Shelby Hritz serves NASA’s Mission Support Directorate as Director of Industry Engagement, an Excepted Service (NEX) appointment. In this role as technical advisor to Missions and leadership, she guides strategic projects to unleash the power of Data, AI, and Cloud. Formerly at Google, she was a founding member of Google Space, a team focused on fusing Silicon Valley brilliance with the challenges of the Space Industry. Previous roles include leadership at Capital G funded Collibra, Intel, Actifio (acquired by Google), Redhat, VMware, NetApp, and EMC. She passionately champions diversity in tech while mentoring the leaders of tomorrow.