Primary Job Title Partner Primary Organization Syndicate 708
Location San Diego, California, United States Regions Greater San Diego Area, West Coast, Western US Gender Female
Ellen brings over 25 years of experience in strategy, business and product development in the technology and aerospace industries. Her career spans from the U.S. Navy as an intelligence officer to JP Morgan where she focused on exploring and facilitating investing in start-ups. She later founded her own start-up in the aviation industry where the
team focused on building a B2B aviation part sourcing and brokerage focused on business jets. During her 12 years at Northrop Grumman, she held positions as a systems engineer and program manager, working in design and development of autonomous systems ranging from the Global Hawk to the Unmanned Carrier based unmanned aerial system. In her last position with Northrop Grumman, as a director of the Advanced Mission Systems Division she was responsible for anticipating mission requirements and developing products that would be relevant 5-10 years out. As a co-president of the Wharton Aerospace Community and chair of the Wharton Angel Network SoCal Steering Committee, Ellen frequently engages with investors, universities and industry on innovation strategy and market dynamics.
Ellen holds a bachelors degree in history (historiography) from the University of Pennsylvania, a MS in systems engineering from the Naval Postgraduate School, and an MBA from The Wharton School.
When Ellen is not busy mentoring and advising start-ups, she is probably running up and down the hills of Poway, CA training for another half-marathon.
