Our team lives the mission every day.

Previously, Brett worked with the CIA, NSA, and the Department of Defense on implementing computer vision and NLP technology and invested in startups for In-Q-Tel, the venture capital arm of the CIA and the US intelligence community. Before that, he worked at McKinsey & Co, focusing on the government sector.

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Brett was in graduate school at Stanford before dropping out to co-found Vannevar Labs.

​Nini Moorhead is a former US intelligence officer who spent seven years working with counterterrorism mission groups, including embedding with the US military overseas. Nini also served as chief of staff to the Director of the National Counterterrorism Center.

Nini holds a BA from Harvard College, where she studied Middle Eastern History and Arabic, and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

Scott Philips has over 15 years of experience developing data science and machine learning technologies for defense and intelligence applications. Prior to Vannevar, Scott was Vice President at Systems & Technology Research (STR) where he led their analytics business with the Intelligence Community. In addition, he has led engineering efforts at Palantir Technologies and MIT Lincoln Laboratory.

Scott has a PhD from the University of Washington where he studied machine learning for active sonar systems.

Seanna is a Product Manager with start-up and big tech experience working across the entire product lifecycle. Prior to Vannevar, she was a product manager at Amazon focused on Alexa and Fire TV helping customers discover content. Prior to her career in tech, Seanna worked in Morgan Stanley's Investment Banking practice. She is also a Term Member on the Council on Foreign Relations.

Seanna graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a BA in Philosophy, Politics, & Economics and Hispanic Studies, and earned an MBA with distinction from Harvard Business School.

​Erin has over 12 years of experience as an intelligence analyst, first as an Air Force Intelligence Officer working in operations support and then as a Mission Team Lead for a national security program. She also worked as a fiscal analyst and legislative policy lead prior to joining Vannevar Labs.

She is a distinguished graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and earned a Masters in Public Policy from the University of Maryland.