Mrs. Josephine Hayden

Mrs. Josephine Hayden

Jo Ellen Hayden worked briefly in retail merchandising and technical writing before finding her true calling in engineering program management, working for several U.S. Navy SYSCOMs managing avionics and military software/hardware systems. At Mathtech Inc. she led a team that developed the integrated communications system for Navy’s E-2D aircraft. At about the midpoint of her 43-year career she paused to study oriental medicine and for nearly a decade divided her time between a consulting practice in engineering management and a clinical practice as a Licensed Acupuncturist. She held Virginia acupuncture license #1, was co-founder of the Complementary Medicine Center of Northern Virginia, and served on the Acupuncture Advisory Committee to the Virginia Board of Medicine.

Ms. Hayden lives in Lexington KY, where she is on the board of the Bluegrass Angels, an investment group focusing on early stage companies; serves on the Entrepreneurism Program Executive Advisory Group at Transylvania University;  serves on the central Kentucky committee for Wreaths Across America; and is Chair of BrookeUSA’s Bluegrass Area Advisory Council. For BrookeUSA and the U.S. World War 1 Centennial Commission she researched and created an extensive website on the use of horses and mules in World War 1, www.ww1cc.org/horses.  Ms. Hayden graduated from Transylvania University with a double major in history and religion and holds an M.A. from Wake Forest University in history, an M.S. from the University of Southern California in systems management, and an M.Ac. from the Traditional Acupuncture Institute.

Currently: consultant, various roles

Formerly: (1) Program Manager, Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), (2) Director, Communications Systems, Mathtech, Inc., (3) Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP), etc.

Education: (1) M. Ac. Acupuncture, Traditional Acupuncture Institute, (2) 1977 – M.S. Systems Management, University of Southern California, (3) 1971 – M.A. History, Wake Forest University, (4) 1969 – A.B. History, Transylvania College.