Speaker

The Honorable John C. (Chris) Inglis Mr. Inglis serves on the boards of AIG, MITRE, and Huntington Bancshares, and as an advisor to Paladin Capital and Ballistic Ventures. Mr. Inglis was the nation’s first Senate-confirmed U.S. National Cyber Director from 2021 to 2023, the National Security Agency Deputy Director and Chief Operating Officer from 2006 to 2014, and, at various times across the period 1982–2025, a member of the Departments of Computer/Cyber Science and Mechanical Engineering at the U.S. Military, Naval, and Air Force Academies. His public service includes 28 years of full-time service at the NSA and post-NSA stints on the U.S. Defense Science Board, Navy Science Board, National Intelligence University Board, Strategic Command Strategic Advisory Group, and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Advisory Council. He holds graduate degrees from Columbia University, Johns Hopkins University, and George Washington University, and an honorary doctorate from the National Intelligence University. In more than 30 years of active and reserve military service, Mr. Inglis was rated as a U.S. Air Force command pilot and retired with the rank of Brigadier General.