Summer Fowler

Summer Fowler is the senior VP of cybersecurity and IT for Motional, an artificial intelligence company focused on self-driving vehicle technology. She has over 22 years of experience in the cyber and IT space leading the strategy and execution of both IT and cybersecurity teams. She led the technical activities of the successful international acquisition of a 300+ person company in the EU. She is an expert in business continuity and cyber crisis management. Fowler currently serves as a cybersecurity expert on the audit committee of a healthcare organization with over $1B in annual revenue. She also advises the board of an international fintech company as the cybersecurity expert. Summer was recently named one of the Top 25 Women Leaders in Cyber Security in 2021 by The Software Report. 

Fowler is an accomplished C-Suite executive and cybersecurity expert with 20 years of experience developing technical strategies and leading engineering teams to achieve aggressive technical goals while also in hyper-growth mode. Prior to joining Argo, she was the technical director for cybersecurity risk & resilience at Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) and was responsible for a $30M+ program portfolio. She was also a technical member at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory where she designed and prioritized the Department of Defense’s $2B cybersecurity budget. Her career began as a software engineer at Northrop Grumman Corporation where she developed software for special operations forces. Fowler holds a Bachelor of Science degree in computer science and a Master of Science degree in information science and telecommunications from the University of Pittsburgh.