Cait Conley is a proven leader of public and private organizations responsible for solving hard national security challenges. Conley has over two decades of extensive global special operations, counterterrorism and homeland security leadership experience.
Conley most recently served as the Senior Advisor to the Director of CISA (the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency as part of the Department of Homeland Security). In that role, she provided direct counsel to the Director on operational and strategic priorities, to include serving as CISA’s Senior Executive overseeing the agency’s multidomain election security mission supporting state and local election offices in all 50 states and territories and the private sector vendor community. Conley oversaw CISA’s delivery of thousands of physical and cybersecurity services and trainings supporting tens of thousands of critical infrastructure stakeholders to include onsite and remote assessments, penetration testing, incident response assistance, and tabletop exercises to rehearse incident response and communications plans and processes.
Prior to joining CISA, Conley served as the Director for Counterterrorism on the National Security Council where she led policy efforts to counter threats from Middle East state and non-state actors and domestic emerging threats, to include serving as the lead for counter-UAS related policies to include helping author the Counter-UAS National Action Plan.
Conley is also a decorated combat veteran with six overseas deployments, and over a decade of service in the Special Operations community. During her military career, Conley served in a range of tactical and operational leadership positions to include special operations team leader and troop commander, as well as the Operations Officer (J3) for both regional and global counter terrorism and counter-state task forces.
Conley is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point and holds a Master of Public Policy Degree from Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and a Master’s degree in Business Administration from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
