Theodore "Ted" Roark was born on January 23, 1949 in New York, NY. He is the founder and CEO of Roark Instruments and is the arch-nemesis of Stephen Bartowski. There is some evidence that Ted is the head of Fulcrum himself. It is noted that Roark's Intersect cube is differently designed than other Intersect versions. Many of the previous Intersect designs have required the Cipher, rather than a large cube confined within a tube. His Intersect was later tweaked by the CIA and the NSA, where it became the Intersect 2.0, used through the entirety of Season Three and Season Four.