Kelly M. McVearry

Kelly is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Hypatia. At Hypatia, she is responsible for leading partnerships with governments and corporations to design, build and deploy new technologies. Kelly is a scientist, technologist and investor with 25 years of experience helping Fortune 500 corporations, governments and private companies develop horizon technologies, from precision medicine to national cybersecurity. Prior to Hypatia, she served as senior scientist for strategy and R&D at Northrop Grumman, led R&D and Product at Ekagra Software, and supported the commercialization of twelve technology ventures. Kelly received a PhD in neuroscience with distinction from Georgetown and a masters in cognitive psychology from Harvard.

Kelly specializes in taking ideas from concept to reality, enabling colleagues and customers to take the inventive step and achieve mission success — often from a single line scope of work. She has a track record of milestone achievements designing and scaling scientific computing platforms and modern IT infrastructures that incorporate artificial intelligence, blockchain protocols, zero trust collaboration technologies, natural language reasoning and bio-inspired solution architecture.