Strategic Advisory Board
A cornerstone of the computer science department's strategic planning efforts is our Strategic Advisory Board (SAB).
This dynamic group of industry executives and academic leaders provide input and guidance that is critical to helping shape our strategic direction.
The SAB meets annually on campus and continues to function as a virtual working team throughout the year through member involvement on subcommittees and executive panels.
The SAB chairperson for the 2025-26 academic year is Beth Smith.
Strategic Advisory Board Members
Deputy CISO, Cybersecurity Data Science and AI at Pacific Northwest National Lab
Founder, CEO & CTO at Humegy Corporation
Distinguished Engineer (Retired) at IBM
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) at Pendo
Sr. Director, Enterprise Information Security at Cisco
VP, Object Storage, RTP Site Executive at NetApp
Senior Director of Engineering, Capital One
Co-founder & CTO at BlueJeans by Verizon
Senior Director of Software Engineering at ShareFile
Chief Technology Officer at LexisNexis
VP of Applied AI and Modeling at SAS
Retired GM, IBM Watson AI
Engineering Leader in Google Cloud Networking at Google
VP, IBM Cloud Platform Services at IBM
Founder & CEO at JupiterOne
Senior Director of AI Platform Engineering at Red Hat
Distinguished Engineer, Fastly
AVP, IT Solution Delivery, Blue Cross NC
Questions?
Interim Director of External and Corporate Relations
919-513-7310 lcrandpi@ncsu.edu