About Jeannette Neyses

FOUNDER + CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER

Jeannette Neyses is a recognized authority in strategy-based planning and advisory services for CEOs and organizational leaders, navigating complex challenges essential for growth, innovation, performance enhancement, and value creation.  With a specialized focus on business, technology, security, and emergency management imperatives, she drives organizational transformations that significantly boost profitability, market share, and reputation.

Jeannette's innate ability to manage multiple priorities without losing sight of long-term goals makes her an indispensable leader.  Her expertise in fostering partnerships across various disciplines, creating projects, teams, networks, strategic alliances, and entirely new programs from the ground up, demonstrates her remarkable versatility and leadership.

Several years ago, Jeannette founded The Baghera Group to share her vast experience and insights gained over a 25+ year career in mission-critical, high-performance geopolitical and geoeconomic environments worldwide, including U.S. and foreign capitals, global crisis hotspots, warzones, and high-level boardrooms, C-suites, and command centers.

Before establishing her consulting firm, Jeannette served as Deputy Chief Security Officer (CSO) for the National Basketball Association.  She spearheaded the design, development, and management of numerous security initiatives that supported the league’s strategic priorities, business operations, and technology implementations.  Her efforts significantly enhanced productivity, quality, and efficiency across the NBA’s organizational footprint, including WNBA, G League, NBA2K, Basketball Africa League, and USA Basketball.  She also implemented the league’s crisis management and emergency preparedness program, introducing new security initiatives and custom technology platforms that bolstered operational integrity.  In 2019, Jeannette received the inaugural Commissioner’s Innovation Award for her outstanding work in designing and implementing cutting-edge technology-based applications.

Jeannette's career began as a Special Agent in the U.S. Secret Service, where she conducted global criminal and intelligence investigations, led computer forensics initiatives in multi-jurisdictional cases, and served as an instructor and liaison to international law enforcement officials.  Her overseas diplomatic attaché role involved advancing highly sensitive security issues across 50+ countries in Africa, Europe, and the Middle East. Additionally, she held leadership roles on the Presidential Protective Division for Presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush and led the Electronic Crimes Special Agent Program (ECSAP), overseeing telecommunications, financial, and cyber fraud investigations.

Jeannette holds a bachelor’s degree from Texas State University, a master’s degree from American Military University, and an MBA from Marist College.  She also has executive leadership and cybersecurity certificates from Harvard University and Dartmouth’s Tuck School of Business.