Chip Laingen is the Executive Director of Defense Alliance, an Upper Midwest defense industry network with members in 37 states. The Defense Alliance, recognized as an Advanced Defense Technology Cluster since 2010, earned the prestigious Progress Minnesota award in 2014 and the Veterans Small Business Champion of the Year Award in 2007.  Additionally, Chip has been a faculty member to the University of Minnesota Technological Leadership Institute since 2011, where he teaches Risk Communications and Policy for Security. Chip holds current board and advisory committee roles for Full Stack Saint Paul, the Cyber Security Summit, and Midwest Cleantech Open, and previously served with the Minnesota Science and Technology Authority, AirSpace MN, and Robotics Alley. Chip was an Executive Fellow for the University of Minnesota Center for Integrative Leadership in 2012, and is a past president of the Twin Cities Council of the Navy League. He 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

Connect with him on LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/in/laingen/