Angela Fox
Hired as the first President/CEO for the Crystal City Business Improvement District in November of 2006, Angela Fox brought with her more than 15 years of strategic leadership, marketing, and project management expertise.
Prior to joining the BID, Ms. Fox served as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer for Cultural Tourism DC, a grassroots non-profit. Brought on to take the organization to the next level, she expanded the capacity, visibility, viability, and reach of the organization in every area from membership (140 to almost 200 members) and funding (from ~$900K to over $2.4M), to program delivery (initiating and/or delivering creative and innovative marketing programs – including three Heritage Trails, WalkingTown Spring/Fall, Warm Up to a Museum, and Culture Cool).
Though she has run non-profits at the board and staff levels for the last six years, her background is essentially corporate. Graduating with highest honors in electrical engineering from Georgia Tech, where she now serves on the Board, Ms. Fox was recruited into the Executive Development Program at Bell Atlantic (now Verizon). Achieving consistent and record-breaking project results through effective leadership, she was promoted five times in less than eight years. She launched Bell Atlantic.net, the company's Internet Access product, and, as CIO for Consumer Services, their first e-commerce application for their consumer base; appeared in two Bell Atlantic commercials; and facilitated Diversity Management training throughout the organization.
She left Bell Atlantic at the closing of the GTE merger to join Simplexity, a telecom e-commerce transaction website, where she was VP for Product and then Strategic Development. She helped grow the company from 11 to 110 and then take it back down with the market shift. Simplexity was purchased by InPhonic for $20M.
While taking some time to travel the world, visiting six continents in less than a year, she set up her own consulting firm providing business strategy, marketing and executive coaching services to individuals, corporations, and non-profits. Clients included ESPN, Bank of America, Association for Education Development, and more.
She currently serves on several boards, including the entrepreneurial Capitol Fringe Festival (as chair), the National Shakespeare Council, the Duke Ellington Jazz Festival, and PeaceXPeace. She is immediate past chair for the Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company's board which raised more than $9M and built a new theatre at 7th and D during her tenure.
Ms. Fox and her college sweetheart husband, Jim Oliver, live in Arlington with their six-year-old son, Tatton.
Public Relations & Community Involvement
Gala Chair, 2008 N Street Village Gala - 35 Years of Hope for Homeless Women.
Read the Local Color article on Ms. Fox featured in the Virginia Living Magazine.
