Visionary. Forward-leaning. Curious. Mission-focused.

Chris Darby has served as Chief Executive Officer of In-Q-Tel since September 2006, where is also a member of its Board of Trustees. Chris also serves on the National Security Commission for Artificial Intelligence, an appointment granted in 2019. Prior to In-Q-Tel, Chris was Vice President and General Manager at Intel, where he oversaw the Middleware Products Division. At Intel, he had responsibility for the corporation’s Infrastructure Software business, including open source and commercial products. He joined Intel in August 2005 with the acquisition of Sarvega, a venture-backed supplier of XML networking and security products, where Chris served as President and CEO.

Prior to Sarvega, he was the Chairman and CEO of @stake, the well-known Internet security consulting firm ultimately acquired by Symantec (SYMC). While at @stake, he assembled the world’s leading collection of security researchers and built a business that spanned North America and Europe.

Chris also previously served as President and CEO of Interpath Communications, which was later acquired by US Internetworking (USIX). He held several executive positions at Digital Equipment Corporation (now Hewlett-Packard) with responsibility for telecom industry initiatives, corporate strategy, and alliances. He began his career at Northern Telecom (now Nortel Networks) and Bell Northern Research.

Chris is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario.

Steve Bowsher serves as President of IQT. He previously served as Managing General Partner and Executive Vice President at In-Q-Tel, leading the company’s investment strategy since 2006. In addition to approving all deals in partnership with CEO Chris Darby, Bowsher has personally managed In-Q-Tel’s relationships with Palantir, Databricks, MongoDB, Anaconda, Initiate Systems, Cleversafe, Cloudera, Immersive Wisdom, Reversing Labs, and others. Bowsher joined In-Q-Tel from InterWest Partners, where he served as General Partner for eight years.

Previously, Bowsher worked at E*TRADE. During his tenure there, he helped launch Destination E*TRADE, the company’s award-winning website. Bowsher was also an early stage employee at two startup companies, where he was responsible for revenue and distribution targets. 

Outside of work Bowsher supports two terrific not-for-profits making the world a better place, Coaches Across Continents and StreetCode Academy.

Bowsher graduated magna cum laude from Harvard and received his MBA from Stanford. 

Matthew Strottman joined In-Q-Tel in 2003 and currently serves as Chief Operating Officer. In this position, he is responsible for overseeing the investment and portfolio analysis as well as the organization’s corporate functions including finance, accounting, IT, human resources, and security. Prior to his appointment to COO, Strottman served as IQT’s Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer.

Before joining In-Q-Tel, Strottman worked in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Friedman Billings Ramsey. During his time at FBR, he executed public and private equity financing, merger and acquisition, restructuring, and venture capital transactions totaling more than $3 billion. Strottman began his career at PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he focused primarily on the real estate and technology industries.

Strottman received his B.A. from the University of Notre Dame and his MBA from Georgetown University.

Dr. Megan Anderson is the Executive Vice President, Capabilities at IQT. In this role she oversees the technology practices, the program management team, and the project engineering teams in their delivery of strategic technical solutions to the Intelligence Community. Previously, Dr. Anderson led the Enterprise Technology Practice that was responsible for identifying and executing investments across a wide range of technologies including advances in artificial intelligence, infrastructure, and cybersecurity. Before that, Dr. Anderson managed the Field Technology Practice and oversaw strategy development and execution of investment activity in technical areas including electronics, communications, materials, power, optics, sensors, Internet of Things, and commercial space. Dr. Anderson began her career at IQT on the Technical Staff as a subject matter expert in the fields of materials, manufacturing, and biology. 

Prior to joining IQT in 2010, Megan worked as a Senior Scientist at Fluidigm Corporation, where she developed multiple products for next-generation sequencing applications. Dr. Anderson holds a bachelor’s degree in both applied mathematics and general biology from the University of California, San Diego, and a doctorate in biochemistry and molecular biophysics from the California Institute of Technology. 

Simon Davidson is an Executive Vice President responsible for IQT Emerge, a new effort focused on developing technology ideas and innovations from U.S. government-funded R&D initiatives and nurturing them to support the mission needs of the U.S. national security community. Davidson served previously as a Managing Partner and head of East Coast Investments for In-Q-Tel, identifying and leading strategic investments in the Field Technologies practice. Davidson also serves as a Board Observer for several IQT portfolio companies.

Prior to rejoining IQT, Davidson was an EVP at Allied Minds, an IP commercialization investor focused on early-stage development within the technology sector. He oversaw the Technology portfolio, including origination of new deals and oversight of existing portfolio companies and sat on the Investment Committee as part of the Executive Team.

Davidson began his career as a strategy consultant at Andersen Consulting and then as a technology banker at JP Morgan. He has held senior investment positions at JP Morgan Communication Partners and Fidelity Ventures, and business development roles at Sarvega, a venture-backed start-up and subsequently at Intel.

Davidson is a graduate of the University of Melbourne, Australia, where he earned a Bachelor of Commerce with majors in Economics and Accounting.

Liz Fox is an admittedly inexperienced but pretty good mother of three small children and enjoys cooking and skiing in her invisible spare time. Fox’s alter ego, however, happily identifies as a seasoned executive with over 20 years of experience in marketing communications, operations, and people management.

Fox began her tenure with IQT in 2012 and over the years, oversaw the company’s administration, human resources, and recruitment. In this role, Fox observed the breadth of talent at IQT and learned to appreciate the staff’s dedication to mission. Fox pivoted to the Product Marketing and Communications team to return to her marketing roots and continue to serve the people of IQT and the company’s mission.

Fox joined IQT from The Washington Group of Northwestern Mutual, where she held the position of Chief Operating Officer. In this role, Fox was responsible for managing recruitment, coaching business development representatives, performance management programs/process, and human resources. Additionally, Fox supported the direction and implementation of the five-year strategic planning process. She began her time with The Washington Group as the company’s Chief Marketing Officer, overseeing the company’s marketing operations.

Previously, with McKinley Marketing Partners, a staffing firm providing interim marketing and communications contractors to Fortune 500 companies, Fox directed marketing communications as well as the development of custom web applications for recruitment, project management, and, in particular, customer relations.

Fox began her career directing events and managing the design and build of exhibits for clients such as Lockheed Martin Corporation, the United States Air Force, and CoverGirl Eyewear.

Fox received a bachelor’s degree from the College of the Holy Cross. She resides outside of Boston, and is in the company’s New England office, after spending the beginning of her tenure at IQT’s headquarters in Arlington, VA.

Dr. Sarah Sewall’s international security career spans government and academia and combines hard security with values and ethics. She currently serves as the EVP for In-Q-Tel’s Strategic Issues group, focusing on informing public policy debates about the strategic implications of technology. She has served as Under Secretary of State for Civilian Security, Democracy and Human Rights, responsible for issues ranging from counterterrorism to refugees; a member of the Defense Policy Board under Secretaries Gates and Hagel; the inaugural Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Peacekeeping, and Senior Foreign Policy Advisor to Senate Majority Leader George Mitchell.  

Dr. Sewall served on the Harvard Kennedy School faculty for a decade, where she also directed the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy, pioneered research on civilian protection in war, and contributed to new operational military doctrine. She has been Minerva Chair at the Naval War College and the Speyer Distinguished Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies. A graduate of Harvard College, she received her doctorate from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar. 

Ms. Nelson’s career at In-Q-Tel (IQT) spans nearly 14 years and various functions that empower her with vast and deep understanding of the company and the mission it serves. She serves as Executive Vice President, International where she directs IQT’s overseas investment activities as well as the expansion of IQT’s global footprint. She also serves as Chief of Staff, aligning priorities across the leadership team and developing and implementing business strategies designed to execute on the mission and vision of IQT. Previously, Ms. Nelson, as Senior Vice President of Portfolio Success, oversaw technology transfer from IQT’s Portfolio to the Intelligence Community through the program management function also leading several organizational process improvement and data analytics initiatives. Ms. Nelson spent five years managing the partnership with the Central Intelligence Agency ensuring strategic alignment and execution for their mission needs. She began her career at IQT as a program manager handling security investments for IQT.

Prior to joining IQT in 2009, she worked at IBM Corporation where she supported the public sector with technology strategy development. Ms. Nelson holds bachelor’s degrees in both Finance and Management as well as a Master of Business Administration from Virginia Polytechnic and State University and is a doctoral candidate at Vanderbilt University.

George Hoyem serves as EVP of IQT Investments. In addition to leading the IQT investment team, Hoyem has personally managed In-Q-Tel’s relationship with Cylance, D-Wav, Gitlab, Matterport, Phantom, Primer, Swarm Technologies and others. Hoyem joined IQT from Blueprint Ventures where he was a Managing Partner for 10 years. Previously, Hoyem worked at HPE where he ran the Internet Commerce Business unit after helping Verifone merge with HPE. At Verifone, Hoyem managed the Internet Commerce Business Unit, prior to its acquisition by HPE in 1998. Hoyem also served on the Board of Directors of the National Venture Capital Association, the venture capital community’s flagship trade association where he advocated for issues relevant to corporate and strategic investors.

Outside of work, Hoyem supports a Western Michigan University initiative called TechNext, an impactful program to expose WMU students to high tech companies and VC backed startups in Silicon Valley.  He is also an aspiring landscape photography.

As Executive Vice President and General Counsel, Bruce Adams manages In-Q-Tel legal affairs. Prior to joining In-Q-Tel, Mr. Adams was a partner at the law firm of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer.   Mr. Adams received his JD (Magna Cum Laude) from Boston University and received his BA (Honors) from Swarthmore College.