Barbara Stevens

Dr. Barbara Stevens currently serves as an independent board member for the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory and for Hexagon US Federal and is a mentor for young women for the organization Spookstock.

Barbara served as the CEO of Exovera from 2020-2021, LLC a wholly owned subsidiary of the US Defense contractor SOSi.  Exovera provides open source, social media, deep web and darknet information and tools to support intelligence operations and law enforcement investigations.

She is a retired senior executive leader with the Central Intelligence Agency where her last job the chief of data science.  Barbara built and then directed complex data science programs. She provided deep expertise in applying big data analytics at the operational and analytical levels of the Intelligence Community. Barbara honed her analytic skills as a trainer in analytic tradecraft as well as in leadership development. In addition, she used her platform as an agency leader to advocate for the recruitment and retention of women and diversity in highly technical fields. She maintains strong ties to academia having served as CIA’s top leader to the University of New Mexico and as the Data Science Ambassador to the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University.

Barbara holds a PhD from the Florida State University in Mathematical Statistics, and previously served on the faculty in the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia.