Biography
Gordon Riggle is an accomplished leader in government, business and the military. Today he teaches leadership and strategy at the University of Colorado and has a consulting practice in leadership, strategy, and government relations.
Prior to moving to Boulder, Riggle served at the White House as Deputy Assistant to the President and Director of the Office of Administration. Before that appointment he worked as a Professional Staff Member of the United States Senate. He also served on the Presidential Transition Team as Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense.
During his military service, Riggle was a Captain in the United States Navy, commanding the destroyer USS KINKAID in the Pacific and a SWIFT patrol boat in Vietnam. In shore assignments, he was Military Assistant to the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy and served in various long range planning roles.
Throughout the 1990s Gordon did strategic planning and advanced business development with Ball Aerospace and Technologies Corp., first in Washington, D.C. and later in their Boulder headquarters. He was also elected to serve three terms as a member of the Boulder City Council.
His education includes a master in public administration degree from Harvard University, the Program for Senior Executives at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and bachelor in philosophy from Lafayette College. Gordon and his wife Marietta, a management consultant, live in Boulder. They are foster parents for infants and toddlers with Boulder County Social Services Division.
Education
- Program for Senior Executives, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MA, Public Administration, Harvard University
Command and Staff Course, Naval War College
BA, Philosophy, Lafayette College
