Anita Carleton is an Executive Leadership Team Member and Division Director of the Software Solutions Division (SSD) at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI), Carnegie Mellon University, where she has more than 30 years of technical and senior leadership experience in the software engineering industry. Carleton has leadership and operating responsibility for a diverse staff of more than 160 researchers, expert developers, and domain experts advancing software engineering through a $55 million research and development portfolio. She leads the software engineering research, development, and transition strategy for the SEI. Carleton is currently leading an SEI effort to engage the broad software engineering community to define a national agenda for software engineering research and development for the next decade.
