Eileen Wixted

Eileen joined Touchdown Ventures in April 2021.

Prior to Touchdown Ventures, Eileen spent 9+ years in the continued learning industry, most notably at Wharton Executive Education at the University of Pennsylvania. Throughout her career, she has successfully managed 150+ global educational programs in more than 20 countries on 6 continents with responsibilities leading all related strategic program functions, including program development, design, execution and ongoing maintenance, relationship management, staff mentorship, and process optimization.

Eileen graduated from the Catholic University of America with a BA in History, where she played field hockey and took several service trips including New Orleans for Hurricane Katrina relief and Belize to build a school. While studying abroad in Leuven, Belgium, she interned at the European Parliament as the lead ‘stagiaire’ for an Irish MEP representing Connacht and Ulster.