Mark
Montgomery
Senior Director, Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation , Foundation for Defense of Democracies
Mark Montgomery is the Senior Director of the Center on Cyber and Technology Innovation and a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies. He serves as the Executive Director of Cybersolarium.org, a non-profit organization which works to implement the recommendations of the Cyberspace Solarium Commission, where he was Executive Director from 2019 to 2021. Prior to this, Mark was Policy Director for the Senate Armed Services Committee under the leadership of Senator John S. McCain and completed 32 years as a nuclear trained surface warfare officer in the U.S. Navy, retiring as a Rear Admiral in 2017. As a flag officer his assignments included Director of Operations at U.S. Indo-Pacific Command; Commander of Carrier Strike Group 5 homeported in Japan; and Deputy Director, Plans, Policy and Strategy at U.S. European Command.
