Laura Galante

Principal

Former Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center and Intelligence Community Cyber Executive, Office of the Director of National Intelligence

Laura Galante is a Principal at WestExec Advisors, where she builds resilience capabilities for global infrastructure providers, advises executives on cyber threats and AI, and shapes defense technology offerings.

From 2022 to 2025, Laura served as Director of the Cyber Threat Intelligence Integration Center at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She led the 18-agency U.S. Intelligence Community’s response to cyber incidents, including Chinese operations against U.S. telecommunications networks, ransomware attacks against hospitals, and Iranian and Russian attacks on water infrastructure. She launched analytic partnerships connecting infrastructure operators and technology providers with government agencies and directed the Intelligence Community’s first enterprise-wide acquisition of commercial cyber intelligence.

Before joining ODNI, Laura developed an integrated cybersecurity framework for Ukrainian government agencies following Russia’s initial invasion. She led cyber intelligence work for an international task force monitoring Ukrainian elections and served as an expert witness in precedent-setting cyberwarfare litigation.

Earlier, she was a founding member of Mandiant’s Intelligence team that pioneered the attribution and exposure of nation-state espionage and intellectual property theft. Laura helped build and later led FireEye-Mandiant Global Intelligence, overseeing a services and product portfolio generating $85 million in annual revenue.

She is also a Senior Fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis, where she focuses on the changing relationship between technology, infrastructure, and state power.

She holds a B.A. from the University of Virginia and a J.D. from the Catholic University of America. She lives on a Virginia farm with her family.