President/CEO of Frontier Electronic Systems (FES) www.fescorp.com

Dr. Brenda Rolls is an Oklahoma native and member of the Chickasaw tribe. She earned a bachelor’s degree in organizational administration from OSU in 1984 and began her career in the California office of her family’s business, Frontier Engineering, Inc., where she gained experience with government cost accounting and contract administration. Rolls pursued graduate studies at Biola University in La Mirada, Calif., and graduated with a doctorate in psychology in 1996. She and her family returned to Stillwater to support and facilitate organizational transitions occurring within Frontier Engineering in 1998. The core business of engineering design, development and manufacturing was renamed Frontier Electronic Systems (FES), and Rolls participated in many strategic initiatives focused on maturing the company into a world class, sophisticated, and highly successful business enterprise. In January 2008, Rolls was promoted to president and CEO of FES https://www.fescorp.com/history.html. Under her leadership, the company has experienced significant revenue and workforce growth while also enhancing FES’ engineering and manufacturing capabilities and maintaining strong profitability. In conjunction with the strong leadership team at FES, Rolls maintains a core focus on strategic technology advancement and product diversity initiatives designed to insure FES’s continued success in providing critical hardware to warfighters and astronauts through the aerospace and defense technology marketplace. Rolls currently serves as chair of the OSIDA Board, is on the OCAST OSTRAD Board, is a member of the Oklahoma Business Roundtable, and served on the Governor’s Council for Science and Technology under Governor Fallin.  Rolls has served the local and state communities through volunteer activities with faith-based and other service organizations. Rolls and her husband, Mark, are parents of two daughters.