homeland security, counter terrorism, insider threat, customs, physical security and other related security disciplines. He also offers significant expertise and practical experience in large complex government organizations and managing their transformation.

Prior to founding Command, Mr. Bingel served in positions of responsibility in both the Executive Branch and Congress. During this period Mr. Bingel has developed key relationships with high level officials, attained an intimate understanding of the political process in Washington, DC, and amassed a wealth of knowledge, both administrative and operational, in the field of border management and homeland security.

From May, 2005 until March, 2009, Mr. Bingel served as a senior political appointee and leader in U.S. Customs & Border Protection (CBP), the nation’s largest law enforcement agency and the component of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) responsible for securing the nation’s borders.

During his tenure this unified border agency grew to more than 50,000 employees with an annual budget of $11 billion. At CBP, Mr. Bingel held a Top Secret/SCI clearance and helped lead the agency implementation of key Presidential and Secretarial initiatives including the doubling of Border Patrol agents and the building of 700 miles of fencing in a two-year period.

Bingel held the position of Chief of Staff for then Commissioner Basham in the fall of 2007 and served through the transition period into the incoming Obama Administration. In this capacity, Mr. Bingel was the second ranking political appointee at the agency and served as part of the executive leadership team and as a principal policy advisor to Commissioner Ralph W. Basham assisting in the day to day operations and management of the agency as well as overseeing the agency’s interactions with the White House, DHS headquarters, Congress, state and local governments and the press.

Before serving as Chief of Staff, Mr. Bingel served under Commissioner Robert Bonner as Assistant Commissioner for the Office of Congressional Affairs where he managed all of CBP’s relations with the United States Senate and House of Representatives at a time of unprecedented congressional interest in border security and immigration.

Bingel in this capacity also led the successful confirmation hearing process for the appointment of Commissioner Basham and helped secure congressional support, approval and appropriations for key agency and Department initiatives.

Prior to his appointment to CBP, Mr. Bingel served as Majority Counsel for the full House Judiciary Committee during the 108th and 109th Congresses. His duties included preparing for Full Committee hearings and managing a broad spectrum of legislation, ranging from bills on Class Action Reform to Justice for Victims of Terrorism, from subcommittee through passage into law.

Before joining the House Judiciary Committee, Mr. Bingel served in the 107th Congress as counsel and policy analyst for then Majority Leader Dick Armey (R-TX), where he was responsible for technology, telecomm, energy, environment, resources, and other issues for the House Majority Leader’s office, including in particular providing assistance to the special legislative committee headed by the Majority Leader which created the Department of Homeland Security in 2002 after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001.

Previously, Mr. Bingel served as Legislative Director and Legislative Assistant to two Members of Congress, including serving as a principal advisor during House committee and floor consideration of legislation responding to the 9/11 attacks such as the PATRIOT Act.

A native of upstate New York, Mr. Bingel received his law degree from Georgetown University and his bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross.