Dawn Conley is an experienced financial and strategic leader with a passion for building the compliance, reporting, and funding infrastructure that lets mission-driven organizations grow with integrity. Throughout her career she has worked across healthcare, aerospace and defense, government, and the innovation ecosystem — as a nonprofit CEO, small business owner, and executive within Fortune 500 companies, startups, and municipalities — giving her a rare vantage on how capital, controls, and strategy must work together at every stage of growth. In her work she has helped organizations navigate complex challenges such as multi-source federal, state, and philanthropic funding, grant and expenditure management, budget analysis, and public-sector fiscal governance. As CFO of Elevate Quantum and former CEO of Catalyst Campus for Technology and Innovation, she brings a distinct ability to translate complex technical and financial concepts into terms that resonate with funders, clients, and stakeholders.