Senior Advisor, CNQ Global Advisors
Partner, Lavrock Ventures; former Deputy Director of the CIA, Digital Innovation.
Read the bio →Juliane Gallina is a Senior Advisor to CNQ Global Advisors, a global geopolitical and strategic advisory firm chaired by former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo.
Gallina joined Lavrock Ventures as a Partner in November 2025, bringing three decades of executive leadership at the intersection of emerging technology, national security, and digital transformation. She is a proven leader in AI, cybersecurity, enterprise IT, intelligence, enterprise strategy and national security, with extensive experience guiding high-performing technical organizations through disruptive change.
Ms. Gallina retired from the CIA in 2025 as Deputy Director of the CIA, Digital Innovation (DD/DI), where she led the Agency’s global digital transformation and directed a worldwide cadre of experts spanning artificial intelligence, software development, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, cyberoperations, advanced communications and global operational readiness and resiliency.
Her career demonstrates consistent success scaling breakthrough technologies across public and private sectors. At IBM, she served as Vice President of US Federal Key Accounts and pioneered the intelligence community’s first deployment of IBM Watson in 2011—demonstrating early vision in applying AI to complex analytical challenges.
Ms. Gallina’s technical foundation includes over 11 years combined military and CIA service at the National Reconnaissance Office, where she led design, development, and operations of reconnaissance space systems specializing in signals intelligence (SIGINT) and secure communications. Her professional roots are in the deployment and operation of SIGINT systems from US Navy ships and a variety of fixed and mobile platforms.
A graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, Ms. Gallina was commissioned as a Navy officer and became the first woman in the Academy’s 145-year history to lead the Brigade of Midshipmen. She has received numerous distinctions for her leadership and contributions to the national security community, including the CIA Distinguished Career Intelligence Medal (2026), CIA Director’s Award (2025), and Presidential Rank Award (2023). She has also been recognized as a Federal 100 honoree (2023) and Wash100 honoree (2020, 2021), and was a TED speaker in 2016.
She holds a B.S. from the U.S. Naval Academy, an M.S. in Space Systems from the Naval Postgraduate School, and an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from George Washington University.