Dr. Kathy Cox has more than two decades of management experience and has founded two web application businesses. Kathy has a doctorate in business administration conferred in 2019 by City University of Seattle (CityU). She teaches doctoral level courses in entrepreneurship and marketing with Capella University and at University of Washington

Kathy was the award-winning advisor for the CityU Enactus team for twelve years. Enactus is a global non-profit organization that promotes experiential learning through executing projects. She advised student entrepreneurs from 30 different countries. She received the United States National Faculty Advisor in 2023 and Faculty Advisor Hall of Fame in 2021. Under her guidance, the City U Enactus team achieved first place in the United State National Enactus Early-Stage Competition, fourth place in the World Cup Qualifiers in 2023 and 2018. Her dissertation was a case study on the multicultural team and how their culture promoted innovation.

As the associate VP of strategic partnerships at CityU, she led a new partnership with Amazon and a Boeing apprenticeship program.

Kathy started her career with advertising agencies and then moved to the client side as a marketing executive with a succession of top media companies, including Viacom, Times Mirror, and TCI Cablevision winning several cable industry awards. She then moved to Seattle negotiating the Seattle Mariners’ first cable television rights contract and then launching NorthWest Cable News (NWCN). As head of marketing, she helped to make NWCN the highest rated regional cable news network in the country. As an Internet entrepreneur, Kathy founded FilmPix, a movie information service acquired by Hollywood.com. She then founded ParentOrganizer, an online communications tool for schools and organizations to more efficiently and sustainably communicate with parents.

Kathy graduated cum laude in broadcast journalism and political science from Ohio State University and received her MBA from Pepperdine University, and her DBA from City University of Seattle.