Tamer Hassan is a business executive who serves as CEO of White Ops. He is a co-founder of White Ops and previously founded Compel Data Technologies. Prior to his business career, Hassan served in the U.S. Air Force as a Major. Early life Tamer Hassan was raised in Northern California and taught himself to code at the age of eight. He studied at the Air Force Academy in Colorado and after the 9-11 attacks In 2018 Hassan led a collaboration between the public and private sector, including the FBI and Google, in the discovery and disruption of the 3ve botnet fraud. It was the largest FBI-private collaboration in history. Hassan was named CEO of White Ops in 2019. In 2019 Fast Company ranked Hassan first on its "Most Creative Person in Business" list.