Linda Moore

Linda Moore, a 30-year veteran of presidential campaigns, The White House, and Capitol Hill, is a senior strategist known for playing crucial roles for high profile leaders. She is the President & CEO of TechNet, the nation’s preeminent, bipartisan network of technology CEOs and senior executives. In 2014, Linda was named to the board of the Women’s High Tech Coalition, and in 2015, to DC’s Top 50 Women in Tech. In January 2016, Linda was named to Wired magazine’s Top 20 Tech Insiders Defining the 2016 Campaign, in which Wired described TechNet as “tech’s most powerful advocacy group.” Linda has a long history in moderate Democratic politics, having served as Field Director for the Democratic Leadership Council and as Deputy Political Director of the Clinton White House. In the fall of 2011, Linda was a Resident Fellow at Harvard Institute of Politics (IOP), where she led a weekly seminar on the decline of centrists and the increase of polarization in both parties and its impact on policy and politics. In March 2012, Linda was appointed by then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to the U.S. National Commission for the United Nations Education, Science and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). A native Texan, Linda is a 1984 graduate of the University of Texas (UT).

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