Angela Fox 

Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Foxgloves

Graduating from Georgia Tech in 1991 with Highest Honors in Electrical Engineering, Angela (Angie) Fox has often been asked how she moved from such a technical education with early roles in corporate systems and strategy into a life of transforming companies and communities, building cultural facilities, and serving as a catalyst for change and role model for impact and meaning. For her, the answer is simple.  At engineering school, she learned to solve problems – the more complex the issue, the more elegant the solution. She believes different perspectives foster creativity; patterns and molds are meant to be broken; and that there is no situation that cannot be made better. 

As the Founder and CEO of the Crystal City Business Improvement District (BID), she created an organization that changed the way people see, perceive, and experience Crystal City.  From a long-standing belief that the area was a “concrete canyon” that no one would visit without an appointment to Amazon’s HQ2 and winner of the International Downtown Association’s Pinnacle “best of the best” award for strategic implementation of competitive programs, Angie has developed the ability to engage and infuse energy into a community. People are the heart of any company, campus, culture and community, and the only way to bring about real, active, and repeatable transformation is to enlist their energy as stakeholders in the process, the progress, and the ultimate success. As a recently empty-nested, outdoorsy and very active 35-year vegetarian yogi, Angie remains committed to the health and vitality of local communities, inspiring people to embody the changes they seek to achieve.  She is a dynamic speaker and has traveled all over the world (6 continents, 87 countries, and 48 states).

Though now semi-retired, Angie maintains a small consulting practice where she has worked with a Japanese Security Software firm as a C-level coach and interim Marketing VP, and provides business strategy, marketing and executive leadership support services to individuals, corporations, and non-profits.  She has re-introduced many people to the personal and business value of building lives that matter, to them, helping them become active contributors, board members, citizens and participants.  Whether launching Verizon.net, introducing new programs at Cultural Tourism DC, or building award-winning theaters in downtown DC, she is dedicated to being a positive force for change in the world.