Our People
Sharyn Johnsfounder and principal consultant
Sharyn Johns is the founder and principal consultant of Tenth Intelligence with over 30 years experience in intelligence and law enforcement. After a distinguished 24 year career with the Australian Criminal Intelligence Commission and Australian Customs Service, since 2013 Sharyn has been specialising in designing and facilitating intelligence and analytic thinking programs, and designing intelligence frameworks and processes nationally and internationally. She has designed and delivered programs for state and federal law enforcement agencies in Australia and also worked in The Hague, Nigeria, India, the Western Balkans and across the ASEAN countries – developing and delivering intelligence programs and processes for multi-agency and multi-disciplinary audiences. Sharyn continues to work with AUSTRAC on a part-time basis as the Director – Intelligence Tradecraft, as the lead facilitator for AUSTRAC’s international Financial Intelligence Analyst Courses. Sharyn has received a number of professional awards, recognising her innovative and distinguished contributions to the intelligence profession. She has a Master of Justice, majoring in organised crime and corruption, as well as other post graduate qualifications in public sector management, applied management and organised crime. Sharyn is a member of a number of professional intelligence organisations, a qualified Level 1 Executive Coach, and a casual sessional lecturer in criminal intelligence with the Queensland University of Technology.
Mariana Zafeirakopoulossenior consultant
Mariana Zafeirakopoulos is our senior consultant and she has diverse experience in intelligence practice from working in international organisations, criminal tribunals, federal law enforcement; and the private sector – in addition to defence and geopolitics and the education sector. While Mariana has worked in both operational and strategic intelligence environments, her passion is informing and shaping futures. She has designed and delivered strategic intelligence training to the Five Eyes community in the USA, across Australia, Hong Kong and India; and brings her unique experience in strategic design from design thinking, innovation, systemic design and social design disciplines. Mariana is currently undertaking a PhD in trans-disciplinary innovation approaches to intelligence practices, exploring and imagining the future of intelligence practice in a world of evolving complexity. She has presented on this theme at AIPIO conferences in NZ (2018) and in Australia (2016, 2019). As an Adjunct Lecturer, university teacher and trainer and assessor (Certificate IV) Mariana brings her experience in curriculum design and delivery and student collaboration to the classroom.
Sunanda Spiteri-Rowellcasual consultant and trainer
Sunanda Spiteri-Rowell (known as Sunny) is our casual consultant and trainer. Sunny is currently the a Regional Intelligence Manager within the federal government. Sunny leads a team of intelligence analysts who work predominantly on serious financial crime networks, organised criminal groups and child exploitation cases. Sunny was formerly a Senior Intelligence Analyst in a Cyber Operations team where she worked on Darknet, hacking and cryptocurrency cases with state and federal police. Sunny has over 12 years’ experience working with financial intelligence and holds tertiary qualifications in programming, intelligence and data analysis.