Renata Spinks, an Army veteran, until recently served as the Marine Corps’ Assistant Director/Deputy CIO, Command, Control, Communications & Computers (C4). In that role, she led the service’s mobile and remote workforce operations design and architecture buildout. Her focus areas included enabling better compute and store, collaboration, access control and identity management (ICAM), data encryption and governance, among others. She also oversaw defensive cyber operations for the hybrid cloud environment and worked to facilitate the adoption and implementation of zero-trust cybersecurity principles.