Marke Cross, OPC’s Interim Executive Director, joined the agency as an investigator in March 2017. Mr. Cross was promoted to Senior Investigator in October 2018 before being appointed to the Legal Counsel position in October 2021.

Mr. Cross also served as an Assistant State’s Attorney in the Office of the State’s Attorney for Baltimore City’s Police Integrity Unit before returning to OPC in January 2024 as the Deputy Executive Director. Prior to joining OPC, Mr. Cross investigated complex multi-claimant schemes designed to defraud the Deepwater Horizon Economic and Property Damage Settlement Program in the wake of the 2010 British Petroleum Oil Spill disaster.

Mr. Cross received his bachelor’s degree from the University of Richmond, where he triple majored in International Studies, Political Science, and History, and he received his law degree from the Widener University Delaware Law School.