Entrepreneur In Residence, BMNT
Sabra Horne is Entrepreneur in Residence at BMNT, a public sector innovation consultancy.
She leads executive education helping leaders in large organizations, such as NSA, NASA, US
Navy, US Army, US Marine Corps, and the Defense Logistics Agency, grow mission
effectiveness and is the author of Creating Innovation Navigators, a guide to increasing
individual and organizational impact. Ms. Horne is a recognized global expert and frequent
speaker to public and private sectors in transformational performance. She coaches, trains and
advises executives and organizations in creating and realizing individual, organizational and
cultural change in multi-billion dollar agencies.
Before joining BMNT, she was Chief of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security’s (CISA)
Innovation Hub, responsible for envisioning, establishing and developing innovation efforts
across the agency, which protects the nation’s cyber and physical critical infrastructure within
the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Prior to this role, she was Director of CISA 2020,
leading change management of the agency and Director of Stakeholder Engagement and Cyber
Infrastructure Resilience (SECIR), leading effective collaboration and sharing of cyber
information with the private sector, as well as state, local, tribal and territorial entities. She stood
up CISA’s Election Task Force to support state and local election officials following the 2016
elections.
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 sharing of unclassified
cyber threat information with other government agencies and the private sector. She began her
NSA service 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 was Director of Communications at the Department of Justice Office of Justice
Programs, responsible for all legislative, public, and intergovernmental affairs. 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. While at the ODNI, she served as
the Chief of Staff in the standup of the National Maritime Intelligence Center and lead
development of the Unified Intelligence Strategy for the National Intelligence Manager for Cyber,
unifying intelligence collection and analysis across the intelligence community. She also
supported DHS and the Assistant Secretary for Infrastructure Protection in increasing
information sharing with the private sector. She was awarded five national intelligence awards
for her support to the nation.
Prior to her government service, she had an 18-year career in academic publishing, the last 12
as Senior Executive Editor at Wadsworth Publishing, overseeing publication of over 500
academic criminal justice books, many in law enforcement. Ms. Horne has an MPA in Strategic
Management of National Security from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government and a BA
from The College of Charleston. She live in the Palisades in Washington, D.C., chairs the
governance committee for The College of Charleston Foundation Board, and enjoys traveling
and seeing friends around the globe in her time off