JoAnn P. (Falls Church, VA) has 10 years of experience working in and consulting to the federal government on topics ranging from intelligence analysis to IT supply chain management, cloud computing and data analytics. Her consulting background, combined with her passion for marketing and business development, has led her to cultivate trust-based relationships across matrixed organizations and bring in over $1M in billings from clientele. While working at a global, Fortune 500 consulting firm, she built out her team from three to seven direct reports and expanded her scope of work by 3x within a 2 year period. Previously, she was the Deputy Director of a Predictive Analytics practice at a mid-sized technology firm where she oversaw all program management and marketing activities during a time of rapid expansion while the company positioned itself for sale. She began her career at the Central Intelligence Agency where she frequently authored written assessments in the Presidents Daily Brief. She is currently an active investor with an impact-focused investment fund and provides pro-bono marketing strategy and sales support to her husband’s boutique law practice. She earned her MBA from the Darden Graduate School of Business in 2012, and graduated from Emory University with a BA in Psychology in 2006.