Laura Galante

Principal

Former Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center and Intelligence Community Cyber Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

From the board room to the Situation Room, Laura Galante brings executive leadership to stakeholders across the public and private sectors. She has built organizations, business lines, products, and policies to defend critical infrastructure for cybersecurity companies, the US Intelligence Community, and allied governments.

As a Principal at WestExec Advisors she works with boards and the C-suite on digital resilience. From 2022 to 2025, Laura served as the Intelligence Community's Cyber Executive and the Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. In this role, she coordinated the Intelligence Community's (IC) response to national cyber incidents and represented the IC on National Security Council policy committees. Under her leadership, the IC fostered new partnerships across the health, water, and energy sectors. She directed the IC's first enterprise-wide acquisition of commercial cyber intelligence and represented the US government in bilateral and multilateral engagements with allies.

Between 2017 and 2021, Laura's consultancy assisted Ukrainian government agencies with developing their cyber intelligence operations. She directed an international task force monitoring digital threats and served as an expert witness in groundbreaking cyber warfare litigation. Earlier, she led cybersecurity firm Mandiant's Global Intelligence business unit, widely recognized for pioneering discovery and attribution of nation-state and criminal operations.

She speaks frequently on global competition in the digital domain, appears on Bloomberg and other media outlets and serves on multiple national security and corporate cybersecurity boards.

Laura holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America. She runs a family farm in rural Virginia.