Catherine Lange

The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors appointed Catherine Lange to the FCEDA Board in November 2009. Ms. Lange was elected chair in January 2017. She is a partner with Human Capital Advisors, a strategic human capital consulting firm. Previously she was the founder, president and CEO of BusinessWorks of America, Inc., a management consulting and leadership development firm formed in 1995. Ms. Lange has more than 35 years of business experience, with more than 20 years at two Fortune 500 technology companies – Digital Equipment Corporation and Burroughs Corporation (now Unisys) – followed by nearly 15 years as a small business owner.

Ms. Lange serves on a number of business and nonprofite boards. She serves as a board member of the Northern Virginia Chamber of Commerce Committee, and she also founded the chamber’s Women’s Business Council. As chairman of the board for Fairfax Futures, she guides a non-profit dedicated to preparing pre-kindergarten children for educational success.

Ms. Lange is an alumnus of the Community Foundation for Northern Virginia board, and she is a member of the 2011 class of Washington Business Journal Women Who Mean Business. She holds a bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University, and has lived in Fairfax County for nearly 40 years.