NSI Advisory Board

Judy Ansley
Former Assistant to the President and Deputy National Security Advisor
National Security Council

Christopher Ford
Former Assistant Secretary for International Security and Nonproliferation
Department of State

Lenora Peters Gant
Former Senior National Intelligence Officer
Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Gen. Karen Gibson (Ret.)
Keynote Speaker, National Security and Cyber SME, Executive Leader
Hyalite Strategy Group

General Michael Hayden (Ret.)
Former Director
Central Intelligence Agency and National Security Agency

Suzanne Wilson Heckenberg
President
Intelligence and National Security Alliance and Foundation (INSA)

Ellen E. McCarthy
Former Assistant Secretary of State for Intelligence and Research
US Department of State

John Norton Moore
former Walter L. Brown Professor of Law & Director
Center for National Security Law, UVA

Yleem Poblete
Member, Board of Advisors; Co-Founder
The American Jewish International Relations Institute; Poblete Analysis Group

Alan Charles Raul
Sidley Austin LLP Privacy and Cybersecurity Partner
Former Vice Chairman of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board
Former Associate Counsel to the President
Sidley Austin LLP

Frances Townsend
Former Assistant to the President for Homeland Security and Counterterrorism
Executive Office of the President of the United States

Vice Admiral TJ White (Ret.)
Former Commander
Fleet Cyber Command, US Tenth Fleet, and Navy Space Command
CTC Tech Leaders and Innovators Council
CTC Cyber and Tech Security Council

Edward D. Wagner
Vice President and Chief Information Security Officer
SAP National Security Services
NSI Faculty

Craig J. Wiener
Rice University
Member, Advisory Board on Research and Technology Security
MITRE
Technical Fellow
Fellow

Major. Mika’il Ali
Antonin Scalia Law School
Judge Advocate
United States Marine Corps
National Security Attorney
Fellow

Omario Kanji
University of Padua; GMU Antonin Scalia Law School; Via Oberdan Holdings LLC
Visiting Professor; Adjunct Professor; Principal, Legal, and Business Operations
Senior Fellow

LTC Michael Nelson
George Mason University
Professor of Military Science
George Mason University
Professor of Military Science
Visiting Fellow
Fellows

Christian Beckner
Visiting Fellow
National Retail Federation
Executive Director, NRF Center for Digital Risk & Innovation

Meghan Biery
GlobalFoundries
former Director of Government and Strategic Security Affairs
Visiting Fellow

Jennifer Cafarella
Fellow
Institute for the Study of War
Director of Strategic Initiatives and National Security Fellow

Tyler L. Davidson
Elastic
Senior Director, Americas Commercial & U.S. Public Sector Legal
Visiting Fellow

Loren Dealy Mahler
Fellow
National Security Commission on Emerging Biotechnology
Communications Director

Jennifer DeTrani
Nisos
Chief Legal & Corporate Affairs Officer, Director, Corporate Secretary
Visiting Fellow

Kara Frederick
The White House
Special Assistant to the President and Senior Policy Advisor
Visiting Fellow

Bishop Garrison
U.S. Secretary of Defense
Former Senior Advisor to the Secretary of Defense on Human Capital and DEI
Senior Fellow

Hope Goins
U.S. House of Representatives
Democratic Staff Director for House Committee on Homeland Security
Visiting Fellow

Mark Grider
Nelson Mullins & Scarborough
Partner and Chair of Litigation, Government Response, and Crisis Management Team
Visiting Fellow

Chris Hale
Cisco Systems
Senior Director of Regulatory Affairs, Cyber and National Security Law
Visiting Fellow

Larry Hanauer
Institute for Defense Analyses
Deputy Directory, Global Dynamics and Intelligence Divisions
Visiting Fellow

Joshua C. Huminski
Senior Fellow
Mike Rogers Center for Intelligence & Global Affairs
Senior Vice President, Intelligence & National Security Programs

Gus Hurwitz
University of Pennsylvania
Senior Fellow and Academic Director, U.Penn Center for Technology, Innovation and Competition
Fellow

Allison Jaslow
Sanford School of Public Policy Duke University
Adjunct Professor of the Practice
Visiting Fellow

Sam Kaplan
Palo Alto Networks
Senior Director and Assistant General Counsel, Public Policy and Government Affairs
Visiting Fellow

Omario Kanji
University of Padua; GMU Antonin Scalia Law School; Via Oberdan Holdings LLC
Visiting Professor; Adjunct Professor; Principal, Legal, and Business Operations
Senior Fellow

Klon Kitchen
Beacon Global Strategies LLC
Managing Director and Global Technology Practice Lead
Senior Fellow

Amy K. Mitchell
Kilo Alpha Strategies
Founding Partner; Former Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
Senior Fellow

Mark Montgomery
Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation, Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Senior Director and Senior Fellow

Joseph Moreno
SAP National Security Services, Inc.
General Counsel and Corporate Security
Visiting Fellow

Alexandra Seymour
Subcommittee on Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Protection, Committee on Homeland Security, U.S. House of Representatives
Staff Director
Visiting Fellow

Paul Taylor
House Judiciary Committee's Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice
Former Chief Counsel
Fellow

Bryana Tucci
Amazon Web Services
Principal Tech BDM, ICMP Lead and Principal National Security Customer Advisor
Visiting Fellow

Melissa Vice
Cyber Crimes Center, U.S. Department of Defense
Director of Vulnerability Disclosure Program (VDP)
Fellow

Russell Wald
Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence
Executive Director
Visiting Fellow

Jeffrey R. Wells
Council on Foreign Relations; Truman National Security Project
Life Member; Defense Council Fellow
Fellow

Eric Wenger
Cisco
Senior Director, Cyber and Emerging Tech Policy, Global Government Affairs
Visiting Fellow

Joseph Williams
Washington State Department of Commerce
State of Washington Information and Communications Technology Sector Lead
Visiting Fellow
Associates

Lauren Claffey
U.S. Department of Homeland Security
Fmr. Dep. Asst. Secretary, Strategic Communications