I have been blessed with a career allowing me to pursue diverse civilian and military interests like aviation, civil engineering, and information operations. Now it’s fulfilling to use my skills for our clients’ mission, innovating with talented cyber professionals while mentoring future cyber leaders.
Meet Andy
Chief Technologist
Andy Speirs leads Booz Allen’s cyber-enhancing services for the Department of Veterans Affairs. His responsibilities include overseeing protection of 1.3 million endpoints in a multiyear contract under the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Continuous Diagnostic and Monitoring program.
An information security leader based out of our McLean, Virginia, office, Andy has 20 years of leadership experience spanning the military and private sector. At Booz Allen, he helps clients mature their vulnerability management program to protect their data and technology assets. Andy’s leadership on our secure connected health initiative helps health delivery organizations improve their cybersecurity programs across the medical device security ecosystem by realizing the benefits of innovation while maintaining patient safety.
Prior to joining Booz Allen, Andy served as a naval flight officer and mission commander in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm. In the private sector, he built key aspects of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Vermont’s IT infrastructure and served in multiple roles at the National Life Group, including chief information security officer (CISO). As CISO, he led an 18-month web redesign program to deploy seven new technologies, achieved no major security breaches over 12 years, and contributed to the best 8-year revenue and profit growth in the company’s history.
Andy holds both a B.S. in electrical engineering and a B.S. in accounting and management from Norwich University. He has also completed a Tuck Executive Education at Dartmouth program for information security professionals.
Why were you attracted to Booz Allen? Here I found a home for all my interests in a team of teams made of talented cyber professionals, forging collective ingenuity with a never-fail attitude every day for our client’s mission. I'm also welcomed at Booz Allen for my military background and my focus on developing the next generation of cyber leaders.
Which of our values resonates with you? Ferocious integrity. It speaks to my core beliefs of accountability to my teammates, stakeholders, and clients, and uncompromising principles—including “to thine own self be true”!
What’s one activity you like to do in your spare time? I love snowmobiling in Vermont and Canada. At first I wanted to see if a city boy from Chicago could do it, and whether I could excel at it. Then, I realized it’s an opportunity for reflection. Snowmobiling 1,000 miles, disconnected from the world, looking at the beauty of the scenery—suddenly I get clarity on some big topics.
