Barbara Stevens

Dr. Barbara N. Stevens is an executive leader with a diverse background in government, academia, and industry. She is a former executive-level leader in the Central Intelligence Agency with more than 35 years of experience in bringing data analysis and cloud computing to modernize technology infrastructure. She is a proven leader in delivering and providing executive training, and in leading change within organizations. She has built and directed complex data science programs. She is currently a Certified Director with the National Association of Corporate Directors. Since leaving government, Dr. Stevens served as the CEO of Exovera, a technology startup.

She is currently the Managing Member of Nelson Analytic Consulting, LLC, a Senior Fellow of the Foreign Policy Research Institute, a member of the Advisory Board for the FDD’s Center for Cyber and Technology Innovation, and Independent Board Director for the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory, Hexagon US Federal, and Moneycorp NA. She is passionate about mentoring young women in STEM and does this through the nonprofit Spookstock Foundation dedicated to helping the children of fallen Intelligence Community officers.

Dr. Stevens holds a PhD from the Florida State University in Mathematical Statistics, and previously served on the faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia.