Brig Gen Leslie Beavers USAF (Ret.)

Leslie Beavers is an international defense and technology innovator whose career spans the battlefield, the intelligence community, Fortune 500 enterprises, and four-star–equivalent civilian leadership in the U.S. government. Transformational executive, she has guided organizations through complex modernization, enterprise change, and strategic risk management across global defense, intelligence, cyber, and commercial sectors. Her distinctive value is the ability to translate deeply technical concepts, policy, and operational landscapes into disciplined governance, clear investment logic, and sustainable enterprise growth.

As Acting and Principal Deputy CIO of the U.S. Department of Defense, she stewarded one of the world’s largest technology portfolios, directing enterprise transformation across a $60B IT and cyber ecosystem. She strengthened global cyber resilience, and enabled the first multi-vendor, multi-cloud, zero-trust architecture deployed at the Secret level with allied partners. She also brings deep systems-level expertise in the end-to-end communications and decision architecture required for hypersonic threat detection, tracking, engagement, and civil response coordination, central to the Golden Dome initiative.

As a U.S. Air Force Brigadier General, she led intelligence, cyber, and information warfare forces exceeding 100,000 personnel and architected the Defense Intelligence Enterprise’s digital transformation. Her work with Five Eyes and NATO partners advanced multinational interoperability, secure communications, and federated identity across classified environments.

In the private sector, including executive roles at GE Healthcare and NBCUniversal, Leslie led Lean Six Sigma and enterprise recovery initiatives delivering more than $260M in financial impact while preserving $800M in annual revenue following a catastrophic loss event.

As a board-ready executive, she guides organizations at the intersection of technology, governance, and strategy, ensuring modernization and investment decisions strengthen resilience, readiness, and long-term competitive positioning.