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Government Contractors | Technology | Aerospace 2025: LAURA K. IPSEN
PRESIDENT AND CEO, ELLUCIAN, RESTON
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
Government Contractors | Technology | Aerospace 2025: LAURA K. IPSEN
PRESIDENT AND CEO, ELLUCIAN, RESTON
Virginia Business //September 1, 2025//
After 25 years in Silicon Valley as an executive for Oracle, Microsoft and Cisco Systems, Ipsen was hired to lead higher ed tech company Ellucian in 2017. With 3,800 employees worldwide, Ellucian has an annual revenue approaching $1 billion and works with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries, serving 20 million students.
Ipsen is a University of Virginia alumna who studied Arabic at Yarmouk University in Jordan. In 2025, Ellucian was named among the GSV 150, a list of the top 150 private companies leading digital learning and workforce skills. Calibre One also named Ipsen to its list of top 25 U.S. woman leaders of private equity-backed software companies.
In July, Ipsen began serving on the Northern Virginia Technology Council’s board. She also sits on the board of U.Va’s School of Data Science and chairs the Business-Higher Education Forum’s board.
Ipsen also serves on Daimler Truck Holding’s supervisory board and is a member of the Fast Company Impact Council, Fortune’s CEO Initiative, and Women Corporate Directors.
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