Dr. Michael Mylrea is a Senior Advisor for Cybersecurity and Blockchain Lead and at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory. Dr. Mylrea has over 17 years of experience working on cybersecurity with leadership positions in industry and government. He leads several cybersecurity R&D and blockchain projects, including the largest federally funded blockchain cybersecurity project. He is a Senior Advisor to WA IoT Council, George Washington University (GWU) I3P and Rocky Mountain Institute. He completed his Doctorate at GWU focused on cyber resilience, graduate degrees and coursework at Tufts Fletcher School, Harvard Law School, WGU (MSIA), Tel Aviv University (Fulbright); and double majored at University of Wisconsin – Madison. Dr. Mylrea is proficient in several foreign and computer languages.