Linda K. Bolliger ia the Founder, Chair and Chief Visonary officer of Boardroom Bound. Ms. Bolliger retired in 2002 from Potomac Professional Services, Inc., a Washington, D.C.-based firm she founded in 1981 that specialized in diversity and workforce inclusion. Previously in 1999 she had turned her attention to working in the public interest when she founded Boardroom Bound®, a Washington, DC-based nonprofit organization which recently moved to ILL. The group’s primary purpose is to provide corporate America a platform from which to advance their success culture to future business leaders in an increasingly diverse world while matriculating independent, diverse candidates from their Boardology® Institute and promoting them for 21st century board service. Their Mission: “Helping companies find independent, diverse director candidates who are pre-qualified for corporate board service”. In 2006 Ms. Bolliger’s program was honored on Capital Hill by Women Impacting Public Policy as “Coalition Partner of the Year”; and she received from the Nation’s Capital Chapter of the National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO-NCC) their “Legacy Leadership” award. In Athens, Greece she received the “2000 Business Leadership” award from the Euro-American Women’s Council. Ms. Bolliger was honored by the Greater Washington Ibero American Chamber of Commerce as 1999’s “Latino Business Advocate of the Year.” In 1997 she received the “Entrepreneur of the Year” award from the D.C. Commission for Women, and an “Outstanding Contribution” award from the Coalition of One Hundred Black Women of D.C., Inc., jointly with the 100 Concerned Black Men of Greater Washington, Inc. In 1994 Ms. Bolliger received the D.C. Chamber “Women’s Business Committee Leadership” award, which was preceded in 1993 by the Chamber’s prestigious Annual President’s Award for “Outstanding Service.” She received the 1989 “Walk on Water” award from the NAWBO-Capital Area Chapter for her “Dedication to Women’s Issues in the Marketplace.” During the 1970’s, Ms. Bolliger served as the first woman appointed to a cabinet-level-position in an Illinois city government administration. There she was responsible for supplier/employment diversity. Ms. Bolliger has served on numerous boards such as the District of Columbia Downtown Partnership, the Greater Washington Ibero American Chamber of Commerce, Leadership Greater Washington, the D.C. Chamber of Commerce and the Mid-Atlantic Consumer Advisory Board, Giant Foods, Inc. She is a Past President of the Bureau of Rehabilitation, Inc., the “Friends of the DC Commission for Women, NAWBO-NCC and for 22 years, her own company, Potomac Professional Services, Inc. In 2001, she was inducted into the National Register of Who’s Who for Executives. In 2002 she joined Women Impacting Public Policy (WIPP) as a Coalition Partner and works to inform Congress about issues vital to women in business. In 2003, she was appointed to the National Advisory Board of the Women’s Leadership Exchange. Presently Ms. Bolliger serves on the board of House Craft Technologies, Inc., a Florida-based eCommerce company. Currently Ms. Bolliger lives in Illinoise, have relocated from Washington DC where she works, reads, gardens extensively and enjoys keeping current with her son, three step-children and nine grandchildren.