Dr. Linda Bixby, an executive at NobleReach Foundation, leads the organization’s Academic Partnerships to empower the next generation of talent and innovation to tackle our nation’s most pressing security challenges. She prepares strategy, budgets, creates business plans, and solves internal and external issues as they arise.

Dr. Bixby’s extensive experience includes support to the U.S. government, academia, non-profit organizations, and industry for 35+ years in executive, management, technical, operational, and analytical positions.

She served in the U.S. government, receiving numerous commendations. Along with her government service, Dr. Bixby was an executive at a Fortune 500 company, a non-profit organization, and a small, woman-owned business. She is a former associate professor and scholar in residence at American University. Dr. Bixby’s publications and academic contributions include Domestic Danger, In Pursuit of Justice, Learning from History, and War-Time Slave and Forced Labor.

Dr. Bixby serves on multiple academic advisory boards to include Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business (member and former chairperson), University of Texas Austin, Cockrell School of Engineering, Virginia Cyber Navigator Internship Program at University of Virginia, and on two industry advisory boards.

She is on the Board of Directors for the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA) and was a member of their Advisory Committee and vice chairperson of the Acquisition Management Council. She participates actively in AFCEA International and the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA). Dr. Bixby is a certified Project Management Professional.

Dr. Bixby earned a doctorate in history (anticipatory intelligence) and completed her master’s program in history and Soviet studies at the Freie Universität Berlin. She obtained bachelor’s degrees in communications and German studies from the University of Arizona. Dr. Bixby continues her education at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Program in Innovation and Technology.