Amy Siskind is a national spokesperson, writer and expert on helping women and girls advance and succeed. A highly successful Wall Street executive, she's Co-founder and President of The New Agenda, a national organization working on issues including economic independence and advancement, gender representation and bias, sexual assault and domestic violence.
A pioneer in the distressed debt trading market, she has a lifetime of experience with failure and remarkable success and knows what it takes to win. She became the first female Managing Director at Wasserstein Perella at the age of 31, and later ran trading departments at Morgan Stanley and Imperial Capital, where she was also a partner.
Amy Siskind received a BA in Economics from Cornell University and an MBA in Finance from The NYU Stern School of Business.
Mac Bishop is a Portland, Oregon native, and ringleader of the madness at Wool&Prince. Though some members of the media have dubbed him "the inventor of wool," Mac's actual day-to-day involves operations and marketing.
Before Wool&Prince was launched, Mac worked at consumer product manufacturer, Unilever. Mac is also a co-founder of NativeX which produces products which support Native American artists and their communities.
Mac Bishop graduated from 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.
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.
Marci Carris is Senior Vice President for Customer Management at Sprint. She is responsible for postpaid and prepaid customer care operations, planning and delivery; call center management; collections, payment operations and fraud; customer experience improvement and call volume optimization; and call center efficiency. Her 15 years at Sprint include several executive positions in Customer Finance Services, both within the Finance and Customer Management organizations.
Before she joined Sprint in 1998, she held manager, analyst and director positions in finance, strategy, call center operations during an 11-year career with Ameritech in Chicago and Troy, Mich. Before that, she spent four years as an associate and manager with Peterson Consulting, Chicago.
Marci Carris holds two degrees from the University of Michigan - a bachelor's in business with a concentration in accounting and an MBA with a concentration in finance and strategic planning.