Tricia Ward is a Principal Director with Booz Allen Hamilton. In that role, she provides flag and Congressional-appointee level guidance to
leaders across the Defense Department with particular emphasis on Naval Information Warfare initiatives. During her tenure with the company, Ms. Ward manages a growing segment of the Navy and Marine Corps Market and grew her business by multimillions of dollars through increased demand for her expertise in digital transformation and trusted leadership of highly qualified staff on large and small teams.

Ms. Ward retired from the active-duty Navy as a Senior Chief Information Technologist, blazing a path for women in the military during her 20-year career. During her tour as an instructor at Service School Command, she taught thousands of senior enlisted personnel about the sound principles of good leadership. Her work earned her the Chief of Naval Education Instructor of the Year out of a field of 68,000 eligible Defense Department instructors. She held multiple leadership positions during her naval career, including Command Senior Chief and Communications Security Manager at Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific and the Officer-in-Charge Communication Security Advice and Assistance Team at the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station in San Diego.

She also served in the civil service as the Executive Assistant to Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems to the Level III SES handling some of the Navy's most critical information systems, including the backbone architectures for most Navy information technology. In that role, she served as the subject matter expert on programmatic and business activities for the acquisition and execution of business systems. She supported key priorities of NI transformation, data center consolidation and acceleration of information to a cloud environment.

Ms. Ward remains a staunch advocate of women in military and technology fields. She currently serves on the Executive Board of Directors or the Military Women's Memorial and the Chair of the Memorials Development Committee. As a past president of Women in Defense (WID), she led chapters across 19 geographic locations in support of women in national security roles. She's also served on the National Board of Directors for the National Defense Industry Association (NDIA), providing interpretation of policy and impacts to government industry in support of National Defense.

She earned a B.A. from San Diego State University in Adult Education and Instructional System Design and an M.S. in Public Policy Leadership from Georgetown University. Her awards include the Athena Pinnacle Award for Women in Technology, the San Diego Chamber of Commerce
Woman of the Year award and the YWCA "Tribute to Women in Industry" award, among others.

Ms. Ward has four sons and currently resides in Northern Virginia