Retired Lieutenant General Mary A. Legere, former Senior Intelligence Officer for the U.S. Army, is a Managing Director for Accenture Global Defense, focused on bringing Accenture’s global capabilities, services and fed-fit best practices to national defense intelligence and cyber clients.

Prior to joining Accenture , Mary served for 34 years in the U.S. Army and Intelligence Community, leading Intelligence, Security and Cyber organizations at the Joint and Service level in Europe, Asia and the Middle East, including directing the U.S. Army’s enterprise of 58,000 intelligence professionals, commanding the Army’s 17,000-person global Intelligence Command, and serving as the U.S. Senior Military Intelligence Officer for Multi-National Forces Iraq and in the Republic of Korea for Combined Forces Command/United States Forces Korea.

As the Army G2, she led the expansion of its full-spectrum Cyber forces, modernization of the Army’s Aerial and Ground ISR fleets, and drove the effort to modernize the Army’s global intelligence information architecture, setting conditions for Army’s use of Open-Source intelligence and artificial Intelligence. As the theater J2 in Iraq and the Republic of Korea, she oversaw operations, modernization and daily direction of the joint, multinational and interagency intelligence operations supporting theater campaigns, indications and warning and future planning.

At Accenture, she has served Senior Advisor to Accenture Federal Services Defense, Intelligence and National Security Portfolios for US Defense and Intelligence clients and as Global Defense advisor, bringing four decades of experience to NATO and INDOPAC alliances to help accelerate multi-national, multi-domain mission command and C4ISR solutions for defense organizations around the world.