Ms. Teresa Shea, a recognized leader in intelligence and defense, is President of Oplnet, LLC. She serves on numerous boards and is an advisor with a passion for a safer and more secure Nation.
With more than 35 years of public and private experience, Ms. Shea was previously the Vice President of Cyber Offense and Defense Experts (CODEX) within Raytheon Intelligence and Space. CODEX is focused on providing cyber capabilities for offense, defense, and security initiatives for government and commercial customers.
Ms. Shea is an experienced executive, working within corporate and government environments. She served as Executive Vice President of Technology and Director of Cyber-Reboot at In-Q-Tel. She joined In-Q-Tel after a distinguished thirty-two-year career with the National Security Agency (NSA). She held several key leadership assignments during her career culminating as the Director of Signals Intelligence. In this position, she was the Principal Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) Advisor to the Directors of NSA, the Director of National Intelligence (DNI), countless U.S. military officers, and U.S. government senior leaders.
She is recognized within the community as a trusted partner and creative leader who is consistently mission focused. Ms. Shea received numerous awards during her career to include the President’s Distinguished Rank Award from President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal awarded by the Honorable James R. Clapper, Director of National Intelligence, the Central Intelligence Agency’s Donovan Award, and the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service by Secretary of Defense Ash Carter.
EDUCATION
Johns Hopkins University, M.S., Electrical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology, B.S., Electrical Engineering