Dr. Mark T. Maybury Joins the AKMSecure Board of Advisors

AKMSecure announces that Dr. Mark T. Maybury has joined the company’s Board of Advisors. Dr. Maybury brings more than three decades of leadership in cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, and defense technology — from the Pentagon to the private sector.

Career Highlights

Dr. Maybury served as Chief Scientist of the U.S. Air Force, the senior scientific adviser to the Chief of Staff and Secretary of the Air Force, where he provided strategic oversight of $5 billion in science and technology investments. He led three foundational Air Force studies: Cyber Vision 2025, Energy Horizons, and Global Horizons.

At the MITRE Corporation, he held executive roles over two decades, including VP and Chief Technology Officer, VP and Chief Information Security Officer, and Director of the NIST National Cybersecurity FFRDC. He directed MITRE’s independent R&D program and managed cybersecurity strategy across seven FFRDCs.

As the first Chief Technology Officer of Stanley Black & Decker, Dr. Maybury grew new product revenue past $1 billion. He currently serves as Vice President of Commercialization at Lockheed Martin, leading efforts to move R&D into operational deployment across defense and commercial sectors.

Importance to the AKM Mission

Dr. Maybury’s career has centered on moving advanced technology from concept to operational scale in the most demanding environments, mirroring AKM’s mission of replacing legacy PKI with Autonomous Key Management™.

“The national and global organizations I’ve had the privilege to help lead across government, national labs, and commercial industry, all face the same fundamental challenge: PKI was never designed for contested, disconnected, or resource-constrained environments. AKM’s quantum-resilient, autonomous architecture addresses that gap directly, and I’m looking forward to helping advance its application to assure national security and provide resilient critical infrastructure.” — Dr. Mark T. Maybury

“We are pleased to have Dr. Maybury’s strategic insights guiding AKM,” said Brian McGowan, CEO of AKMSecure. “Mark’s track record in commercializing dual-use technologies and guiding national security innovations will be invaluable as we scale AKM to protect critical infrastructure and high-stakes environments against evolving threats, including quantum risks.”

About Dr. Maybury

Dr. Maybury is an IEEE Fellow with three U.S. patents and ten edited books in AI and information technology. He has received the Commander’s Public Service Award, the Air Force Meritorious Civilian Service Award, and a Federal 100 Award.

About AKMSecure

AKMSecure delivers a patented Autonomous Key Management™ protocol built to replace outdated PKI approaches with a dynamic, quantum-secure, air-gapped-capable architecture. Instead of relying on persistent credentials that can be stolen, reused, or abused, AKM enables independently verified sessions with no standing privileges left behind. The result is a model that better aligns with Zero Trust principles, reduces credential-based risk, and supports resilient operations across enterprise IT, OT and Tactical Edge environments. Built to NSA-grade security standards and deployable as a lightweight SDK, AKMSecure helps organizations modernize trust at the protocol layer without rebuilding everything around it.