Ms. Hudson leads the Angel Capital Association (ACA), the world’s leading professional and trade
association focused on fueling the success of accredited angel investors and portfolio companies in highgrowth,
early-stage ventures. ACA provides professional development, public policy advocacy and
significant benefits and resources to its membership more than 13,000 individual accredited investors
throughout North America. Ms. Hudson led the angel initiative at the Kauffman Foundation and also
oversaw many of the Foundation’s entrepreneurial education and mentoring programs designed to
ensure that more entrepreneurs develop sustainable, innovative businesses. An angel investor herself,
Ms. Hudson is a member of the Women’s Capital Connection and Mid-America Angels in her home base
of Kansas City. Ms. Hudson has worked in the entrepreneurial support field for more than 25 years. She
holds a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from the University of Kansas and an M.A. in Public
Policy from Rutgers University. More information about ACA is at www.angelcapitalassociation.org.