Sylvia Acevedo

Board of Director - Qualcomm

CXO Member

Sylvia Acevedo’s trailblazing career started as a rocket scientist at NASA JPL, then a tech executive at IBM, Apple and Dell, a White House Commissioner and CEO of the iconic organization, Girl Scouts of the USA where she led a focus on STEM with over one million STEM badges earned by girls during her tenure.

Sylvia is an in demand corporate Speaker and is a Board of Director for Qualcomm, Credo Technologies and Ambri Battery. In December 2022, Bloomberg named Sylvia one of the top 100 Influential Latino/a’s. She was In Style’s “Number 7 on the Badass 50: Women Who are Changing the World.”

Sylvia has a BSIE from NMSU and an MSIE from Stanford, Honorary Doctorates of Science from Duke University and Washington College. She authored Path to the Stars, a middle school memoir.