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Sourcing and evaluating startups as part of the Selection Committee for the HBS Alumni Angels of Northern California - www.hbsalumniangels.com

Female Co-Founders - Janet Wu and Erin Wold. Proving general operations and strategic advice, fundraising assistance and business development help

Founders Network if a peer to peer advisory network connecting and supporting tech founders from around the world. The network supports full time founders at all stages from pre-seed through to exit with access to the community, educational events, networking opportunities, and an annual retreat.

Arlan Hamilton's Venture Capital firm focused on Women, Minority and LGBT Founders

The Pitch Guru helps companies and their founders:-> Tell their story-> Impress investors-> Raise moneyI work with founders that want to learn how to engage and interest investors. Founders that are great at running companies, but need help turning their pitch into and effective story. I work with companies to distill the key elements of their business, their strategy, their team, and their unique strengths so that they can raise their funds and get on with the business of scaling their business.I’ve done the “Founding->Growth->Exit” cycle and leverage my experience to help you launch, fund, and scale.

Women's Startup Lab offers Founder Development programs specifically designed to help Female Founders become great CEOs.

Female Co-Founder - Emily Best

Female Co-Founder - Laura FleetHelping with fundraising, pitch deck and funding presentation

Blacksmith International manages supply chains for U.S. based consumer goods companies. They provide access to reliable, high-quality, offshore supply chains so that companies in the U.S. can enjoy all the benefits of offshore manufacturing, without worrying about quality, missed deadlines, or IP theft.

Exponent Advisors works with startup founders and founding teams to help them:-> Prepare for and successfully execute their fundraising strategy-> Build out their key roles and set up their operations for growth-> ScaleWe don’t just “advise”. We don’t just “consult”. We don’t just “coach”.

After receiving one-too-many uninspired gifts, I created GiftWow to make the process of finding the right gift for the right person, as easy as answering a few questions. My current focus is Business Operations, merchandising, and improving the matching algorithm.

Strategic and Operational Advisor to various BizWorld committees after serving on their National Board for 11 years. The BizWorld Foundation is a non-profit organization that teaches children about entrepreneurship and personal finance as a tool to foster teamwork and self reliance (not contradictory) and to help give context to their basic school curriculum.

Served as both a classroom volunteer, leading in class BizWorld programs, and a National Board member as the organization grew from a Northern California presence to become and national and international organization.

SAAS software for remodeling contractors to improve client communications, payments, progress reporting, deadlines, costs vs. budget and more.

One of 4 principals that built the company into a recognized industry leader in the financial education space, in the US and abroad, with revenues of $80+ million before we sold the company to optionsXpress, a publicly traded brokerage (subsequently acquired by Schwab). Built/managed various key functions including Sales, Biz Dev, Strategic Planning, Customer Acquisition, Operations and IT.

Recruited to Disney to build, manage and hire a team around a ground up forecasting system for their Home Entertainment Division. The algorithms enabled them to manage production and retail inventories at the store level.