President and CEO
Dowd-Burton and Associates
Angela Dowd-Burton is an award winning business professional with over twenty-five years of diverse business experience and public service. She is president and CEO of Dowd-Burton and Associates and Senior Advisor to Econsult Solutions. Dowd-Burton has served in positions of increasing responsibility including global roles in finance, procurement, business development, commercial management, and government relations. In 2010, she was appointed by Mayor Michael Nutter to serve as executive director of the Office of Economic Opportunity for the City of Philadelphia. She was responsible for leveraging the business services of the Commerce Department to strengthen the capacity of minority, women and disabled-owned businesses to successfully contract for an equitable share of the $300 Billion regional GDP. Dowd-Burton joined Dow Chemical (formerly Rohm and Haas) in 1990 after serving as deputy director of finance and procurement commissioner for the City of Philadelphia. Her past experience also includes financial and strategic planning roles at Mobil Corporation and Sun Company. Dowd-Burton serves on the board of trustees for Cabrini College and is the founder and president of the Women’s Leadership Forum of Greater Philadelphia. She is the former co-chair of the United Way Women’s Initiative and a former board member of the Delaware River City Corporation and The Enterprise Center. She has received numerous awards and acknowledgments including induction into the Drexel 100 Alumni Hall of Fame in 2015 and the Drexel University Harriet E. Worrell Award for 2007. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Accounting and an MBA in Finance from Drexel University.