Linda Apsley is the Principal Group Program Manager responsible for Service Excellence for Microsoft Xbox Live Services. Linda is known as a transformational leader who creates effective strategy, and designs new architectures, engineering methods, and policies to successfully deliver complex software engineering projects. She is also known for her skill in designing and delivering the first enterprise customer roll-outs of new software products. As a program manager at Microsoft, Linda has released more than ten different software products including Systems Management Server, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003, Exchange Server 2003, Windows XP, the Office 365 Service, and the Xbox Live Services.
From 2006-2008, Linda managed compliance engineering for the Windows Division where she managed a project with over 500 engineers to successfully deliver Windows protocol specifications to meet the Consent Decree requirements. Her leadership during the protocol project was instrumental in aligning legal commitments with engineering deliverables. She also demonstrated an ability to manage complex relationships with the State’s Attorneys and the Technical Committee.
She is an active leader in technical women’s communities and is a frequent speaker at Women’s Leadership Conferences including the Annual Conference Board Executive Women’s Conference and several Grace Hopper’s Conferences. In 2011, Linda was Program Co-chair for the Hopper’s Conference and she is a Conference Co-chair for the 2012 conference in Baltimore.
Linda is the recipient of the Microsoft First and Best Engineering Award and multiple Gold Star awards for outstanding performance. She is also proud to be married to a wonderful man and to be the mother of 6 successful children (5 grown). Her three oldest children are out of college pursuing successful careers in computer engineering and IP law.
Linda graduated from Brigham Young University with a BA in Organizational Communications. She also holds an MBA from City University of Seattle.
Officers
- Telle Whitney, – President and CEO
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director & COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President & Corporate Secretary
Corporate Counsel
- Allison Spinner, Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati
Staff
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO
- Jerri Barrett, VP of Marketing
- Barbara Gee, VP of Programs
- Jody Mahoney, VP of Business Development
- Kirk Ross, VP of Finance
- Suzanne Andrews, Director, TechWomen Initiative Liaison
- Jagruti Bhikha, Director, Grace Hopper Celebration India
- Cara de Urioste, Director of Development
- Denise Gammal, Director of Research and Corporate Partnerships
- Kathy Gee, Director of Operations
- Seema Gururaj, Director of the Grace Hopper Celebration
- Carol Rudisill, Director, Academic Initiatives and Leadership Development
- Linda Bohn, Operations Manager and Executive Assistant
- Lilis Bumgardner, CMP, Meetings and Events Manager
- Christine Chiu, Research and Executive Programs Manager
- Tina Pratt, Program Manager and GHC Academic Liaison
- Rosario Robinson, Systers Program Manager
- Rachelle Siskin, Program Logistics Manager
- Carolyn Strobel, Marketing Manager
- Bénédicte Richardson, Program Associate, TechWomen
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Board of Trustees
- Leah Jamieson, John A. Edwardson Dean of Engineering and Ramsburg Distinguished Professor, Purdue University, Board Chair
- Francine Berman, Vice President of Research and Professor of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – Vice Chair
- Robin Abrams, Investor
- Anushka Anand, Ph.D Candidate, University of Illinois at Chicago
- James Beck, CPA & CMA, Managing Director and COO, Mayfield Fund – Treasurer, Vice President and Corporate Secretary
- Mark Bregman, Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, Neustar
- Debi Coleman, Managing Partner, SmartForest Ventures
- Nancy E. Cooper, Retired, EVP and Chief Financial Officer, CA Technologies
- Kelli Crane, Senior Vice President of Global Enterprise Information Solutions, LexisNexis
- Nora Denzel, Senior Vice President, Big Data, Social Design and Marketing, Intuit
- Alan Eustace, Senior Vice President of Knowledge, Google
- Penny Herscher, President and CEO, firstRain
- Kathy Hill, Senior Vice President, Development Strategy and Operations, Cisco Systems Inc.
- Tracy S. Keogh, Executive Vice President, Human Resources, HP
- Sarah Loos, Ph.D Candidate, Carnegie Mellon University
- Brian Pawlowski, CTO and Senior Vice President, NetApp
- Richard Rashid, Chief Research Officer, Microsoft
- Justin Rattner, Senior Fellow and CTO, Intel
- Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering, Facebook
- Bill Unger, Partner Emeritus, Mayfield Fund
- William Wulf, Former President, National Academy of Engineering
- Telle Whitney, President and CEO, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology
- Margaret Ashida, Emerita (Term: 2003- 2009)
- Linda Bernardi, Emerita (Term: 1996 -2006)
- Wayne Johnson, Emeritus (Term: 2002-2008)
- Maria Klawe, Emerita (Term: 1996-2011)
- Greg Papadopoulos, Emeritus (Term: 1996 -2006)
Individual and Organizations
Board of Advisors
- Nina Bhatti, Senior Principal Scientist, HP Labs – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Ann Redelfs, Redelfs LLC – Co-Chair of Advisory Board
- Frances Allen, IBM Fellow Emerita, IBM
- Linda Apsley, Principal Group Program Manager, Xbox Live Services, Microsoft Corporation
- Pamela Arya, Vice President of Intelligence Solutions, A-T Solutions
- Gail Carmichael, PhD Student, Carleton University
- Krista Claude, Head of Product and Content Technology, Thomson Reuters Core Legal
- Anne Condon, Professor of Computer Science, University of British Columbia
- Danielle Cummings, PhD student, Texas A&M University
- Katy Dickinson, Director, Huawei Technologies
- Catherine Didion, Senior Program Officer, National Academy of Engineering
- Allan Fisher, Vice President, Laureate Education
- Gilda Garreton, Principal Engineer, Oracle Labs/Oracle
- Mark Guzdial, Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology
- Anne Hardy, Vice President Developer Evangelism, SAP Labs
- Nanditha Iyer, Student, Georgia Tech
- Robin Jeffries, Google
- Allyson Kapin, Founder, Rad Campaign and Women Who Tech
- Chandra Krintz, Associate Professor, UC Santa Barbara
- Cindy Lain, Software Engineering Manager, Cisco
- Ellen Lapham, Entrepreneur and Designer, Innovation Ventures
- Wei Lin, Senior Director, Engineering Consumer Business Unit, Symantec
- Patty Lopez, Component Design Engineer, Intel
- Karin Meyer, Director, Platforms, Intuit
- Carol Muller, Senior Consultant, Electrical Engineering, Stanford University; President, Blue Sky Consulting
- Radha Nandkumar, Independent Research Consultant
- Sabina Nawaz, Nawaz Consulting, LLC
- Elisa Camahort Page, Co-Founder and COO, BlogHer
- Claudia Pearce, NSA
- Mary Ramsey, Lockheed Martin
- Nancy Ramsey, Author, The Futures of Women: Scenarios for the 21st Century
- Kathy Richardson, Consultant
- Ruth Stergiou, Principal, Planning Dynamics, Inc.
- Audrey Van Belleghem, Director, Office of the CTO, NetApp
- Sheila Van Groningen, Vice President, Airborne ISR, Cyber Intelligence Division, Northrop Grumman Information Systems