Anne Marie Pellerin

Anne Marie Pellerin is founder and CEO of Curie Technologies, Inc., a U.S. Woman Owned Business software company focused on digitizing equipment workflows for frontline security officers and connecting stakeholders with common data. Ms. Pellerin is also Managing Partner of LAM LHA, a consulting firm with offices in Paris, France and Washington, DC providing advisory services in the fields of aviation security and passenger facilitation to some of the sector’s most innovative companies. Ms. Pellerin serves as a Strategic Advisor to the Government Technology & Services Coalition, the owner of Homeland Security Today and is a respected voice in the aviation sector. Ms. Pellerin spent six years as a U.S. Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Representative at the U.S. Embassy in Paris, with regional responsibility including representation to the European Civil Aviation Conference (ECAC). In this role, she was actively involved in government-to-government negotiations related to aviation security matters and spearheaded multiple innovative efforts to include the first national cargo recognition exercise between the United States and France (leading to a broader European framework), the creation of a Behaviour Detection in Aviation Security Working Group with ECAC, and a multilateral initiative to test the effectiveness of REST/RASCO canine techniques. Previously, Ms. Pellerin was the Executive Director of the U.S. Transportation Security Administration’s (TSA) Checkpoint of the Future Program in Washington, DC. In this role and reporting directly to the TSA Administrator, she launched numerous innovative initiatives to include mobile boarding pass, differentiated lanes (family, expert, casual), and a completely redesigned checkpoint model at Baltimore Washington Airport showcasing next generation technologies and processes. These efforts set the stage for TSA’s Pre-Check Program and the use of Security Scanners and dualview x-ray across U.S. airports. Prior to TSA, Ms. Pellerin worked as a Vice President at Quorum Strategies and as a consultant with former U.S. Secretary of Defense William Cohen at The Cohen Group. Ms. Pellerin completed her undergraduate studies as Wake Forest University and holds a master’s in foreign policy from Georgetown. She sits on the Airports Council International World Standing Security Committee and is a Senior Advisor to the International Civil Aviation Conference (ICAO).