Founder, BluVi
Co-Founder, Moirai Systems
Pensacola, Florida
Industry: Technology, Artificial Intelligence & Cybersecurity
Sector: Artificial Intelligence | Cybersecurity | Defense Technology | Enterprise Technology Strategy | Decision Intelligence
Specialties: AI Governance | Agentic AI Security | Cybersecurity Architecture | Fractional CTO & CISO Advisory | Business Automation | Digital Transformation | Defense Procurement Intelligence | Technology Risk Management
Leadership Focus: Responsible AI Innovation | Secure Technology Adoption | Strategic Decision-Making | Operational Efficiency | Business Resilience | Human-Centered Technology | Organizational Growth
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CityBox Executive Essence™
Sherri Babylon is a technology entrepreneur, cybersecurity strategist, and United States Air Force veteran whose leadership connects enterprise technology, artificial intelligence, defense innovation, and strategic business decision-making.
With nearly three decades of experience across military, defense, and enterprise technology environments, Babylon has built a career focused on helping organizations navigate complexity, strengthen security, and make informed technology investments.
As Founder of BluVi and Co-Founder of Moirai Systems, she brings enterprise-level expertise to emerging technologies, helping businesses and defense organizations evaluate opportunities, improve operational effectiveness, and approach artificial intelligence with discipline and accountability.
Her leadership reflects a commitment to ensuring that innovation serves meaningful business objectives while maintaining human judgment, responsible governance, and long-term operational resilience.
Executive Overview
Sherri Babylon is the Founder of BluVi, a technology advisory company providing fractional executive leadership, artificial intelligence strategy, cybersecurity guidance, and business transformation services.
She is also Co-Founder of Moirai Systems, a defense technology venture developing decision-intelligence solutions designed to help organizations evaluate unmanned aircraft systems procurement opportunities through structured, evidence-informed analysis.
A United States Air Force veteran, Babylon brings extensive experience across enterprise technology and defense-related environments, including professional roles associated with Microsoft, L-3 Communications, and CACI International.
Her background encompasses secure systems architecture, technology program management, cybersecurity, infrastructure modernization, and strategic technology leadership.
Babylon holds professional credentials including an MBA, Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), and Certified Information Security Manager (CISM).
Her educational background includes the University of Maryland University College, now known as the University of Maryland Global Campus.
She is also the creator of Zones of Distrust, an open-source security architecture addressing the challenges associated with autonomous AI agents and the safeguards necessary for responsible technology deployment.
Her professional journey reflects an evolution from enterprise technology and defense systems into entrepreneurship, where she applies decades of experience to help organizations approach emerging technologies with greater clarity, security, and purpose.
Why This Leader Matters
Sherri Babylon represents a form of technology leadership increasingly essential to organizations navigating the rapid development of artificial intelligence and digital transformation.
As businesses encounter new automation capabilities and increasingly sophisticated AI systems, the challenge extends beyond technology adoption. Leaders must determine which innovations are appropriate, how they affect operations, what risks they introduce, and whether their investments can deliver measurable value.
Babylon's experience in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and defense-related environments provides a foundation for addressing these questions with disciplined judgment.
Through BluVi, she helps small and midsize businesses access strategic technology guidance often associated with larger enterprises. Her approach emphasizes understanding business operations, identifying inefficiencies, assessing risks, and establishing clear priorities before introducing new technologies.
Through Moirai Systems, Babylon applies technology architecture and decision intelligence to complex defense procurement environments, where informed decisions can influence substantial investments, operational commitments, and competitive opportunities.
Her work developing Zones of Distrust further demonstrates her attention to the responsibilities accompanying increasingly autonomous AI systems, particularly in areas involving security, accountability, and human oversight.
Beyond her entrepreneurial ventures, Babylon contributes to professional conversations surrounding technology, cybersecurity, and responsible innovation within the Gulf Coast business community.
Her leadership demonstrates how experience, technical expertise, and sound judgment can help organizations innovate without losing sight of the people, processes, and responsibilities that ultimately determine success.
CityBox Leadership Signals™
Strategic Orientation
Approaches emerging technology through disciplined business assessment, cybersecurity principles, operational analysis, and long-term organizational objectives, ensuring innovation supports measurable business needs.
Decision Style
Analytical, evidence-informed, security-conscious, and deliberate, with an emphasis on operational readiness, risk evaluation, clear accountability, and sustainable technology investments.
Primary Influence
Artificial intelligence, cybersecurity architecture, agentic AI security, enterprise technology strategy, defense procurement intelligence, digital transformation, and responsible business automation.
Leadership Strength
Translating complex technology and cybersecurity challenges into practical business strategies while combining enterprise-level experience with an understanding of the operational realities facing smaller organizations.
Executive Signature
Clarity before automation. Security by design. Innovation with purpose.
Leadership Environment
Enterprise technology organizations, defense-related programs, cybersecurity communities, small and midsize businesses, emerging AI ventures, technology advisory environments, and cross-industry executive networks where innovation, accountability, and strategic decision-making intersect.
Selected Leadership Milestones
Sherri Babylon's leadership record reflects nearly three decades of experience across military service, enterprise technology, cybersecurity, defense-related programs, entrepreneurship, and emerging artificial intelligence initiatives.
United States Air Force & Defense Technology Experience
Babylon's professional foundation includes service in the United States Air Force, followed by extensive experience in technology environments supporting defense-related operations and enterprise systems.
Her background includes technology program management, secure infrastructure, information assurance, and complex operational environments where reliability, security, and accountability are essential.
This experience established a foundation for her subsequent work in cybersecurity architecture, technology governance, and business innovation.
Enterprise Technology Leadership | Microsoft, L-3 Communications & CACI International
Babylon's technology career includes professional experience with major organizations such as Microsoft, L-3 Communications, and CACI International.
Her work has encompassed enterprise technology management, cybersecurity, secure systems architecture, infrastructure modernization, and large-scale technology programs.
At Microsoft, her experience included work associated with defense-related Azure and trusted technology environments.
Her background across these organizations contributes to a leadership approach emphasizing technical discipline, operational reliability, security, and responsible technology investment.
Founder | BluVi
As Founder of BluVi, Babylon provides fractional executive technology leadership and strategic advisory services to small and midsize organizations.
BluVi helps business leaders evaluate their technology environments, assess operational challenges, strengthen cybersecurity considerations, and determine where automation and artificial intelligence can deliver practical value.
Its services include technology strategy, executive advisory guidance, AI readiness assessments, operational transformation, and security oversight.
Babylon's approach emphasizes understanding business processes and organizational priorities before introducing new technology, with particular attention to measurable results, accountability, and sustainable growth.
Co-Founder | Moirai Systems
Babylon co-founded Moirai Systems with Alon Ben-Gal, combining enterprise technology and cybersecurity expertise with specialized unmanned aircraft systems knowledge.
The company is developing a decision-intelligence platform designed to help defense business-development and capture teams evaluate procurement opportunities and make structured bid-or-no-bid decisions.
Its methodology incorporates market intelligence, operational considerations, regulatory requirements, risk analysis, and transparent scoring to help organizations assess opportunities more consistently.
Babylon contributes technology and platform development expertise, with security and accountability integrated into the system's architecture.
Creator | Zones of Distrust AI Security Architecture
Babylon is the creator of Zones of Distrust (ZoD), an open-source security architecture designed to address the risks introduced by increasingly autonomous AI agents.
The framework explores multiple layers of security, containment, operational safeguards, and human oversight.
Her work reflects a growing need for responsible AI architecture as autonomous systems gain the ability to interact with sensitive information, execute tasks, and influence organizational processes.
Through this initiative, Babylon contributes to broader professional discussions surrounding agentic AI, cybersecurity, technology accountability, and responsible innovation.
Education & Professional Credentials
Babylon's educational background includes attendance at the University of Maryland University College, now known as the University of Maryland Global Campus.
Her qualifications include an MBA and professional certifications in project management and information security.
Her credentials include Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP), Certified Information Security Manager (CISM), and Microsoft Azure AI Fundamentals.
She also identifies professional affiliations with AFCEA, ISACA, and ISC2.
These credentials and associations reflect professional development across business management, cybersecurity, enterprise technology, project execution, and emerging technologies.
CityBox Index Executive Roundtable™ | Gulf Coast
Babylon participated in the CityBox Index Executive Roundtable held August 19, 2026, in Pace, Florida.
The private gathering brought together executives, entrepreneurs, and business leaders from healthcare, technology, cybersecurity, financial services, marketing, and other professional sectors.
Her participation contributed perspectives on artificial intelligence, technology strategy, automation, and the importance of informed decision-making as businesses evaluate emerging innovations.
The gathering reflected CityBox Index's commitment to bringing leaders together for meaningful professional conversations and cross-industry relationships.
CityBox TechTalk Gulf Coast | Artificial Intelligence Leadership
In September 2026, Babylon participated as a featured technology presenter during the inaugural CityBox TechTalk Gulf Coast in Pensacola.
Her presentation addressed the practical application of artificial intelligence in business, highlighting how organizations can evaluate AI tools, improve operational efficiency, and support more informed decision-making.
She joined fellow technology professionals representing cybersecurity, wireless communications, and custom software development.
Her contribution helped connect complex technological concepts with the everyday operational considerations facing business owners and executives.
CityBox Magazine | Women's Edition Luminaries Feature
Babylon was featured as one of the Luminaries in the CityBox Magazine Women's Edition, part of the publication's digital coffee-table magazine series.
Her inclusion documents her participation among women recognized editorially for their leadership journeys, professional contributions, and perspectives within the business community.
The feature forms part of CityBox Magazine's continuing effort to document the experiences and influence of women across industries, creating a digital record of the people contributing to business, innovation, and community leadership.
Explore Sherri Babylon's CityBox Magazine Women's Edition Luminaries Feature — Page 42
Hack the Coast 2026 | Cybersecurity & AI Security Leadership
On May 9, 2026, Sherri Babylon joined cybersecurity executive Dillard Trapp as a featured co-presenter at Hack the Coast, a community-driven cybersecurity conference held at Cowork Annex in downtown Pensacola and produced by IT Gulf Coast.
Their presentation, Security Architecture for Autonomous AI Agents: When the Blast Radius Is Human, examined the emerging security challenges associated with increasingly autonomous artificial intelligence systems.
Babylon contributed her expertise in AI security architecture, including her work developing Zones of Distrust, an open-source containment framework for autonomous AI agents. Trapp complemented her technical perspective with expertise in cybersecurity compliance, risk management, and governance frameworks.
Their collaboration brought together two important dimensions of responsible artificial intelligence: designing systems with appropriate security boundaries and aligning those systems with practical organizational safeguards.
The presentation contributed to regional conversations about cybersecurity, technological accountability, and the security implications of emerging AI capabilities.
Conference: Hack the Coast 2026
TEDxPensacola | Organizer & Curator
Sherri Babylon is an organizer and curator of TEDxPensacola, an independently organized TEDx initiative dedicated to bringing meaningful ideas, diverse perspectives, and compelling community stories to a broader audience.
Working alongside cybersecurity executive and fellow organizer Dillard Trapp, Babylon has contributed to developing TEDxPensacola under the theme Hidden in Plain Sight, an initiative focused on recognizing innovative thinking, leadership, and ideas already emerging within the Pensacola community.
Her involvement includes the creative and strategic work of shaping event themes, identifying compelling ideas, supporting speaker development, and contributing to an experience designed to encourage curiosity, meaningful conversation, and new connections.
Babylon's leadership in TEDxPensacola represents an extension of her professional influence beyond cybersecurity and artificial intelligence. It reflects her commitment to intellectual exchange, community engagement, and creating opportunities for individuals from different backgrounds and industries to share ideas with wider audiences.
The initiative has also connected technology professionals, community leaders, volunteers, and regional organizations in a collaborative effort to expand Pensacola's platform for thought leadership and public conversation.
Through her work with TEDxPensacola, Babylon demonstrates the role leaders can play not only in advancing their own fields, but also in creating spaces where the perspectives and experiences of others can be discovered, shared, and explored.
Website: TEDxPensacola
CityBox Connections
CityBox identifies leaders whose experience and areas of focus may create meaningful opportunities for collaboration.
Dave Nelson
Babylon's expertise in artificial intelligence, cybersecurity governance, and technology strategy intersects with Nelson's work in cybersecurity and business resilience, creating complementary perspectives on helping organizations adopt technology securely and responsibly.
Joshua Turner
As businesses adopt increasingly sophisticated technologies, secure connectivity and reliable communications infrastructure become essential. Turner's expertise in wireless communications complements Babylon's work in enterprise technology, cybersecurity, and AI-enabled systems.
Dillard trapp
Sherri Babylon and Dillard Trapp share an established professional collaboration spanning cybersecurity education, responsible artificial intelligence, and community-focused thought leadership.
Both military veterans and technology professionals, they bring complementary expertise to the emerging challenges facing organizations as AI systems become more autonomous.
Their collaboration includes a joint presentation at the May 2026 Hack the Coast cybersecurity conference, where Babylon's AI security architecture expertise was paired with Trapp's experience in cybersecurity governance, compliance, and risk management.
Their professional relationship also extends into TEDxPensacola, where they have worked together on organizing an independently curated platform for ideas, innovation, and community conversations.
Their collaboration illustrates how technical expertise, professional relationships, and a shared interest in community engagement can create opportunities for knowledge exchange beyond individual organizations.
Houston George
Babylon's emphasis on strategic technology assessment and purposeful automation complements George's work in custom application development, where software solutions can help organizations address operational challenges and improve business performance.
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