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Jennifer Ewbank | Board Director and Advisor

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   Some of the most challenging decisions in front of boards today sit where artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, and geopolitics meet. Few directors have governed at that intersection at national scale. Jennifer Ewbank spent decades there, most recently as the CIA’s Deputy Director for Digital Innovation, accountable for the technology, cyber, AI, and data enterprise of one of the world’s most demanding institutions. She brings that experience into the boardroom as foresight: the ability to see risk taking shape before it reaches a headline or a disclosure.

Areas of Board Oversight

AI Risk

Jennifer led the teams that created and implemented CIA's AI strategy and watched adversaries turn similar tools against their targets. She helps boards see where model risk actually lives, how vendors and third parties widen the attack surface, and what synthetic media and manipulation mean for enterprise trust.

Cybersecurity Governance

A career spent tracking how hostile actors choose targets, move inside systems, and persist gives Jennifer the adversary’s view of cyber, and she now assists companies whose mission is detect them. She helps directors govern cyber as a question of enterprise risk and resilience, and flag the threats that warrant board attention.

National-Security Technology and Geopolitical Risk

The US-China technology competition, export controls, supply-chain exposure, and foreign influence now shape commercial risk directly. Jennifer helps boards read these forces and build them into vendor risk, market strategy, and crisis planning before they surface as disclosures.

Cross-Cutting Contributions

At the CIA, Jennifer was accountable for enterprise technology and cyber risk across a vast and sensitive portfolio. Her remit spanned major program oversight, third-party and supply-chain risk, and the controls that protect mission-critical systems, and she led a complex global enterprise through periods of acute pressure and institutional crisis.

Read Jennifer's analysis of AI governance and cyber risk

Current Board Directorships

ANALYSIS AND RESILIENCE CENTER FOR SYSTEMIC RISK

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  Independent Director. The foremost public-private partnership protecting the U.S. financial system.

DARKOWL

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 Independent Director. Leading provider of darknet data, analytics, and threat intelligence. 

CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

CIA OFFICERS MEMORIAL FOUNDATION

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 Independent Director. Supporting the education and well-being of the children and spouses of fallen CIA officers. 

Current and Recent Advisory Boards

REALITY DEFENDER

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Real-time detection of deepfakes and AI-generated synthetic media. 

BTI360

Software engineering, AI solutions, and big-data systems. 

RealmOne

RealmOne

Technology and secure solutions for national security missions. 

Strategic and Senior Advisory

ORACLE (GOVERNMENT, DEFENSE, INTELLIGENCE)

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Strategy at the intersection of cloud, AI, and national defense. 

ANKURA

Global expert services and risk advisory. 

The Chertoff Group

The Chertoff Group

Security risk management and strategy. 

Board and Search Firm Inquiries

View Jennifer's board biography here, or reach out via the email link below for further information.

Board Inquiries

Views expressed here are the author's alone and do not represent 

the positions or policies of the U.S. Government or the Central Intelligence Agency.


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