Regina E. Dugan is president and CEO of Wellcome Leap, Inc., a non-profit that builds and executes bold, unconventional programs, funded at scale, with the aim of increasing the speed and number of breakthroughs in human health. Dugan has led world-class, global teams and $100 million to multi-billion efforts to deliver novel products at Meta and Alphabet and as the 19th director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, where she was the first woman to lead the agency. She was named a distinguished alumna of Caltech in 2017. Dugan is a member of the Academy of Engineering Excellence at Virginia Tech and, in 2022, received Virginia Tech’s University Distinguished Achievement Award.