Kimberly Steele is currently working with the law firm of Maney, McConville & Liccardi, PC. She specializes in construction, surety, commercial transactions and banking law.
Prior to joining Maney, McConville & Liccardi, PC, Steele was an associate with a nationally known boutique law firm that practices in the area of construction and surety law. Steele also was a vice president of and acted as corporate counsel for Oswego County National Bank (now Alliance Bank).
Kimberly Steele is admitted to practice in the State Courts of New York and Massachusetts, and all Federal and Bankruptcy Courts of New York and Massachusetts. She is also admitted to the United States Court of Appeals, First and Second Circuit. Steele graduated magna cum laude from Elmira College and received her Juris Doctor from Albany Law School of Union University.
David L. Potter has been a Founding Principal in, and consultant to, numerous early stage and expansion stage life sciences, consumer products, and business services companies. Potter's company, Momentum Ventures Associates LLC, specializes in bringing in-depth entrepreneurial business acumen to companies with promising intellectual property, but limited business-building and management resources.
In 1997, Potter co-founded Pro-Change Behavior Systems, Inc., a spin-off company from the University of Rhode Island. Pro-Change became a leader in delivering health care compliance solutions for obese and smoking populations. From 2000 until the company's sale in 2002, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Previser Health Solutions, Inc., a start-up company with licensed technology from the University of Washington and the Temple University Medical School. Previser's technology is currently serving chronic disease patients in Israel and the United Kingdom, as well as in the United States.
During his corporate career, Potter served in senior Marketing and General Management positions for divisions of Textron Inc., General Mills, Inc. and the Unum Corporation. He was a senior member of the New Ventures organizations at both General Mills and Unum, driving the commercialization of new product and marketplace expansion initiatives.
David Potter received his undergraduate degree from Bowdoin College, and his Masters Degree in Business Administration from Dartmouth College.
Tracy Higginbotham is the founder of Women TIES, a company dedicated to creating a regional marketplace for women entrepreneurs. Higginbotham has been an entrepreneur for twelve years as President of Five Star Events, a special event management company specializing in the execution, planning and coordination of events for corporations, organizations, and individuals. For nine years, Higginbotham was President of the Women's Business Owners Connections, a networking and support organization for women business owners in Syracuse. She helped grow it from 8 members to 130 members when she stepped down in 2005. Tracy Higginbotham is a graduate of the State University of New York at Oswego where she earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration.
Jessica Gelman is the Director of New Business Development for the New England Patriots. In this role, she is a key strategic and operational advisor to the Patriots' Executive Management Team. Her responsibilities include identifying, evaluating and creating new businesses and providing strategic analysis to leverage the Patriots' assets.
Most notable is the development and management of the first sports loyalty rewards credit card program, Extra Points, which has been rolled out throughout the NFL.
Jessica Gelman a BA, cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA from Harvard Business School. She was honored as Female Athlete of the Year after leading Harvard to consecutive basketball championships and NCAA appearances. She played professionally in Europe prior to her role with the New England Patriots.
Karen Harper is Vice President of Cognitive Systems and Principal Scientist At Charles River Analytics.
Harper leads projects focused in the development of Human Behavior Representations (HBRs) modeling the human decision-making process in high-stress, time-critical situations. She is responsible for the continuing development and application of Charles River Analytics' agent-based model of human behavior known as SAMPLE.
Before joining Charles River Analytics, Harper obtained her MS from the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering at Boston University where she worked in robotics and control research and focused on biologically-inspired robot locomotion strategies.
Marisa is an associate in the Boston law office of Mintz Levin. She practices in the Immigration section of the firm and her work involves business immigration, including work visas and immigrant petitions. She also works with tax-exempt organizations on a variety of corporate matters.
Prior to joining Mintz Levin, Marisa worked as a Summer Associate for Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt in Portland, Oregon, and served as a student intern to the Legal Aid Society of New York.
Marisa Howe earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Dartmouth College and her J.D. from New York University School of Law.
Lindsay Hyde is founder and executive director of Strong Women, Strong Girls, Inc. (SWSG), a Massachusetts not-for-profit organization which helps at-risk girls in grades 3-5 build positive self-esteem and skills.
Hyde was named one of Glamour Magazine's "Top Ten College Women" in 2003. She was also awarded the Seventeen Magazine National Youth Volunteerism Award.
Lindsay Hyde is a graduate of Harvard University.
Jeanne Shaheen was the first woman to be elected governor of the U.S. State of New Hampshire. Elected in 1996, not only was she the first woman governor, but was also the first Democrat elected governor in the state in sixteen years. She was re-elected in 1998 and 2000, becoming only the fourth governor in New Hampshire history elected to three consecutive terms. In 2002 she narrowly lost her bid for the United States Senate.
She currently serves as Director of the Harvard Institute of Politics.
Jeanne Shaheen received a Bachelor's degree in English from Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania and a Master's degree in political science from the University of Mississippi.
Patricia Merolle is a Principal of WINNING, Incorporated and has over 20 years of sales, management and entrepreneurial success in growing a variety of businesses. At Perry Johnson Registrars, a firm specializing in ISO 9000 certification, Patricia was the consistent top performer and set an all-time company record for sales - resulting in her promotion to Regional Manager. At Perry Johnson, Patricia was responsible for generating key client relationships with major companies including Estee Lauder, Mead Johnson, Clairol Worldwide, Bristol Meyers and Heritage Hills Golf Resort. Patricia has also been a successful entrepreneur and business owner in both the catering and equestrian industries.