Nancy Morgan, Chief Executive Officer, Ellis Morgan Enterprises LLC
Nancy Morgan is a National Security executive leader, the former US Government Intelligence Community Chief Data Officer (IC CDO) and Advisory Board Member with 36+ years of experience leading strategy, innovation and driving transformation in the data, AI and information technology arenas. She now does independent consulting and advisory board work related to data, AI, cybersecurity, corporate governance and working with the public sector. While in Government she successfully led numerous data and information technology initiatives while serving as a program manager and Executive Leader at the Central Intelligence Agency.
She has extensive experience leading major corporate transformation efforts and standing up new organizations across portfolios for data and AI strategy, data management, data policy, data literacy/data acumen, digital transformation, software development, and cloud technology adoption/migration the national security and intelligence arenas. She has proven experience across all phases of the data management lifecycle; defining, developing and deploying capabilities worldwide; and excels at partnership engagement across all branches of governments, between the public and private sectors and with foreign partners.
She now serves as Strategic Advisor with The Cantellus Group, working with both public and private sector clients; and is on Samba Nova Systems’ Artificial Intelligence Innovation Advisory Council and Federal Council, Academy Securities Advisory Board and Geopolitical Intelligence Group, Kibu, Inc. Advisory Council, data2 Advisors, and the T-Mobile Public Sector Advisory Council. She was named as a 2024 Visiting Fellow for the Cyber and Tech Center of the National Security Institute and was named one of the Most Influential People in Data by dataIQ100 in 2024. She is an Ambassador for Women Leaders in Data and AI (WLDA) and is a frequent public speaker.
She has a Master of Science in Information Systems from American University and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations and French from Colgate University. She is based in the Washington, DC area.
Areas of interest: corporate change management, digital transformation, emerging technologies, mission tradecraft, data management, data literacy, data fluency, data acumen, data science, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), data and AI ethics, privacy, cloud adoption, program management and developing the next generation workforce.
