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The Washington Center • Cybersecurity Accelerator Program | Program Schedule Candice Frost Director, Nightwing Candice Frost's commitment to national security includes three decades of public service. Her career in intelligence and cyber, includes operational tours of duty in the Balkans, multiple deployments to Afghanistan. Candice was instrumental in the integration of women into combat arms and served close to half of her career in infantry divisions. She retired on September 1st as a Colonel from her last position as the commander of the Joint Operations Intelligence Command at the US Cyber Command. She is an Account Executive as the Director of Business Development for the Cyber, Intel, and Services business with RTX. A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, Colonel (R) Frost holds masters degrees from Central Michigan University and the United States Army School of Advanced Military Studies. Her awards and decorations include the Bronze Star, Legion of Merit, and Combat Action Badge. She is also the recipient of the Billington Cybersecurity Workforce Development Award, Business Council for Peace Lifetime Mentorship Award, and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Muscatine, Iowa. She is a member of the Executive Advisory Council for AFCEA DC. Candice is an adjunct professor at Georgetown University teaching masters students in the Security Studies Program. COL Frost is the past recipient of numerous fellowships, including Seminar XXI at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Army War College Fellowship with the Central Intelligence Agency, and the Foundation for Defense of Democracies Fellowship. Colonel Frost pivots in 2023 from the United States Army after more than twenty-five years of service. Gabriel Andrews Supervisory Special Agent, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Supervisory Special Agent (SSA) Gabriel Andrews received his bachelor's degree in Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and an M.B.A. from San Diego State University. He entered the FBI as a Special Agent in 2010 working criminal computer investigations in the Los Angeles Field Office. Since then, SSA Andrews has served as the FBI's liaison for Cyber matters to Canada out of the US embassy in Ottawa, as a SSA in FBI Cyber Division headquarters overseeing FBI operational engagement with the private sector, and most recently as an SSA in the FBI's Science & Technology Branch focusing on matters of Internet Governance. SSA Andrews is currently the FBI's liaison to ICANN, where he serves as Co-Chair of the Public Safety Working Group collaborating with foreign law enforcement and public safety agencies on policy for a safe and secure Internet.