Ricardo Mayoral is currently the Global Trade Division’s Deputy Assistant Director for Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), the principal investigative component of the Department of Homeland Security. HSI investigates, disrupts, and dismantles transnational criminal organizations and terrorist networks that threaten or seek to exploit the customs and immigration laws of the United States.

As the Deputy Assistant Director for HSI’s global trade division, he provides programmatic oversight, operational visibility, and investigative support to HSI special agents conducting criminal investigations worldwide, relating to violations of various U.S. export control and trade laws.

In his current position with HSI, Mr. Mayoral is multi-hatted and serves in the following capacities:

As the Deputy Director of the National Intellectual Property Rights Coordination Center, he shares in the responsibility for directing the federal government’s response to combat global intellectual property theft, intellectual properties rights violations, and public health and safety concerns. As the Director of the Federal Export Enforcement Coordination Center (E2C2), he oversees a joint taskforce, which consists of 22 federal law enforcement and intelligence agencies. This team is responsible for coordinating, de-conflicting, and enhancing export enforcement actions to effectively detect, prevent, disrupt, investigate, and prosecute violations of the U.S. export control laws.

Prior to this assignment, Mr. Mayoral served as the Deputy Assistant Director for the U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Investigative Services Division (ISD). In this role, Mr. Mayoral was responsible for programmatic oversight of HSI’s investigative support and training, to include the Asset Forfeiture Unit, HSI Forensic Lab, HSI Training (Academy), Undercover Operations Unit, and Victim Assistance Program and Management Oversight Unit.

Mr. Mayoral has held various leadership positions within HSI. He was recently the Special Agent in Charge for HSI San Juan, Puerto Rico, which includes seven offices in Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands, five international airports and three major seaports. He also served as the Deputy Special Agent in Charge for HSI San Juan, where he supervised employees across the San Juan area of responsibility. In 2012, Mr. Mayoral held the position of Unit Chief for the Undercover Operations Unit, where he was responsible for evaluating the overall progress of 45

certified undercover operations and validating the effective use of undercover appropriated funds and proceeds totaling approximately $20 million. In 2010, he assumed the role of an Assistant Special Agent in Charge responsible for the day-to-day operations and management of five HSI San Juan investigative groups. In 2007, Mr. Mayoral was promoted to Group Supervisor, and in that role led his group to receive the HSI San Juan Outstanding Accomplishment Award.

In 2004, Mr. Mayoral joined Immigration & Customs Enforcement (ICE) as a Special Agent assigned to San Juan. As the lead agent for OCDETF Operation Watusi, Mr. Mayoral briefed White House Drug czar John P. Walters on this investigation, resulting in the approval of the required funding to stand up the Caribbean Corridor Initiative. Prior to his employment with ICE, Mr. Mayoral led numerous Title III investigations targeting Italian Organized Crime involvement in labor racketeering as a Special Agent with the Department of Labor, Office of the Inspector General. Mr. Mayoral began his government career began in 1995 as a Civil Investigator for the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) in New York City.

Mr. Mayoral holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras campus, with a major in Labor Relations. He is a member of the Senior Executive Service.