2022 C-Suite Speaker Series featuring Julie Schumacher

The C-Suite Speaker Series provides fantastic opportunities to network with key decision makers within our community and surrounding areas and hear their take on a wide variety of topics designed to build awareness, foster understanding, and spark conversation.

Speaker:

Julie Schumacher
Founder & CEO
KODA Technologies Inc.

Julie Schumacher is the founder and CEO of KODA Technologies Inc., an engineering and analytical services business in Huntsville, Ala. KODA supports national-priority technology development and modernization programs across the DOD and NASA. She has 25 years of experience in the development of space, missile defense and long-range hypersonic systems in both government and industry. She served roles in executive leadership, technology development, test planning and execution, systems engineering, interoperability, and international program management. She is the recipient of the AIAA David R. Israel award for meritorious achievement in missile defense and the NDIA-TVC General John B. Medaris award for technical excellence in the defense preparedness of our nation.

Key Roles:

• Founder and Chief Executive Officer, KODA Technologies Inc.
• Deputy, U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC); Senior Executive Service (SES)
• Director, Technical Center, U.S. Army SMDC; SES
• Deputy Director, Missile Defense Agency (MDA) Test; SES
• Program Manager, MDA U.S.-Israel Cooperative Programs
• Chief Engineer, MDA U.S.-Israel Cooperative Programs

• Past President and Board Member: Air, Space and Missile Defense Association
• Aviation and Missile Consortium Executive Committee
• Space and Missile Defense Symposium Industry Panel Moderator
• Leadership Huntsville / Madison County, Flagship Class 29
• Harvard Senior Executive Fellows Graduate
• Defense Acquisition University Program Manager School
• M.S. Systems Engineering, University of Alabama, Huntsville
• B.S. Education, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa