• Joni Cobb
• Website: 
  kansaspipeline.org
• Position:
  President/CEO
  Pipeline 
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Bio

As founding President and CEO of PIPELINE, Joni Cobb has led the development of the nationally-acclaimed model. She also spearheaded development of the national advisory board, mentor program and national alliance building to ensure PIPELINE developed with the best possible input on investment strategies, innovation trends and expertise from around the nation.

In the late 1990s, Ms. Cobb successfully started and grew her own Kansas City-based Company, Cobb Communications, LLC, which provided comprehensive business planning, strategic communications and public affairs consulting services to technology and bioscience organizations, as well as foundations and organizations with high emphasis on public sector engagement. During this period, Ms. Cobb served as strategic advisor to the Kansas Technology Enterprise Corporation, working with leadership to implement the early phases of the state's bioscience initiative, strategic planning of the Kansas Bioscience Organization, as well as leading early efforts to promote Kansas on the national bioscience stage. For her outstanding efforts, she was recognized as one of Ingram Magazine's "40 Under Forty" in the Kansas City region in 2005.

Prior to her career in strategy and entrepreneurial leadership, Cobb developed advocacy and communications skills in the legal arena, including selection as a federal law clerk for the Honorable Joseph E. Stevens, Jr,. United States District Court, and as an attorney with Watson & Marshall in Kansas City. Additionally, she served in research capacities for the United States Attorney's Office in St. Louis, and for Edwin Meese III, former United States Attorney General, in Washington D.C.

Ms. Cobb graduated with a BA in economics and political science from the University of Missouri, and earned her Juris Doctorate from the Washington University School of Law.