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Erika Ebbel Angle CEO & Founder, Science From Scientists
Erika Ebbel Angle is a 2004 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology majoring in Chemistry and minoring in music. She is currently attending Boston University Medical School in the Division of Graduate Medical Sciences as a Ph.D. candidate in Analytical Biochemistry. At age 12, she became interested in isolating natural antiviral products from an herb. Her project led to her involvement with many multinational companies and institutions. She was the recipient of a number of statewide, national and international science awards.
In 2002 Erika founded Science From Scientists a 501(c)3 nonprofit whose mission is to promote student interest in mathematics and the sciences. Since its inception, Science from Scientists has been working towards setting up science-oriented programs across Massachusetts. She was selected by L’Oreal Paris as a 2007 Woman of Worth for her work with Science from Scientists and was featured on Lifetime TV and Nova.
In 2006, the Governor’s Office nominated Erika to serve as a Commissioner for the MA Commission on the Status of Women. Erika was Miss Massachusetts 2004 in the Miss America Scholarship program and was the cohost of the show “Not Afraid to Ask” which aired on TLC.
Jill Becker Ph.D, Founder, Cambridge NanoTech
Jill Becker Ph.D founded Cambridge NanoTech in 2003 and continues to successfully lead the company's technical, sales and operational functions. Dr. Becker holds a B.S. from the University of Toronto and completed her Ph.D in Chemistry at Harvard University under the supervision of Prof. Roy Gordon. Dr. Becker is a specialist in inorganic and metal-organic chemistry, ALD system design, precursor synthesis, and thin film characterization techniques. She has published extensively, and holds numerous patents.
Ruth N. BramsonCEO, Girl Scouts of Eastern MA
Throughout her career, Ruth N. Bramson has been committed to advancing leadership opportunities for women, from the corporate sector, to the State House, to the non‐profit community. Beginning with tailoring her own career to meet the needs of her family, she has made major inroads in instilling organizations with the values and policies that provide greater opportunity for women. She continues this legacy today as the first Chief Executive Officer of the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts.
Joining Shaws Supermarkets/Star Markets in 1995, in an industry dominated by men, Ms. Bramson became the company’s first woman hired for a senior managerial position and the first woman on their Board. As the Senior Vice President for Human Resources, Bramson undertook a progressive “Women at Work” campaign. By the time she left the company nine years later, Shaws employed over 600 women in managerial roles and her commitment to women’s progress in the workplace was realized.
Ms. Bramson has held executive positions with several major corporations including the Executive Vice President of Human Resources for National Grid US. While at both National Grid and Shaw’s Supermarkets/Star Markets, Ms. Bramson led the management and cultural integration of the organizations’ acquisitions, first at Shaw's with Star Markets and later at National Grid with KeySpan and New England Gas. These roles provided her the unique expertise to oversee the Girl Scouts of Eastern Massachusetts’ recent merger of three Massachusetts councils into a better resourced, more impactful organization. Additionally, Bramson has held executive level positions with both Reebok International and Charles River Laboratories.
While working in the corporate sector, Ms. Bramson established an entrepreneurial non‐profit venture, Suited for Success (a 501c3 organization she conceived, developed and grew) which assisted economically disadvantaged women in moving from welfare to self‐sufficiency. Bramson headed the organization for six years until its merger with The Crittenden Women’s Union, where the programs continue today as a vital part of their curriculum. For her work with Suited for Success, she was named Corporate Citizen of the Month by the Boston Business Journal.
Bramson’s distinguished civic service includes serving as the Undersecretary of Administration and Finance in the Romney Administration. Appointed as the first Chief Human Resources Officer and Chief Diversity Officer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Ms. Bramson successfully advocated for the Pay for Performance Initiative and worked tirelessly to abolish patronage within state government through the Sunshine Policy enacted by Executive Order. Bramson received the Shared Services Leader of the Year for North America Award 2005 for her innovations in state government.
Ms. Bramson continues her civic commitment volunteering with a number of non‐profits and government agencies that focus on the advancement of women, diversity, education, and the prevention of homelessness and domestic violence.
In early 2010 Bramson was appointed to serve as co‐chair of the Diversity Sub‐Committee for the Governor’s STEM Council, and currently sits on the STEM Operations Board. She also serves as an Advisory Board member of Junior Achievement, is a member of the Massachusetts Coalition for Equal Pay, and is a member of the Women of the Association of Latino Professionals in Finance and Accounting (ALPFA) Corporate Advisory Board. She sits on the Board of Governors of Tufts Medical Center, the Board of Overseers for the Mother Caroline Academy & Education Center, and serves as a Trustee of Middlesex Community College. Bramson was on the Board of the Massachusetts Service Alliance for ten years and is a member of the National Partnership for 21st Century Skills advisory group. During the Romney administration, she was tapped to co‐chair the Governor’s Commission on Domestic Violence and Child Sexual Abuse with Lt. Governor Kerry Healey. Additionally, she served on the Governor’s Advisory ‘Kitchen Cabinet’ on homelessness and the One Family Scholars program.
Ms. Bramson is an international lecturer and published author, writing on issues including strategic change, workplace violence, sexual harassment prevention, shared services and work/family balance. She has been recognized for her tremendous portfolio of work and community service, most recently as an inductee to the Junior Achievement Business Hall of Fame, and the Boys & Girls Club of Dorchester New England Women’s Leadership Award honoree. Ms. Bramson was honored by the Massachusetts Women Political Caucus as one of the 2010 Abigail Adams Award Recipients for her continued commitment to advancing leadership opportunities and equality for girls and women.
A graduate of Barnard College, Columbia University, Bramson received a master’s degree from Boston University. She also completed Harvard University’s Executive leadership program for women. She resides in Dover with her husband. They have five children and eight grandchildren.
Tushara CanekeratneCo-Founder & Advisor, Virtusa Corporation Founder & CEO, Nadastra, Inc.
Tushara Canekeratne is co-founder and former Executive Vice President of Global Technical Operations of Virtusa Corporation. Virtusa is a global provider of software development and IT services to large enterprises and leading software product vendors in the financial services, communications, retail, and high tech industries. Tushara assumed an advisory role at Virtusa in May 2006 to start the new business venture Nadastra, Inc. and serves as CEO.
Nadastra, Inc. is a Massachusetts, USA based knowledge driven global services company committed to enabling clients achieve unprecedented and sustainable improvements in operating performance, productivity, profitability, and shareholder value through business operations transformation. By leveraging KPO and BPO, and optimizing people, processes, and technology, Nadastra intends to make every aspect of its client operations a source of lasting strategic value. Nadastra offers the highest levels of competency in all aspects of business operations, including operations and performance management, program and portfolio management, implementation and change management, legal operations, financial operations, IT operations, sales and marketing operations, and much more. At present, Nadastra, Inc. has global operations in the U.S., India and Sri Lanka.
As a co-founder of Virtusa, Tushara has embodied Virtusa’s culture of excellence and teamwork. From Virtusa’s inception she played a pivotal role in building the global operation and the operating culture within Virtusa. Tushara was instrumental in crafting Virtusa’s initial vision, developing a world-class delivery execution engine, while leading global technical operations and securing and nurturing client engagements. In her advisory role at Virtusa, Tushara continues to provide strategy and guidance on key corporate initiatives and client relationships.
During the 12 year period at Virtusa, she served as Executive Vice President of Global Technical Operations. Tushara had world-wide responsibility for delivery of global services and global operations including the company’s unique Productization® methodology, process, quality, client delight and global delivery strategies with oversight that stretched across four countries supporting a distributed global team.
Tushara drove the company’s focus on operational, engineering and people excellence, and developed the business processes and frameworks for continuous improvement, organization scalability and global alignment for successful execution. Tushara initiated and spearhead Virtusa’s client delight strategy providing critical leadership, mentoring and rigor, and instilling the factors that have contributed to Virtusa’s engagement teams frequently exceeding client expectations. She drove innovation, leadership and teamwork within the organization, and creating a high-performance culture where teams set and reset the bar of excellence.
In 1989, Tushara was a member of the founding team at INSCI Corporation, a document and archival management company. As a key member of the management team, Tushara helped take the company public in 1994. At INSCI, the product developed by Tushara was named ‘Product of the Year’ in 1997 by the Association of Imaging and Information Management and Imaging Magazine. In the early years she worked with leading Wall Street companies.
In May of 2006, Tushara received the Woman Entrepreneur of the Year 2005 Award from the Women’s Chamber of Commerce (WCIC) of Sri Lanka.
Born in Colombo, Sri Lanka, Tushara had her early education there. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from Loughborough University, United Kingdom. Tushara is a member of the Board of Trustees of Fay School, Southborough, MA, a member of the Brigham and Women’s Hospital Cardiovascular Leadership Council, a member of the Board of Directors for The Home for the Little Wanders and a member of the Finance and Audit Committee at City Year.
Elisabeth Bentel Carpenter SVP, Global Support & Services, Brightcove
Elisabeth is responsible for defining and executing Brightcove's go-to-market strategy, including working with major publishers, marketing and distribution partners. Elisabeth joins Brightcove from News Corporation's British Sky Broadcasting subsidiary in London. Over nearly a decade at News Corporation and Sky, Elisabeth held a variety of senior management roles, including directing Sky's broadband and new technologies strategy and operations, its new media division, corporate development and strategic planning roles. Elisabeth was also instrumental in the initial launch of Sky Digital, Sky's breakthrough digital satellite video distribution platform. Elisabeth also worked directly in the office of the CEO, helping to launch global joint-ventures as well as leading Sky's sports rights acquisition deals.
Elisabeth was a Fulbright scholar, a graduate of Harvard University, and has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a JD from Columbia School of Law.
Jennifer Tour Chayes Distinguished Scientist, Microsoft Research New England
Jennifer Tour Chayes is Distinguished Scientist and managing director of Microsoft Research New England in Cambridge, Massachusetts, which she co-founded in July 2008. Before this, she was research area manager for Mathematics, Theoretical Computer Science and Cryptography at Microsoft Research Redmond. Chayes joined Microsoft Research in 1997, when she co-founded the Theory Group. Her research areas include phase transitions in discrete mathematics and computer science, structural and dynamical properties of self-engineered networks, and algorithmic game theory. She is the co-author of over 100 scientific papers and the co-inventor of more than 25 patents.
Chayes has many ties to the academic community. She is affiliate professor of mathematics and physics at the University of Washington, and was for many years professor of mathematics at UCLA. She serves on numerous institute boards, advisory committees and editorial boards, including the Turing Award Selection Committee of the Association for Computing Machinery, the Board of Trustees of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, the advisory boards of the Center for Discrete Mathematics and Computer Science, the U.S. National Committee for Mathematics, the Howard Hughes Medical Institute Janelia Farms Research Campus, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, and the Selection Committee for the Anita Borg Award for Technical Leadership. Chayes is a past chair of the Mathematics Section of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and a past vice president of the American Mathematical Society.
Chayes received her B.A. in biology and physics at Wesleyan University, where she graduated first in her class, and her Ph.D. in mathematical physics at Princeton. She did her postdoctoral work in the mathematics and physics departments at Harvard and Cornell. She is the recipient of a National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, a Sloan Fellowship, and the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award. She has twice been a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Chayes is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Fields Institute, and the Association for Computing Machinery, and a National Associate of the National Academies.
Chayes is well known for her work on phase transitions, in particular for laying the foundation for the study of phase transitions in problems in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science; this study is now giving rise to some of the fastest known algorithms for fundamental problems in combinatorial optimization. She is also one of the world’s experts in the modeling and analysis of random, dynamically growing graphs — which are used to model the Internet, the World Wide Web and a host of other technological and social networks. Among Chayes’ contributions to Microsoft technologies are the development of methods to analyze the structure and behavior of various networks, the design of auction algorithms, and the design and analysis of various business models for the online world.
Chayes lives with her husband, Christian Borgs, who also happens to be her principal scientific collaborator. In her spare time, she enjoys overworking.
Dr. Connie Chow Executive Director, Science Club for Girls
Dr. Connie Chow is the Executive Director of Science Club for Girls, a Cambridge, MA-based a nonprofit that changes girls’ minds about who can do science by connecting them with women scientists and engineers who guide them in hands-on explorations. The organization serves about 1,000 girls from K-12th grades each year in eastern Massachusetts. The majority of girls served by the organization are Black and Latino, and from under-resourced communities. It also has a program in Pokuase, Ghana. Under Dr. Chow’s leadership, SCFG was recognized as an AfterSchool Innovator by the MetLife Foundation and AfterSchool Alliance in 2010, and received the New England Innovation Award in 2011.
Connie co-founded the Boston Area Girls STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) collaborative in 2009 and co-leads the Southern New England Girls Collaborative Project, a regional arm of the NSF-supported National Girls Collaborative Project. Both initiatives bring universities, community organizations and companies together to develop and implement programs to ignite girls’ interest and expose them to careers in these fields.
She recently served on the Diversity Subcommittee of the MA Governor’s STEM Advisory Council, and the City of Cambridge Blue Ribbon Commission on Middle School Youth. She was also the Youth Council co-chair of the MetroNorth Regional Employment Board.
Dr. Chow is a Fellow of the Massachusetts Academy of Sciences. She received her Ph.D. through the program in Virology in the Division of Medical Sciences at Harvard University, and conducted her postdoctoral research at the Harvard School of Public Health. Prior to joining SCFG, Connie was an assistant professor in Biology at Simmons College, where she was the co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation-funded ITEST program that introduced technology and science to youth in the Boston public middle schools.
Dr. Chow co-founded the Massachusetts CEDAW Project in 2002, a collaborative that seeks to implement international human rights principles, in particular the international women’s treaty, in local contexts. She served on the Board of Directors of Survivors, Inc., a grassroots organization comprising of low-income women and their allies, and was a member of the steering committee for the Women’s Human Rights program for Amnesty International USA.
Ziba Cranmer Vice President, Cause Branding, Cone, Inc.
Ziba Cranmer joined Cone in January in 2011 as a Vice President in the Cause Branding practice. Ziba joins Cone from Nike where she worked in Europe and the US in a variety of functions within Nike’s Sustainable Business and Innovation Team. Ziba brings with her deep experience in corporate sustainability strategy development and a history of incubating successful innovation initiatives in the areas of strategic philanthropy, product and category development, transparency and stakeholder engagement.
At Nike, Ziba was most recently the Director of the Access to Sport portfolio within the SB&I Lab, a strategic investment function focused on partnerships and direct investment around key sustainability issues. Ziba also lead Social Innovation for Nike’s Global Community investment team where she launched several cause initiatives and managed a portfolio of strategic partnerships in support of Nike’s social innovation goals. Ziba joined Nike in 2003 to manage stakeholder engagement strategy and was responsible for the publication of its award-winning 2004 corporate responsibility report.
Prior to Nike, Ziba worked at the World Bank in its Corporate Social Responsibility Practice where she advised developing country governments on strategies to attract foreign and domestic investors with sustainable business practices. Ziba’s work with the CSR Practice at the World Bank focused on public-private partnerships, governance and transparency, labor standards and social protection, and CSR in global supply chains/ manufacturing.
Ziba has extensive experience living and working in diverse global contexts including the Middle East, Vietnam, the Netherlands and the UK. Ziba has an MBA/ IBD from Georgetown University in Washington D.C. She has a personal passion for new media and technology driven innovation and supports startups and nonprofits working in this field. Ziba also sits on the board of WomenWin, an organization supporting the empowerment of women through sport, a theme for which Ziba is a strong advocate. Ziba is also a lifelong athlete; she plays lacrosse, basketball, runs, and snowboards.
Yasmin Cruz Senior Corporate Social Responsibility Analyst, John Hancock
Yasmin Cruz is a Senior Analyst for John Hancock’s Corporate Responsibility Team. The Corporate Responsibility team focuses on community building through various strategic partnerships. With its $11M annual charitable giving budget, the team invests principally in Boston-based organizations to promote youth development and, through other signature initiatives such as the Boston Marathon Nonprofit Program, provides support for causes ranging from emergency relief efforts to housing development. Prior to her work in corporate philanthropy, Ms. Cruz served as an equity and fixed income analyst on the asset management side of the Company – working primarily on the Small Cap Intrinsic Value Fund, Regional Bank Fund, US Commercial Mortgages and the Power and Project Fund. A native of Boston, Ms. Cruz attended Babson College, graduating in 2006. Ms. Cruz is heavily involved in several Boston cultural and educational institutions and serves as Co-Chair of the Graduates of Color for Noble and Greenough School; Board Trustee of the Mother Caroline and Education Center; and Appointed Overseer of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston as Co-Chair of the Museum’s Catalyst Committee.
Sarah FayVeteran, Media Services Industry
Sarah Fay is a veteran of the media services industry: in her two decades of experience, she has developed and implemented groundbreaking new models for advertising and media. Over the course of her career, Sarah has become a well-known voice in the advertising industry on the topics of digital marketing and media integration. She has helped to build one of the most recognized digital companies in the world through a combination of acquisitions, new business wins, and organic growth.
Until May of 2009, Sarah was CEO of Aegis Media North America. She was also responsible for launching and growing a significant part of that business during her eleven year tenure at that company. As President of Carat Interactive and then President of Isobar, Sarah orchestrated the successful acquisitions and merging of several companies including Lot21, Vizium, Freestyle Interactive, Molecular, iProspect, Ammo and Bluestreak. Sarah is also responsible for launching Isobar Mobile, a highly regarded mobile marketing entity.
An industry thought leader, Sarah initiated several ground breaking studies including “Born to Be Wired” (2003), which examined rapidly increasing internet use by teens, and “Never Ending Friending” (2007), which considered the increasingly vital role of social networking as a component of social behavior and also calculated marketing ROI for Social Marketing campaigns.
Sarah has been widely quoted in such sources as Ad Age, Ad Week, DM News, B2B Magazine, New York Times, Wall Street Journal and USA Today. Additionally, Sarah regularly addresses audiences at major marketing conferences and participates on a number of company and industry boards.
Michele Flynn Founder & President, Expense Management Solutions
Michele Flynn is the founder and President of Expense Management Solutions, Inc. a leading provider of strategic advisory services to Fortune 100 companies and global organizations. An industry visionary, Michele has developed and implemented cutting edge strategic management programs and outsourcing relationships that have resulted in hundreds of millions of dollars in client savings and a success ratio that far outpacing even the most optimistic industry reports. Providing targeted solutions to sourcing of Corporate Administrative Services and Corporate Real Estate, Expense Management Solutions works with such respected organizations as Microsoft, State Street, the Federal Reserve Bank, Cigna and many others.
Delivering on Michele’s reputation for quality and innovation, Expense Management Solutions has been recognized as a Supply & Demand Chain Executive magazine Top 100 company many times, a Top Business by Diversity.com in 2003, 2005 and 2006 and as a finalist for Best Overall Company of the Year – Service Business in the 2004, 2005 and 2006 Stevie Awards for Women Entrepreneurs. Michele has been named a Pro to Know by SDCE magazine for 2005 and 2006.
Michele also serves as Founder and Chairman of Hiperos, LLC. Founded in 2007, Hiperos provides an on-demand solution for managing the extended enterprise of a business and is focused exclusively on maximizing the value and minimizing the risk of a company’s relationships (e.g. vendors, resellers, service providers, distributors, partners or brokers.) Hiperos is used by a number of the world’s leading companies including Aetna, American Express, CA Technologies, MasterCard, Microsoft, State Street, TD Bank, and United Technologies and was named as one Gartner’s Cool Vendors in Risk Management, Compliance and Privacy for 2011.
Prior to founding Expense Management Solutions, Michele held a number of executive positions with Fortune 500 companies, international banks and public accounting firms in real estate, investment management, administrative services and contract administration. Michele holds an MBA from Southern Methodist University, an AB with honors from Mount Holyoke College and has lectured at numerous universities and professional and trade organizations. She is certified by the Costa Institute of Real Estate Finance, holds the Board Certification in Corporate Real Estate (BCCR) from CoreNet Global, is a Registered Counselor of Real Estate (CRE), and a Certified Outsourcing Professional from the International Association of Outsourcing Professionals. She has written extensively for industry publications on the subjects of procurement and sourcing strategy, supplier relationship management (SRM), global sourcing, administrative systems reengineering, real estate finance, shared service organizational issues and corporate real estate management.
Dr. Sarah Fortune Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases, Harvard School of Public Health
Dr. Sarah Fortune is an Assistant Professor of Immunology and Infectious Diseases at the Harvard School of Public Health where she studies the pathogenesis of tuberculosis. She received a bachelor’s of science in biology from Yale University and a medical degree from Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. She completed her residency in Internal Medicine and fellowship in Infectious Diseases at the Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her lab currently seeks to understand how bacterial heterogeneity contributes to the variability in tuberculosis outcomes. Areas of interest include mechanisms and rates of genetic and epigenetic diversification, and identification of mechanisms by which the bacterium generates high frequency diversity. Her group approaches these questions through a combination of bacterial genetic approaches with high throughput methodologies such as comprehensive proteomics, whole genome sequencing and high density live cell imaging. Dr. Fortune is supported by awards from HHMI, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, NIAID and a New Innovator Award from the National Institutes of Health.
Malli Gero Executive Director, 2020 Women on Boards
Malli Gero is executive director of 2020 Women on Boards, a national campaign to increase the number of women on corporate boards to 20% or more by the year 2020. She is also principal of Gero Communications, a marketing communications firm. Prior to starting Gero Communications Ms. Gero served as an account executive for public relations agencies in New York and Boston, working in the fashion and design, health care, B2B, and leisure industries. Her expertise includes developing and managing media and community relations campaigns, producing print and online collateral material, and coordinating special events and product introductions.
Ms. Gero is an active community volunteer. She is chairman of the board of More Than Words, an innovative social enterprise, and is past chair and president of the Coolidge Corner Theatre Foundation in Brookline, MA.
She has also served on the boards of the Brookline Educational Foundation, Ruggles Street Mission Hill Day Care Center, a division of Associated Day Care Services of Greater Boston, and Temple Ohabei Shalom in Brookline. She lives in Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts with her husband, Michael.
Susan Getgood VP Sales & Marketing, BlogHer
Susan Getgood has been involved in online marketing since the early 90s, and watched the web evolve from the first browsers to the interactive communities we participate in today. In fall 2010, Susan joined BlogHer Inc. as VP Sales Marketing. In this role, she promotes the many unique opportunities for advertisers to engage with the BlogHer community and works with brands to develop creative and effective cross-platform marketing programs to reach the BlogHer audience.
As an independent consultant from 2004 to 2010, she helped organizations integrate social media into their marketing strategies to meet their customers online, build their brands and drive revenue. Clients included HP, Kaplan University, Kraft, Goodwill Industries and CamelBak as well as PR agencies, start-ups and small businesses nationwide.
Prior to that, Susan held a variety of corporate marketing and management roles including Senior Vice President of Marketing at Internet software company SurfControl, General Manager of Cyber Patrol and Director of Corporate Communications at The Learning Company.
Her professional marketing blog, where she writes about social media and marketing strategy, is Marketing Roadmaps. She also writes a personal blog, Snapshot Chronicles. Her first book, Professional Blogging For Dummies (Wiley), was published in July 2010.
Susan speaks regularly about social media and marketing at conferences like BlogHer, Mom 2.0 and New Comm Forum. She is a co-founder of ethics initiative Blog With Integrity and appeared on the Today Show in April 2010 to talk about respect and responsibility in the blogosphere.
Edwin Guarin Senior Academic Developer Evangelist, Microsoft
Edwin Guarin is the Senior Academic Developer Evangelist at the Microsoft New England Research & Development (NERD), a research and software innovation campus located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. At Microsoft, he is responsible for building and fostering close relationships with academics in Higher-Ed across the New England region along with coordinating and implementing local and global programs, which help prepare today's students for tomorrow's jobs. In other words, he gets paid to travel and talk to college students and professors about how to do cool stuff like make games for Xbox 360, build applications for Windows Phone 7, tell them about how they can get software for free, as well as getting involved in the premier technology competition for students, called Imagine Cup.
In a previous life at Microsoft, he was a Rapid Response Engineer Lead, responsible for solving huge technology and server down issues at Fortune 500 and Fortune 1000 companies. Exchange Server database recovery was his specialty, and this led him to travelling all over the world, including the UK, Germany, Brazil, and Japan delivering deep technical workshops on this topic.
Edwin recently won the Boston Private Industry Council Achiever Award, for inspiring Boston Public School students by providing access to cutting edge technology resources and opportunities that positively advance their academic and career aspirations. He holds a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science from Boston University and in his spare time, likes to race his motorcycle on the track and catch Red Sox games at Fenway.
Teresa Herd Vice President, Creative Director
Teresa is the Vice President, Creative Director for Staples. She joined Staples in 2000 as a Creative Director for the company’s advertising department (also known as The Agency at Staples). Teresa helped lead the positioning, branding and advertising campaign for the Easy Button and today more than 3.5 million have been sold and “easy “will be forever linked to Staples. As VP, Creative Director, Teresa is responsible for all of Staples creative development, including eCommerce, packaging for Staples brand, branding campaigns, catalog, broadcast TV and radio.
Prior to joining Staples, Teresa worked for several advertising agencies as an Art Director on accounts such as Coldwell Banker, Saranac Beer, New Jersey Lottery, Tetley, Pepsi and Neutrogena. But, she says, nothing compares to bringing easy to life at Staples.
Community service has always played an important role in Teresa’s life. She served for two years on the board of GLSEN and is currently a mentor for both the Point Foundation and the Home for Little Wanderers. She is also the fundraising and marketing volunteer chairperson at the Mather Elementary School in Boston.
Teresa has BA in Medical Illustration from Rochester Institute of Technology.
Stephanie Kaplan Co-founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief, Her Campus Media
Stephanie is co-founder, CEO & Editor-in-Chief of Her Campus Media (www.hercampus.com), the #1 online magazine for college women and innovative college marketing firm. Her Campus launched in September 2009 after winning Harvard's business plan competition, and has since grown to a team of 3000+ college students with branches at 200+ colleges, formed content partnerships with Seventeen magazine, SELF magazine and The Huffington Post, worked with clients including The Body Shop, Ann Taylor LOFT, New Balance, Pinkberry, and popchips, and been featured in The New York Times, Yahoo Finance, AOL Money College, CNN Money, CBS MoneyWatch, Business Insider, and on ABC News Now and Fox25 News, among others. Her Campus writers have been offered jobs and internships with Glamour, Vogue, Vanity Fair, Seventeen, Marie Claire, Harper’s Bazaar, People magazine, W magazine, Teen Vogue, InStyle, Lucky, O magazine, MTV, The Washington Post, and Women’s Wear Daily, among others.
Stephanie is a 2010 graduate of Harvard University where she majored in Psychology and minored in Economics. Stephanie spent summer 2009 as an American Society of Magazine Editors (ASME) intern at SELF magazine at Condé Nast Publications, and summer 2008 as a Features Intern at Seventeen magazine at the Hearst Corporation. Stephanie has been admitted to the Harvard Business School Class of 2014 via the 2+2 Program. Stephanie has been named to BusinessWeek's 25 Under 25 Best Young Entrepreneurs, Inc. magazine's 30 Under 30 Coolest Young Entrepreneurs, Glamour magazine's 20 Amazing Young Women, and The Boston Globe's 25 Most Stylish Bostonians. Follow Stephanie on Twitter: @stephaniekaplan.
Kathleen Kennedy Chief Strategy Officer, Technology Review & President, MIT Enterprise Forum
Kathleen Kennedy is the Chief Strategy Officer at Technology Review and the President of the MIT Enterprise Forum. In her 11 years at MIT, Kathleen has helped Technology Review to redefine the magazine brand and to achieve success in a rapidly changing market. She has established several new lines of business in the United States as well as in China, India, Singapore, and Spain. She leads events, marketing, sales and international licensing for Technology Review as well as the global team for the MIT Enterprise Forum.
Kathleen started her career in accounting at Deloitte and Touche, but she quickly found her true calling—media. She left the financial world to join a startup that specialized in marketing and media research for the film industry. Kathleen worked on a wide range of movies for major studios, including Warner Bros., Paramount, and 20th Century Fox. She became director of the southeast region, where she led her team to double-digit growth for five consecutive years.
She has received a number of industry awards, most recently the 2009 Folio: 40 which recognized the most innovative and influential people in magazines.
She studied political theory at the University of Virginia and business at James Madison University.
Debi Kleiman President, Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX)
Debi is currently the President of the Massachusetts Innovation & Technology Exchange (MITX). Prior to joining MITX, Debi was vice president, product marketing & sales operations at Communispace Corporation, the pioneer of online customer insight communities working with many of the world’s leading brands. Prior to Communispace, Debi was with the Oral-B Division of P&G leading a team responsible for a $50 million new product launch. Before that, she held marketing management positions at Welch’s, Framelogix.com, the Coca-Cola Company and Burlington Industries. Debi received an M.B.A. in general management and marketing from Harvard Business School, and a B.S. in organizational behavior from Cornell University.
Alesia Latson Principal, Latson Leadership Group
Alesia Latson has been studying and practicing the art and science of leadership and organizational development for over 21 years. She has held management and organizational development roles in large financial services organizations, healthcare, and government. Through expert facilitation and personal coaching, Ms. Latson has worked with hundreds of leaders at all levels to expand their management and leadership effectiveness.
Ms. Latson is well known for her exceptional skills as a facilitator and coach. Ms. Latson’s client list includes, EMC, Fidelity Investments, McDonald’s, GE, Teradyne, Bright Horizons, Marriott, Pfizer and Blue Cross Blue Shield.
Ms. Latson received her M.A. in Training and Development from Lesley University and her B.A. in psychology from the University of Illinois. She is formerly an adjunct faculty member of Lesley University and Bentley College. Ms. Latson is a frequently guest speaker at Babson Executive Education, MIT Sloan School of Business and the University of Michigan’s Ross Business School.
She is the co-author of More Time for You – A Powerful System for Organizing Your Work and Get Things Done.
Jennifer Lum Founding Partner, Apricot Capital
Jennifer Lum is an Entrepreneur and Angel Investor. Jennifer is a co-founder of Apricot Capital and is a mentor at TechStars and 500 Startups. Jennifer was a core team member of Quattro Wireless (acquired by Apple) and m-Qube (acquired by VeriSign). At Apple, she focused on the launch of the iAd network. As Vice President of Advertising Operations at Quattro, Jennifer was responsible for running the ad network. Prior to Quattro, Jennifer was the Director of Business Operations of VeriSign's Digital Content and Messaging business. She joined VeriSign through its acquisition of m-Qube where she was Chief of Staff. Jennifer started her career in Toronto, where she was an early employee at WebHosting.com (acquired by SBC Communications) and also worked with Canada's top financial services and technology companies as a management consultant.
Alice Marwick Postdoctoral Researcher in Social Media, Microsoft Research New England
Alice Marwick is a postdoctoral researcher in social media at Microsoft Research New England and a research affiliate at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School. Her work looks at online identity and consumer culture through lenses of privacy, surveillance, consumption, and celebrity. She has published in New Media and Society, Convergence, First Monday, Critical Studies in Media Communication and Information, Communication & Society. Marwick is a frequent presenter at academic and industry conferences and has appeared in The New York Times, The LA Times, The Guardian, BusinessWeek and Wired Magazine, and on NPR, CBC and BBC Radio. She is working on a book about Web 2.0 culture for Yale Press, and will be an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication and Media Studies at Fordham University in New York City in 2012. Alice has a PhD from the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, a MA from the University of Washington and a BA from Wellesley College. Her dissertation, “Status Update: Celebrity, Publicity and Self-Branding in Web 2.0” is available on her website, http://www.tiara.org.
Ioannis N. Miaoulis President, Museum of Science
In January 2003, Ioannis (Yannis) N. Miaoulis became President and Director of the Museum of Science, Boston. Originally from Greece, Dr. Miaoulis, now 50, came to the Museum after a distinguished association with Tufts University, where he was Dean of the School of Engineering, Associate Provost, Interim Dean of the University's Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. In addition to helping Tufts raise $100 million for its engineering school, Miaoulis greatly increased the number of female students and faculty, designed collaborative programs with industry, and more than doubled research initiatives. An innovative educator with a passion for science and engineering, Miaoulis championed the introduction of engineering into the Massachusetts science and technology public school curriculum. This made the Commonwealth first in the nation in 2001 to develop a K-12 curriculum framework and assessments for technology/engineering. At Tufts, he created courses based on students' and his own passions for fishing and cooking: a fluid mechanics course from the fish's point of view and Gourmet Engineering, where students cook in a test kitchen, explore heat transfer, and eat their experiments.
His dream is to make everyone scientifically and technologically literate. Miaoulis has seized the opportunity as the Museum’s president to achieve his vision, convinced science museums can bring government, industry, and education leaders together to foster a scientifically and technologically literate citizenry. One of the world's largest science centers and Boston's most attended cultural institution, the Museum of Science is ideally positioned to lead the nationwide effort. The Museum drew 1.5 million visitors in the fiscal period ending June 30, 2011, including 182,320 school children, and served 85,000 more people in traveling programs. Receiving the Massachusetts Association of School Committees' 2005 Thomas P. O’Neill Award for Lifetime Service to Public Education, the Museum was also ranked #3 of the 10 best science centers in 2008 by Parents Magazine, one of the top two most visited hands-on science centers on Forbestraveler.com's "America’s 25 most visited museums" list in 2008, and one of the top two science museums in the Zagat Survey's "U.S. Family Travel Guide." The Museum is also Yankee Magazine's "Best of New England Readers' Choice" for Cultural Attraction in Science and El Planeta's Best Tourist Attraction for the Massachusetts Latino population.
With the Museum's Boards of Trustees and Overseers, Miaoulis spearheaded creation of the National Center for Technological Literacy® (NCTL®) at the Museum in 2004. Supported by corporate, foundation, and federal funds, the NCTL aims to enhance knowledge of engineering and technology for people of all ages and to inspire the next generation of engineers, inventors, and scientists. The Museum of Science is the country's only science museum with a comprehensive strategy and infrastructure to foster technological literacy in both science museums and schools nationwide. Through the NCTL, the Museum is creating technology exhibits and programs and integrating engineering as a new discipline in schools via standards-based K-12 curricular reform.
Recognizing that a 21st century curriculum must include the human-made world, the NCTL advances technological literacy in schools by helping states modify educational standards and assessments, by designing K-12 engineering materials, and by offering educators professional development. The NCTL's curricula have reached approximately 30,000 teachers and close to 3 million students in 50 states. The Museum's Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition, created with Lucasfilm Ltd., and funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is promoting technological literacy to over 2.3 million people in museums nationally and in Australia. In 2010 the NCTL won the Smaller Business Association of New England Innovation Award.
Recognizing that a 21st century curriculum must include the human-made world, the NCTL advances technological literacy in schools by helping states modify educational standards and assessments, by designing K-12 engineering materials, and by offering educators professional development. The NCTL's curricula have reached approximately 30,000 teachers and close to 3 million students in 50 states. The Museum's Star Wars: Where Science Meets Imagination exhibition, created with Lucasfilm Ltd., and funded in part by the National Science Foundation (NSF), is promoting technological literacy to over 2.3 million people in museums nationally and in Australia. In 2010 the NCTL won the Smaller Business Association of New England Innovation Award.
In 2004, the Museum began to explore with key supporters and foundations the possibility of a campaign to transform the Museum experience for the 21st century by building compelling new exhibits integrating the natural and designed worlds, enhancing educational programming, upgrading the Museum's public spaces, and "greening" the Museum. More than 10,000 individuals, corporations, foundations, and the government helped the Museum raise $150 million during the campaign's quiet phase from 2004 to 2010. The Museum's single largest individual gift was a $20 million gift from Sophia and Bernard Gordon to educate young people to be engineering leaders and to create the Gordon Wing, home of the Museum's NCTL, Exhibits, Education, and Research & Evaluation teams. In addition to the NCTL, projects have included the Charles Hayden Planetarium, transformed into New England's most technologically advanced digital theater; the nation's first rooftop wind turbine lab; and upgrades of the Mugar Omni Theater. Campaign contributions include a $2 million gift from Genzyme Corporation in 2006, establishing the Genzyme Biotechnology Education Initiative, the largest single corporate gift in the Museum’s history, and a $1 million award for science education from Google in 2011, the company's third gift since 2009.
Based on this success, the Museum's Board of Trustees approved a $250 million campaign in 2011 to transform its exhibits and galleries to tell the story of the natural and designed worlds and their connections; to transform its public spaces and amenities, focusing on sustainable systems and materials; to champion the growing integration of engineering into curricula, forming partnerships with museums throughout the world; to develop an expanded role for science centers worldwide as conveners of forums on critical issues that involve citizen discussion and deliberation to inform science and technology policy; and to use technology to enhance the onsite and online educational experience. On the horizon are: the Hall of Human Life, an ever-changing 10,000-square-foot exhibit showcasing accelerating breakthroughs in biology and drawing on New England's research community; What is Technology, to help visitors understand what technology is as they use engineering skills to solve problems; and Charles River Gallery, transforming the New England Habitats area and opening up the Museum to the river.
Meanwhile in 2008, enlivening the Museum's natural history roots, Dr. Miaoulis oversaw the unveiling of one of the world’s rarest dinosaur fossil finds, a near-complete Triceratops, on loan from an anonymous Museum enthusiast. Another element in Miaoulis’s vision involves enhancing the Museum experience for everyone, paying special attention to adults, females, and underserved audiences. In addition to opening Butterfly Garden and the 3-D Digital Cinema, Miaoulis has led the transformation of the Museum’s eateries into the Museum Café, supervised by its catering and food service provider, renowned chef-restaurateur Wolfgang Puck.
Under Miaoulis's leadership, the Museum has strengthened its financial position, diversifying its revenue sources and increasing its annual operating budget by 57 percent. Since 2005, the Museum of Science, with the Science Museum of Minnesota and the Exploratorium in San Francisco, has led the formation of a national Nanoscale Informal Science Education Network (NISE Network) of science museums and research institutions and was recently awarded a second five-year $21 million grant by the NSF to expand efforts. In the fiscal period ending June 30, 2011, the Museum's Annual Fund reached $2.6 million, individual/family/library membership income totaled $5.9 million, and member households exceeded 51,000. Gifts and pledges for NCTL-led formal and informal technology education initiatives have surpassed $84 million, underlining the importance of the Museum’s strategy for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education.
Miaoulis speaks often on science and technology literacy. He testified on the importance of K-12 engineering in 2009 before the U.S. House of Representatives Research & Science Education Subcommittee and in 2010 before the Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation Committee. He also built support for the first Engineering Education for Innovation Act, which was crafted by the NCTL and introduced in 2010 by New York Senator Kirsten Gillibrand and House Representative Paul Tonko and in 2011 by them with Maine Sen. Olympia Snowe.
Miaoulis earned bachelor's and doctorate degrees in mechanical engineering and a master’s in economics at Tufts, and received a master’s degree in mechanical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He has published over 100 research papers and holds two patents. He has also been honored with the Presidential Young Investigator award, the Allan MacLeod Cormack Award for Excellence in Collaborative Research, the William P. Desmond Award for outstanding contributions to Public Education, the Boston Jaycees Outstanding Young Leader Award, and a Mellon Fellowship. A former WGBH Trustee, Miaoulis has co-chaired the Mass. Technology/Engineering Education Advisory Board. He is a 2011 winner of the ASME (American Society of Mechanical Engineers) Ralph Coats Roe Medal. Named in 2006 by President George W. Bush to the National Museum and Library Services Board, Miaoulis has also served on the NASA Advisory Council, receiving NASA's Exceptional Public Service Medal in 2009; he is presently on the NASA Education and Public Outreach Committee. A member of Mass. Governor Deval Patrick’s Commonwealth Readiness Project Leadership Council, he also serves on the Executive Committee of Gov. Patrick's Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Advisory Council. Miaoulis is a member of the Boards of Trustees of Wellesley College and Tufts University.
Dr. Ourieff Founder & Principal, Translational Consulting
Dr. Sally Ourieff is founder and principal of Translational Consulting, an executive and leadership consulting firm that specializes in developing the interpersonal and relationship skills leaders need to complement their business expertise. A graduate of Stanford University and Harvard Medical School, Dr. Ourieff has worked for over twenty years helping people discover that who they are, how they act, and the relationships they build is key to their success.
Dr. Ourieff has held c-level positions in healthcare, including at Merit Behavioral Healthcare and has held director positions leading clinical care teams in both Boston hospitals and community programs. She has consulted for and coached leaders at academic institutions, biotech, tech, healthcare, law, and financial services including at Bain Capital, Cisco, Intel, Harvard Medical School, Brandeis University, and more. She has been brought in to manage teams during times of crisis, as well as help de-railed teams get back to being energized, collaborative, focused, and productive.
Prior to medical school, Dr. Ourieff worked as a journalist for the Lowell Sun Newspaper. She then combined her journalism and medical background working as an on-air radio host, script advisor for several NBC television shows, and on-air host for several local teen television programs, one of which won a regional Emmy award.
In addition to her consulting and coaching work at Translational Consulting, Dr. Ourieff co-founded and co-directs Hatun Runa , a nonprofit that provides medical and educational development in the Northeast Andes of Peru above the Amazon Basin.
Katie Rae Managing Director, TechStars Boston and Project 11
Katie Rae is founder of Project 11, a firm that invests in and assists early-stage startups. She also run the TechStars program in Boston. She specializes in critical product and business related decisions for building a strong customer base and rapid business growth.
She has spent her career building scaled Internet businesses in the community, self -publishing and search space. Most recently she was the head of Product for Microsoft Startup Labs an early stage product development lab focused on collaboration, location-based services and social applications where concepts were tested for consumer enthusiasm. Before that she was SVP of Product at Eons a business focused on new products for 50+ community. She pioneered an early freemium model at Lycos for the Tripod and Angelfire communities. She learned the ropes of product and business development at Zip2 and Mirror Worlds.
Katie is a frequent judge for business plan competitions and mentor for early stage companies. She loves working closely with groups of entrepreneurs and has developed a set workshops for rapid brainstorming and decision making for startups. She holds an MBA from Yale University and a BA in Biology from Oberlin College.
Pam Reeve Chair, The Commonwealth Institute
Ms. Reeve was the CEO of Lightbridge, Inc. from 1993-2004, having joined the founding group as President & COO in 1989, taking the company public in 1996. Prior to joining Lightbridge, Reeve spent eleven years at the Boston Consulting Group, one of the world’s leading management consulting firms. Her prior experience includes National Project Manager for a program funded by National Endowment for the Humanities, and real estate finance and development.
She currently serves as the Chair, and was the founding CEO, of opennairboston.net, the Boston wireless initiative, appointed by Boston’s Mayor Thomas Menino. She is a director of LiveWire Mobile (NASDAQ: LWM), serving on the Nominating and Governance Committee, Audit and Compensation committees, and is the lead director of American Tower Corporation (NYSE: AMT) where she is chair of the compensation committee. She is a member of the Board of Trustees and the Executive Committee of the Mass Technology Leadership Council (former chair); vice chair of the Massachusetts General Physicians Organization; and chair of The Commonwealth Institute. Reeve also serves on the Bentley College Graduate School Advisory Council and the advisory boards of Sovereign Bank and The Boston Club. She is founder of the Winchester Community Service Foundation.
Reeve was chosen as the 2000 Entrepreneur of the Year in Software and Technology by Ernst & Young and 2002 CEO of the Year by the Massachusetts Telecom Council. She has received numerous other leadership recognitions and awards.
Reeve earned her MBA degree, with distinction, from the Harvard Business School and received her undergraduate degree with honor from the University of Georgia. She has four children, has coached soccer for over 20 years and has been active in her community soccer clubs and the Massachusetts Youth Soccer Association.
Diane Ripstein Chief Communicator at Diane Ripstein Consulting
Diane Ripstein, Chief Communicator at Diane Ripstein Consulting, helps very smart people sound as smart as they are. After working with Diane, business executives and management teams deliver winning communications and presentations: to their prospects and peers, to the public and to the press. Going far beyond basic Presentation and Media Interview skills, Diane uses her theatrical training, sales experience, coaching flair and emphasis on Executive Presence to inspire her clients and help them to become communicators of influence.
For the past 15 years, Diane’s consulting firm has worked with executives at over 100 client companies: in financial services, management consulting, life sciences, technology, marketing and the media; from Fortune 100 firms to small, funky design shops.
Executives have profited by learning to give more powerful presentations, more succinct sales pitches, more compelling investment-raising road shows, and more credible interviews to the media, ultimately creating more successful client relationships.
Prior to developing her own business, Diane worked in the trenches of broadcast (WEEI and WSSH radio) and print (Boston Herald) media advertising sales and management for 15 years.
With both a Masters Degree in Education and performance experience as a dancer and actress, Diane’s technical expertise and theatrical flair translate into high-impact, high-energy programs.
Clients have included Fidelity Investments, IBM, Boston Consulting Group, American Express, Serono Pharmaceuticals, John Hancock Funds, Manulife Asset Management, Au Bon Pain, Office Depot, Novartis, Pyramis Global Advisors, Corey McPherson Nash.
Diane is an active professional member of the National Speakers Association.
Lisa Van der Pool Broadcast and Social Media Editor at the Boston Business Journal
Lisa has been Broadcast editor and Reporter at the Boston Business Journal since 2005. At the BBJ she covers advertising, small business, legal services, retail and hospitality; and maintains the newspaper’s Twitter account. She also regularly appears on WBZ-TV Channel 4 discussing the top business stories of the day. Prior to joining the BBJ, Lisa worked at Adweek Magazine for five years, where she covered advertising and PR firms across New England.
Susan Windham-Bannister, PhDPresident & CEO, Massachusetts, Life Sciences Center
On May 28, 2008, Dr. Susan Windham-Bannister was appointed by the Massachusetts Life Sciences Center Board of Directors to be the Center’s first President and CEO. She officially assumed that position in July, 2008.
The Massachusetts Life Sciences Center is a quasi-public entity created by the Legislature in 2006 to promote the life sciences within Massachusetts. The Center is at the heart of the state's new $1 billion life sciences law and is fast becoming the hub of connectivity for all sectors of the life sciences community - encouraging unprecedented public-private collaboration among industry, research, academia and government. The Center is making strategic investments in our life sciences workforce and in translational research at critical stages of the development cycle. These investments will foster and grow the Massachusetts life sciences Super Cluster, cultivating innovation at institutions whose research, development and commercialization of therapies, products and cures hold great promise for improving and saving lives.
Dr. Windham-Bannister is former Managing Vice President of the Commercial Strategy Group for Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions Inc. In that capacity, she managed a research-based consulting business that provides consulting services to firms in the life sciences -- health care delivery, pharmaceuticals, biotech, diagnostics, devices and healthcare information technology. She was also a member of Abt Bio-Pharma Solutions’ corporate management team, and a founding member of the commercial division of Abt Associates, the parent company.
Dr. Windham-Bannister has 35 years of consulting experience in life sciences and has worked with companies that represent all major industry sectors. A partial list of her clients includes Siemens Diagnostics, Roche, Pfizer, Genzyme, Eyetech, Sopherion, Sanofi, Novartis, Massachusetts General Hospital, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Tufts Medical Center, GE Healthcare, The American Cancer Society and The W.K. Kellogg Foundation. Within her client organizations, Dr. Windham-Bannister most often works with executive level management and/or Boards of Directors on assessment of market opportunities and commercialization strategy.
Dr. Windham-Bannister has co-authored two books: Competitive Strategy for Health Care Organizations and Medicaid and Other Experiments in State Health Policy. She also has written several articles on competition in today’s health care marketplace.
She sits on a variety of Boards of Directors and is a frequent speaker and panelist at conferences on competitive strategy.
Dr. Windham-Bannister holds a B.A. from Wellesley College, a doctorate in health policy and management from the Heller School at Brandeis University, and was a post-doctoral fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School. She completed her doctoral work under a fellowship from the Ford Foundation.
Sarah Stephens WinnaySenior Vice President, Market Management, Eliza Corp.
Sarah directs the activities of Eliza's Marketing, Product and Analytics activities. Sarah has spent over ten years in healthcare marketing and joined Eliza from HealthMedia where she served as Director of Marketing and most recently, Director of HealthMedia's Consulting Group. Sarah also held positions at Eli Lilly and Co, The Lewin Group and Decision Resources specializing in market research and marketing strategies for the pharmaceutical and health care industries.
She holds a bachelor's degree in political science from Dickinson College, and an M.B.A. from the University of Michigan Business School with a concentration in corporate strategy and marketing.
