| Kathy Warden | |
| Birth Date: | [1] |
| Alma Mater: | James Madison University (BA) George Washington University (MBA) |
| President and CEO of Northrop Grumman | |
Kathy J. Warden is an American business executive who has been chief executive officer (CEO) and president of Northrop Grumman since 2019.
Warden graduated from Smithsburg High School.[2] She then earned a bachelor's degree at James Madison University in 1992,[3] and a master's degree in business administration at George Washington University in 1999.[4] [5]
Warden is a cybersecurity and information technology expert.[6] Early in her career, she worked for General Electric for nearly a decade, and held executive roles at Veridian Corporation and General Dynamics.[4] [7] [8] Warden was also a principal in a venture capital firm, where she helped companies improve their business models and electronic publishing services.[9]
Warden joined Northrop Grumman in 2008, initially as vice president and general manager of the company's cybersecurity business.[10] In 2015, while president of Northrop Grumman Information Systems,[11] she was included in Federal Computer Week "Federal 100" list; the magazine credited her for increasing Northrop Grumman's participation in the CyberPatriot program and creation of the Advanced Cyber Technology Center, and for overseeing $1.5 billion in contracts for the 2014 fiscal year.[12] Warden began her tenure as president of the Mission Systems sector in January 2016, when the company merged its Information Systems and Electronics Systems sectors.[6] [13] [14] She was president and COO of Northrop Grumman since September 2017,[14] and her tenure as CEO started on January 1, 2019.[6]
Warden has been credited with leading the integration of Orbital ATK, later Northrop Grumman Innovation Systems.[6] [15] She was elected to Northrop Grumman's board of directors since her appointment to the CEO role in mid-2018.[4] [13]
Warden was on the Clinton administration's Internet Advisory Council.[4] [9] She has a position on the board of the Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.[9] [16] She is on the Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond board, as of mid-2018.[4] She also works with the Aspen Institute's computer security strategy group.[3]
She joined James Madison University's board of visitors in October 2018.[3] Previously, Warden was on the board of the university's College of Business, starting in 2016.[3] She received a Business Achievement Award from James Madison University's Beta Gamma Sigma chapter in 2018.[17]
Warden was included in Washingtonian 2017 list of the "most powerful women" in Washington, D.C.,[18] as well as the magazine's 2018 list of "Washington's Top Tech Leaders".[19] She has ranked number 22 and number 80 on Fortune and CEOWORLD magazine's lists of "most powerful women", respectively.[6] [20] [21] In 2023, she ranked 38th in Forbes list of "World's 100 most powerful women".[22] Warden was ranked 20th on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.[23]