Louis E. Grever was born and raised in Louisville, Kentucky. He attended the University of Louisville and studied electrical engineering and police sciences. He earned a Bachelors of Science degree in Police Administration and Management from the University of Louisville in 1984, and later in 2000, a Masters of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from Strayer University, Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the FBI, Mr. Grever served as a police officer for four years with the Jefferson County Police Department in Louisville, Kentucky. In 1988, he entered on duty with the FBI and after a period of training, was assigned to the Jackson Division. While in Jackson, Mr. Grever worked a variety of investigations to include violent crimes, public corruption, drug violations, and white collar crime. He also served as a member of the Jackson Division's SWAT team and was certified as a Technically Trained Agent. In 1992, Mr. Grever was promoted and transferred to FBIHQ assigned to the Engineering Section within the Information Resources Division. His duties included providing direct support to FBI field operations that employed highly specialized technical methods to accomplish the mandates of federal court orders. Later in 1992, Mr. Grever was assigned to the newly formed Tactical Operations Unit and was responsible for developing and delivering unique technical capabilities in support of high priority criminal, counterintelligence and counterterrorism investigations. In 2001, he was promoted to Program Manager of the Technical Threat Assessment Program within the FBI Laboratory Division and managed personnel and resources charged with planning and conducting sensitive field technical operations. In 2002, Mr. Grever was named the Unit Chief of TACOPS I, a unit within the newly formed Tactical Operations Support Center (TOSC), Investigative Technology Division. While serving as the Unit Chief of TOSC TACOPS I, Mr. Grever led personnel who planned, coordinated and directed numerous field technical operations that supported many of the FBI's most important and sensitive endeavors. His team of specialists were directly involved in several of the FBI's most notable recent successes to include terrorism interdiction activities, counterintelligence matters, and significant organized crime and public corruption investigations. In 2003, Mr. Grever was selected as the Assistant Section Chief for the Tactical Operations Section, Investigative Technology Division, and was made responsible for programs, personnel, and resources assigned to the FBI's Tactical Operations Support Center, Physical Surveillance Unit, and Special Projects Construction Unit. While Assistant Section Chief, he directly supervised FBI teams that deployed and executed in excess of 300 highly sensitive field operations targeting terrorist cells, hostile foreign agents, and major criminal offenders. In October 2004, Mr. Grever was promoted to Chief of the Tactical Operations Section, Operational Technology Division, and was charged with managing the Video Surveillance Unit, Physical Surveillance Unit, and the Tactical Operations Support Center. In that position, Mr. Grever had overall responsibility for one of the FBI's most important operational support programs, the Tactical Operations Program, and ensured technical support provided to another significant program, the FBI's Physical Surveillance Program. Mr. Grever also managed the deployment of FBI's technical personnel and capability that supported FBI overseas investigative efforts. In August of 2006, upon the formation of the FBI Science and Technology Branch (STB), Mr. Grever was assigned as the interim Special Assistant to the STB Executive Assistant Director and assisted in the initial organization and provisioning of the four components that comprised the new Branch. At the conclusion of that temporary assignment, Mr. Grever was direct appointed to serve as the Section Chief of the Special Technologies and Applications Office (STAO), one of the four core STB elements. In that role, he was responsible for the discovery, development and delivery of innovative, technically-enabled investigative and analytical capability. In May 2007, Mr. Grever was promoted to the position of Deputy Assistant Director, and continues to advance the STAO mission of providing the FBI's investigative and intelligence priorities with technical analysis capabilities through innovative techniques, tools and systems. On October 14, 2008, Director Mueller announced Mr. Grever's appointment as the Executive Assistant Director of the Science and Technology Branch. Mr. Grever and his wife, Theresa Jean Grever, have two teenage daughters - Diane and Leslie. They live in Stafford County, Virginia.