Marybeth Wootton is an operational and technical leader with more than 30 years of experience across the federal and commercial sectors. She has a proven track record in global business operations, technology strategy, mergers & acquisitions, delivering accelerated growth and business transformation.

Marybeth brings broad experience as a board member and advisor to rapidly growing, highly technical companies. Currently she serves as an advisor for several private companies and one private equity firm.  In addition, she is currently a Board Member of a commercial company, and Chairperson for a private company providing solutions to federal defense and intelligence agencies. She has served as Secretary of the Board for a public company on the New York Stock Exchange.

Previously Marybeth was a board member, owner, and CEO of Berico Technologies where she built a high-performing team delivering software development and cloud engineering solutions to the intelligence community.  She and her team grew revenues nearly 800% in five years and won more than $200M of prime contracts.  She also supported Berico’s founders with several divestitures, spawning five other successful technology start-ups, three of which were subsequently acquired.  She led the sale of Berico Technologies to Novetta, a Carlyle Group company, and subsequently served as Vice President at Novetta after supporting the integration of her company into that business.  In 2018, she was recognized as the Greater Washington GovCon Executive of the Year for companies up to $75 million.

Prior to joining Novetta and Berico, Marybeth held senior executive positions at BAE Systems, IBM, and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC) where she supported global initiatives. new business investments and acquisitions, business development, and technical program delivery.  In these roles, she has led programs and accounts for intelligence and defense leaders, and with Fortune 100 companies in the Financial Services, Insurance, and Pharmaceutical sectors.

Marybeth has an MBA in Finance from The Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, and a B.S. in Economics from Harvard University.