Jacki Davenport
Co-Director, Project Cyber
Jacki Davenport is a retired career intelligence and targeting professional, with experience in special operations and offensive cyberspace. She is currently operating as a Senior Account Executive in the AI space, focused on operational defense use cases for geopolitical threat and risk tailored to the Great Power Competition mission set. Jacki’s 23 years in the Air Force afforded her the opportunity to impact various mission sets in the joint environment, to include 13 deployments with specialized aircrew missions and special operations deployments supporting counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency missions. She later transitioned to lead the first integration of reserve forces into the Combat Cyber Mission Forces and served as both the Senior Enlisted Leader as well as the Cyber Warfare Cryptologic Planner. As a life-long learner, Jacki is completing her MBA at the University of Texas at Dallas and holds multiple certifications in data analytics and signals forensics from the Air Force Institute of Technology and the National Cryptologic School. She is an active member of several non-profits that benefit intelligence and technology professionals across the special operations community as well as women in STEM. She is married to a special operations-turned-airline pilot, the proud mother of two superstar children, Hattie and Bash, and loves cheering for the Longhorns on Saturdays.