Linda is the president and chief executive officer of Griego Enterprises, Inc., a business management company that oversees operations of Engine Co. No. 28, a prominent restaurant in downtown Los Angeles that she founded in 1988.
From 1990 to 2000, Ms. Griego held a number of government-related appointments, including deputy mayor of the city of Los Angeles, president and chief executive officer of the Los Angeles Community Development Bank, and president and chief executive officer of Rebuild LA (RLA), the agency created to jump-start inner-city economic development following the 1992 civil unrest.
Over the past two decades, Linda has also served on a number of government commissions and nonprofit boards, including current service on the boards of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, Public Policy Institute of California, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, and the YMCA of Metropolitan Los Angeles. She currently serves as a director of publicly traded companies including CBS Corporation, City National Bank, AECOM Technology Corporation, and Southwest Water Company.
Linda earned a B.A. in history in 1975 from UCLA and is a former senior fellow of the UCLA School of Public Policy.