Matthew Floyd has become Deputy Assistant Director within the FBI’s Criminal Investigative Division, bringing more than two decades of Bureau experience across criminal investigations, cyber programs, financial crimes, international operations, and enterprise risk oversight.
In this role, Floyd provides executive leadership and strategic direction for national criminal investigative programs. His portfolio includes financial crimes, public corruption, cyber-enabled fraud, money laundering, virtual assets, forensic accounting, asset forfeiture, and other national criminal threats.
Floyd’s current responsibilities include enterprise governance, organizational performance, risk management, resource alignment, workforce development, and advancing mission priorities across complex investigative and operational portfolios. He also works with senior Department of Justice, Intelligence Community, law enforcement, regulatory, and private-sector stakeholders.
Before becoming Deputy Assistant Director, Floyd served as an FBI Inspector, conducting independent assessments of field offices and programs. In that role, he evaluated governance, leadership effectiveness, compliance, risk posture, organizational controls, decision-making, and accountability frameworks.
Floyd previously served as Assistant Special Agent in Charge in Honolulu, where he oversaw criminal, administrative, and special operations programs for the FBI’s Honolulu Field Office. His work included managing high-risk operational portfolios, crisis response, specialized capabilities, and partnerships with federal, state, local, and community stakeholders.
From 2019 to 2022, Floyd served as Legal Attaché for Belgium, Luxembourg, and the U.S. Missions to NATO and the European Union. Based in Brussels, he represented the FBI in matters involving law enforcement, diplomacy, multinational coordination, cross-border investigations, and international partnerships.
His earlier FBI leadership assignments included roles in the Cyber Division, white collar crime, public corruption, civil rights, securities fraud, and corporate fraud. Those positions gave him experience across cyber-enabled threats, financial crime, money laundering, public corruption, crisis management, and complex investigations with domestic and international dimensions.
Floyd joined the FBI more than 21 years ago and has held positions in Washington, D.C.; Hawaii; Belgium; Pennsylvania; Oregon; Florida; and New Mexico. His background also includes early career experience in financial markets, which informs his work on governance, fiduciary responsibility, risk management, and organizational performance.
