Executive Director of CEPP

John Mencer was a Special Agent of the FBI for 24 years until his retirement. During his career, he served in Newark, NJ, at FBI Headquarters in Washington, DC and in Denver, CO. He has management and investigative expertise in many areas, including Computer Crimes, Critical Infrastructure Protection, Terrorism, Foreign Counterintelligence, White Collar Crime and Privacy Law. During his assignment to the Denver Division, he supervised a White Collar Crimes Squad and the multi-agency Metro Gang Task Force. 

Mr. Mencer founded and organized the division's first Cyber Crimes Squad. The squad's range of responsibilities included critical infrastructure protection, computer intrusion and internet fraud; intellectual property rights crimes and computer forensic examinations. Mr. Mencer also founded the Denver Chapter of InfraGard and co-founded the Colorado Regional Computer Forensic Laboratory @Douglas County which later was merged into the FBI’s Regional Forensic Laboratory.

Mr.Mencer is a partner in a privately held IT security firm and has consulted with both the private and public sectors on white collar crime, homeland security, privacy  and disaster planning issues.

Mr. Mencer has a Juris Doctor degree and a Masters of Science in Financial Planning. He is admitted to the bars of the states of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.