Red Cat Holdings, Inc. announced that Mary Beth Long has been appointed to its board of directors. Long brings with her decades of public and private sector experience in national security policy and defense strategy, having served as assistant secretary of defense for international security affairs in the Office of the Secretary of Defense from 2007 to 2009 — the first woman confirmed by the U.S. Senate for the role. As head of the International Security Affairs (ISA) office in the Office of the Secretary of Defense, Long was involved in managing U.S. government policy for the Middle East, Europe and Africa.

She was also the first female chair of NATO's High Level Group, responsible for its nuclear policy and reporting directly to NATO's secretary general. In addition to her government service, Long is a successful entrepreneur specializing in compliance and foreign investment. Long's law firm, MB Long & Associates PLLC, specializes in export compliance and defense.

She is also co-founder and principal of Global Alliance Advisors and owner of Askari Defense and Intelligence, LLC. Long has also previously served as a professor of practice at Penn State School of International Affairs in 2021 and 2022, as an attorney for Williams & Connolly from 1999 to 2004 and as a CIA Operations Officer from 1986 to 1999.