Theresa Bergeron is the Founder and President of Thermohair, Inc. Thermohair produces goods - specifically socks - that are knitted with mohair (the fleece of angora goats). The company is located in South Mountain, Ontario - an hour's drive south of Ottawa. Theresa Bergeron holds a bachelor's degree in Life Sciences and a Master's degree in Human Nutrition.
Teacher Created Materials is an educational publishing company that was founded in 1982 by Mary Dupuy Smith and Rachelle Cracchiolo. The company experienced tremendous growth since its inception--so much that in August 2004, the company split into two distinct businesses: a Book Company under the name Teacher Created Resources headed by Smith, and a Curriculum Company that maintains the name Teacher Created Materials headed by Cracchiolo. Mary Dupuy Smith both worked as a teacher prior to starting the business. She holds Masters Degrees in Education.
Thevaki Thambirajah began her professional career in a large corporate environments. After spending a few yeears in a training program at Citibank, she opted to find a more intrapreneurial role within Revlon. When that opportunity didn't result in the level of creativity and flexibility she desired, she opted to venture out on her own as a consultant within the independent film industry. While working in the independent film arena fulfilled her passions, it failed to pay the bills. She returned to the corporate world, taking a position at Coty. She has since left that position and returned to the film world where she recently served as Production Office Assistant on the film "Heights" by Ismail Merchant and James Ivory. Thevaki Thambirajah is a graduate of Cornell University.
Carla Ginsburg is a gastroenterologist who runs her own private practice in Boston. In addition, she is an Assistant Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School where she teaches students two months a year. Prior to starting a private practice, she focused on the research and administration areas of gastroenterology. These varied experiences provide her with a unique understanding of many different aspects of the medical field.
Dr. Ginsburg received her undergraduate degree from Cornell University and her medical degree from Yale University.
Maggie Coffey is the former CEO of Tetragenetics. At the time of this interview, Tetragenetics' mission was to bring to the marketplace a new technology for the large-scale production of recombinant proteins for use in human and animal medicine.
Coffey received her undergraduate degree from Mount Holyoke, her MBA from Harvard Business School and her Doctorate in Veterinary Medicine from Cornell University.
Janet Hanson is the founder of Milestone Capital, the only woman-owned investment adviser to manage institutional money market funds in the United States. Under her leadership, assets under management have grown steadily to over $2 billion, and the firm now serves the cash management needs of over 500 institutional investors.
Prior to founding Milestone, she worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. for 14 years where she was a Vice President and Co-Manager of Money Market Sales in New York. Ms. Hanson joined Goldman Sachs in 1977, and throughout her career she consistently ranked among the highest producing professionals in the Fixed Income Division.
In addition, Ms. Hanson is the founder of 85 Broads, a global network of former and current Goldman Sachs women professionals.
In May of 2004, Ms. Hanson became a Managing Director and Senior Adviser to the President of Lehman Brothers.
Janet Hanson earned a B.A. in Government from Wheaton College and an M.B.A in Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business.
Linda Miles founded Miles Marketing Company in October 2001. Since forming the company, she has worked with firms from a broad variety of industries in the areas of marketing, strategic planning and growth initiatives.
Prior to founding her own company, Miles was the Vice President of Marketing for General Electric Capital, Modular Space and had held various marketing positions with Bausch & Lomb's Contact Lens Division.
Linda Miles holds an AAS in Applied Chemistry from SUNY Morrisville, a BS in Liberal Arts from SUNY Brockport and an MBA from the University of Rochester.
Laura J. Clark is a Principal at Front Barnett Associates in Chicago. In this role, she serves as investment counsel to individual and institutional clients as well as a portfolio manager.
Prior to her position at Front Barnett, Clark worked for 12 years at JP Morgan. From 1992 to 1998, served as Vice President in equity sales with responsibility for institutional clients in Minneapolis, Chicago, Denver, and San Francisco. From 1985 to 1992, served in a variety of areas involving corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, undergraduate recruiting, and cash management.
Laura Clark received a B.S. in Engineering from Cornell University.
In 1980, Sheila Johnson and her former husband, Robert L. Johnson, co-founded BET, the first cable television network aimed at African-American viewers. Serving as executive vice president of corporate affairs, Sheila Johnson was primarily responsible for investigating various community and philanthropic activities and helped build the highly rated cable network into a media powerhouse, which Viacom acquired in 1997 for $3 billion. Johnson was a member of BET Holdings Inc.'s board of directors until January 2001. Johnson currently is focused on various philanthropic activities, as well as the construction of the Salamander Inn and Spa on land she owns in Middleburg, Va. An accomplished violinist, Johnson has a diverse background that includes 19 years as a music educator in the Washington, D.C., area. During that time, she founded Young Strings in Action for children, in 1975. A textbook she wrote about her teaching methods, Young Strings in Action, is still used in many U.S. schools.