Mr. Gold has served in various capacities on the Atlantic Area intelligence staff since his Civil Service appointment in January 1990. He is the Atlantic Area technical authority for integrating intelligence into daily Coast Guard operations by providing major policy guidance on program goals and priorities for the division.  He has been a member of numerous mid and senior level working groups, including Coast Guard Streamlining in 1996; U.S. Northern Command Implementation Planning Team, CG-2 reviews of the Coast Guard Intelligence Enterprise, and several modernization and Steady the Service working groups. He is currently a member of Advance Concept Teams that are developing service-level Operating Concepts for Maritime Domain Dominance, Subsea Security and the Gray Zone. During the Deepwater Horizon response in 2010, he deployed to the Unified Area Command as part of the National Incident Commander’s (NIC) business process engineering team where he led an effort to coordinate remote sensing activities that resulted in more effective and efficient use of resources in support of the response. He is currently designated as the LANTAREA lead for Research and Development.

Mr. Gold is a graduate of the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut. Upon commissioning, he was assigned as a Deck Watch Officer aboard USCGC VIGILANT (WMEC 617) home ported in New Bedford, MA. In his remaining tours he served on the intelligence staff for Commander, Atlantic Area and as Operations Officer in USCGC CHILULA (WMEC 153).

Mr. Gold earned a Master of Public Administration from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and earned a Naval War College Diploma by graduating from the Naval War College Nonresident Seminar Program. He is also a graduate of Lead Hampton Roads and in 2017, completed the "Leadership and Management in the Intelligence Community" program at the National Intelligence University.

Outside of his Coast Guard employment, Mr. Gold is on the board of directors of the Academy of Music; a not-for-profit organization that provides music lessons to children who could not otherwise afford them. He holds a Coast Guard license as Master, not to exceed 100 Gross Tons and has taught a licensing class for master, not to exceed 100 gross tons at the Hampton Roads Maritime Training Center. He also owns and operates a part-time charter fishing business.