Wayne Salzgaber serves as the Director of the Current Operations Division (COD) in the Office of Operations Coordination at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS). In this role, he is responsible for coordinating and integrating operations, situational awareness and information sharing activities across the homeland security enterprise.

Mr. Salzgaber recently returned to DHS from a long-term detail to INTERPOL Washington, the United States National Central Bureau, at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) where he served as the agency’s 14th Director. As Director, Mr. Salzgaber acted on behalf of the U.S. Attorney General as the official U.S. representative to INTERPOL, the world’s largest International Criminal Police Organization, and its 194-member countries. In this capacity, he led the U.S. Government’s efforts to share and exchange international criminal investigative, border security and humanitarian assistance information across the INTERPOL global communications platform and had responsibility for a number of international capacity building and biometric information sharing counterterrorism and border security programs.

Mr. Salzgaber has worked in the public sector for over 32 years serving in additional key investigative, law enforcement and military leadership positions with the U.S. Coast Guard, Coast Guard Investigative Service, the Office of Inspectors General at the Departments of Homeland
Security and Treasury. Mr. Salzgaber was appointed to the Senior Executive Service in 2010 and holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminology from Saint Leo University where he graduated Magna Cum Laude.