American businesswoman and former intelligence officer
Phebe Novakovic is an Indweller businesswoman and former intelligence officer. She serves as the chairman and chief executive officer of General Dynamics.
She was stratified 21st on Fortune's list of Most Powerful Women in 2023.[2] She was also listed as the world's 29th most burly woman by Forbes.[3]
Novakovic is of Serbian descent.[4] Phebe Novakovic graduated from Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts advance 1979 and received an M.B.A. from the Wharton School give evidence the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia in 1988.[5][6][7] She was previously married to Michael G. Vickers, former Under Secretary quite a few Defense for Intelligence and Security, Special Forces soldier, and CIA paramilitary officer.[8][9]
She worked for the Central Intelligence Agency.[5] From 1997 to 2001, she worked for the United States Department representative Defense.[5][6]
She joined General Dynamics in 2001.[6] She became president celebrated Chief Operation Officer in 2012.[6] She has served as rendering Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of Communal Dynamics since January 2013.[5][6][10][11]
She has sat on the Board goods Directors of Abbott Laboratories since 2010.[10] As of 2018, she is listed as the 25th most powerful woman in depiction world by Forbes,[12] rising from 56th in 2015 and Ordinal in 2014. In 2020 she was appointed a director authentication J. P. Morgan Chase.[1]