Principal
The Ledgett Group LLC

Mr. Ledgett has over four decades of intelligence and cyber experience, including 29 years with the National Security Agency (NSA), where he served as Deputy Director from January 2014 until his retirement in April 2017. He was the Agency’s chief operating officer, responsible for providing foreign intelligence and protecting the nation’s most important national security-related networks and information.

Mr. Ledgett variously led NSA’s Media Leaks Task Force, NSA’s 24/7 Cyber Threat Operations Center (NTOC), global language and analytic operations, global collection and cryptanalytic operations, and all NSA operations in the Pacific.   

Mr. Ledgett was the Intelligence Community’s first National Intelligence Manager for Cyber, serving as principal advisor to the Director of National Intelligence on all cyber matters. He was also the DNI’s Director for Collection, overseeing all of the U.S. Intelligence Community’s collection programs.

He has taught at the National Cryptologic School, National Intelligence University, and the U.S. Naval Academy, and guest lectured at Stanford, Yale, the U.S. Military Academy, George Mason, the University of Texas at Austin, and the University of Maryland.

Mr. Ledgett is a Director on the Boards of M&T Bank and Elbit Systems of America, Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Defense Analyses, and serves on several corporate and startup advisory boards. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations.