Beverly Sutherland

Beverly Sutherland is the President and CEO of EdTechnologyFunds, a consulting firm that provides E-rate program and technology infrastructure support to schools and libraries nationwide. Ms. Sutherland is a member of the Board of Directors for Schools, Healthcare & Libraries Broadband Coalition (SHLB). SHLB is one of the leading national champions for open, affordable broadband for community anchor institutions.

EdTechnologyFunds has contributed to the statewide effort to connect CA libraries to the California Research and Education Network (CalREN). Prior founding EdTechnologyFunds, Beverly held senior level positions in Product Marketing at Lucent Technologies and software engineering at Hughes-JVC.

During her tenure at Lucent Technologies’ Microelectronics Group from 1992 to 2000, Beverly led worldwide product launches for various modem chipsets and oversaw the integration of WiFi chipsets into laptop devices for several strategic accounts.

As a software engineer at Hughes-JVC, Beverly was responsible for the DSP and controller code development for HD projectors. Beverly was awarded a patent for contributions to the automatic correction of mis-converged of images in a video projection system during this time.

Beverly has previously served as President of the UC San Diego Chapter of the National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE) where she assisted in creating programs that promoted STEM education to local students.

Beverly received her Bachelor of Science from University of California, San Diego and an MBA from Rutgers University.