Fran Craig is a technology leader, entrepreneur, mentor, STEM enthusiast, and philanthropist. She is known for helping to bring the internet to Loudoun County.   While working in technology at AT&T, Carnegie Mellon University, GTE Telenet, DHL Courier, and other organizations, she developed software applications. Adding strategic technology planning and organizational management, she formed her first company, Computer Strategies. In 1997, Craig originated the concept of the web-based timesheet and morphed Computer Strategies into Unanet, a software company. In 2018, private equity invested in Unanet, which is now a leading AI software provider for professional services and government contracting firms.

Deeply interested in education for STEM and women in business, Craig supports the Loudoun Education Foundation, the Northern Virginia Science Center, STEM For Her, the Loudoun Symphony, the Women’s Center, Saint Mary’s College of Notre Dame (her alma mater), and the George Mason Costello College of Business Center. Craig was recognized in 2025 as STEM for Her’s Woman of the Year, in 2024 with an honorary Doctor of Science at Saint Mary’s, in 2018 as a Tech 100 Executive by NVTC, in 2016 as a SmartCEO Brava winner, and in 2006 as a “Woman Who Means Business” by the Washington Business Journal.