Sylvia Acevedo

Sylvia Acevedo is an experienced independent board member, currently serving on two public boards, Qualcomm Inc, where she serves on the Governance Committee and Credo Technologies, where she is the Governance Chair. She joined Ambri Inc in September 2022. Previously she served on two private company boards, Dynamic Signal, a SaaS employee communications company and Synergis Education, a higher ed services company.

Sylvia held executive roles at Apple, Dell, IBM and Autodesk and was a White House Commissioner in Education for the Obama administration. Sylvia started her career as a rocket scientist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Labs where she worked on the Voyager 2 mission. An entrepreneur, she was a co-founder of REBA Technologies, a software company that was acquired.

Sylvia was CEO of Girl Scouts of the USA, (2016-2020) where she led their largest creation of programming badges for STEM, Leadership, Entrepreneurship and Civics.

Sylvia earned a Bachelor’s in Industrial Engineering with Honors from New Mexico State University and a Master’s in Industrial Engineering degree from Stanford University. Sylvia was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from Duke University (2022) and an Honorary Doctorate from Washington College. (2020).