CEO
Jody Westby brings a unique combination of more than thirty years of technical, legal, policy, and business experience to The DIGI. Jody was Director of Domestic Policy for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, where she was responsible for influencing national policy in both the legislative and regulatory arenas on a wide range of issues and supervised U.S. Chamber involvement in 33 industry coalitions.
As former senior fellow for the Progress & Freedom Foundation (the first think tank devoted to the digital revolution), Jody was a thought leader on cutting-edge issues related to the Internet and business use of technology. Then, she launched In-Q-Tel, an IT solutions and investment company founded and funded by the CIA that is devoted to finding unclassified solutions to the U.S. intelligence community’s most pressing technology problems. After that, she served as senior managing director at PricewaterhouseCoopers where she was responsible for information security, privacy, information sharing, and critical infrastructure protection issues across the federal government.
As a consultant, Jody advises organizations in the areas of cyber and AI governance, privacy, cybersecurity risk management, and digital asset management. She has deep expertise in cybersecurity best practices and standards, including those applicable to industrial control systems and critical infrastructure sectors. She is a recognized authority and author on AIand cyber governance, and has guides boards and C-Suites on the oversight of AI and cyber risks.
Jody is a professional blogger for Forbes and has published seven books on cybersecurity, cybercrime, privacy, and cyber governance, all published by the American Bar Association. Her latest book, D&O Guide to Cyber Governance: Fiduciary Duties in the Digital Age (2021) is being updated and reissued in 2026.
Jody served as Adjunct Professor to Georgia Institute of Technology’s School of Computer Science and was previously Adjunct Distinguished Fellow to Carnegie Mellon Cy Lab. She authored the Georgia Tech Cybersecurity Governance: 2015 Report and was co-author of the NYSE book, Navigating the Digital Age: The Definitive Cybersecurity Guide for Directors and Officers. She was lead author on Carnegie Mellon’s Governing for Enterprise Security Implementation Guide, which was developed for boards and senior management, and its 2008, 2010, and 2012 Governance of Enterprise Security Survey reports. Jody’s work on the governance responsibilities of boards and senior executives for the security of their organizations’ systems and data has been featured by the CISO Executive Network, Bloomberg BNA, and other major media.
Jody serves as chair of the American Bar Association’s (ABA) Privacy and Computer Crime Committee (Science & Technology Law Section) and co-chair of the Cybercrime Committee (Criminal Justice Section) and has served four terms on the ABA President’s Cybersecurity Task Force. She co-chaired the World Federation of Scientists’ Permanent Monitoring Panel on Information Security and served on the ITU Secretary-General’s High Level Experts Group on Cybersecurity. Jody led the development of the International Toolkit on Cybercrime Legislation and was editor and co-author of the 2010 UN publication, The Quest for Cyber Peace. She recently served as vice chair of the Association of Computing Machinery (ACM) U.S.Technology and Policy Committee and chair of ACM’s Tech Briefs Committee.
Jody is a member of the bars of the District of Columbia, Pennsylvania, and Colorado. She practiced law at Shearman & Sterling and Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison. She earned a B.A., summa cum laude, University of Tulsa and J.D., magna cum laude, Georgetown University Law Center and was named to the Order of the Coif. Jody was elected a member of the American Bar Foundation and the Cosmos Club.