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A visionary IC and DoD leader renowned for orchestrating and delivering solutions against intractable hard targets. Throughout her career she has defined, developed and enabled sustained collection, analysis, and C5ISRT architectures. With a superb track record for building and leading multi domain teams across the USG as well as foreign partners, she is known for her innovative approaches and leading high performing organizations. She is an acknowledged deep expert on China and Asia and is a sought-after advisor for Asia Pacific Policy and Strategic Competition. Vice President of Mission Integration at Peraton. Identifies and cultivates capabilities and programs that can be applied to the ever-changing missions of Peraton’s customers.Deputy Director for Intelligence (J2) at the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command. Leads transformational change executing national strategy for strategic competition, deterrence, and 21st century war by delivering modern tradecraft, resilient architectures, expansive alliance partnerships such as the QUAD, and a close partnership across the Inter-Agency.Associate Director of National Intelligence for Systems and Resource Analysis (DNI). Driving force behind assessments for all IC Resource Decision. Determined priorities across all portfolios. Director of Analysis for the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Led 3000 people across a global footprint. Spearheaded the ICs digital transformation by leveraging the AWS Commercial Cloud and advanced data analytics. Central Intelligence Agency. Served at the DNI as the Asia Mission Manager for the Intelligence Community integrating all IC capabilities on the most important issues, and previously as the Asia Mission Manager for all of CIA while assigned to the Directorate of Science and Technology. Resided in Asia focusing on China. Across her 33-year NATSEC career she has received numerous awards including multiple Presidential Rank Awards, the DoD Joint Civilian Service Commendation Award, the JCS Distinguished Service Award and the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal. She graduated with honors from Princeton University, achieved advanced Chinese (mandarin) proficiency via Middlebury College and Taiwan Normal University.

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