Leadership

Andy Lustig
Partner, Cooley
alustig@cooley.com

Matt Devost
CEO & Cofounder, OODA LLC;
former CEO, FusionX
mgd@ooda.com

Jeremy King
President, Benchmark Executive Search
jeremy@benchmarkes.com

Christy Abizald
Former Director, National Counterterrorism Center (NCTC)

Mike Appelbaum
CEO, Immersive Wisdom

Robert P. Ashley
CEO, Ashley Global Leadership and Strategy; former Director, Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA)

Jackie Barbieri
Founder & CEO, Whitespace

Eric Bednash
CEO, Racktop Systems

Stephanie Bellistri
General Partner, New North Ventures 

Andy Black
Entrepreneur and executive in national security

Wes Blackwell
Partner, Booz Allen Ventures; former US Navy Aviator

Andy Boyd
Former Agency Senior

Michael Capps
Cofounder & CEO, Howso; former President, Epic Games

Joe Carvill
VP, Strategy, Hadean

Maj Gen (ret) Charlie Cleveland
Senior at Palantir; NGA; US Army

Bill Crowell
Partner, Alsop Louie Partners;
former Deputy Director, NSA

Jon Darby
Board of Directors, ManTech; former Director of Operations, NSA

Jamie Dos Santos
Chairman & CEO, Cybraics Defense Corp; former CEO, Terremark Federal Group

Tim Estes
Founder, Executive Chairman & Co-CEO, Digital Reasoning

Bob Flores
Former CTO, CIA

Katherine M. Ferguson
Advisor

Chris Gladwin
Cofounder & CEO, Ocient; former Founder & CEO, Cleversafe

Sue Gordon
Board Member, Avantus Federal & CACI; former Principal Deputy Director of National Intelligence; Deputy Director, NGA; Federal Executive, CIA

Bob Gourley
Cofounder & CTO, OODA LLC; former CTO, DIA

Will Grannis
Managing Director, Cloud CTO, Google

Lt Gen Mike Groen
Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, Pentagon; USMC

Scott Herman
Chief Product Officer, Maxar

Brian Hibbeln
Venture Partner, SineWave Ventures; former Director, DoD

Kevin Higgins
Former Agency Senior

France Hoang
Cofounder & Chief Strategy Officer, boodleAI; Board Member, MAG Aerospace

Lt Gen (ret) Scott Howell
Consultant and Board Member; former Commander, Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC)

Tim Hughes
SVP of Global Business & Government Affairs, SpaceX

Jim Hunt
Managing Partner, Lavrock Ventures

Gus Hunt
Managing Director, Accenture Federal Services; former CTO, CIA

Jack Kerrigan
Partner, Razor’s Edge Ventures; former COO & GC, Blackbird Technologies

Mike Kushin
President & CEO, Parsons; former Six3 Systems and CACI

Francis Landolf
Consultant; former Senior Executive, NSA

Charlene Leubecker
Owner & CEO, CPL Consulting; former Deputy Intelligence Community CIO; former Director of Clandestine Technology, CIA

Dov Levy
Cofounder, Dovel Technologies

Elma Levy
Cofounder, Dovel Technologies

Ellen McCarthy
Consultant & Board Member; former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence & Research

Kirk McConnell
Former Staff Member, Senate Armed Services Committee, Senate Intelligence Committee, and House Intelligence Committee

William “Mac” McHenry
Senior at DIU; former CIA & USMC

Dawn Meyerriecks
Blackstone Advisor, former CIA DS&T, DNI AT&F, AOL Products SVP,  DISA CTO

Jonathan Moneymaker
CEO, BlueHalo; former President, Altamira

Tim Newberry
Founder, BlackHorse Solutions; National Security Investor & Advisor

Maj Gen (ret) Aaron Prupas
Founder, Brain Trust Solutions; former Director, Project MAVEN

Tim Reardon
Managing Partner, NextFED

Randy Sabett
Special Counsel, Cyber/Data/Privacy, Cooley; former NSA

Jen Sovada
President, Public Sector, SandboxAQ; former US Air Force ISR

Peggy Styer
Managing Partner, Razor’s Edge Ventures; former founder & CEO, Blackbird Technologies

Adam Vincent
Founder & former CEO, ThreatConnect

Alan Wade
President, Wade Associates Inc; former CIO, CIA

Mark Walsh
Founder & Managing Director, Ruxton Ventures; former Head of Office of Investment and Innovation, US Small Business Administration

Bryan Ware
CEO, Next5; former Assistant Director, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency; former Assistant Director for Cybersecurity, DHS