- Board includes Chris Inglis and Ellen Lord
- Members drawn from former NSA, CIA, FBI, DISA and Pentagon leadership
- Counsel will cover growth across the U.S. and Five Eyes nations
Everfox has formed an executive advisory board of nine former government and industry leaders to advise on its growth across the United States and Five Eyes partner nations.
The company said Tuesday the board will provide strategic counsel on its direction. Chairman and CEO Dave Wajsgras, a nine-time Wash100 Award winner, said the members have confronted consequential national security challenges facing the U.S. and its closest allies.
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Who Sits on the Everfox Board?
Retired Brig. Gen. Chris Inglis, a 2022 Wash100 Award recipient, was the first Senate-confirmed national cyber director, serving from 2021 to 2023. He spent 28 years at the National Security Agency, including eight as deputy director and chief operating officer, and served on the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, which recommended creating the national cyber director position.
Ellen Lord, a four-time Wash100 winner, was the first Senate-confirmed under secretary of defense for acquisition and sustainment, overseeing acquisition policy, lifecycle sustainment and defense industrial base resilience. She previously led Textron Systems as president and CEO and now runs EML Enterprises.
Retired Vice Adm. Nancy Norton, a 2018 Wash100 recipient, directed the Defense Information Systems Agency and commanded Joint Force Headquarters Department of Defense Information Network across 35 years of government service. She also served as director of command, control, communications and cyber at U.S. Pacific Command.
Marianne Bailey served until 2019 as deputy national manager for national security systems and senior cybersecurity executive at the National Security Agency, responsible for national security systems across government that carry classified or sensitive information. She earlier held the roles of principal deputy for cybersecurity and deputy chief information security officer in the Department of War chief information officer’s office and has received the Distinguished Executive Presidential Rank Award. She is an outside director at CGI.
Teresa Shea spent 32 years at NSA, finishing as director of signals intelligence, then served as executive vice president of technology at In-Q-Tel and led Raytheon’s cyber offense and defense business. She is president of Oplnet and sits on the boards of Huntington National Bank, Serco North America, Altana and SandboxAQ.
William Evanina led the National Counterintelligence and Security Center after senior roles at the CIA and FBI and founded the Evanina Group.
Constantine Saab was a CIA senior executive, serving as chief strategy officer and chief of station. He co-founded Foundation Stack AI.
Jack Wilmer was deputy chief information officer for cybersecurity and chief information security officer at the Department of War, with earlier roles at the White House, the Department of Homeland Security and DISA. He is the chief executive officer of SIXGEN.
Sean Berg, who preceded Wajsgras as Everfox CEO, also joins the board. Berg is now the CEO of Secturion Systems.
What Does Everfox Build?
Everfox makes cross-domain and high-assurance security products that move data between networks at different classification levels. Its Multi-Enterprise Spanning Architecture was added to the National Cross Domain Strategy and Management Office’s baseline product list in March, indicating that the platform meets security requirements for cross-domain capabilities used by government agencies. NCDSMO is housed within NSA.
The company took its current name in January 2024, rebranding from Forcepoint Federal. Wajsgras became chairman and CEO in January after leading Intelsat and spending nearly 15 years at Raytheon, where he served as president of its intelligence, information and services business and as chief financial officer. Everfox is backed by TPG.
