Laura Galante

From the board room to the Situation Room, Laura Galante brings executive leadership to stakeholders across the public and private sectors. She has built organizations, business lines, products and policies to defend critical infrastructure for cybersecurity companies, the U.S. Intelligence Community, and allied governments. 

Currently, she is a Principal at WestExec Advisors, and advises boards and the C-suite on digital resilience. From 2022 to 2025, Galante served as the Intelligence Community’s Cyber Executive and the Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center. In this role, she coordinated the Intelligence Community’s (IC) response to national cyber incidents, including Chinese compromises of U.S. critical infrastructure and ransomware attacks. Under her leadership, the IC fostered new intelligence partnerships across the health, water and energy sectors. She also directed the IC’s first enterprise-wide acquisition of commercial cyber intelligence and collaborated extensively with bilateral and multilateral forums.

Between 2017 and 2021, Galante assisted Ukrainian government agencies with developing their cyber intelligence and defense operations. She directed an international task force monitoring digital threats and served as an expert witness in groundbreaking cyber warfare litigation. Earlier, she led cybersecurity firm Mandiant’s Global Intelligence business unit, recognized for pioneering discovery and attribution of nation-state and criminal cyber operations.

She frequently appears on Bloomberg and other media outlets and serves on national security and cybersecurity boards. Galante holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America. She runs a farm in rural Virginia with her family.