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Ella Studer

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Ella E. Studer
Chief Operating Officer and Head of U.S. Consulting Solutions

Ella is IOCI’s chief operating officer and head of U.S. consulting solutions, adding more than 35 years of public and private sector experience to the firm as a senior leader in global operations management, strategy and business development. In these roles, she has been responsible for distributed offices and organizations worldwide, managing thousands of employees and budgets in excess of $1 billion. The scope of Ella’s executive leadership experience uniquely positions her as an effective thought leader, executive coach and business consultant for IOCI clients across a range of practice areas.

Education

Ella has a bachelor’s degree in business management from Malone College and a master’s degree in national resource strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University.

Experience

Prior to joining IOCI, Ella served as the senior vice president of government services readiness and sustainment solutions at KBR, where she managed an operations portfolio critical to the United States’ national defense that was valued at over $1 billion. In that role, she led over 12,000 employees on numerous projects around the world and in the U.S., covering base support, infrastructure and engineering services, as well as contingency response operations. Ella also influenced the growth and expansion of KBR’s services and performance by implementing the company’s state-of-the-art asset management program’s robust maintenance strategy, reducing costs and increasing asset reliability.

Before KBR, Ella retired from the Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) after 26 years, where she was a member of the senior executive service and head of DLA’s enterprise support office. In this position, Ella managed multibillion-dollar critical infrastructure programs worldwide. Prior to DLA, Ella served as an aerospace ground equipment technician in the U.S. Air Force and the Ohio Air National Guard.

Expertise

Through her various leadership roles, Ella offers our clients broad and deep executive-level experience in:

  • Federal contracting and pursuit management.
  • Base support, infrastructure, asset management and reliability.
  • Contingency response operations and maintenance, and engineering services.
  • Complex infrastructure deployment to support U.S. government operations in austere environments such as Iraq, Afghanistan, Bosnia, Djibouti and Kuwait.
  • Environmental safety and occupational health program management and oversight.
  • Workforce strategy and deployment, including employee development and talent acquisition that aligns with business solutions.
  • Strategy formation, mobilizing distributed talent and resources to execute and deliver.

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