Ms. Eisenberg is President and Co-Founder of Xelevate, a solutions-driven provider for propelling American-made unmanned systems capabilities and skillsets forward. At Xelevate, Ms. Eisenberg and her team are building the first privately held unmanned systems testing, development, training, innovation, collaboration, and demonstration center of excellence in the Washington, D.C. area. Previously, Ms. Eisenberg successfully built and sold Pathoras Corporation, a VA-based consulting and government contracting firm with over 80 employees that specializes in developing value, increasing efficiency, optimizing mission, and ensuring relevancy for customers in the National Security and commercial sectors. With her husband and Co-Founder Andrew Biechlin, Ms. Eisenberg had grown Pathoras into a high-end consulting firm, which is a two-time recipient honoree of the INC500 and INC 5000 list, received ranking as one of the 50 Fastest-Growing Women-Led Private Companies in America, is an honoree of Washington Business Journal’s Best Places to Work, Inc’s Top 50 Best Small to Mid-size Workplaces in the United States, as well as an Hall of Fame Awardee for the Best of Herndon in the Business Consultants category.
Ms. Eisenberg has supported the National Security arena for nearly two decades, where she served as the Deputy Program Manager, Quality Assurance Manager, and Lead Trainer for a series of projects for premier government agencies, and was hand-selected to serve as the Team Lead of a high-priority Presidentially-overseen program. Prior to her roles in the national security arena, Ms. Eisenberg served as the Deputy Director for a critical infrastructure national security project at the Council on Competitiveness, an economic development think tank. For the past 20+ years she has served in roles supporting federal, state, and local governments, to include the House of Representatives, the United States Senate, the Department of Justice, and the states of Virginia and New York.
Ms. Eisenberg was awarded a Masters of Economics from George Mason University and a Bachelors of Arts in Political Science from the State University of New York College at Geneseo. She has applied her economic background to both Xelevate and Pathoras, to create maximum productivity and efficiency both within her companies and to support customers with low risk, high impact successes. Ms. Eisenberg is the author of The Relevance Path: 7 Steps to Give Your Organization a Decisive Edge, a framework to help any person, team, or organization reach impactful, relevant, personal and professional goals. It is this understanding, coupled with her knowledge and experience with successful requirements gathering for projects, that enables her passion for helping teams and organizations reach levels of success beyond what they thought possible.
Ms. Eisenberg is also an FAA Part 107 Certified Commercial Drone Pilot and holds a Permit to Operate UAS in NC. Ms. Eisenberg is also on the Board of the Association of Unmanned Vehicles Systems International (AUVSI) DC serving as Treasurer, and is an Honorary Trustee with the Loudoun Education Foundation. She enjoys aviation related activities, hiking, nutrition, fitness, writing, playing guitar and piano, dancing, gardening, and spending time with her husband Andy, beloved sons, and goofy German shepherd, Badger. Join on March 17th for the 2022 BVLOS and AAM System Safety Conference - register at www.xelevateus.com
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