Nancy Clark is the owner and designer of Clark Design Group and the owner along with her husband, J. Thomas Clark, of the Old Chatham Sheepherding Company, which is the largest sheep dairy and creamery in North America. Nancy's two businesses are on the farm in Old Chatham, New York. The farm has 850 milking ewe along with replacement animals rounding out to approximately 1200 sheep. The animals are raised on 600 organically maintained pastures in Columbia County, New York. Nancy Clark received her undergraduate degree and Master's degree in Education from Cornell University.
Angela Noble-Grange teaches oral communication and management writing at Cornell University. Her specific interests include writing and speaking to influence change and differences in communication style and effectiveness based on gender, race and/or culture. Noble-Grange was the director of the Office for Women and Minorities in Business from August 1999 to July 2005, and president of the Noble Economic Development Group, a micro enterprise development consulting company, from June 1994 to January 1999. Angela Noble-Grange earned her BA in communication studies and Russian from SUNY Oswego and her MBA from the Johnson School at Cornell University in 1994.
Megan Gray is an attorney in Washington, D.C. Her areas of expertise include litigating trademark and copyright cases, drafting and negotiating Internet contracts, advising clients on privacy concerns, prosecuting trademarks, analyzing trade secret claims, and defending free-speech cases. Specifically, she works with leading apparel companies with brands of worldwide fame, well-known software companies, toy producers, fabric designers, and jewelers, among many others. Megan Gray received her BA, Masters in Public Affairs and her JD from the University of Texas.
Frances Toneguzzo is currently the Director of the Office of Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing at Massachusetts General Hospital. The Office of Corporate Sponsored Research and Licensing oversees the management and licensing of intellectual property and serves as the entry point for all industrial relationships relating to research, support of research or technology transfer at Massachusetts General Hospital.
Prior to coming to MGH, Toneguzzo served as Director of the Office for Technology and Industry Collaboration at Tufts University/New England Medical Center and as Associate Director, responsible for intellectual property relating to the life sciences at Harvard University. Toneguzzo comes from the biotech industry, having played various roles at big pharma and startup companies.
Frances Toneguzzo holds a Ph.D. in Biochemistry from McMaster University in Canada.
Ms. Helen Maslocka is co-founder and CEO of MedCool, Inc. She has worked in marketing, business development and CEO positions for twenty five years in the medical device, biotechnology, and healthcare information technology industries with specific focus on the development and introduction of new technologies and products. She has successfully implemented corporate partnering, launch and exit strategies, has raised over $80 million in private capital and has successfully positioned companies and been part of the teams for two initial public offerings resulting in several hundred million in capital.
Previously, she served as President and CEO of CardioFocus, Inc., a disposable photonics-based medical device company where she restructured, renamed, and refocused the company as a cardiovascular firm and completed a $12 million venture round of financing. Ms. Maslocka has held executive and consulting positions with LeukoSite, Seragen, Summit Technology, Whittaker General Medical, and Massachusetts General Hospital.
Ms. Maslocka holds a BA from Boston College in psychology with biology and a Graduate Degree in Management from Harvard/Radcliffe College.
As head of Comerica's Technology and Life Sciences Division in the Northeast, Dianne Russell oversees all lending to Life Sciences companies - including biotech, medical devices, bioinformatics and health-related companies. She has been responsible for the establishment of Comerica's national Life Sciences practice including the hiring of professionals with advanced degrees in molecular biology and medicine to build that practice.
Russell has extensive experience in the origination, negotiation and structuring of debt financings for companies at every stage of development from early stage pre-revenue companies to mature, profitable public corporations. She has managed specialized lending groups including those dedicated to M&A, leveraged buyouts and recapitalization. Formerly a Senior Vice President and Department Executive at Bank of Boston, Russell headed that bank's leveraged buyout operations while Division Executive of Acquisition Finance. Subsequently, she ran Large Corporate Banking which encompassed the five geographical lending regions covering the United States, plus two specialty groups, Acquisition Finance and Environmental Services.
Currently a member of the Board of Directors of Morton's Restaurant Group, Inc, she has also served on the board of directors for the Boys and Girls Clubs of Boston and for the Center for the Advancement of Ethics and Character at Boston University. Russell was appointed by Massachusetts Governor William F. Weld to the Board of Directors of the Massachusetts Development Finance Agency (MDFA), the state's development bank where she was named Treasurer and served as head of the agency's credit committee. She is currently Chairman of the Financial Advisory Board of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
Nikki Daruwala is Director of the Social Responsibility program at American Rights at Work. Prior to this position, she was Manager for Advocacy and Social Policy at Calvert, a leading socially responsible mutual fund company. Daruwala is a founding member of the Child Labor Coalition, and has served as Chairperson of the Indigenous Rights Committee and the Diversity Committee at the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility and on the Shareholder Advisory and Policy Committee Board of the Social Investment Forum. She currently serves on the Advisory Committee for the Institute for Women's Policy Research. Daruwala is a graduate of Ithaca College and holds an MS in Industrial and Labor Relations from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst.
Amy Millman has established a successful 25-year career working for and with business and government officials. As one of the founders and current president of Springboard Enterprises, she has built an organization which has assisted hundreds of women-led high-growth enterprises raise $1 billion in investment capital in less than three years.
Prior to Springboard, Millman served as Executive Director of the National Women's Business Council, a federal statutory commission providing advice and counsel to the President and Congress on issues of importance to women business owners.
Amy Millman is a graduate of Carnegie Mellon University and received a Masters degree from The George Washington University where she is currently an adjunct professor. She and her family reside in the Washington, D.C. area.
Kate Jones has over fifteen years of experience in Sales and Marketing. Much of that experience was gained during her time at Procter & Gamble. Kate is an expert at developing multi-functional, customer-focused teams, and fully utilizing these organizations to generate competitive advantage for clients. As both a facilitator and leader, Kate applies customer relationship management principles to all areas of a client's business, enabling them to deliver faster results, achieve greater efficiencies, and reduce costs.
Kate Jones received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University.