Tim Sample is President of the Intelligence and National Security Alliance, a professional association for intelligence practitioners in government, academia and the private sector. Sample has over thirty years of service to the Intelligence Community including Air Force Intelligence, the CIA and serving as Staff Director of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.

Sample’s experiences prior to Congress have included service as both an intelligence and imagery analyst in the Central Intelligence Agency, As Deputy U.S. Negotiator for the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks (START I), and Executive Director of the Central Intelligence Nonproliferation Center. Outside of government service, Sample was co-founder and first President of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, a not-for-profit public policy research institute and was the Vice President for Strategic Intelligence Strategies and Programs at General Dynamics AIS.