Angel Zajkowski

Angel Zajkowski is a native of California and currently resides in Hawaii. In 1998, she enlisted in the US Army as an intelligence professional and was posted in Korea and Japan focused on the Indo-Pacific region. In 2002, she transitioned from military intelligence to special operations.

During her assignment in Army special missions, she served in various roles spanning across tactical and strategic levels, and was a highly experienced teammate, manager, and leader on multiple operational and training deployments to combat zones and conflict areas around the world. She is the first woman in special missions to receive a medal for valor for actions in combat in 2011, co-founded the SOCOM Ignite program at Massachusetts Institute for Technology in 2019, served the interim Executive Director at Risk and Return Foundation in 2022.

Angel transitioned from military service in 2023 and currently serves on both the weapons committee and intelligence committee for the Army Science Board, and continues to advise senior leaders on organizational transformation, culture change, technology and innovation, special operations, and intelligence activities as a civil servant. She founded Delphi Solutions to help private sector technology leaders and companies adopt leadership values, principles, and practices.

She holds degrees from Stanford Graduate School of Business, Methodist University, Cochise College, and Monterey Peninsula College as well as executive certificates from Harvard Business School and Duke University.