Teresa Smetzer is a member of the Digital Advisory Board at BayPine. Ms. Smetzer currently serves as an independent consultant supporting initiatives aimed at national security mission innovation. For 30 plus years, she has been a trailblazer in enabling the evolution of national security missions. She has led numerous noteworthy initiatives that have served as hallmarks of intelligence agencies’ programs.

During her tenure at the CIA while serving as the Director of Digital Futures in the Directorate of Digital Innovation, she stood up an intelligence outpost for critical partnerships with the private sector to incubate experiments and prototypes to mission hard problems. As a result, the CIA was able to apply technologies to problem sets in a novel and expeditious manner. Most recently, she served as Salesforce’s Vice President, National Security Programs as a business development executive.

She holds a BS in Chemical Engineering from University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and later finished her MS in Chemical Engineering from The University of Texas at Austin.

Members of the Digital Advisory Board are not employees of BayPine; they do not provide exclusive services to BayPine or its portfolio companies.