Bobbi Doorenbos

Brigadier General (Ret.) Bobbi “Flash” Doorenbos has served as a director since March 2024. In her nearly 25 years of distinguished military service, General Doorenbos has served in leadership positions in the White House, Headquarters Air Force, and National Guard Bureau. Her experience includes time as a Special Assistant to Vice President Biden for Defense Policy and Intelligence Programs, as a White House Fellow serving alongside the Secretary of Agriculture, and as Military Deputy for Air Force Training and Readiness, where she had responsibilities over the U.S. Air Force’s operational training infrastructure, readiness and reporting, and aircrew management. General Doorenbos also served as the Wing Commander of the 188th Wing, overseeing its transition from the manned A-10 Warthog to the unmanned MQ-9 Reaper, Intelligence Analysis, and Targeting missions. Before that, she led the 214th Reconnaissance Group at Davis Monthan Air Force Base as it gained MQ-1s and stood up a Launch and Recovery unit at Fort Huachuca, AZ. General Doorenbos served in the Air Force as an F-16 pilot and is one of a small handful of the first women to fly fighter aircraft. As a pilot in both the Sioux City, IA, and Washington, D.C. Air National Guard units, she participated in Operations SOUTHERN WATCH, NOBLE EAGLE, and IRAQI FREEDOM, and has extensive experience at the National Guard Bureau in the Operations, Intelligence, and Requirements/Acquisitions Directorates. General Doorenbos graduated from Iowa State University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration in Finance, then went on to graduate with an M.S. in Intelligence from the Defense Intelligence Agency’s National Defense Intelligence College, and an Executive MBA from the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business. General Doorenbos has extensive current and previous board experience, with service on the boards of the White House Fellows Foundation and Association from 2015 to 2022, the National Guard Association since 2019, and STEM Flights since 2019, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to educating high school students about STEM career fields in aviation. She is also a Senior Advisor with The Roosevelt Group since 2022, a public speaker, executive coach, and a commercial airline pilot with American Airlines since 2001, flying the Airbus 320. General Doorenbos brings to the Board knowledge and experience as a defense and national security policy advisor and military operator. General Doorenbos holds a Top Secret National Security Clearance.