Sabra Horne

Sabra Horne Entrepreneur in Residence Sabra Horne is Entrepreneur in Residence at BMNT, where she supports the development and deployment of government innovation efforts. Before joining BMNT, she was Chief of the Innovation Hub, responsible for envisioning, establishing and developing innovation efforts in the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to this role, she lead the change management of the agency and was director of stakeholder engagement, leading effective sharing of cyber information with private sector, and state, local, tribal and territorial entities. She stood up CISA’s Election Task Force to support state and local election officials following the 2016 election.

Previously, she served the National Security Agency (NSA) as Deputy Chief for Information Sharing and Collaboration, facilitating sharing of NSA’s most highly classified intelligence. She was Senior Advisor to NSA Threat Operation Center leadership and led its effort to share unclassified cyber threat information with other agencies. Her NSA service began as a core member in standup of the Media Leaks Task Force, which led agency response to the public leaks of classified information by Edward Snowden in 2013.

Ms. Horne previously served as Director of Communications at the Department of Justice Office of Justice Programs. She began her government career at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) as Senior Advisor for Strategic Partnerships for Open Source, driving collaboration across the sixteen intelligence agencies in their use of open source intelligence. She served as Chief of Staff in the standup of the National Maritime Intelligence Center and lead development of a unifying intelligence collection and analysis framework across the intelligence community. She has been awarded five national intelligence awards for her service.

Prior to government service, she spent 18-year career in academic publishing, the last twelve as Senior Executive Editor for academic criminal justice publications at Wadsworth Publishing. Ms. Horne has a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and was awarded an honorary doctorate from her undergraduate alma mater, The College of Charleston. She serves as a Washington, D.C. Commissioner.