Brigadier General (rtd) Saleh Bala is the chief executive officer of White Ink Consult, a private defense and security research, strategic communications, and education consulting firm based in Abuja, Nigeria, and founder of the White Ink Institute for Strategy Education and Research (WISER), in Abuja, an institute that focuses on executive-level and middle-management capacity building on security governance strategy and national security policy. He is a veteran of many military campaigns, and his last military assignment was as Chief of Staff of the Nigerian Army Infantry Corps Center (2012-13).