Executive Director, Defense Alliance
Chip Laingen is the Executive Director of Defense Alliance, the Upper Midwest defense industry network, with members in 37 states. The Alliance was presented the prestigious “Progress Minnesota” award in 2014, became one of the nation’s three Advanced Defense Technology Clusters in 2010 and won the Veterans Small Business Champion of the Year Award in 2007. He is on the Advisory Committee for Full Stack Saint Paul, Cyber Security Summit and Midwest Cleantech Open; and previously served on the executive commission of the Minnesota Science & Technology Authority, the AirSpace MN and Robotics Alley Advisory Committees, and was selected as an Executive Fellow for the University of Minnesota’s Center for Integrative Leadership in 2012. In 2011 he joined the graduate faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Technological Leadership Institute where he teaches Risk Communications and Policy for Security. He is a past President of the Twin Cities Council of the Navy League and is the author of “Laingen on Leadership.”
You can read Chip’s recent Blog Feature > Leadership to Overcome Cybersecurity’s Perception as a Cost Center
And Connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/laingen/