Individual

John Finbarr Fleming

Executive Chairman, Paragon Solutions US

A CIA veteran and former assistant director for Korea who became Executive Chairman of Paragon's US division following the company's acquisition and merger into US operations.

On the record

Companies

Paragon Solutions→

Incidents in their orbit

Abuse

Graphite spyware caught targeting journalists

2025

Citizen Lab documented Paragon's Graphite zero-click spyware infecting the phones of journalists and civil-society targets — the same mercenary-spyware abuse Paragon marketed itself as being above.

↳A first look at Paragon's proliferating spyware operations — Citizen Lab, 2025 ↗

Sources

↳John Fleming, former CIA official, became executive chairman of Paragon's US division — The Citizen Lab, 2025 ↗