Anna Brady-Estevez is the Founding Partner of American DeepTech, a deep technology investment firm. Brady-Estevez also serves as a co-host of the NASA  Ecosystemic Futures podcast which regularly covers advanced technologies, including in-depth coverage of UAP.  

Dr. Brady-Estevez previously served as the Senior Investment Advisor and Partner (Venture) for the Small Business Administration's SBIC program (a program investing over $5B annually in venture and private equity).  Anna also served as a Program Director at the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF), where she led the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) portfolio focused on Space Tech, Energy, Chemical, Environmental, and Distributed Ledger (Blockchain, DAGs) technologies. During her tenure, Anna invested and managed over $250M in grants to early-stage, high-impact startups.  Deep technology companies that Anna has previously recommended and/or managed for funding, investment & grants have achieved over $8.5B in follow-on fianancing and $17B+ in total company valuation.  Such companies include: Ascend Elements, Epirus, Design Therapeutics, Stoke Space Technologies, Fluence, Syzygy Plasmonics, Baseload Renewables (pre-Form Energy), Swarm, Air Company, Meati, Provivi, Nth Cycle, Iontra,  Xona, Interlune, Kaleido, Loci, Li Industries, Urban Sky, Astroforge, Avalanche Energy, Ambercycle, Molten Industries, Noon Energy and others.  While at NSF Anna also recommended funding for a number of companies who have shared their publicly visible work on UAP related and adjacent technologies.

While in government Anna led several national level initiatives, including Co-Chairing the US Space Economy Interagency working group, which included working with the interagency and private sector on space technologies inclusive of UAP related technologies, alongside other sectors such as in-space biotechnology, in-space semiconductors, space data and AI, advanced propulsion and launch capabilities.  This work included bringing together hundreds of researchers, entrepreneurs and leaders in government in several recorded public meetings that are publicly recorded and visible on UAP innovation and science.  Dr. Brady-Estevez also Co-Chaired alongside the White House OSTP the United States Digital Asset R&D Agenda (including assessment of Digital Currencies), and was active in funding the first interagency and private sector Decentralized Autonomous Organization, alongside the ZKP privacy preserving follow-on work to Project Hamilton (the project between the Boston Fed and MIT assessing potential for  digital currencies).

Brady-Estevez previously served as Director of Corporate Strategy at Cummins Inc. and The AES Corporation, leading initiatives that resulted in over $6 billion in infrastructure investments. She was previously a management consultant with the Boston Consulting Group where she was involved in a transformation project preceding a $T+ IPO, and other high growth initiatives doubling revenues to the $20B+ level.  In 2009, she was selected as a Kauffman Fellow for her leadership in innovation and venture capital and she collaborated with a number of venture firms at that time.

Anna began her career in innovation collaborating with the Office of Naval Research at the U.S. Embassy in Chile.  She holds a Ph.D. in Chemical and Environmental Engineering from Yale University, where she was an NSF Graduate Research Fellow and President of the Student Government representing the 14 graduate and professional schools, and a B.S. in Chemical Engineering and Spanish from the Johns Hopkins University where she was a varsity athlete, captain and record holder.