Amanda Engstrom Eversole is president of the Center for Advanced Technology and Innovation (CATI) and senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber Center for Capital Markets Competitiveness (CCMC). She is also a senior vice president of the U.S. Chamber and a member of the Chamber’s Management Committee.
As president of CATI, Eversole leads the Chamber's efforts to expand engagement with high-tech industries on policy development, regulatory issues, and international opportunities and challenges. Through advocacy, research, events, and partnerships, CATI seeks to unleash entrepreneurship and technology development in high-tech centers across the nation.
As senior vice president of CCMC, Eversole is responsible for the day-to-day management of the Center's agenda dedicated to making U.S. capital markets the most fair, efficient, transparent, and attractive in the world. This effort addresses domestic and international securities regulation and implementation of the Dodd-Frank law, as well as challenges to the auditing profession, proxy rules, business due process, and a host of other issues.
Eversole joined the Chamber in 2003. She has served as chief of staff, led efforts to fight counterfeiting and piracy globally, oversaw marketing and communications for the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, and managed communications for association and chamber of commerce members. Earlier, she worked for RTC Relationship Marketing, a WPP Group company, in business development.
Eversole graduated cum laude from the College of William & Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia, with a bachelor's of business administration and a minor in French. She earned an M.B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School where she was a Palmer Scholar and graduated first in her class.
Eversole lives in Washington, D.C., with her husband, Eric, their daughter, Ellie, and their dog, Gus.