NVTC TechPAC Board of Trustees
Bobbie Greene KilbergPresident & CEO
Northern Virginia Technology Council
Bobbie Kilberg was named President of the Northern Virginia Technology Council (NVTC) in September 1998. As President and CEO, Mrs. Kilberg leads and manages the largest technology council in the nation with about 1,100 member companies employing 185,000 people. NVTC is recognized as the nation's leader in providing its technology community with networking and educational events, specialized services and benefits, public policy advocacy, branding of its region as a major global technology center, initiatives in targeted business sectors and in the international, entrepreneurship, workforce and education arenas, and a Foundation focusing on venture philanthropy and public/private partnerships. In December 2001, Bobbie Kilberg was appointed by President George W. Bush to serve as a member of the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Bobbie Kilberg is a graduate of Yale University Law School and also earned a Masters Degree in Political Science from Columbia University and a Bachelors Degree from Vassar College. She was selected as a White House Fellow (class of '69-'70) and served first on the staff of the Domestic Policy Council in the Nixon White House and then as a Staff Assistant to the President. From 1971 to 1973, Mrs. Kilberg was an attorney with the Washington law firm of Arnold & Porter. In 1973, she became Vice President for Academic Affairs at Mount Vernon College, a role that included responsibility for strategic direction and institutional management.
Bobbie Kilberg returned to the White House from 1975 through 1976 under President Ford as Associate Counsel to the President, focusing on a variety of legal matters, including international trade, civil rights, and the arts. In 1978, she joined the Aspen Institute as director of a project on the future of private philanthropy. In 1982, she became Vice President and General Counsel of the Roosevelt Center for American Policy Studies. Among her projects at the Center was management of a high tech working group that studied the use of information technology in political campaigns.
From 1989 to 1992, Bobbie Kilberg served President Bush in the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President for Public Liaison, responsible for communications and policy relations with the various interest groups in the country with a special emphasis on the business community. In March 1992, she became Director of the President's Office of Intergovernmental Affairs, where she managed White House communications and policy relations with state and local elected officials, including governors, attorneys general, state legislators, county officials and mayors.
In Virginia, Mrs. Kilberg has served on the Speaker of the House of Delegates' Citizens Advisory Committee on Legislative Compensation, on the Joint Judicial Advisory Committee of the Virginia General Assembly for the merit selection of judges, on the Attorney General's Task Forces on Identity Theft and on Regulatory Reform and Economic Development, on the Executive Board of Advisors for George Mason University's School of Law Tech Center and on the Governor's Northern Virginia BRAC Working Group. She presently serves on the Attorney General's Task Force on Youth Internet Safety.
Bobbie Kilberg has been very involved in her community. She is a member of the Board of Trustees of George Washington University and its Homeland Security Policy Institute's Steering Committee, and of WETA, Washington's public television station, as well as the Board of Directors of the Wolf Trap Foundation for the Performing Arts, the Equal Footing Foundation, and the Greater Washington Sports Alliance. She also serves as a Board member and Senior Advisor to Grandma Rita's Children, a special trips camp for at risk children. Bobbie Kilberg is a member of the Board of Directors of United Bank and Luna Innovations, Inc. and is an Advisory Board member of ObjectVideo, LeapFrog Solutions and the New Zealand Trade and Investment Board. She formerly served on the Board of Trustees/Directors of Potomac School, the U.S. Naval Academy (Board of Visitors), Wolf Trap Associates, the Lab School of Washington, the Mental Health Association of Northern Virginia, the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Council, and the Council for America's First Freedom. Bobbie Kilberg is a member of the Women's Forum of Washington, DC and the Committee of 100 of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce.
Bobbie Kilberg's most recent awards are the 2001 Anti-Defamation League's Women of Achievement Award, Volunteer Fairfax's 2003 Community Champion Award, the 2003 Girls Inc. D.C. Celebration Honoree Award and the 2004 Lifetime Achievement Award from Women in Technology.
Bobbie Kilberg has sought elected political office twice in Virginia, in 1987 as the Republican candidate for the State Senate and in 1993 as a candidate for the Republican nomination for Lieutenant Governor.
Bobbie Kilberg resides in McLean, Virginia with her husband, Bill Kilberg, a Senior Partner at the law firm of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher. They have five children and three grandchildren.
