Megan Hughes is the Coordinator for Basketball Operations and Player Relations at the WNBA. Megan Hughes is a graduate of Cornell University.
Marilyn Laverty is the founder and president of PR firm, Shore Fire Media.
Shore Fire Media was named one of the Top 10 PR firms in NY by the New York Observer. Named as one of Billboard Magazine's 'Top 40 Women in Music', Laverty and her company have become known both for a blue chip roster of acts as well as leadership in bringing new media strategies to campaigns. Shore Fire's roster includes musicians such as Lana Del Rey, Bruce Springsteen, St. Vincent, Martina McBride, Carole King, and Zac Brown Band, and also represents venues, businesses, trade organizations, chefs, authors, and events.
Marilyn Laverty is a graduate of Cornell University.
Terry Swack co-founded Sustainable Minds, a software and information services company enabling product design organizations to create innovative and sustainable products. The company's mission is to bring sustainable product design into the mainstream in an accessible, empowering and credible way. Early in 2007, Terry founded Clean Culture, a customer experience research and strategy consultancy focused on making clean tech and sustainable products more understandable and desirable. In 2005, she founded Green Building Blocks and The Beam (which later became Blue Egg), a venture-backed Web 2.0 media company and marketplace for consumers, manufacturers, and service providers to power the demand for clean and green products and services. In 2002, she became a founding team member of StillSecure, a network security software company. As VP of Customer Experience, in a unique partnership with the VP of Engineering, she co-managed product teams to bring three successful products to market in less than two years. Terry's first company, TSDesign, was founded in 1985 as a graphic design firm and became an Internet strategy and product design firm in 1994. Clients ranged from startups to Fortune 500 stalwarts including 3M, Compaq, Dell, BankBoston, Cendant Mortgage, PlanetAll and Tripod. The development of the User Experience AuditSM in 1996, was the first offering of its kind and positioned the company as the industry leader in design analysis and user experience strategy. TSDesign was acquired in 1999 by Razorfish, a global digital services provider. Terry Swack is a graduate of the University of the Arts.
Hannah Coutand is a Business Development Manager at Intel, but got her start in technology after working for telecom firms in the United States, Germany, and Rwanda.
Hannah Coutand is a graduate of the University of Virginia and received her MBA at Cornell University.
Jennifer Delaney works as a Senior Manager of Large Enterprise Product Solutions for Paypal. Prior to this role, she worked at a tech startup, Shopkick.
Jennifer Delaney received her undergraduate degree from Stanford University and her MBA from Cornell University.
Rachel Martin is the Director of Partner Operations for Cornell start-up YEXT. Rachel Martin has an undergraduate degree in engineering from Cornell University and a graduate degree in engineering from Stanford University.
Deborah Jackson is the Founder and CEO of Plum Alley, an e-commerce and crowdfunding site for women's innovation. Also a Founder of the Women Innovate Mobile Accelerator, an accelerator that invests in women-founded mobile tech companies, Jackson's initiatives and properties all have a common goal: to champion women to become builders of technology, companies and their own wealth.
Jackson is a frequent speaker, and judge for many events around innovation, women, technology, crowdfunding and entrepreneurship. She was recently named a top influencer in the crowdfunding industry, and in the past year, has spoken for the Texas, Boston, and Philadelphia Conferences for Women; Blogher Entrepreneurs; Harvard Business School; Columbia Women in Business; Wharton Women in Business; Womensphere; We Festival; and 85 Broads. Her accolades include Fast Company's League of Extraordinary Women in 2012, 40 Women to Watch in 2013 and Plum Alley being named by Forbes as a company to watch in 2014.
Deborah Jackson has an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Sarah McDonald is currently the Chief of Staff to the president of eBay marketplaces. Over her ten year career at eBay, she has held several operational roles including global policy manager, manager for cross border trade, and director of seller development which included management of eBay's Daily Deal program. Prior to eBay, McDonald worked as a strategy consultant at Accenture in Boston working in the High Tech practice - but eventually made her way to the Bay Area and eBay in the Fall of 2004. Sarah McDonald received her undergraduate degree from Occidental College and her MBA from Cornell University Johnson School of Business.
Alice Martins is a Strategic Planner for Mike Train, Emerson Process Management Global Sales President.
Prior to this role, Martins was responsible for 25% of total sales revenue of Groupon Brazil as a Regional Sales Manager. Prior to Groupon, Martins worked as a Business Strategy Consultant at Advisia Management Consulting for four years. Martins also worked as a software, hardware, and firmware developer for five years at Perto, a leading ATM manufacturer in Brazil. At Perto, Martins developed a credit card anti-fraud device in which she has a patent under her name.
Alice Martins received her MBA from Cornell University. Martins also holds a Bachelor of Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Universidade Federal Do Rio Grande Do Sul in Brazil.