Sylvia Acevedo | |
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| Born | 1956 or 1957 (age 67–68)[1][2] South Dakota, U.S.[3] |
| Alma mater | New Mexico State University (B.S.) Stanford University (M.S.) |
| Title | Former CEO, Girl Scouts of the USA |
| Predecessor | Anna Maria Chávez |
| Successor | Judith Batty (interim) |
| Website | sylviaacevedo |
Sylvia Acevedo (born 1956–1957) is an American engineer and businesswoman. She was the chief executive officer (CEO) of the Girl Scouts of the USA from 2016 to 2020. A systems engineer by education, she began her career at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where she was on the Voyager 2 team.[4][5] She has held executive roles at Apple, Dell, and Autodesk.[6] In 2018, Acevedo was included in a Forbes list of "America's Top 50 Women In Tech".[7] She was a founder, with three others of REBA Technology, an infiniband company that was sold and also the Founder and CEO of CommuniCard.[8] As CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, Acevedo led the organization's largest release of badges, over 100 badges in STEM and Outdoors over three years.[9]
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