Melissa Hathaway is President of Hathaway Global Strategies, LLC, and former Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace, U.S. National Security Council. From February 2009 to August 2009, she served in the Obama Administration as Acting Senior Director for Cyberspace in the National Security Council. Hathaway served as Cyber Coordination Executive and Director of the Joint Interagency Cyber Task Force in the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. She developed and created a unified cross-agency budget submission for FY 2008 and for 2009-13, assembling disparate funding sources into a coherent, integrated program. One of the single largest intelligence programs of the Bush administration, the Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative has been carried forward by the Obama administration. Previously, Hathaway was a Principal with Booz Allen & Hamilton, Inc., where she led two primary business units: information operations and long range strategy and policy support, supporting key offices within the Department of Defense and Intelligence Community.