Head of Government Services
NightDragon

Katherine Hennessey Gronberg is the Head of Government Services at NightDragon, an investment and advisory firm focused on growth and late-stage companies in cybersecurity, safety, security and privacy. For the past fifteen years, she has helped foster stronger collaboration between private companies and government stakeholders, helping to catalyze public sector sales and enabling program success.

Prior to joining NightDragon, she led Government Affairs for cybersecurity companies CrowdStrike and Forescout Technologies. Prior to this she ran her own government relations consulting firm, taught as a professor at Georgetown University’s prestigious Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service and served as Subcommittee Staff Director on the U.S. Senate Committee on Appropriations.

As a leading voice on cybersecurity policy issues, Katherine has appeared on and provided commentary for Bloomberg, Fortune, the Wall Street Journal, the New York Times and other media outlets. Katherine currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Cyber AB and teaches at the Jones School of Business at Rice University.