Major General Robin Fontes
Major General Robin Fontes retired from the United States Army after almost 35 years of service. She most recently served as the Deputy Commanding General of the U.S. Army Cyber Command where she oversaw 17,000 military and civilian personnel world-wide in synchronizing cyberspace operations in pursuit of Department of Defense (DoD) and Army strategic priorities. As a General Officer, she also served as the Commander of the multi-national Combined Security Transition Command – Afghanistan overseeing the training and equipping the Afghan army and police, and advising senior leaders in the Ministries of Defense, Interior and Finance; and the Senior Defense Official and Defense Attache to the Republic of India.
Over the course of her career, Robin served as a Military Police Officer in Germany, South Korea and the United States. She then became a Foreign Area Officer focused on Russia Eurasia and then South and Central Asia serving over 14 years in the region commanding multinational units in Afghanistan and serving in several senior policy and U.S. Embassy diplomatic positions. She is an accomplished soldier-diplomat and a leader with strategic vision capable of navigating complex and sensitive diplomatic issues.
Robin is a member of the Board of Directors for the Marine Memorial Foundation, the Institute for Security and Technology, Kronos Fusion Energy; and is an Advisor for Dataflow Security US, the RAIN Research Group, Limitless Aeronautics and the Center for Cyber Security Innovations at the City University of Seattle. She is a graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point (BS), the University of Washington (MA International Studies), and the National War College (MS National Security Strategy). Robin was also a post-graduate research fellow at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University.